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GREEN READING LIST

Basic Introductory Reading

*Statement of Core Principles of The Green Party of England and Wales – http://policy.greenparty.org.uk/values.html

Green Party Policy

*Green Party Policy Pointers – http://policy.greenparty.org.uk/policypointers/

*Green Party of England and Wales Manifesto For a Sustainable Society (Recommended for reference rather than reading through at one go!) http://policy.greenparty.org.uk/mfss/index.html

Green History

*A Brief History of The Global Green Network – http://www.globalgreens.info/ggn_ggnbriefhistory.html

*Green History by Derek Wall, Routledge, London 1993.

*The Programme of the German Green Party, (1983) German Green Party, Heretic, London 1983.

*Weaving A Bower Against The Endless Night by Derek Wall, Green Party, London, 1994

Green Theory

*Ecological Democracy, by Roy Morrison, South End Press, Boston, 1995

*Ecology As Politics by Andre Gorz, South End Press, 1979

*Fairness And Futurity : Essays On Environmental Sustainability And Social Justice Edited by Andrew Dobson, Oxford University Press, 1999, ISBN-10: 0198294883 ISBN-13: 978-0198294887

*Green Alternatives to Globalisation, A Manifesto by Michael Woodin and Caroline Lucas, Pluto Press 2004 ISBN 0745319327

*Green Political Thought by Andrew Dobson, Routledge, 3rd Edition, 2004, ISBN-10: 0415222044 ISBN-13: 978-0415222044

*The Green Reader by Andrew Dobson, Andre Deutsch Ltd, 1991, ISBN 10: 0233986537

*A Radical Green Political Theory, by Alan Carter, Routledge, London, 1999

*Seeing Green:The Politics of Ecology Explained by Jonathan Porritt, Blackwell, Oxford 1984.

*The Enemy of Nature by Joel Kovel, Zed Pres, New York, 2002

Green Philosophy

*Philosophical Basis of the Green Party of England and Wales – http://policy.greenparty.org.uk/mfss/Philosophical%20Basis.html

*The Compassionate Revolution, Radical Politics and Buddhism by David Edwards, Green Books 1998 ISBN 1870098706

*Environmental Culture by Val Plumwood, Routledge 2002 – ISBN 0415178789

*Gaia:A New Look At Life On Earth by James Lovelock, Oxford Paperbacks, 2000 , ISBN -10 : 0192862189

*Marx’s Ecology:Materialism and Nature by John Bellamy Foster, Monthly Review, 2000.

General Political Theory

*The Politics of Social Ecology:Libertarian Municipalism by Janet Biehl, Black Rose Books Ltd, 1997 ISBN-10: 1551641003, ISBN-13: 978-1551641003

*The Ecology of Freedom:The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy by Murray Bookchin, Black Rose Books Ltd, 1991 ISBN 092168973X

*No Logo by Naomi Klein, Flamingo, London, 2001.

* The Great Transformation by K Polanyi, Beacon Press, Boston, 1957

*Arguments For A New Left – Answering The Free-Market Right by Hilary Wainwright, Blackwell Publishing Professional, 1993, ISBN 0631191917

British Politics and History

*Anti-Capitalist Britain edited by John Carter and Dave Morland, New Clarion Press 2003 – ISBN 1873797443

*Britain’s First Socialists: The Levellers, Agitators and Diggers of the English Revolution by F. Brockway, Quartet, London 1980.

*Chartism by Asa Briggs, Sutton Pocket Histories, Sutton Publishing 1998 ISBN 0750919167

*Captive State : The Corporate Takeover of Britain by George Monbiot, Macmillan, London, 2003.

*Votes For Women:The Virago Book Of Suffragettes (Ed) by Joyce Marlow, Virago Press Limited, 2001, ISBN 1860498965

* The Blair Revelation – Deliverance for Whom? by Michael Barratt Brown and Ken Coates, Spokesman Books, 1996, ISBN: 0851246052

* Writings on the Wall – a Radical and Socialist Anthology 1215-1984 Edited by Tony Benn, Faber and Faber, 1984, ISBN: 0571133355

International Politics and History

*Charter of the Global Greens(Canberra 2001) http://www.global.greens.org.au/Charter2001.pdf

*Fences and Windows – Dispatches From The Frontlines Of The Globalization Debate by Naomi Klein, Flamingo 2002, ISBN 0007150474

*Globalizing Resistance : The State Of Struggle by Francois Polet (Ed), Pluto Press, 2005, ISBN-10: 0745323553 ISBN-13: 978-0745323558

*Half Gone:Oil, Gas, Hot Air and the Global Energy Crisis by Jeremy Leggett, Portobello Books Ltd, 2006, ISBN-10: 1846270057 ISBN-13: 978-1846270055

*One No, Many Yeses by Paul Kingsnorth, Free Press, London, 2004.

*Hidden Agendas by John Pilger, Vintage, 1998, ISBN 0099741512

*The Best Democracy Money Can Buy by Greg Palast, Constable and Robinson, 2003, ISBN 1841197149

*The Chomsky Reader by Noam Chomsky, Edited by James Peck, Serpents Tail, 1987, ISBN1-85242-117-7

*The Party’s Over : Oil, War And The Fate Of Industrial Societies By Richard Heinberg, New Society Publishers, 2003, ISBN-10: 0865714827 ISBN-13: 978-0865714823

Economics

*Capital Volume I, A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx, Penguin Classics 1992, ISBN 0140445684

* Economic Democracy – the Politics of Feasible Socialism by Robin Archer, Oxford University Press, 1998, ISBN: 0198295383

*Ecosocialism or Ecobarbarism Edited by Michel Lowy, Sheila Malone, and Jane Kelly. IMG Publications ISBN-10: 0902869973, ISBN-13: 978-0902869974

*The Growth Illusion – how economic growth has enriched the few, impoverished the many and endangered the planet by Richard Douthwaite, New Society Publishers 1999, ISBN: 0865713960

*The Silent Take Over: Global Capitalism and the Death Of Democracy by Noreena Hertz, Collins 2003, ISBN 006055973X

Green Economics

*A Citizens Income – A Foundation for a Sustainable World by Clive Lord, John Carpenter (Publisher) 2003, ISBN 1897766874

*Babylon and Beyond – The Economics of Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Globalist and Radical Green Movements by Derek Wall, Pluto Press, 2005 – ISBN 0 7453 2390 1

*Ecological Debt-The Health Of The Planet and The Wealth Of Nations by Andrew Simms, Pluto Press, 2005, ISBN-10: 0745324045
ISBN-13: 978-0745324043

*Green Economics – Beyond Supply and Demand to Meeting People’s Needs by Molly Scott Cato and Miriam Kennett, Green Audit Books, 1999, ISBN 189776118X

*Localisation: A Global Manifesto by Colin Hines, Earthscan, London, 2000

*Market, Schmarket – Building the Post Capitalist Economy by Molly Scott Cato, New Clarion Press 2006 – ISBN 1 873397 50 8

*Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered by E Schumacher, Abacus, London, 1978.

*The Vulnerable Planet : A Short Economic History Of The Environment by John Bellamy Foster, Monthly Review Press, New York, 1999, ISBN-10: 158367019X ISBN-13: 978-1583670194

General

*The Little Earth Book by James Bruges
(Various editions) Alistair Sawday Publishing Co Ltd ISBN 1901970310

*News From Nowhere and Other Writings by William Morris, Penguin Classics 1994, ISBN 0140433309

*One-Dimensional Man by Herbert Marcuse, Beacon Press, 1991.

*Our Final Century: Will Civilisation Survive the 21st Century ? by Martin Rees, Arrow 2004, ISBN 0099436868

*The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell, Oxford World’s Classics, 2005, ISBN 0192804537

*To Have Or To Be by Erich Fromm, Abacus, 1990, ISBN-10: 0349113432 ISBN-13: 978-0349113432

*Tools For Conviviality by Ivan Illich, Marion Boyars Publishers, 2001 ISBN-10: 0714509744 ISBN-13: 978-0714509747

*Woman On the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy 1976 (2000) The Women’s Press, London ISBN 0-7043-4656-7

Environmental Issues

*Dirty Planet: The Friends of the Earth Guide to Pollution and What You Can Do About It by Caroline Clayton, Livewire Books For Teenagers 2001, ISBN 0704349647

*The Greenpeace Guide To Anti-Environmental Organisations by Carl Deal, Pluto Press, 2002, ISBN-10: 1878825054 ISBN-13: 978-1878825056.

*Politics And The Environment:From Theory To Practice by James Connelly and Graham Smith, Routledge 2002, ISBN 041525146X

Social Issues, Gender and Sexuality

*No Bath But Plenty Of Bubbles – An Oral History Of The Gay Liberation Front 1970-1973, By Lisa Power, Cassell, 1996, ISBN 0304332054

*The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer, Flamingo Modern Classics 1999, ISBN 0586080554

Peace

CND – Now More Than Ever : The Story Of A Peace Movement by Kate Hudson, Vision Paperbacks, ISBN 1940132693
Policy Development Background Reading

*Contraction and Convergence: The Global Solution To Climate Change by Aubrey Meyer, Schumacher Briefings, Green Books, December 2000.

* Environmental Policy by Jane Roberts, Routledge 2003, ISBN 0415198860

*The Limits To Growth: The 30 Year Update by J.H. Meadows, J. Randers and Dennis L. Meadows, Earthscan Publications Ltd, 2004, ISBN-10: 1844071448 ISBN-13: 978-1844071449

*Plan B : Rescuing A Planet Under Stress And A Civilization In Trouble by Lester R. Brown, WW Norton & Co Ltd , 2003, ISBN-10: 0393325237
ISBN-13: 978-0393325232

*The Politics Of The Environment by Neil Carter, Cambridge University Press, 2001, ISBN-10: 0521469945 ISBN-13: 978-0521469944

*Powerdown: Options And Actions For A Post Carbon World By Richard Heinberg, Clearview Books, New Ed Edition, 2004, ISBN-10: 1902636635
ISBN-13: 978-1902636634

*Understanding Political Participation: Green Party Membership in Scotland by Lynne G. Bennie, Ashgate, 2004, ISBN 0754617238