The Library is very much a work in progress. The list below is preparatory, with much more to come.

David Abram

• The Ecology of Magic

  First chapter of Spell of the Sensuous

• Awakening What’s Wild Within Us

  Utne Reader, November/December 2001 issue

• Earth Stories

  Resurgence, iss. 222

Tom Brown, Jr.

• Nature Awareness

  The Tracker Magazine, vol. 3, no. 1, 1984

William Catton

• Industrialization: Prelude to Collapse

  Chapter 1 of Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change (University of Illinois Press, 1982)

• The Tragic Story of Human Success

  Chapter 2 of Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change (University of Illinois Press, 1982)

• Dependence on Phantom Carrying Capacity

  Chapter 3 of Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change (University of Illinois Press, 1980)

• The World’s Most Polymorphic Species: Carrying Capacity Transgressed Two Ways

Bruce D. Charlton

• Alienation, Neo-shamanism and Recovered Animism

• The Feeling of What Happens

  Review of Antonio Damasio’s The Feeling of What Happens: Body, Emotion and the Making of Consciousness.

• What is the Meaning of Life?

Mark Nathan Cohen

• Health and the Rise of Civilization

  Excerpt from Health and the Rise of Civilization, pp. 131-141

Christopher Cokinos

• The Consolations of Extinction

  Orion Magazine, May/June 2007

Loren Cordain

• Plant-animal subsistence ratios and macronutrient energy estimations in worldwide hunter-gatherer diets

  With Janette Brand Miller, S. Boyd Eaton, Neil Mann, Susanne H.A. Holt, and John D. Speth, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2000;71:682–92.

William Cronon

• The Trouble With Wilderness, or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature

  From Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature (W. W. Norton & Company, 1996)

Jared Diamond

• The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race

  Discover Magazine, May 1987

• Easter’s End

  Discover Magazine, August 1995

• The Ends of the World as We Know Them

  New York Times, 1 January 2005

• Ecological Collapses of Pre-industrial Societies

  Tanner Lecture on Human Values, delivered at Stanford University, May 22–24, 2000

Robin Dunbar

• The Social Brain Hypothesis

  Evolutionary Anthropology, vol. 6, 1998, pp. 178-190

• Co-evolution of Neocortex Size, Group Size and Language in Humans

  Preprint, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (4): 681-735.

Thomas J. Elpel

• The Art of Nothing

• Quest for Freedom

• Primitive Living Skills as Metaphor

• Tire Sandals

• The Atlatl and Dart

• Nature as Wallpaper

Malcolm Gladwell

• The Naked Face

  The New Yorker, 5 August 2002

• The Theory of Thin Slices: How a Little Bit of Knowledge Goes a Long Way

  Chapter 1 from Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Santillana USA Publishing Company Inc., 2005)

Chellis Glendinning

• A Lesson in Earth Civics

  Excerpt from My Name is Chellis & I’m in Recovery from Western Civilization (Shambhala, 1994)

• Loss of Health

  Excerpt form When Technology Wounds (William Morrow & Co., 1990)

• Technology, Trauma & the Wild

  Excerpt from Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind (Sierra Club Books, 1995)

John Michael Greer

• A Theory of Catabolic Collapse

• The Coming of Deindustrial Society: A Practical Response

Garrett Hardin

• The Tragedy of the Commons

  Science, vol 162, 13 December 1968, 1243-1248

Richard Heinberg

• The Primitivist Critique of Civilization

  Presented at the 24th annual meeting of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations at Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, June 15, 1995.

• Catastrophe, Collective Trauma, & the Origin of Civilisation

  Originally published in two parts, New Darn Magazine, no. 55 & 56, July-August 1999 & September-October 1999

• We Need a New Myth

  Acres USA, March 2007

Toby Hemenway

• Is Sustainable Agriculture an Oxymoron?

  Permaculture Activist No. 60, May, 2006

• Beyond Wilderness

  Permaculture Activist No. 51

• Watershed Wisdom of the Beaver

  Permaculture ActivistPermaculture Activist #47

Russell Hopfenberg

• Human Population Numbers as a Function of Food Supply

  With David Pimentel, Environment, Development and Sustainability 3: 1–15, 2001

• Human Carrying Capacity is Determined by Food Availability

  Population and Environment, Vol. 25, No. 2, November 2003

Derrick Jensen

• Beyond Hope

  Orion Magazine, May/June 2006

• Back to Our Senses: How do we free ourselves from the trap of fear?

  Hope Magazine, May/June 2004

• Do We Need Nature?

  The Ecologist, July/August 2003

• Hungry Ghosts

  The Ecologist, March 2003

William Koetke

• The Final Empire

  Excerpt from The Final Empire (Arrow Point Press, 1993)

Elizabeth Kolbert

• The Climate of Man, Part I: How the Earth is Changing

  The New Yorker, April 25, 2005, p. 56

• The Climate of Man, Part II: The Curse of Akkad

  The New Yorker, May 2, 2005, p. 64

• The Climate of Man, Part III: What Can Be Done?

  The New Yorker, May 9, 2005, p. 52

Brent Ladd

• The Realities of Going Primitive

  Wilderness Way, vol. 2, iss. 2

Richard Borshay Lee

• Eating Christmas in the Kalahari

  Natural History, December 1969.

Jean Liedloff

• The Continuum Concept

  Excerpt from The Continuum Concept (Addison Wesley Publishing Company, 1986)

• Allowing Human Nature to Work Successfully

  Touch the Future Magazine, Fall 1998

• Normal Neurotics Like Us

  Mothering Magazine, Fall 1991

Richard Louv

• Leave No Child Inside

  Orion Magazine, March/April 2007

• Nature Deficit Disorder

  Statement before the U.S. Congress House Natural Resources Committee

Charles C. Mann

• 1491

  The Atlantic Monthly, March 2002

• Unraveling Khipu’s Secrets

  Science, vol. 309, 12 August 2005

Richard Manning

• The Oil We Eat

  Harper’s Magazine, February 2004

Lackson T. Marufu

• The 2003 North American electrical blackout: An accidental experiment in atmospheric chemistry

  With Brett F. Taubman, Bryan Bloomer, Charles A. Piety, Bruce G. Doddridge, Jeffrey W. Stehr, and Russell R. Dickerson, Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 31, 2004

John M. Marzluff & Tony Angell

• Cultural Coevolution: How the Human Bond with Crows and Ravens Extends Theory and Raises New Questions

  Journal of Ecological Anthropology, vol. 9, 2005, pp. 69-75

Mark Meritt

• The Origins and Unsustainability of Socioeconomic Increase

  Master’s Thesis

Daniel Quinn

• The Boiling Frog

  Parable from The Story of B

• The Great Forgetting

  Parable from The Story of B

• Living in the Hands of the Gods

  Excerpt from Ishmael

• The New Renaissance

  Address delivered at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, March 7, 2002

• Technology & the Other War

  Address by Daniel Quinn at Student Pugwash “Technologies of Peace” Conference, Carnegie Mellon University, 1997

Theodore Roszak

• Awakening the Ecological Unconscious

  In Context, Winter 1993, Page 48

• Ecopsychology: Eight Principles

  Adapted from The Voice of the Earth: An Exploration of Ecopsychology

• The Nature of Sanity

  Psychology Today, Jan/Feb 96

William Ruddiman

• The Anthropogenic Greenhouse Era Began Thousands of Years Ago

  Climatic Change, vol. 61, iss. 3, December 2003

• Climate & Human History

  Chapter one from Plows, Plagues and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate

Marshall Sahlins

• The Original Affluent Society

  Excerpt from Stone Age Economics

• Poor Man, Rich Man, Big Man, Chief: Political Types in Melanesia and Polynesia

  Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 5, no. 3, April 1963, pp. 285-303

Kirkpatrick Sale

• Mother of All: An Introduction to Bioregionalism

  Third Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures, October 1983, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA

• The Myth of Progress

• The Imposition of Technology

  Chapter from Rebels Against The Future: The Luddites and their War on the Industrial Revolution

• Economics of Scale vs. the Scale of Economics

Wolfgang M. Schleidt & Michael D. Shalter

• Co-evolution of Humans and Canids: An Alternative View of Dog Domestication

  Evolution and Cognition, vol. 9, no. 1, 2003, pp. 57-72

Paul Shepard

• Nature and Madness

  Excerpt from Nature and Madness

Joe Sheridan & Roronhiakewen Dan Longboat

• The Haudenosaunee Imagination and the Ecology of the Sacred

  Space and Culture, vol. 9, no. 4, November 2006, 365-381

E. Richard Sorenson

• Preconquest Consciousness

  Tribal Epistemologies: Essays in the Philosophy of Anthropology, Helmut Wautischer, ed.

Joseph Tainter

• Complexity, Problem Solving & Sustainable Societies

  From Getting Down to Earth: Practical Applications of Ecological Economics, Island Press, 1996

Jeff Vail

• Forward, to Rhizome

  Chapter 9 of A Theory of Power

• The New Map: Terrorism and the Decline of the Nation-State in a Post-Cartesian World

Curtis White

• The Idols of Environmentalism

  Orion Magazine, March/April 2007

• The Ecology of Work

Orion Magazine, May/June 2007

E.O. Wilson

• Is Humanity Suicidal?

  New York Times Magazine, May 30 1993

• Living in Shimmering Disequilibrium

  Interview by Fred Branfman, Salon, April 22, 2000

• Arousing Biophilia: A Conversation with E.O. Wilson

  Orion Magazine, Winter 1991

Michael Winkelman

• Shamanism as Neurotheology and Evolutionary Psychology

  American Behavioral Scientist, vol. 45, no. 12, August 2002, pp. 1873-1885

Robert Wolff

• Original Wisdom

  Excerpt from Original Wisdom: Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing

John Zerzan

• Agriculture: Demon Engine of Civilization

• Division of Labor

• Age of Grief

• Future Primitive

• Running on Emptiness