Recommended Reading – Judy N Green

These are some of my favourite books. I will be adding more as they emerge.

For the Love of Soil: Strategies to Regenerate Our Food Production Systems

	Title	Author
	*Agriculture*
	Dirt to Soil: One Family’s Journey into Regenerative Agriculture	Gabe Brown
	For the Love of Soil: Strategies to Regenerate Our Food Production Systems	Nicole Masters
	*Climate Crisis*
	A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency	Seth Kline
	Dangerous Years: Climate Change, the Long Emergency and the Way Forward	David W Orr
	Don’t Even Think About It: Why Our Brains are Wired to Ignore Climate Change	George Marshall
	Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming	Paul Hawken
	Encyclical Letter Laudato Si’ of the Holy Father Francis: On Care for Our Common Home	Pope Francis
	Internationalism or Extinction	Noam Chomsky
	Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Climate Change	Erik M Conway, Naomi Oreskes
	The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption	Dahr Jamail
	The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis	Christiana Figueres , Tom Rivett-Carnac
	The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet	Michael E. Mann
	The Sixth Extinction	Elizabeth Kolbert
	The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming	David Wallace-Wells
	Communication
	Communicating for a Change: Seven Keys to Irresistible Communication	Andy Stanley
	*De-funding the Police*
	The End of Policing	Alex S. Vitale
	Ecocide
	Dare to Be Great: Unlock Your Power to Create a Better World	Polly Higgins
	Earth is Our Business: Changing the Rules of the Game	Polly Higgins
	Eradicating Ecocide 2nd edition: Laws and Governance to Stop the Destruction of the Planet	Polly Higgins
	Polly Higgins: The Earth’s Lawyer	Mrs Juliana Muniz Westcott

	*Economics*
	Bullshit Jobs: A Theory	David Graeber
	Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist	Kate Raworth
	The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy	Stephanie Kelton
	Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World	Rutger Bregman
	*Environment*
	Silent Spring	Rachel Carson
	The Overstory	Richard Powers
	The Sea Trilogy: Under the Sea-Wind / The Sea Around Us / The Edge of the Sea	Rachel Carson
	Epigenetics
	The Biology of Belief	Bruce H. Lipton
	The Honeymoon Effect: The Science of Creating Heaven on Earth	Bruce H. Lipton
	The Wisdom of Your Cells: How Your Beliefs Control Your Biology	Bruce H. Lipton
	Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
	Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion	Tyler LeBlanc
	In the Black: My Life	B. Denham Jolly
	There’s Something in the Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous & Black Communities	Ingrid R G Waldron

	White Fragility: Why it is So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism	Dr. Robin DiAngelo
	Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race	Reni Eddo-Lodge
	*First Nations, Inuit & Metis*
	21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples Reality	Bob Joseph
	Five Little Indians	Michelle Good
	All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward	Tanya Talaga
	Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants	Robin Wall Kimmerer
	Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America	Thomas King
	Indian Horse: A Novel	Richard Wagamese
	Seven Fallen Feathers	Tanya Talaga
	Seven Truths	Tanya Talaga
	*Food Security*
	Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do about It	Anna Lappe
	Eating Animals	Jonathan Safran Foer
	In Defence of Food	Michael Pollan
	The Botany of Desire	Michael Pollan
	Omnivore’s Dilemma	Michael Pollan
	The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony	Will Tuttle Ph.D.
	*Future*
	How Soon is now?: The Handbook for Global Change	Daniel Pinchbeck
	The Green New Deal: Why Fossil Fuel will Collapse by 2028 and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth	Jeremy Rifkin
	The Long Emergency	James Howard Kunsler
	The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Duelling Visions to Shape Tomorrow’s World	Charles C. Mann
	This Changes Everything	Naomi Kline
	*Government*
	How Government Really Works: a field guide to bureaucracies in Canada	Jane Allt & Angela Poirier
	Tear Down:Rebuilding Democracy from the Ground Up	Dave Meslin
	The Effective Citizen: How to Make Politicians Work for You	Graham Steele
	What I Learned About Politics: Inside the Rise & Collapse of Nova Scotia’s NDP Government	Graham Steele
	Leadership
	Herding Cats: A Primer for Programmers Who Lead Programmers	Hank Rainwater
	Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t	Simon Sinek
	Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World	Margaret J. Wheatley
	Love as a Business Strategy: Resilience, Belonging & Success	Mohammad F. Anwar, Frank E. Danna, Jeffrey F. Ma, Christopher J. Pitre
	The Infinite Game	Simon Sinek
	Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization	Dave Logan , John King , Halee Fischer-Wright
	Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen	Dan Heath
	*Politics*
	Get Out the Vote: How to Increase Voter Turnout	Donald P. Green and Alan S. Gerber
	Rules for Revolutionaries: How Big Organizing Can Change Everything	Zack Exley , Becky Bond
	The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion	Jonathan Haidt
	What Does Green Mean	James Marshall
	*Psychology*
	Emotional Intelligence, 10th Edition	Daniel Goleman
	How the Mind Works	Steven Pinker
	Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are	Kevin J. Mitchell
	*Self Help*
	Talk Like TED: The 9 Public Speaking Secrets of the World’s Top Minds	Carmine Gallo
	The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business	Charles Duhigg
	*Teamwork*
	Collaborating with the Enemy: How to Work with People You Don’t Agree with or Like or Trust	Andrew Kahane