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Books to Read

  • A Natural History of Water – Alice Outwater
  • A Pattern Language - Alexander
  • A Slice of Organic Life - S Goldmith
  • A Visual Dictionary of Architecture
    - Francis Ching
  • Agroecology, Ecological Processes in Sustainable Agriculture
    – Stephen R. Gliessman
  • All Their Own/People and the Places they Build – Wampler
  • American Shelter – Walker
  • An Architecture for the People – Steele
  • An Argricultural Testiment  - Sir Albert Howard
  • Archetype Design - Magee
  • Architecture without Architects - Rudofsky
  • Art of Natural Building – Kennedy, Smith Wanek
  • Behind Adobe Walls – Landt Dennis
  • Botony of Desire – Michael Pollan
  • Builders Greywater Guide - Art Ludwig
  • Builders With Vision - Watershed Media
  • Building With Earth (earth bags)
    - Wojciechowska
  • Circle Houses - Pearson
  • Cob Builders Handbook - Becky Bee
  • Cobber's Companion - Michael G. Smith
  • Cohousing - McCamant & Durrett
  • Complete Illustrated Guide to Fengi Shui
    – Aillian Too
  • Complete Vegetarian Cookbook – Bay Books
  • Create an Oasis with Greywater – Ludwig
  • Creating a Life Together, Practical Tools to Grow Eco-Villages – Diana Leafe Christian
  • Cultivating Sacred Space - Murray
  • Dwellings, Houses Across the World
    - Paul Oliver
  • Earth to Spirit -Pearson
  • Earthworms – Charles Darwin
  • Ecovillage Living – Jackson and Svensson
  • Edible Landscaping – Robert Koreck
  • Element of Feng Shui  – Manttokwok with Joanne o’Brien
  • Exception to the Rulers – Amy Goodman
  • Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser
  • Feng Shui Companion - George Birdsall
  • Feng Shui of Gardening – Philippa Waring
  • Feng Shui, Art of Harmony of Place  – John Dennis Govert
  • From Eco­Cities to living Machines - Nancy and John Todd
  • Fuel Savers – Akit of Solar Ideas for your home, apartment or business  – Bruce Anderson
  • Gaia’s Garden, A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture – Toby Hemenway
  • Garder’s Eye – Allen Lacy
  • Grow Your Own House (Killer Bamboo book) - Simon Ve'lez
  • Hand and Home - Simpson and Seitz
  • Hand Sculpted House – Evans, Smith, Smiley
  • Home For The Soul - Lawlor
  • How to Grow more Vegetables - Jeavons
  • Humanure Handbook - Jenkins
  • Life and Energy in Agriculture
    – Arden Anderson
  • Living Earth (Japanese Book) - Yoshio Komatsu
  • Living Soil – Lady Eve Balfour
  • Mortgage Free - Rob Roy

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  • Natural House Book - Pearson
  • Natural House, A Complete Guide to Healthy, Energy-Efficient, Environmental Homes
    – Daniel D. Chiras
  • Natural Solar Architecture, a Passive Solar Primer  – David Wright
  • New Natural House book - Pearson
  • New Organic Architecture – Peason
  • Not So Big Solutions For Your home - Susanka
  • Old Way of Seeing - Hale
  • One Circle - David Duhon
  • One Straw Revolution – Masanobu Fukuok
  • Our Stolen Future - Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski, John Peterson Myers
  • Parrish & Poetry – Laurence S. Cutter & Judy Goffman Cutler
  • Passive Solar House - Kachadorian
  • Permaculture - Bill Mollison
  • Places of The Soul – Christopher Day
  • Prodigious Builders - Rudofsky
  • Radical Forgiveness - Colin Tipping
  • Real Goods Independent Builder – Clark
  • Second Nature – Michael Pollan
  • Secret Life of Plants – Tomkins and
  • Secrets of the Millionaire Mind – T Harv Eckr
  • Shelter – Shelter Publications
  • Shelters, Shacks and Shanties - Beard
  • Solar Living Source Book –John Schaeffer
  • Solevive – Anee Edey
  • Spirit and Places – C. Day
  • Straw Bale House - Steen, Steen, Bainbridge
  • Temple In The House – Lawlor
  • Tents, Architecture of Nomads – Faegre
  • There’s A Hair in My Dirt!, a worm story 
    – Gary Larson
  • Tiny Tiny Houses - Walker
  • Toilet Papers - Sim Van Derkyn
  • Tree House Book - Nelson and Larkin
  • Vernacular Architecture - Brunskill
  • Water Gardens - White
  • Water, The Fate of Our Most Precious Resources – Marq DeVilliers
  • What’s your Card? – Lein
  • Your Money or Your Life – Joe Dominguez & Vicki Robin