This post is a lengthy listing of Books, Movies, Documentaries and Articles that have influenced our worldview and led to the creation of JAZ Farm. It is kind of unwieldy. If you are interested in any of them you can simply copy the title and paste it into Google. It is a great library and has kept me busy in my Kindle and iPad and, lest we forget, real honest by goodness print for several years. I hope you find some of them informative, challenging and thought provoking. I will post new titles and links as I discover them so this post will be updated and edited from time to time. Simply click on the Bibliography category link on the home page and it should bring it up instead of having to scroll through all of the other posts.
I’ve seen or read them all – The * symbol indicates highly recommended
Books about Food and the Food System:
* >The China Study – T. Colin Campbell
>The American Way of Eating – Tracy McMillan
* >Animal Factory – David Kirby
>The Vegetarian Myth – Lierre Keith
>The Botany of Desire – Michael Pollan
* >The End of Food – Paul Roberts
>Farm City – Novella Carpenter
* >Fast Food Nation – Eric Schlosser
* > The Omnivore’s Dilemma – Michael Pollan
* >In Defense of Food – Michael Pollan
* >Salt, Sugar, Fat – Michael Moss
>Tomatoland – Barry Estabrook
>Empires of Food – Evan D.G. Fraser and Andrew Rimas
* >Pandora’s Lunchbox – Melanie Warner
>Eating Animals – Jonathan Safran Foer
>The Accidental Farmer – Tim Young
>Beautiful and Abundant – Bryan Welch
>Bringing It To The Table – Wendell Berry
>The Chicken Chronicles – Alice Walker
* >Diet For A Hot Planet – Anna Lappe’
>The Dirty Life – Kristen Kimball
>Folks, This Ain’t Normal – Joel Salatin
* >Everything I want To Do Is Illegal – Joel Salatin
* >Food Inc. – Karl Weber
>The Good Food Revolution – Will Allen
>Growing a Farmer – Kurt Timmermeister
>Its a Long Road To A Tomato – Keith Stewart
>Life is a Miracle – Wendell Berry
>Living In The Land of Enough – Courtney Carver
>No Happy Cows – John Robbins
>Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life – Joshua Fields Milburn
>Organic Manifesto – Maria Rodale
>Son of a Farmer Child of the Earth – Eric Herm
* >Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle For The World Food System – Raj Patel
>Food Politics – Marian Nestle
>The Way of Ignorance – Wendell Berry
Political, Philosophical, Ethical
>Cooking Solves Everything – Mark Bittman
>The Crash Course: The Unsustainable Future of Our Economy, Energy and Environment – Chris Martenson
* >The Culture of Make Believe – Derrick Jensen
* >Dreams – Derrick Jensen
>Eaarth: Making a Life On a Tough New Planet – Bill McKibben
>Empire of Illusion – Chris Hedges
* >The End of Growth – Richard Heinberg
>End Game Vol 1. and Vol. 2 – Derrick Jensen
* >The Fall: The Insanity of the Ego In Human History and the Dawning of a New Era – Steve Taylor
* >Confessions of an Economic Hit Man – John Perkins
>Hoodwinked – John Perkins
* >Limits To Growth – The 30 Year Update – Donella Meadows and Jorgan Randers
>Confronting Collapse – Michael C. Ruppert
>Crossing the Rubicon – Michael C. Ruppert
* >The Long Emergency – James Howard Kunstler
* >Peak Everything: Waking Up To The Century of Declines – Richard Heinberg
>The Race for What’s Left – Michael T. Clare
* >Resistance Against Empire – Derrick Jensen
>Retirement Heist: How Companies Plunder and Profit From The Nest Eggs of American Workers – Ellen E Schultz
>Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work – Paul Babiak
>The Third Industrial Revolution – Jeremy Rifkin
>Vulture’s Picnic – Greg Palast
>Oil and Finance: The Epic Corruption – Raymond J. Learsey
>The Oil Depletion Protocol – Richard Heinberg
>Powerdown – Richard Heinberg
>Too Much Magic – James Howard Kunstler
* >American Facists – Chris Hedges
>Born To Be Good – Dacher Keltner
>Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture – Ellen Ruppel Shell
>the Death of the Liberal Class – Chris Hedges
* >Deer Hunting With Jesus – Joe Bageant
* >The End of Growth – Richard Heinberg
>The Great Disruption – Paul Gilding
* >Here We All Are – Ram Dass
* >Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That is Breaking America
>The New Golden Age: The Coming Revolution Against Political Corruption and Economic Chaos – Ravi Batra
>A People’s History of The United States – Howard Zinn
>The Political Mind – George Lakoff
>The Psychopath Test – Jon Ronson
* >Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking – Susan Cain
>The Science of Fear – Daniel Gardner
* >Screwed: The Undeclared War Agains the Middle Class – Thom Hartmann
>Self-Reliance – Ralph Waldo Emerson
* >The Shock Doctrine and the Rise of Disaster Capitalism – Naomi Klein
>The Uprising – David Sirota
>Virus of the Mind – Richard Brodie
* >When Corporations Rule The World – David C. Korten
>Winner Take All Politics – Jacob S. Hacker
* >The World Made By Hand – James Howard Kunstler
* >The Witch of Hebron – James Howard Kunstler
Movies and Documentaries
*>Critical Mass
*>Genetic Roullette
* >Crazy, Sexy Cancer
* >Dirt! The Movie
>Dive!
* >Farmaggedon
>Fast Food Nation
* >Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead
* >Flow: How do a Handful of Corporations Steal Our Water
* >Food Fight
>Forks Over Knives
* >Fresh
>The Future of Food
>Happy
>The Harvest
>Hungry for Change
* >I Am
>Killer At Large: Why Obesity Is America’s Greatest Threat
* >King Corn – You Are What You Eat
>Lbs.
>The Perfect Human Diet
>Planeat
* >Surviving Progress
>Vegucated
* >The World According To Monsanto
>The Consequences of Suburbanization
>A River Of Waste
>Manufactured Landscapes
>Meat The Truth
>Gashole
* >What A Way To Go: Life at the End of Empire
>Blind Spot
>Fuel
>No Impact Man
>The 11th Hour
>Poison On The Platter
>A World Without Water
>The Slow Poisoning of India
* >Natural World: A Farm For The Future
* >Patent For a Pig: The Big Business Of Genetics
* >Life Running Out of Control
* >The Story of Stuff
>Way Beyond Weight
>Seeds of Freedom
>Fast Food, Fast Profits: Obesity In America
* >Food Matters
* >Super Size Me
>Ethos
* >Ingredients
>Food Beware
* >Why We Fight
>Our Daily Bread
>Frankensteer
* >Bananas!
* > Vanishing Of The Bees
Websites
http://www.deepgreenresistance.org
http://www.onestrawrevolution.net
http://www.handpickednation.com
http://www.CenterForFoodSafety.org
http://www.OrganicConsumer.org
http://www.FoodDemocracynow.org.
http://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Arab-Countries-Openly-Discuss-Peak-Oil-for-the-First-Time.html
Books About Things That Make You Go HMMM…..
>The Believing Brain – Michael Shermer
* >Bio-Centrism: How Life and Consciousness Are The Keys to the True Nature of the Universe – Robert Lanza
>Be Love Now – Ram Dass
* >Becoming Enlightened – The Dalai Lama
>Emotional Freedom – Judith Orloff
* >The End of Your World – Adyashanti
>Emptiness Dancing – Adyashanti
* >God Is Not Great – Christopher Hitchens
* >The Greatest Show On Earth – Richard Dawkins
* >Forged: Writing In The Name of God – Why The Bible’s Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are – Bart D. Ehrman
* >The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy – William Strauss
>The Jewel Tree of Tibet – Robert Thurman
* >Last Words – George Carlin
>A New Earth – Eckhart Tolle
* >The Power of Now – Eckhart Tolle
>The Republican Brain – Chris Mooney
>1984 – George Orwell
>Back to Sanity – Steve Taylor
>Being Gay is Disgusting – Edward Falcon
* >Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing The Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don’t Know About Them) – Bart D. Ehrman
* >Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed The Bible and Why – Bart D. Ehrman
>Outliers: The Story of Success
>The Power of Your Subconscious Mind – Joseph Murphy
>Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti – Jiddu Krishnamurti
How To Instructional Books
>Aquaponic Gardening – Sylvia Bernstein
>Country Wisdom and Know-How, Everything You Need to Know to Live Off the Land, From the editors of Storey Books
>The Organic Farming Manual -Ann Larkin Hansen
*>The Vegetable Gardener’s Bible – Edward C. Smith
*>The Beekeeper’s Bible – Stewart Tabori and Chang
>The Backyard Homestead – Edited by Carleen Madigan
*>Storey’s Guide to Raising Chickens – Gail Damerow
>Homesteading in the 21st Century – George Nash and Jane Waterman
>Storey’s Guide to Raising Meat Goats – Maggie Sayer
>Storey’s Guide to Raising Dairy Goats – Jerry Belanger and Sara Thomson Bredesen
*>Guide to Rocky Mountain Vegetable Gardening – Robert Gough and Cheryl Moore-Gough
*>The Self-Sufficient Life and How To Live It, The Complete Back To The Basics Guide – John Seymour
*>Mother Earth News
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