Introduction

This section is essentially a continuation of core global civil society movements where all the 'green stuff' now comes to bear. The cluster can perhaps best be summed up as standing on the interconnected conceptual pillars of (5) environment, food, health, sustainability and (non-human) animal concerns, with key concepts being (among others) anti-ecocide, anthropocene/holocene/sixth extinction, biodiversity, anti-carnism, climate change, ecology, ecological farming, ecological footprint, eco-sufficiency, ecosocialism, environmental protection, environmental security, rewilding; Equilibrismus, food safety/security, gene drive, organic farming, organic food; sustainability, sustainable agriculture, sustainable development, sustainable or renewable energy, sustainable living; anti-speciesism, animal rights and welfare, vegetarianism, veganism.

 

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Initiatives

International

Global

Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration (etc Group) (facebook)

American Academy of Environmental Medicine

Arctic News

Beyond Carnism "for rational, compassionate food choices"

Beyond GM

Bioneers "Revolution from the Heart of Nature"

Carbon Trade Watch

Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER)

Climate Action Tracker

Climate Liability News

ClimateViewer Geophysical Monitoring & Educational Maps

Compassion Over Killing

Development Alternatives by Ashok Khosla "eco-solutions for people and the planet"

DeSmog "Clearing the PR pollution that clouds climate science"

Earthjustice "Because the Earth Needs a Good Lawyer"

EcoWatch

Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University

Equilibrism "Let us work with nature, not against it"

Eradicating Ecocide

Friends of Animals

Friends of the Earth International (FOEI) (facebook)

Gaia Trust

Global Carbon Project (Carbon Budget, Methane Budget, Nitrogen Budget)

Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) "Community for a Regenerative World"

Global Energy Observatory (GEO)

Global Footprint Network "Advancing the Science of Sustainability" (national partners)

Global Justice Ecology Project (GJEP) "explores and exposes the intertwined root causes of social injustice, ecological destruction, and economic domination"

GMWatch "Keep up with the latest news and comment on genetically modified foods"

Green Cross International

Greenpeace International (global directory) (facebook)

Green World Warriors "Environmental News and Activism"

Institute for Responsible Technology "The Most Comprehensive Source of GMO Health Information on the Web"

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD)

International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

International Nitrogen Initiative "Optimizing nitrogen use in food and energy production & minimizing the consequent harm to humans and the environmen"

Oil Change International

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)

Sustainable Communities Online "for a more sustainable future"

Sustainable Development Solutions Network "A global initiative for the United Nations"

Sustainable Energy for All

System Change, Not Climate Change "an ecosocialist coalition"

The Earth Institute at Columbia University "Science and Sustainability"

The Movement for Compassionate Living (MCL)

The Vegan Society

Thwink.org "Finding and Resolving the Root Causes of the Sustainability Problem"

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)

Vegan Action

Vegetarian Society

World Animal Protection (WAP, formerly WSPA)

World Wildlife Fund (WWF) (global directory) (facebook)

Africa

Europe

Deutscher Sprachraum

Atmosfair "nachdenken, klimabewusst reisen"

Equilibrismus "Lasst uns mit der Natur wirtschaften und nicht gegen sie"

Heinrich Böll Stiftung "Die grüne politische Stiftung" -> Ökologie

Sustainable Europe Research Institute (SERI)

National and Local

 

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Resources

Books and Articles

English

Carrington, Damian, 2018, "Human race just 0.01% of all life but has eradicated most other living things", The Guardian, May 21, 2018.

 

Cosper, Caitlin, 2019, "A guide to green energy and renewable sources," Choose Energy.

 

Engel, Jordan, 2019, "Names and Locations of the Top 100 People Killing the Planet", FilmsforAction.

 

Epstein, Samuel S., 2001, Got (Genetically Engineered) Milk! The Monsanto Milk Wars Handbook (E-book), New York: Seven Stories Press.

Epstein, Samuel S., 2005, Cancer-Gate: How to Win the Losing Cancer War, Baywood Publishing

Epstein, Samuel S., 2006, What’s In Your Milk? An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking, Trafford Publishing.

Epstein, Samuel S. & Fitzgerald, Randall, 2009, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal-Care Products Endanger Your Health... and What You Can Do About It, BenBella Books.

Epstein, Samuel S., 2011, NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE and AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: Criminal Indifference to Cancer Prevention and Conflicts of Interest, Xlibris, Corp.

Video on cancer prevention.

 

etc Group/Civil Society Working Group on Gene Drives, 2016, Reckless Driving: Gene Drives and the End of Nature.

etc Group, 2017, The Gene Drive Files.

 

Franta, Benjamin, 2018, "Shell and Exxon's secret 1980s climate change warning", The Guardian, Sept. 19, 2018.

 

Fresco, Jacque, 2015, The Best That Money Can't Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty & War, The Venus Project.

 

Hansen, James E., 2009, Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity, New York: Bloomsbury Publishing.

 

Harich, Jack (Thwink.org), 2011, Common Property Rights: A Process Driven Approach to Solving the Complete Sustainability Problem (videos), Lulu Press.

 

Hasham, Nicole, 2018, "BP claims an oil spill off Australia's coast would be a 'welcome boost' to local economies", The Sydney Morning Herald.

 

Hickel, Jason, 2018, "Why Growth Can't Be Green", Foreign Policy, Sept. 12, 2018.

 

Higgins, Polly, 2012, Earth Is Our Business: Changing the Rules of the Game, London: Shepheard-Walwyn.

Higgins, Polly, 2014, I Dare You To Be Great, London: Shepheard-Walwyn.

Higgins, Polly, 2015 [2010], Eradicating Ecocide: Exposing the Corporate and Political Practices Destroying the Planet and Proposing the Laws to Eradicate Ecocide, 2nd Edition, London: Shepheard-Walwyn.

Advocate for the Earth, a documentary about Polly Higgins.

 

Jensen, Derrick, 2016, The Myth of Human Supremacy, Seven Stories Press.

 

Joy, Melanie, 2009, Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows, Conari Press.

 

KIALO discussion, "Eating Meat is Wrong."

 

Klein, Naomi, 2014, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate, Simon & Schuster.

 

Kolbert, Elizabeth, 2006, Field Notes from a Catastroph: Man, Nature, and Climate Change, Bloomsbury.

- See more at: http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/field-notes-from-a-catastrophe-9781596911253/#sthash.mVNywxCR.dpuf

Kolbert, Elizabeth, 2014, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Henry Holt & Company. (2015 Pulitzer Prize Winner)

 

McCandless Farmer, Brit, 2019, "Climate change: What 10 presidents have known", CBS News.

 

Monbiot, George, (at The Guardian), 2007, Heat: How to Stop the Planet From Burning, South End Press.

Monbiot, George, 2013, Feral: Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers of Rewilding, Penguin Books.

 

Klein, Naomi, 2014, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate, Simon & Schuster.

 

Osborn, Fairfield, 1948, Our Plundered Planet, Little, Brown and Company.

 

Pollan, Michael, 2006, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, Penguin.

 

Pope Francis, 2015, Laudato Si': On Care for Our Common Home,

 

Potter, Will, 2011, Green is the New Red: An Insider's Account of a Social Movement Under Siege, City Lights Publishers.

 

Reuters, 2019, "Scientists shocked by Artic permafrost thawing 70 years earlier than predicted", TheGuardian.

 

Review Lab, "Green Home Resource Guide"

 

Rich, Nathaniel, 2019, Losing Earth: A Recent History, Farrar/MCD Books.

 

Roberts, David, 2013, "None of the world’s top industries would be profitable if they paid for the natural capital they use", grist, Apr 17, 2013.

 

Sachs, Jeffrey D., 2015, The Age of Sustainable Development, Columbia University Press.

 

Savage, Karen, 2018, "Documents Detail What Shell Knew About Climate Change Decades Ago", Climate Liability News, April 5, 2018.

 

Shiva, Vandana, 1991, The Violence of the Green Revolution: Third World Agriculture, Ecology and Politics, Zed Books.

Shiva, Vandana & Mies, Maria, 1993/2014, Ecofeminism, Zed Books.

Shiva, Vandana, 1993, Monocultures of the Mind: Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology, Zed Books.

Shiva, Vandana, 1997/1999, Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature & Knowledge, South End Press.

Shiva, Vandana, 1999/2010/2016, Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development, Women Unlimited/South End Press/North Atlantic Books.

Shiva, Vandana, 2000, Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply, South End Press.

Shiva, Vandana, 2002, Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution and Profit, South End Press.

Shiva, Vandana, 2005, Globalization's New Wars: Seed, Water and Life Forms, New Delhi: Women Unlimited.

Shiva, Vandana, 2005/2015, Earth Democracy; Justice, Sustainability, and Peace, South End Press/North Atlantic Books.

Shiva, Vandana, 2008/2015, Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis, South End Press/North Atlantic Books.

Shiva, Vandana, 2012/2013, Making Peace With The Earth, Women Unlimited/Pluto Press.

 

Smith, Jeffrey M., 2003, Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods You're Eating, Yes! Books.

Smith, Jeffrey M., 2007, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods, Yes! Books.

 

Vogt, William, 1948, Road to Survival, W. Sloane Associates.

 

Wallace-Wells, David, 2017, "The Uninhabitable Earth", New York, July 9, 2017.

 

Webb, Whitney, 2017, "U.S. Military World’s Largest Polluter – Hundreds Of Bases Gravely Contaminated", MintPressNews, May 15, 2017.

Deutsch

Video

English

London Real, 2017, James Aspey - Planet Slaughterhouse.

Andersen, Kip, 2014, Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret.

Andersen, Kip; Kuhn, Keegan, 2017, What the Health.

 

Boote, Werner, 2009, Plastic Planet.

 

Curry, Marshall; Cullman, Sam, 2011, If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front.

 

Henein, Maryam; Langworthy, George, 2009, Vanishing of the Bees.

 

Imhoof, Markus, 2012, More Than Honey.

 

Joy, Melanie, 2015, The Secret Reason We Eat Meat.

 

Roxanne Meadows, 2012, Paradise or Oblivion.

Roxanne Meadows, 2015, The Choice is Ours.

 

Stewart, Rob, 2006, Sharkwater.

Stewart, Rob, 2012, Revolution.

 

TEDx Talks, Joy, Melanie, 2015, Beyond Carnism and Toward Rational, Authentic Food Choices.

 

UNILAD, 2017, Meat the End.

Deutsch

Peer-Reviewed Journals on Sustainability (a selection)

English