World Issues

• Communication & Media
• Economics
  (guaranteed annual income, negative income tax, shareholding, barter)
• Education
• Energy
  (wind, water, solar, tidal, geothermic, heat pumps, cold fusion)
• Environment
  (ecology, conservation... nanostructuring, terraforming)
• Food & Hunger
  (agronomy, monoculture, cashcrops, genetic engineering... self-suffiency, biodiversity)
• Future
  (visions, promises, and a few nightmares)
• Genetic Engineering
  (biotechnology, cloning, molecular biology)
• Health
  (holistic medicine, genetic engineering, life extension)
• Justice, Law & Ethics
  (civil liberties, human rights, law, ethics)
• Resources
  (structural materials, design ideas)
• Shelter
  (architecture... from prehistoric to science fiction... geodesics, tensile structures, arcologies, etc.)
• Transport
  (foot, wheel, warp)
• Utopia
  (a dangerous, but necessary endeavor)
• Additional Links
• Of Related Interests

*note: This page is still in that fuzzy indeterminate stage. It is being developed gradually -- and painstakingly -- over time.
Because these issues overlap and interact, some books and authors will fall under more than one category... so expect a certain amount of redundancy.
At the moment these first tentative entries haven't been properly sorted... and they are considerably out of date (based on research I did over a decade ago). These listings will be expanded and improved.
Gradually, these sections are being transferred onto separate pages.

Contributions fully accredited. Links welcome.

Started: 1 January 1996

• Approaching the Benign Environment by R.Buckminster Fuller, Eric A.Walker, James R.Killian Jr
  (1970, non-fiction...University of Alabama, US... includes: "Education for Comprehensivity" by R.Buckminster Fuller)

• Celebration of Awareness: A Call for Institutional Revolution by Ivan Illich
  (1971, non-fiction)

• Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich
  (1971, non-fiction)

• Bucky for Beginners by Mary Laycock
  (19??, non-fiction... R.Buckminster Fuller)

• Learning For Tomorrow: The Role of the Future in Education edited by Alvin Toffler
  (1974, non-fiction)

• Multi-Cultural Assessment Tools for Early Education by Alberto Villoldo
  (1976, non-fiction)

• The Growth of Hunger: A New Politics of Agriculture by René Dumont and Nicholas Cohen
  (1980, non-fiction... hunger, food production)

• The Threatened Gene: Food, Politics and the Loss of Genetic Diversity by C.Fowler, P.Mooney
  (1990, non-fiction... genetic engineering, biodiversity)

• Ho-Ping: Food For Everyone by Medard Gabel
  (1979, non-fiction...Doubleday, New York, US... hunger, food production)

• Forecasts, Famines and Freezes by John Gribbin
  (1976, non-fiction...Walker and Co., New York, US)

• Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappé
  (1975, non-fiction...Ballantine, New York, US... environmentally-friendly cookbook)

• Food First: Beyond the Myth of Scarcity by Frances Moore Lappé and Joseph Collins, with Cary Fowler
  (1977 / revised 1979, non-fiction... hunger, food policy, analysis, practical solutions... essential reading)

• World Hunger: Ten Myths by Frances Moore Lappé and Joseph Collins
  (19??, non-fiction... hunger)

• Aid as Obstacle: Twenty Questions about our Foreign Aid and the Hungry by Frances Moore Lappé, Joseph Collins, David Kinley
  (1981, non-fiction...Institute for Food and Development Policy, San Francisco, California, US, pbk, ISBN 0-935028-07-2... food policy)

• Basic Human Needs: A Framework for Action by John McHale and Magda Cordell McHale
  (1977, non-fiction...Transaction Books, New Brunswick, New Jersey, US... practical solutions)

• What Can We Do? by William Valentine and Frances Moore Lappé
  (19??, non-fiction... food policy, practical solutions)

• The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind by H.G.Wells
  (1932, non-fiction, illustrated...William Heinemann, London, UK... social history, economics, hunger, work)

• Wild Foods Forum
  (newsletter... e-mail: antdadx@gsusgi2.gsu.edu)

Sustenance
("a living foods organisation committed to extending the genetic diversity of the planet"... canadian-based group)

• The Political Economy of Health by Leslie Doyal with Imogen Pennell
  (1991, non-fiction)

• The Mirage of Health by René Dubos
  (19??, non-fiction)

• Alternative Medicine by Robert Eagle
  (1975, non-fiction)

• Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich
  (1975, non-fiction)

• Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis - The Expropriation of Health by Ivan Illich
  (1976, non-fiction... revised and enlarged version of Medical Nemesis )

• Young Children in Hospital by James Robertson
  (1970, non-fiction...Methuen, UK, pbk)

• Spontaneous Healing by Andrew Weil
  (1995, non-fiction)

• Spectrum
  ("The Wholistic News Magazine"... news on food, health, healing, vitamins, and medicine... Roger B.Windsor, Spectrum Universal, 61 Dutile Road, Belmont, NH 03220-5252, USA)

Natural Medicine, Complementary Health Care and Alternative Therapies presented by Alchemical Medicine Research and Teaching Association
(extensive website with links to diets, cures, alternative treatments, acupuncture, iridology, aroma therapy, homeopathics, water birthing, etc.)

• Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich
  (1973, non-fiction)

• Basic Human Needs: A Framework For Action by John McHale, Magda Cordell McHale
  (1978, non-fiction, illustrated...Transaction Books, US, hbk)

• Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change by Victor Papanek
  (1971, non-fiction... practical and innovative design... good grassroots ideas)

• Eco-Philosophy: Designing New Tactics for Living by Henryk Skolimowski
  (19??, non-fiction)

• "Biodegradable Technology" by Robert S.Pearson
  (speculation on an organic technology based on genetic engineering of plants... this link takes you to an extract of this essay, and an address where you can order the complete treatise)

R.Buckminster Fuller
(bibliography... plus links... internal page)

Centre for Alternative Technology

Institute of Future Technology

World Transformation

World Transformation
(maintained by Flemming Funch, e-mail: ffunch@newciv.org...
check this site out... great links)

• Alternative Transportation Futures by David Curry, Richard Carlson, Clark Henderson, Thomas Mandel, Arnold Mitchell, Randall Pozdena, Peter Schwartz
  (1976, non-fiction...Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, California, US)

• Transportation in America's Future: Potentials for the Next Half Century by David Curry, Richard Carlson, Clark Henderson, Thomas Mandel, Arnold Mitchell, Randall Pozdena, Peter Schwartz
  (1977, non-fiction...SRI International, Menlo Park, California, US)

• Energy and Equity by Ivan Illich
  (1974, non-fiction... proposes the limiting of traffic)

• Transportation Energy Demand in Alternative Futures by Thomas F.Mandel, Barbara De Caro, William Lee, Floyd Lewis, Roger Mack, Randall Pozdema, Peter Schwartz
  (1978, non-fiction...SRI International, Menlo Park, California, US)

• Critical Mass: Transport, Environment and Equity in the Twenty-first Century by John Whitelegg
  (1996, non-fiction... links transport with consumerism)

Bicycling Videography by Bob Kiger
("Whenever I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race." H.G. Wells. haven't checked this link... uncertain if relevant site)

Additional Resources:

Chernobyl 10 Years On
('Unit 4'... state-of-affairs, health reports... nuclear resources)

Green Deserts
(institute publication... reclaiming deserts, research, practical solutions... uncertain of current status...
"These people have done some truly useful and impressive work towards reversing desertification." --Henry W.Targowski.)

Handbook for a Better Future
(lists problems, offers solutions... haven't checked this site yet)

Luddites On-Line
("Life was better before sliced bread"...
if Luddites being online isn't a contradiction in terms, than...)

Macrocosm USA: An environmental, political, and social solutions handbook
(422-page publication...
P.O.Box 185, Cambria, CA 93428-0185, USA)

Media Terrorism
(japanese-based site... 'sarin' incident aftermath... social responsibility)

New Civilization Network
("new concepts, inspirations, and visions in a world of fast and ever changing paradigms"... maintained by Joachim H.Steingrubner, PhD, e-mail: jhs@newciv.org)

One Earth Gallery
(massive resource... organizations listing, plus links... environment, health, human rights, new age)

Positive News
(online version of this UK-based magazine... together with Planetary Connections ... world issues, ecology, education, etc...)

Radical Routes
(a cooperative of alternative enterprises...
snail-mail: 16 Sholebrook Avenue, Chapeltown, Leeds LS7 3HB, West Yorkshire, England)

Re-Inventing Society: A Bumper Book of Best Ideas, Schemes, & Speculations
(Institute For Social Invention...
20 Herber Road, London NW2 6AA, England)

Saving the World, Improving the World
("This page stands greatly in need of improvement. I felt I had to begin something like this, though."... australian site... still haven't had time to check this one yet... the intention is certainly right... send him some feedback)

State of the World Forum
(convened by Mikhail Gorbachev... 500 of the world's leading thinkers consider our future)

Synergy Solutions Network
(links and other interesting stuff... maintained by Steve Moyer, e-mail: space@solutions.entrepreneurs.net)

Whole Earth Review
(publication available online... external link to website... initiated by Stewart Brand)

World Citizen Web
(maintained by Ross A.Carlson... news and opinions about the World Citizen's movement... One World Government, international law, world cities, R.Buckminster Fuller, plus links to other interesting sites)

World Game Institute
(external link to website... based on the work of R.Buckminster Fuller... note: new URL)

World Transformation
(maintained by Flemming Funch, e-mail: ffunch@newciv.org...
check this site out... great links)

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