Before Bob\u2019s passing, he shared with his friends and colleagues a carefully curated list of books he felt can help us understand what we can do to make sure our community is economically, environmentally, and socially as healthy and resilient as possible.<\/p>\n
The idea behind the new reading project is a simple one: In each season of the year, a broad community will come together to read one of the books recommended by Bob, discuss its themes and lessons, celebrate the region\u2019s strengths, and acknowledge the work that remains.<\/p>\n
The Books… and why Bob thought they are important\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cFor the Common Good,\u201d by Herman E Daly and John B Cobb Jr. \u201cThe Future: Six Drivers of Global Change,\u201d by Al Gore \u201cThe Wealth of Nature,\u201d by John Michael Greer \u201cThe Surprising Design of Market Economies,\u201d by Alex Marshall<\/strong> \u201cWhat\u2019s the Economy Good for Anyway?\u201d\u00a0 by John DeGraaf and David K Batker<\/strong> \u201cThe Energy Reader,\u201d by Laura Nader<\/strong> \u201cOwning the Future,\u201d by Marjorie Kelly<\/strong> \u201cLocal Dollars, Local Sense,\u201d by Michael Shuman<\/strong> \u201cRebuilding the Food Shed,\u201d by Philip Ackerman-Leist<\/strong> \u201cFull Planet Empty Plates,\u201d by Lester Brown<\/strong> \u201cCooked,\u201d by Michael Pollen<\/strong> \u201cThinking Fast, Thinking Slow,\u201d by Daniel Kahneman<\/strong> \u201cThe World in 2050,\u201d by Laurence C. Smith<\/strong> \u201cThe Resilience Imperative,\u201d by Michael Lewis<\/strong> Before Bob\u2019s passing, he shared with his friends and colleagues a carefully curated list of books he felt can help us understand what we can do to make sure our community is economically, environmentally, and socially as healthy and resilient as possible. The idea behind the new reading project is a simple one: In each […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.resilience-reads.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.resilience-reads.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.resilience-reads.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.resilience-reads.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.resilience-reads.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.resilience-reads.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"http:\/\/www.resilience-reads.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.resilience-reads.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>“Our society has swung too far towards individualism dismantling our sense of community membership. Only recognition of the common good can save us.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>“A big book, dense with Al Gore\u2019s vision of the where history is headed. Gore is a very smart, complicated thinker. Have a dictionary nearby, you\u2019ll need it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>“This perhaps the most important and easily read book about economics one can choose. Modern day economics theory misses the eternal connection that bonds real wealth to the eco-system services provided to us by our planet. Money is not wealth.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n“This is a very readable book explaining that there really is no economic market place that runs itself rationally. Economic theories that talk of market forces and the \u201cinvisible hand of the market\u201d are artificial and missing the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n“We need to measure Happiness as a metric for judging our societies success and dump the GDP measurement. We are not just consumers, we are complex human beings and citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n“Energy is the common factor in all that we accomplish in life. Looked at this simply, there are real, earth-bound limits to the supply of easy energy in the future. Our future will be characterized by constrained energy supply with unavoidable limits to growth.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n“How do we make the future that will happen be the future that needs to happen, if human societies are going to survive. What must we grasp first, to change our behavior and not consume too much.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n“A must read and local favorite. The single biggest export that leaves every local community is the sum total of its citizens\u2019 investment dollars. They are exported into a world wide financial system which we all know is frail. Shuman tells us why we must learn how to invest in Main St. not Wall St.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n“This book tells why and how our food should be grown locally. After all, the wealth of our local soil, and all the food it can provide should be kept as local as much as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n“Another powerful book from one of the most cogent thinkers of our time. The message might be scary: the geo politics of our food supply make it ever more frail.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n“From this book in the author\u2019s series on food, our own health and the health of our food system depends one his #1 rule: Cook Your Own Food!\u201d<\/p>\n
\n“Also a book about governance: how do we make governance decisions; how can we do it better; how do we engage effectively?\u201d<\/p>\n
\n“This is a fascinating read that simply extrapolates developments already taking place across the far northern hemisphere into the year 2050. What will we look like?\u201d<\/p>\n
\n“The essential reader for Community Resilience. Resilience is not about our ability to bounce back; it is our about ability to adapt to unpredictable change.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"