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