Remixing the Discourses of Sustainability- A Reading List

A Source for Used Books

The Context

On Nature Ralph Waldo Emerson

Al Gore, "An Inconvenient Truth"

Buckminster Fuller - Inexorable Evolution

Margulis, Sagan - What is Life?

Christopher Uhl, Developing Ecological Consciousness (excerpts)

Punk Sustainability - margulis, "Gaia is a Tough Bitch"]

Sustainable Homeland Security

VerNadksy - The Emergence of the Noosphere

Life and Thermodynamics

Merlin Donald, myth of the Isolated Mind

James Jay Kay and Eric Schneider Life as the Tendency Toward the IncreasedDissipation of Information

Natural Capitalism

Gregory Bateson - Mind and Nature (excerpts)

The Practice

Center for Sustainability Instruction Manual

GrowOnlineGuide to Sustainability Here!

Sustainable Sounds and Remixes

Ubuntu! - Open Source Software for your old or new computer. Jump into the code commons!

Visualizing Complexity - Article in Seed magazine about visualizing complex systems - with pretty pictures!

Build Windchimes for Sustainable Music

The Future

Octavia Butler - Dawn

William S. Burroughs, The Ghost of Chance

Ethernet connections transmit about as much information per second as the human retina does the visual cortex.

Chris King

The Future of Life, E. O. Wilson - "A civilization able to envision God and to embark on the colonization of space will surely find the way to save the integrity of this planet and the magnificent life it harbors." ( Excerpts)

Julian Huxley and Sustainable Transhumanism

Timothy and Joanna Leary, Neurologic

Biometric spoofing is also inching towards reality (or some semblance of reality). Think of Sneakers and using recorded conversation to slip past voice-recognition security, or Mission Impossible II/Minority Report/other Tom Cruise films and the retinal+facial transformations and replacements used to confound biometric security & advertisements.