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Books on Green Philosophy

The Ages of Gaia by James Lovelock

Describes how the living earth may work, today, and in ages past, based on Lovelock's latest research.

Animal Liberation by Peter Singer

Why animals should have rights.

The Case for Animal Rights by Tom Regan

Asserts that animals have a basic moral right to be treated with respect for their independent value.

Earthcare by Carolyn Merchant

Explores the association of women with nature in western culture.

Green Political Thought by Andrew Dobson

A clear and thoughtful overview of green ideas and the aims and strategies of the green movement. Argues that ecologism should be considered as a distinct political ideology.

The Practice of the Wild by Gary Snyder

Essays on wildness with a Buddhist perspective.

Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature edited by William Cronon

Pushes us to a deeper understanding of the environmental implications of our views about nature.

Wild Animals and American Environmental Ethics by Lisa Mighetto

Helps us evaluate our inherited attitudes and assumptions about the animal world.

A Companion to Environmental Philosophy

Jamieson, Dale, Blackwell Publishers, 2003, Paperback, $34.95

A Green Place, a Good Place: Agrarian Change, Gender and Social Identity in the Great Lakes Region to the 15th Century

Schoenbrun, David Lee, Heinemann, 1998, Paperback, $24.95

A Greener Vision of Home: Cultural Politics and Environmental Reform in the German Heimatschutz Movement, 1904-1918

Rollins, William H., University of Michigan Press, 1997, Hardcover, $65.00

A New Green Revolution for Africa?: Myths and Realities of Agriculture, Technology and Development

Rosset, Peter, Food First, 2002, Paperback, $18.95

Alternative Politics: The German Green Party

Poguntke, Thomas, Edinburgh University Press, 1993, Hardcover, $53.60

American Indian Literature, Environmental Justice, and Ecocriticism: The Middle Place

Adamson, Joni, University of Arizona Press, 2001, Paperback, $19.95

An Ethics of Place: Radical Ecology, Postmodernity, and Social Theory

Smith, Mick, State University of New York Press, 2001, Paperback, $23.95

An Invitation to Environmental Philosophy

Weston, Anthony, Oxford University Press, 1998, Paperback, $16.95

Avant Gardening

Wilson, Peter Lamborn, Autonomedia, 2002, Paperback, $8.00

Avoiding Social and Ecological Disaster: The Politics of World Transformation

Bahro, Rudolf, Gateway Books (GB), 1993, Paperback, $19.95

Beyond Bookchin: Preface for a Future Social Ecology

Watson, David, Autonomedia, 1996, Hardcover, $0.00

Beyond the Land Ethic: More Essays in Environmental Philosophy

Callicott, J. Baird, State University of New York Press, 1999, Paperback, $25.95

Contesting Earth's Future: Radical Ecology and Postmodernity

Zimmerman, Michael E., University of California Press, 1997, Paperback, $19.95

Critical Political Ecology: The Politics of Environmental Science

Forsyth, Tim, Routledge, 2002, Paperback, $31.95

Deep Ecology and World Religions: New Essays on Sacred Ground

Barnhill, David Landis, State University of New York Press, 2001, Paperback, $22.95

Deep Power: The Political Ecology of Wilderness and Civilization

Kowalewski, David, Nova Science Publishers, 2000, Hardcover, $34.00

Deeper Shades of Green: The Rise of Blue-Collar and Minority Environmentalism in America

Schwab, Jim, Sierra Club Books for Children, 1994, Hardcover, $30.00

Defending Mother Earth: Native American Perspectives on Environmental Justice

Means, Russell, Orbis Books, 1996, Paperback, $24.00

Defending the Earth: A Dialogue Between Murray Bookchin and Dave Foreman

Bookchin, Murray, South End Press, 1990, Paperback, $13.00

Defending the Earth: Debate Between Murray Bookchin and Dave Foreman

Levine, David, Black Rose Books, 1991, Paperback, $15.95

Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change

Papanek, Victor, Academy Chicago Publishers, 1999, Paperback, $25.00

Divided Natures: French Contributions to Political Ecology

Whiteside, Kerry H., MIT Press, 2002, Paperback, $24.95

Earth for Sale: Reclaiming Ecology in the Age of Corporate Greenwash

Tokar, Brian, South End Press, 1997, Paperback, $18.00

Earth Summit Ethics: Toward a Reconstructive Postmodern Philosophy of Environmental Education

Callicott, J. Baird, State University of New York Press, 1996, Paperback, $20.95

Earthly Goods: Environmental Change and Social Justice

Hampson, Fen O., Cornell University Press, 1996, Paperback, $19.95

Ecofeminism

Mies, Maria, Zed Books Ltd., 1993, Paperback, $22.50

Ecofeminism and the Sacred

Adams, Carol J., Continuum International Publishing Group, 1994, Paperback, $19.95

Ecofeminism as Politics: Nature, Marx and the Postmodern

Salleh, Ariel, St. Martin's Press, 1997, Paperback, $25.00

Ecological Enlightenment: Essays on the Politics of the Risk Society

Beck, Ulrich, Humanities Press Intl Inc, 1995, Paperback, $15.00

Ecological Politics in an Age of Risk

Beck, Ulrich, Polity Press, 1995, Paperback, $35.95

Ecological Politics: Ecofeminists and Greens

Gaard, Greta, Temple University Press, 1998, Paperback, $24.95

Ecology Against Capitalism

Foster, John Bellamy, Monthly Review Press, 2002, Paperback, $17.95

Ecology and Historical Materialism

Hughes, Jonathan R. T., Cambridge University Press, 2000, Paperback, $22.95

Ecopolitics: Building a Green Society

Coleman, Daniel A., Rutgers University Press, 1994, Paperback, $14.95

Ecopolitics: The Enviroment in Post-Structuralist Thought

Conley, Verena Andermatt, Routledge, 1996, Paperback, $27.95

Ecopopulism: Toxic Waste and the Movement for Environmental Justice

Szasz, Andrew, University of Minnesota Press, 1994, Paperback, $17.95

Eco-Socialism or Eco-Capitalism?: A Critical Analysis of Humanity's Fundamental Choices

Sarkar, Saral, Zed Books Ltd., 1999, Paperback, $25.00

Eco-Socialism: From Deep Ecology to Social Justice

Pepper, David, Routledge, 1993, Hardcover, $0.00

Environment, Subsistence, and System: The Ecology of Small-Scale Social Formations

Ellen, R. F., Cambridge University Press, 1982, Paperback, $25.00

Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason

Plumwood, Val, Routledge, 2002, Paperback, $22.95

Environmental Ethics

Elliot, Robert, Oxford University Press, 1995, Paperback, $24.95

Environmental Ethics: An Anthology

Light, Andrew, Blackwell Publishers, 2002, Paperback, $39.95

Environmental Ethics: An Invitation to Environmental Philosophy

Desjardins, Joseph R., Wadsworth Publishing Company, 2001, Paperback, $50.95

Environmental Justice

Wenz, Peter S., State University of New York Press, 1988, Paperback, $22.95

Environmental Justice and the New Pluralism: The Challenge of Difference for Environmentalism

Scholsberg, David, Oxford University Press, 2002, Paperback, $21.95

Environmental Philosophy

Belshaw, Christopher, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001, Paperback, $19.95

Environmental Philosophy: From Animal Rights to Radical Ecology

Zimmerman, Michael E., Prentice Hall, 2000, Paperback, $41.00

Environmental Philosophy: From Animal Rights to Radical Ecology

Zimmerman, Michael E., Prentice Hall, 2000, Paperback, $41.00

Environmental Pragmatism: Environmental Philosophies

Light, Andrew, Routledge, 1998, Paperback, $30.95

Environmentalism and Political Theory: Toward an Ecocentric Approach

Eckersley, Robyn, State University of New York Press, 1992, Paperback, $20.95

Environmentalism and Political Theory: Toward an Ecocentric Approach

Eckersley, Robyn, State University of New York Press, 1992, Hardcover, $21.50

Every Life is a Story: The Social Relations of Science, Ecology and Peace

Knelman, Fred H., Black Rose Books, 1999, Paperback, $24.99

Faces of Environmental Racism: Confronting Issues of Global Justice

Westra, Laura, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001, Paperback, $24.95

Faces of Environmental Racism: Confronting Issues of Global Justice

Westra, Laura, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001, Paperback, $24.95

Faking Nature: The Ethics of Environmental Restoration

Elliott, Robert, Routledge, 1998, Paperback, $23.95

Feminism and Ecology: An Introduction

Mellor, Mary, New York University Press, 1998, Paperback, $19.00

Fencing the Forest: Conservation and Ecological Change in India's Central Provinces, 1860-1914

Rangarajan, Manhesh, Oxford University Press, 1996, Hardcover, $27.00

From Political to Global Ecology: A Social History of the Green Movement

Finger, Matthias, St. Martin's Press, 1993, Paperback, $19.95

From Political to Global Ecology: A Social History of the Green Movement

Finger, Matthias, St. Martin's Press, 1993, Paperback, $19.95

From Political to Global Ecology: A Social History of the Green Movement

Finger, Matthias, St. Martin's Press, 1993, Paperback, $19.95

From Red to Green: Interviews with New Left Review

Bahro, Rudolf, Verso, 1984, Hardcover, $26.50

From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement

Cole, Luke, New York University Press, 2000, Paperback, $18.00

Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago

Pellow, David Naguib, MIT Press, 2002, Hardcover, $24.95

Geo-Logic: Breaking Ground Between Philosophy and the Earth Sciences

Frodeman, Robert, State University of New York Press, 2003, Paperback, $17.95

German Left: Red, Green, & Beyond Eio

Markovits, Andrei S., Oxford University Press, 1993, Paperback, $24.95

Global Ecology: Environmental Change and Social Flexibility

Smil, Vaclav, Routledge, 1993, Hardcover, $0.00

Global Justice and Transnational Politics: Essays on the Moral and Political Challenges of Globalization

De Greiff, Pablo, MIT Press, 2002, Paperback, $22.95

Green Backlash: The History and Politics of the Environmental Opposition in the U.S.

Switzer, Jacqueline V., Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1997, Paperback, $21.00

Green Challenge: The Development of Green Parties in Europe

Richardson, Dick, Routledge, 1994, Paperback, $25.99

Green Guerillas: Environmental Conflicts and Initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean

Collinson, Helen, Black Rose Books, 1997, Paperback, $23.99

Green Guerrillas: Environmental Conflicts in Latin America - A Reader

Collinson, Helen, Monthly Review Press, 1997, Paperback, $19.00

Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations

Ponting, Clive, Penguin Books, 1993, Paperback, $16.00

Green History: A Reader in Environmental Literature, Philosophy, and Politics

Wall, Derek, Routledge, 1994, Paperback, $29.95

Green History: The Future of the Past

Martin, Thomas S., University Press of America, 2000, Paperback, $32.50

Green Hopes: The Future of Political Ecology

Lipietz, Alain, Polity Press, 1995, Paperback, $34.95

Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens, and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600-1860

Grove, Richard H., Cambridge University Press, 1994, Hardcover, $70.00

Green Land, Brown Land, Black Land: An Environmental History of Africa, 1800-1990

McCann, James C., Heinemann, 1999, Hardcover, $24.95

Green Liberalism: The Free and the Green Society

Wissenburg, Marcel, UCL Press, 1998, Paperback, $27.95

Green Parties and Politics in the European Community

Bomberg, Elizabeth, Routledge, 1998, Paperback, $39.99

Green Political Theory

Goodin, Robert E., Polity Press, 1992, Paperback, $33.95

Green Versus Gold: Sources in California's Environmental History

Merchant, Carolyn, Island Press, 1998, Paperback, $25.00

Greening the Past: Towards a Social-Ecological Analysis of History

Martin, Thomas S., International Scholars Publications, 1998, Hardcover, $0.00

Grounding Knowledge: Environmental Philosophy, Epistemology, and Place

Preston, Christopher J., University of Georgia Press, 2003, Hardcover, $34.95

History Ends in Green: Gaia, Psychedelics and the Archaic Revival

McKenna, Terence, Mystic Fire Audio, 1991, AnalogAudioCassette, $39.95

Honeybee Ecology: A Study of Adaptation in Social Life

Seeley, Thomas D., Princeton University Press, 1985, Paperback, $16.00

Hungry for Profit: The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food, and the Environment.

Magdoff, Fred, New York University Press, 1999, Paperback, $19.00

Hybrid Histories: Forests, Frontiers and Wilderness in Western India

Skaria, Ajay, Oxford University Press, 1998, Hardcover, $27.95

Images of Development: Environmental Causes in Ontogeny

van der Weele, Cor, State University of New York Press, 1999, Paperback, $20.95

In Defense of History: Marxism and the Postmodern Agenda

Foster, John Bellamy, Monthly Review Press, 1997, Paperback, $16.00

In Defense of the Land Ethic: Essays in Environmental Philosophy

Callicott, J. Baird, State University of New York Press, 1989, Paperback, $22.95

In the Belly of the River: Tribal Conflicts Over Development in the Narmada Valley

Baviskar, Amita, Oxford University Press, 1997, Paperback, $11.95

In the Society of Nature: A Native Ecology in Amazonia

Descola, Philippe, Cambridge University Press, 1997, Paperback, $34.95

Is Capitalism Sustainable?: Political Economy and the Politics of Ecology

O'Connor, Martin, Guilford Publications, 1994, Paperback, $18.95

Justice & Nature: Kantian Philosophy, Environmental Policy, and the Law

Gillroy, John Martin, Georgetown University Press, 2002, Paperback, $34.95

Justice & Nature: Kantian Philosophy, Environmental Policy, and the Law

Gillroy, John Martin, Georgetown University Press, 2002, Paperback, $34.95

Justice and the Environment: Conceptions of Environmental Sustainability and Dimensions of Social Justice

Dobson, Andrew P., Oxford University Press, 1998, Paperback, $29.95

Killing Me Softly: Toxic Waste, Corporate Profit, and the Struggle for Environmental Justice

Smith, Jack, Monthly Review Press, 2002, Paperback, $16.95

Land, Ecology and Resistance in Kenya, 1880-1952

MacKenzie, A. Fiona D., Heinemann, 1998, Paperback, $26.00

Land, Value, Community: Callicott and Environmental Philosophy

Ouderkirk, Wayne, State University of New York Press, 2002, Paperback, $24.95

Lewis Mumford and the Ecological Region: The Politics of Planning

Luccarelli, Mark, Guilford Publications, 1997, Paperback, $18.95

Liberation Ecologies: Environment, Development, Social Movements

Watts, Michael, Routledge, 1996, Paperback, $31.95

Markets, the State, and the Environment: Towards Integration

Eckersley, Robyn, MacMillan Education Australia, 1995, Hardcover, $64.95

Marx & Human Nature

Geras, Norman, Verso, 1985, Paperback, $15.00

Marx and Nature: A Red and Green Perspective

Burkett, Paul, St. Martin's Press, 1999, Hardcover, $69.95

Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature

Foster, John Bellamy, Monthly Review Press, 1999, Paperback, $18.00

Natural Causes: Essays in Ecological Marxism

O'Connor, James, Ph.D., Guilford Publications, 1997, Paperback, $22.00

Nature in Asian Traditions of Thought: Essays in Environmental Philosophy

Callicott, J. Baird, State University of New York Press, 1989, Paperback, $25.95

Philosophy Gone Wild: Environmental Ethics

Rolston, Holmes, III, Prometheus Books, 1989, Paperback, $23.00

Political Ecology and the Role of Water: Environment, Society and Economy in Northern Yemen

Lichtenthaeler, Gerhard, Ashgate Publishing, 2002, Hardcover, $0.00

Political Ecology, Mountain Agriculture, and Knowledge in Honduras

Jansen, Kees, Thela Thesis, 1998, Paperback, $18.00

Political Ecology: Beyond Environmentalism

Roussopoulos, Dimitrios I., Black Rose Books, 1993, Paperback, $15.99

Post-Scarcity Anarchism

Bookchin, Murray, Consortium , 1986, Paperback, $19.98

Radical Ecology: The Search for a Livable World

Merchant, Carolyn, Routledge, 1992, Paperback, $22.95

Realism in Green Politics: Social Movements and Ecological Reform in Germany

Wiesenthal, Helmut, Manchester University Press, 1993, Hardcover, $0.00

Redefining Red and Green: Ideology and Strategy in European Political Ecology

Shull, Tad, State University of New York Press, 1999, Paperback, $20.95

Redesigning Life?: The Worldwide Challenge to Genetic Engineering

Tokar, Brian, Zed Books Ltd., 2001, Paperback, $19.95

Regarding Nature: Industrialism and Deep Ecology

McLaughlin, Andrew, State University of New York Press, 1993, Paperback, $21.95

Respect for Nature: A Theory of Environmental Ethics

Taylor, Paul W., Princeton University Press, 1986, Paperback, $22.95

Rudolf Steiner: Life, Work, Inner Path and Social Initiatives

Lissau, Rudi, Hawthorn Press, 2000, Paperback, $14.95

Social Adaptation to Food Stress: A Prehistoric Southwestern Example

Minnis, Paul E., University of Chicago Press, 1985, Paperback, $13.00

Social Ecology

Guha, Ramachandra, Oxford University Press, 1998, Paperback, $17.95

Social Ecology

Dogan, Mattei, MIT Press, 1974, Paperback, $6.95

Social Ecology After Bookchin

Light, Andrew, Guilford Publications, 1998, Paperback, $19.95

Social Ecology: Exploring Post-Industrial Society

Large, Martin, Hawthorn Press, 1996, Paperback, $8.94

Struggle for Nature: A Critique of Radical Ecology

Keulartz, Jozef, Routledge, 1999, Hardcover, $65.00

The Animal Rights, Environmental Ethics Debate: The Environmental Perspective

Hargrove, Eugene C., State University of New York Press, 1992, Hardcover, $22.50

The Business of Consumption: Environmental Ethics and the Global Economy

Westra, Laura, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1998, Paperback, $30.50

The Ecological Community: Environmental Challenges for Philosophy, Politics, and Morality

Gottlieb, Roger S., Routledge, 1997, Paperback, $26.95

The Emergence of Ecological Modernisation: Integrating the Environment and Economy

Young, Stephen C., Routledge, 2000, Hardcover, $55.00

The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?

Kovel, Joel, Zed Books Ltd., 2002, Paperback, $19.95

The Environmental Justice Reader: Politics, Poetics, & Pedagogy

Adamson, Joni, University of Arizona Press, 2002, Paperback, $21.95

The German Greens: Paradox Between Movement and the Party

Mayer, Margit, Temple University Press, 1997, Paperback, $26.95

The Green Alternative: Creating an Ecological Future

Tokar, Brian, New Society Publishers, 1994, Paperback, $14.95

The Green Archipelago: Forestry in Preindustrial Japan

Totman, Conrad, Swallow Press, 1998, Paperback, $21.95

The Green Revolution: The American Environmental Movement, 1962-1992

Sale, Kirkpatrick, Hill & Wang, 1993, Paperback, $11.00

The Greening of a Red

Macewen, Malcolm, Pluto Press (UK), 1991, Hardcover, $0.00

The Greening of Marxism

Benton, Ted, Guilford Publications, 1996, Paperback, $18.95

The Greening of the Revolution: Cuba's Experiment with Organic Farming

Rosset, Peter, Ocean Press (AU), 1995, Paperback, $11.95

The Meaning of Environmental Security: Ecological Politics and Policy in the New Security Era

Barnett, Jon, Zed Books Ltd., 2001, Paperback, $22.50

The Nature of Capital: Marx After Foucault

Marsden, Richard, Routledge, 2000, Hardcover, $110.00

The Next Green Revolution

Horne, James E., Food Products Pr, 2002, Paperback, $34.95

The Philosophy of Social Ecology: Essays on Dialectical Naturalism

Bookchin, Murray, Black Rose Books, 1995, Hardcover, $0.00

The Political Ecology of Bananas: Contract Farming, Peasants, and Agrarian Change in the Eastern Caribbean

Grossman, Lawrence S., University of North Carolina Press, 1998, Paperback, $21.50

The Political Ecology of Forestry in Burma: 1824-1994

Bryant, Raymond L., University of Hawaii Press, 1997, Hardcover, $39.00

The Politics of Social Ecology: Libertarian Municipalism

Biehl, Janet, Black Rose Books, 1997, Paperback, $19.99

The Red and the Green: The Rise and Fall of Collectivized Agriculture in Marxist Regimes

Pryor, Frederic L., Princeton University Press, 1999, Hardcover, $59.50

The Red-Green Coalition in Germany: Politics, Personalities and Power

Lees, Charles, Manchester University Press, 2001, Paperback, $19.95

The State of Nature: Ecology, Community, and American Social Thought, 1900-1950

Mitman, Gregg, University of Chicago Press, 1992, Paperback, $28.00

The Struggle for Nature: A Critique of Environmental Philosophy

Keulartz, Jozef, Routledge, 1999, Paperback, $24.95

The Vulnerable Planet: A Short Economic History of the Environment

Foster, John Bellamy, New York University Press, 1999, Paperback, $15.00

Third World Political Ecology

Bryant, Raymond, Routledge, 1997, Paperback, $29.95

Towards a Naturalistic Political Theory: Aristotle, Hume, Dewey, Evolutionary Biology, and Deep Ecology

Hoy, Terry, Praeger Publishers, 2000, Hardcover, $62.95

Toxic Struggles: The Theory and Practice of Environmental Justice

Hofrichter, Richard, University of Utah Press, 2002, Paperback, $17.95

Transformations in Green Politics: Interpreting Development and Change Within European Green Parties

Burchell, Jon, Earthscan Publications, 2002, Paperback, $27.50

Where the Dove Calls: The Political Ecology of a Peasant Corporate Community in Northwestern Mexico

Sheridan, Thomas E., University of Arizona Press, 1996, Paperback, $22.95

Wilderness and Political Ecology: Aboriginal Influences and the Original State of Nature

Kay, Charles E., University of Utah Press, 2002, Hardcover, $45.00

Women Healing Earth: Third World Women on Ecology, Feminism, and Religion

Ruether, Rosemary Radford, Orbis Books, 1996, Paperback, $17.00

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