Green Reading List Blog launched

A lazyish day today eating more mince pies, catching up on emails and reading - always enjoy Resurgence and Ecologist. Infact read an article in The Ecologist that links nicely to my Blog below about the rise digital TV and other gadgets. This article, the Electric Cabaret looks at other consequences of our high-tech media age - how work-home boundaries are blurred, roles are blurred and the impact on our relationships....sadly all too many of those gadgets will have found their ways into homes this Christmas - read Molly's Blog on Christmas which is a useful reminder about how this sacred festival has been corrupted.

...but I'm getting side-tracked here this Blog entry is really about a new project - a "Green Reading List Blog" - that has just been started - it is described as "an informal and personal contribution to the Green Party" by a Green party member. The idea is that people visit the blog and post their suggestions for categories, books or web based information in the comments boxes.

Photo: view of Randwick from top of Ash Lane, looking across to Whiteshill in the distance

These will then update as frequently as necessary so that the newest post shows the reading list as it currently stands. The site is here: http://paulfr0st.wordpress.com/

This seems a very useful project as many is the time I'm asked what Green books are good to read. This list is very much in it's early days - suspect when the list gets longer it'll need to 'weight' some of the suggestions or make more subdivisions - also need to get the list out more - Wikipedia, Greensworld, blogs etc. Maybe we can also add a few key Greens to list their favorites?

Here are my essential additions that I'll forward to the list for inclusion:

A great look at what's wrong and the ways forward - "Green Alternatives to Globalisation, A Manifesto" by Michael Woodin and Caroline Lucas, Pluto Press 2004 ISBN 0745319327

A much-needed spiritual element - "The Compassionate Revolution, Radical Politics and Buddhism" by David Edwards, Green Books 1998 ISBN 1870098706

An easy starter on key issues - "The Little Earth Book" by James Bruges various editions Alistair Sawday Publishing Co Ltd ISBN 1901970310

I also think it would be great to have a fiction section - and possibly poetry and more - but certainly there are many great novels that help us vision a Green world - if you do decide to add a section here's many people's favorite:

"Woman On the Edge of Time" by Marge Piercy 1976 (2000). Woman on the Edge of Time. London: The Women's Press. ISBN 0-7043-4656-7

What would your suggestions be?