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Solarpunk book list

https://iandennismiller.github.io/solarpunk/

I hope this will be a good reference for people seeking to discover Solarpunk readings. I began this project because I was inspired by online discussions that produced expertly-curated book lists of Solarpunk literature. I wanted to make something simple to navigate, while providing a little bit of information about each book.

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Lists

Aesthetic

  • Becky Chambers and the monk and robot books
  • The Ministry for the Future, by Kim Stanley Robinson
  • New York 2140, by Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Green Mars, the Mars Trilogy
  • Ernst Callenbach's Ecotopia
  • Women on the Edge of Time; Marge Piercys
  • Le Guin's Always Coming Home
  • Nausicaa, Ghibli
  • Princess Mononoke, Ghibli
  • The Dispossessed by Ursula K LeGuin
  • Murray Bookchin’s Post Scarcity Anarchism
  • The Fifth Sacred Thing (maybe sad); Starhawk
  • Walkaway by Corey Doctorow
  • Sunshine State, written by the person who came up with the word solarpunk.
  • In the collection Everything Change, which is free online.
  • Murray Bookchin and the ecology of freedom
  • The Solar Economy by Herman Scheer
  • Dan Simmons Hyperion Saga
  • Voyage from Yesteryear
  • Island by Aldous Huxley
  • Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers by Sarena Ulibarri – 2018
  • A Door Into Ocean; by Joan Slonczewski – 1986
  • Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon – 1996
  • Pacific Edge by Kim Stanley Robinson – 1990
  • Suncatcher: Seven Days in the Sky by Alia Gee – 2014
  • Way Station by Clifford D. Simak – 1963
  • Orion Shall Rise by Poul Anderson – 1983
  • Sunvault edited by Phoebe Wagner and Brontë Christopher Wieland – 2017
  • Legacy by Jesikah Sundin – 2014
  • The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson – 2013

Practices

  • Bringing Nature Home - How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants - by Doug Tallamy
  • The Community Food Forest Handbook - How to Plan, Organize, and Nurture Edible Gathering Places - by Catherine Bukowski and John Munsell
  • Creating Rain Gardens: Capturing the Rain for Your Own Water-Efficient Garden - by Apryl Uncapher
  • Farming the Woods - An Integrated Permaculture Approach to Growing Food and Medicinals in Temperate Forests - by Steve Gabriel and Ken Mudge
  • Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land - by Leah Penniman
  • The Forest Garden Greenhouse - How to Design and Manage an Indoor Permaculture Oasis - by Jerome Osentowski
  • Gaia’s Garden - by Toby Hemenway
  • The Holistic Orchard Tree Fruits and Berries the Biological Way - by Michael Phillips
  • Native American Gardening: Buffalobird-Woman’s Guide to Traditional Methods - by Gilbert Wilson
  • The New Organic Grower, 3rd Edition - A Master’s Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener - by Elliot Coleman
  • The Reference Manual of Woody Plant Propagation - From Seed to Tissue Culture, Second Edition - by Michael A. Dirr and Charles W. Heuser, Jr.
  • Any of the Permaculture books by Bill Mollison
  • Will Bonsall’s Essential Guide to Radical, Self-Reliant Gardening - by Will Bonsall

City

  • Arcology, the City in the Image of Man - by Pablo Solari
  • Biophilic Cities: Integrating Nature into Urban Design and Planning - by Tim Beatley
  • Building Community Food Webs - by Ken Meter
  • Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality - by Melissa Bruntlett
  • Design for an Empathic World: Reconnecting People, Nature, and Self - by Sim Van der Ryn
  • From the Ground Up - Local Efforts to Create Resilient Cities - by Alison Sant
  • The Guide to Greening Cities - by Sadhu Aufochs
  • Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives - by Jarrett Walker
  • A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction - by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, and Murray Silverstein
  • The Permaculture City - by Toby Hemenway
  • Planning for Community Resilience: A Handbook for Reducing Vulnerability to Disasters - by Jaimie Hicks Masterson
  • Retrosuburbia - by David Holmgren
  • The Smart Growth Manual - by Andrés Duany, Jeff Speck, and Mike Lydon
  • Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life - by David Sim
  • Sustainable Stormwater Management - A Landscape-Driven Approach to Planning and Design - by Thomas W. Liptan with J. David Sante

Theory

  • All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life - by Winona LaDuke
  • Another Now - by Yanis Varoufakis
  • Between the World and Me - by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Capital in the Twenty First Century - by Thomas Piketty
  • This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate - by Naomi Klein
  • Cradle to Cradle - by William McDonough and Michael Braungart
  • Feminism is for Everybody - by bell hooks
  • Flourishing: A Frank Conversation About Sustainability - by John R. Ehrenfeld and Andrew J. Hoffman
  • Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement - by Angela Y. Davis
  • The Mindfulness Effect: An Unexpected Path to Healing, Connection and Social Justice - by Dena Samuels
  • Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During this Crisis (and the next) - by Dean Spade
  • Enlightenment and Ecology - edited by Yavor Tarinski
  • Exploring Degrowth - by Liegegy and Nelson
  • A People's Green New Deal - by Max Ajl
  • The Politics of the Solar Age - by Hazel Henderson
  • Nature's Way: Native Wisdom for Living in Balance with the Earth - by Ed McGaa / Eagle Man
  • Remaking Society - by Murray Bookchin
  • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World - by Tyson Yunkaporta
  • Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future - by Margaret Wheatley
  • Utopian Generations: The Political Horizon of Twentieth-Century - by Nicholas Brown
  • What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption - by Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers
  • We Do This ‘Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice - by Miriame Kaba
  • Who Cooked the Last Supper: The Women's History of the World - by Rosalind Miles

Design

  • Adobe Houses: Homes of Sun and Earth - by Kathryn Masson
  • Building for Life: Designing and Understanding the Human-Nature Connection - by Stephen Kellert
  • Essential Sustainable Home Design: A Complete Guide to Goals, Options, and the Design Process - by Chris Magwood
  • Cool Tools: A Catalog of Possibilities - by Kevin Kelly
  • Earthbag Building: The Tools, Tricks and Techniques - by Kaki Hunter
  • Fab: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop--from Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication - by Neil Gershenfeld
  • The Handbook of Contemporary Indigenous Architecture - edited by Elizabeth Grant
  • The Hand-Sculpted House: A Practical and Philosophical Guide to Building a Cob Cottage - by Ianto Evans
  • How to Build with Grid Beam: A Fast, Easy and Affordable System for Constructing Almost Anything - by Phil Jergenson, Richard Jergenson, and Wilma Keppel
  • How to Build Your Own Living Structures - by Ken Isaacs
  • Lo-TEK: Design by Radical Indigenism - by Julia Watson
  • Material Ecology - by Neri Oxman
  • The Passive Solar Primer - by David Wright
  • The Shelter books - by Louis Khan
  • The original Whole Earth Catalog - published by Stewart Brand