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Essential Readings on Sustainability and Secession: 2009

 

Astyk, Sharon. Depletion and Abundance: Life On The New Home Front. British Columbia: New Society Press, 2008.

Bellesiles, Michael A. Revolutionary Outlaws: Ethan Allen and the Struggle for Independence on the Early American Frontier. Virginia: University of Virginia Press, 2003.

Bryan, Frank and John McClaughry. The Vermont Papers. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 1989.

Buchanan, Allen. Secession. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1991.

Clark, Susan and Frank Bryan. All Those In Favor: Rediscovering the Secrets of Town Meeting and Community. Montpelier, VT: Ravenmark Press, 2005.

Diamond, Jared. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Succeed or Fail. New York: Penguin Books, 2005.

DiLorenzo, Thomas J. The Real Lincoln. Roseville, CA: Prima Publishing, 2002.

Gordon, David (ed). Secession, State, and Liberty. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1998.

Graham, John Remington. A Constitutional History Of Secession. Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing, 2002.

Greer, John Michael. The Long Descent: A User's Guide To The End of the Industrial Age. British Columbia: New Society Publishers, 2008.

Griffin, David Ray. The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 911, 2nd edition. Northampton, MA: Olive Branch Press, 2004.

Heinberg, Richard. The Party’s Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies. British Columbia, Canada: New Society Publishers, 2003.

Johnson, Chalmers. The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic. New York, NY: Henry Holt, 2004.

Kennan, George. Around The Cragged Hill. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 1993. (See pp. 142-156).

Klein, Naomi. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. New York: Picador, 2007.

Kohr, Leopold. The Breakdown Of Nations. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1957.

Kunstler, James Howard. The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of the Oil Age. Boston, MA: Grove/Atlantic, 2005.

Kuzminski, Adrian. Fixing the System: A History of Populism, Ancient and Modern. New York: Continuum, 2008.

McKibben, Bill. Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future. New York: Holt, 2007. 

Naylor, Thomas H. Secession: How Vermont and all the Other States Can Save Themselves From the Empire. Port Townshend, Washington: Feral House, 2008.

Perkins, John. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. San Francisco, CA: Berrett Koehler, 2004.

Pollan, Michael. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. New York: Penguin Press, 2006.

Ruppert, Michael. Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil. British Columbia, Canada: New Society Publishers, 2004.

Sale, Kirkpatrick. Human Scale. New York, NY: Coward, McCann, and Geoghegan, 1980.

Schumacher, E.F. Small Is Beautiful. New York, NY: Harper and Row, 1973.

Sherman, Michael, Gene Sessions and P. Jeffrey Potash. Freedom and Unity: A History of Vermont. Barre, Vermont: Vermont Historical Society, 2004.

Wolf, Naomi. The End of America: Letter of Warning To A Young Patriot - A Citizen's Call To Action. White River Junction, Vermont: Chelsea Green, 2007.



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