Some recommendations from our team and friends
Below are just some of the books our team and friends have recommended for those who want to learn more about the themes around Ecological Belonging.
The list is mostly English for now, but we will soon have recommendations in numerous languages.
Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth by Joanna Macy, Thich Nhat Hanh, Wendell Berry, Sandra Ingerman, Bill Plotkin, Mary Evelyn Tucker, Brian Swimme, Dr. Vandana Shiva, Richard Rohr, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Braiding Sweetgrass: indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet by Thich Nhat Hanh
Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira
Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet by Marian L Tupy, and Gale L Pooley
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta
Human Kind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
Belonging: A Culture of Place by bell hooks
World as Lover, World as Self by Joanna Macy
Black Earth Wisdom: Soulful Conversations with Black Environmentalists by Leah Penniman
Of Water and the Spirit by Malidoma Patrice Somé
Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence by Timothy Morton
The Disappearance of Rituals by Byung-Chul Han
The Secret Life of Plant by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird
A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging by Dionne Brand
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise In Disaster by Rebecca Solnit
Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times by Alexis Shotwell
Original Instructions: Indigenous Teachings for a Sustainable Future, Edited by Issa K. Nelson
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh
Rehearsals for Living by Robyn Maynard and Leane Betasamosake Simpson
Consumed by Aja Barber
1919 Poems by Eve L. Ewing
To Be A Water Protector by Winona LaDuke
Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings Poems by Joy Harjo
As Long As Grass Grows by Dina Gilio-Whitaker
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility, Edited by Rebecca Soling and Thelma Young Lutunatabua
Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World by Bill Plotkin
Love Letter to the Earth by Thich Nhat Hanh
Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet by George Monbiot
Ritual by Malidoma Patrice Somé
Rooted in the Earth: Reclaiming the African American Environmental Heritage by Dianne D. Glave
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Eight Master Lessons of Nature: What Nature Teaches Us About Living Well in the World by Gary Ferguson
Born on the Water by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson and illustrated by Nikkolas Smith
The Solutions Are Already Here: Strategies for Ecological Revolution from Below by Peter Gelderloos
The Hidden Wound by Wendell Berry
The River Between by Ngugi wa Thing'o
We Are Water Protectors by Carole Windstorm and illustrated by Michaela Gorde
We Are the Weather by Jonathan Safran For
Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
After Writing: On The Liturgical Conssumation of Philosophy by Catherine Pickstock
Religion for Atheists by Alain de Botton
Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity by Nicklas Brendborg
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative by Florence Williams
Becoming Rooted: One Hundred Days of Reconnecting with Sacred Earth by Randy Woodley
Making Love With Land by Joshua Whitehead
Towards Scarring Our Collective Soul Wound by Cash Ahenakew
Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shapes Our World by Anthony Sattin
Star Stories: Constellations and People by Anthony Aveni
Hānau Ka Ua: Hawaiian Rain Names by Collette Leimomi Akana
Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All by Michael Shellenberger
Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from the Earth’s Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis by Michael Mann
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World by Ada Limón
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong
Medicine for the Earth: How to Transform Personal and Environmental Toxins by Sandra Ingerman
Think Indigenous: Native American Spirituality for a Modern World by Doug Good Feather
A Cree Healer and His Medicine Bundle: Revelations of Indigenous Wisdom--Healing Plants, Practices, and Stories by David Young, Robert Rogers, Russell Willier
The Four-Fold Way: Walking the Paths of the Warrior, Teacher, Healer and Visionary by de Angeles Arrien
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