Learning 102

1. Critical Reading and Writing for Postgraduates - Reading critically, and writing using critical techniques, are crucial skills.
2. How to Read a Book (1940) - (Published in 1940) The classic guide to intelligent reading
3. How to Read Journal Articles in the Social Sciences - This superb guide teaches you how to read critically. Its no-nonsense, practical approach uses a specially developed reading code to help you read articles for your research project; this simple code enables you to decipher journal articles structurally, mechanically and grammatically.

Experts and Authors

• Bea Johnson - A Franco-American author, speaker and minimalist known for initiating the movement of waste-free living in the 21st century
• Bill Mollison: 1928-2016 - Often called the father of permaculture. He was an author, scientist, teacher, biologist, and leading voice in the global pursuit of a more sustainable future in permaculture.
• Carleen Madigan - Before becoming an editor at Storey Publishing, Carleen Madigan was managing editor of Horticulture magazine and lived on an organic farm outside Boston, Massachusetts, where she learned the homesteading skills contained in The Backyard Homestead.
• Daniel Lerch - Education & Publications Director of Post Carbon Institute, responsible for PCI’s educational efforts on community resilience and energy resource constraints. He has been the lead editor and manager of the Institute’s major books and reports since 2009, most notably including The Community Resilience Reader (2017), the multi-year Shale Reality Check series.
• Kate Raworth - A renegade economist, creator of the Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries, and co-founder of Doughnut Economics Action Lab.
• Mark Boyle - Mark Boyle (born 8 May 1979), also known as The Moneyless Man, is an Irish writer best known for living without money from November 2008, and for living without modern technology since 2016.
• Paul Hawken - An American environmentalist, entrepreneur, author, economist, and activist.
• Richard Register - Founder and Emissary of Ecocity Builders. A theorist and author in ecological city design and planning. He is also a practitioner with four decades of experience activating local projects, pushing establishment buttons and working with environmentalists and developers to get a better city built and running.
• Rob Hopkins - Co-founder of Transition Network and of Transition Town Totnes, and author of several books including ‘The Transition Handbook‘ and most recently, ‘From What Is to What If: unleashing the power of imagination to create the future we want.’
• Sandor Katz - Provides resources for fermenting a vast range of nutritious and delicious live-culture foods and drinks.
• The Donella Meadows Project - This Project works to preserve Donella (Dana) H. Meadows’s legacy as an inspiring leader, scholar, writer, and teacher. We aim to maintain an easily accessible archive of Dana’s work online.
• Toby Hemenway - Author of Gaia's Garden, the best-selling permaculture book in the world

Books and Publications

• Annual Review of Environment and Resources - Authoritative reviews of significant topics within environmental science and engineering, including ecology and conservation science, water and energy resources, atmosphere, oceans, climate change, agriculture and living resources, and human dimensions of resource use and global change
• Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature - Biomimicry is rapidly transforming life on earth. Biomimics study nature's most successful ideas over the past 3.5 million years, and adapt them for human use.
• Braiding Sweetgrass - Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants
• Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (2002) - Architect William McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart present an integration of design and science that provides enduring benefits for society from safe materials, water and energy in circular economies and eliminates the concept of waste.
• Doughnut Economics - Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
• Drawdown, The Book - In the spring of 2017, Project Drawdown released its inaugural body of work on climate solutions with the publication of the New York Times bestselling book Drawdown.
• Gaia’s Garden (2nd Edition) - A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture
• Green Building, Principles and Practices in Residential Construction - Provides a current, comprehensive guide to green building
• Nature Sustainability - Significant original research from a broad range of natural, social and engineering fields about sustainability
• Overshoot - The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change
• Science Advances - AAAS’s gold open-access journal—publishing innovative, peer-reviewed research and reviews across a range of scientific disciplines.
• Small Is Beautiful (1973) - (Published in 1973) This New York Times bestselling “Eco Bible” (Time magazine) teaches us that economic growth must be responsibly balanced.
• The Ecology of Commerce (Revised Edition) - The provocative national bestseller that addresses the necessity of merging good business practices with common sense environmental concerns.
• The Great Transition - The great energy transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy is under way.
• The Limits to Growth (1972) - (Published in 1972) The earth’s interlocking resources – the global system of nature in which we all live – probably cannot support present rates of economic and population growth much beyond the year 2100, if that long, even with advanced technology.
• The Sixth Extinction - Over the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists are currently monitoring the sixth extinction.
• The Transition Handbook - Move from feeling anxious about the oil crisis to developing a positive visions and taking traction action to create a more self-reliant existence.
• The Urban Homestead - This celebrated, essential handbook for the urban homesteading movement shows how to grow and preserve your own food, clean your house without toxins, raise chickens, gain energy independence, and more.
• Thinking in Systems - A concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global.
• Zero Waste Home - The Ultimate Guide to Simplifying your Life by Reducing your Waste

Libraries

• Directory of Open Access Journals - A unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone
• Environment & Society Portal - A gateway to open access resources on the human-environment relationship
• Google Scholar - A search engine specifically designed for scholarly literature, like journal articles, theses, and books. It's a free tool that allows users to search across many disciplines and sources from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities, and other websites.
• IPCC Reports - Comprehensive assessments of climate change science compiled by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a United Nations body
• Our World in Data - Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems
• ResearchGate - A social networking site and database for scientists to find and share research. Access 160+ million publication pages and connect with 25+ million researchers. Join for free and gain visibility by uploading your research.
• Stockholm Resilience Centre Publications - An international centre that advances transdisciplinary research for governance of social-ecological systems.