Raw Foundation

Chapman, J. and Gant, N. (2007)
Designers, Visionaries + Other Stories
London: Earthscan.
Designers, Visionaries and Other Stories unpacks the complex and crucial debates surrounding sustainable design to deliver a compelling manifesto for change, at a time of looming ecological crisis, mounting environmental legislation and limited progress. This is a book about sustainable design, by the leading sustainable design thinkers, for creative practitioners, professionals, students and academics. This challenging work provides the reader with a rich resource of future visions, critical propositions, creative ideas and design strategies for working towards a sustainable tomorrow, today.
http://www.earthscan.co.uk/?tabid=628

Cooper, T. (2011)
Longer Lasting Products
London: Gower.
The present economic system requires us to consume and throw away more and more goods. Yet often it's our desire, and the best interests of the environment, for these goods to last. If we created fewer but better quality products, looked after them carefully and invested more in repair, renovation and upgrading, would this direct our economy onto a more sustainable course? The solution sounds simple, yet it requires a seismic shift in how we think, whether as producers or consumers, and our voracious appetite for novelty. The complex range of issues associated with product life-spans demands a multidisciplinary approach.
www.amazon.co.uk/Longer-Lasting-Products-Tim-Cooper/dp/0566088088/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1295720121&sr=1-1

Fletcher, K. (2008)
Sustainable Fashion and Textiles
London: Earthscan.
Sustainable Fashion and Textiles: Design Journeys brings together for the first time information about lifecycle sustainability impacts of fashion and textiles, practical alternatives, design concepts and social innovation. It challenges existing ideas about the scope and potential of sustainability issues in fashion and textiles, and sets out a more pluralistic, engaging and forward-looking picture, drawing on ideas of systems thinking, human needs, local products, slow fashion and participatory design, as well as knowledge of materials. The book not only defines the field, it also challenges it, and uses design ideas to help shape more sustainable products and promote social change.
http://www.earthscan.co.uk/?tabid=260

Hailes, J. (2007)
The New Green Consumer Guide
London: Simon & Schuster.
Green consumerism is on the rise, but many of us are confused by an avalanche of information - much of it conflicting. We want to do the right thing to help save energy and resources, but where can we start as everyday consumers? The New Green Consumer Guide is accessible and reader-friendly, addressing all the questions the general consumer is asking, giving authoritative advice on a wide range of issues, explaining which products, brands and companies are getting it right - and which ones are getting it wrong. With full-colour pages and illustrations throughout, and with scores of tips, checklists and ideas, The New Green Consumer Guide offers real, affordable solutions to the world's most-talked-about challenge.
www.amazon.co.uk/New-Green-Consumer-Guide/dp/0743295307/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1295723487&sr=1-1

Jackson, T. (2009)
Prosperity without growth?
Sustainable Development Commission
Is more economic growth the solution? Will it deliver prosperity and well-being for a global population projected to reach nine billion? In this explosive book, Tim Jackson, a top sustainability adviser to the UK government, makes a compelling case against continued economic growth in developed nations. No one denies that development is essential for poorer nations. But in the advanced economies there is mounting evidence that ever-increasing consumption adds little to human happiness and may even impede it.
http://www.earthscan.co.uk/?tabid=92763

Parkin, S. (2010)
The Positive Deviant
London: Earthscan
An economy low in carbon and high in life satisfaction will require thousands, if not millions of exceptional leaders. This book is the first to bring together sustainability knowledge with the leadership skills and tools to help you become one of those leaders. In it you will find everything you need to get started straight away, and to grow your effectiveness, even in a world that remains perversely intent on the opposite. Whether you are new to the whole idea of sustainability, or reasonably well informed but not entirely confident about what to do for the best, this guide will help you 'do' sustainability.
http://www.earthscan.co.uk/?tabid=102365

Senge, P. M. (1990)
The Fifth Discipline, 2nd edition
London: Random House Business Books
A pioneer in learning organizations offers five disciplines that reveal the link between far-flung causes and immediate effects and that can save organizations from becoming "learning disabled," helping them to learn better and faster.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fifth-Discipline-Practice-Learning-Organization/

Simms, A. and Smith, J. (2008)
Do Good Lives Have to Cost the Earth?
London: Constable & Robinson
An eloquent and persuasive account of modern corporate greed, and how and why we should resist it... should make all but the Gordon Geckos of this world determined to do something about it.' - Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall * 'Terrific... no one can read this book and ever think of supermarkets as benign and life enhancing again.' - Rosie Boycott
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Good-Lives-Have-Cost-Earth/dp/1845296435/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1295723853&sr=1-1

Stibe, A. (ed) (2009)
The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy
Totnes: Green Books
In this ground-breaking book, leading sustainability educators are joined by permaculturists, literary critics, ecologists, artists, journalists, engineers, mathematicians and philosophers in a deep reflection on the skills people need to survive and thrive in the challenging conditions of the 21st century. The book covers a wide range of skills and attributes from technology appraisal to ecological intelligence, and includes active learning exercises to help develop those skills. Far from being a rigid or definitive statement of the one right way , the handbook is exploratory, aiming to open up new, previously unthought-of paths, possibilities and choices. It is intended primarily for educators across the spectrum from higher education to informal education, but is also suitable for learners and anyone interested in the literally vital issue of the skills necessary for building a more sustainable future.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Handbook-Sustainability-Literacy-skills-changing/dp/1900322609/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1295723200&sr=1-1

Worldwatch Institute (2011)
State of the World 2011: Innovations that Nourish the Planet
London: Earthscan
Over the last two years, Worldwatch’s Nourishing the Planet team has travelled to 25 sub-Saharan African nations - the places where hunger is greatest - and uncovered a treasure trove of innovations from farmers’ groups, private voluntary organizations, universities, and even agribusiness companies. These innovations offer global benefits - from the continent’s role in preventing disastrous climate change to the way urban farmers are feeding people in cities and why even determined locavores are sustained by the crop diversity preserved by farmers thousands of miles away.
http://www.earthscan.co.uk/?tabid=102765

Arnstein, S. R. (1969)
A Ladder of Participation, JAIP. Vol. 35, No. 4, pp216-224.
http://lithgow-schmidt.dk/sherry-arnstein/ladder-of-citizen-participation.html

Bowman, S and Willis, C. (2003)
We Media. Available at: www.mediacenter.org
www.hypergene.net/wemedia/download/we_media.pdf

Capra, F. (2010)
Ecology and Community
www.ecoliteracy.org/essays/ecology-and-community

Cooperrider, D.L. & Whitney, D. (2007)
Appreciative Inquiry: A positive revolution in change
http://appreciativeinquiry.case.edu/uploads/whatisai.pdf