09261 Additional Resilience Resources

We line up and make a lot of noise about big environmental problems like incinerators, waste dumps, acid rain, global warming and pollution. But we don't understand that when we add up all the tiny environmental problems each of us creates, we end up with those big environmental dilemmas.

Humans like to blame someone else, like government or corporations, for the messes we create, and yet we each continue doing the same things, day in and day out, that have created the problems. Sure, corporations create pollution. If they do, don't buy their products. If you have to buy their products (gasoline for example), keep it to a minimum. Sure, municipal waste incinerators pollute the air. Stop throwing trash away. Minimize your production of waste. Recycle. Buy food in bulk and avoid packaging waste. Simplify. Turn off your TV. Grow your own food. Make compost. Plant a garden. Be part of the solution, not part of the problem. If you don't, who will? — Joseph Jenkins, The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure

Besides books, you need detailed printed maps for your area. Many states have an atlas book with maps showing every road in the state, including dirt roads in rural areas and all streets in cities.

Brown, Lester. World on Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse. ISBN 0393339491. W.W.Norton, 2011.

Elpel, Thomas. Primitive Living, Self-Sufficiency, and Survival Skills: a Field Guide to Primitive Living Skills. ISBN 1592282083. Lyons Press, Connecticut. 2004.

Heinberg, Richard. Peak Everything. ISBN 0865716455. New Society Publishers, 2010.

Heinberg, Richard. The End of Growth. ISBN 0865716951. New Society Publishers, 2011.

Heinberg, Richard (ed). The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century's Sustainability Crisis. ISBN 0970950063. Watershed Media, 2010.

Hopkins, Rob. The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience. ISBN 1900322188. Chelsea Green, 2008.

Hopkins, Rob. The Transition Companion: Making Your Community More Resilient in Uncertain Times. ISBN 1603583920. Chelsea Green, 2011.

Martenson, Chris. The Crash Course: The Unsustainable Future of our Economy, Energy, and Environment. ISBN 047092764X. Wiley, 2011.

Pelling, Mark. The Vulnerability of Cities: Natural Disasters and Social Resilience. ISBN 1853838292. Routledge, 2003.

Ripley, Amanda. The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes and Why. ISBN 0307352897. Crown Archetype, New York. 2008.

Thomas, Dian. Roughing It easy: A unique idea book for camping and cooking. ISBN 0962125733. Dian Thomas Company, 1994.

Wescott, David. Primitive Technology: A Book of Earth Skills. ISBN 0879059117. Gibbs Smith, Utah. 1999.

Wescott, David. Primitive Technology II: Ancestral Skills. ISBN 1586850989. Gibbs Smith, Utah, 2001.