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He went on to rethink modern architecture from a biological perspective and later publicly broke with the environmental movement over nuclear power and GMO food.

John Markoff • Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand

There is a pervasive illusion that, as more of the earth’s biosphere is annihilated or irreparably damaged, human beings can magically disassociate themselves from it and transfer their interdependencies to the mecanosphere of global capitalism.

Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep

An incredible encyclopaedic work on the work of Sir Patrick Geddes, a trans-disciplinary theorist with long reaching influence including the origins of ecological design, GIS software, bioregional design, and "Think Global, Act Local".

Daniel Christian Wahl • Design and Planning for People in Place: Sir Patrick Geddes (1854–1932) and the Emergence of…

Property and mastery: nothing else counts. Earth will be monetized until all trees grow in straight lines, three people own all seven continents, and every large organism is bred to be slaughtered.

Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel

Modern man does not experience himself as a part of nature but as an outside force destined to dominate and conquer it. He even talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side. ― Ernst F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered

fundamental task of the course architect changed from adapting golf to the landscape to adapting the landscape to golf.

Harry Brown • Golf Ball (Object Lessons)

Robinson Jeffers

Ken I. McLeod • Reflections on Silver River

scientist, author, Senior Fellow at the Post-Carbon Institute, and one of the foremost analysts of our energy future, explained it to me: In short, our rate of consumption is overshooting our planet’s sustainable sources of production. According to the Global Footprint Network, humanity is currently using the equivalent of 1.75 Earths to provide th

Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor

Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, Kenneth Boulding, Herman Daly and Robert Costanza