Aaron Wissner

Reading and Viewing I've Done Thus Far in 2009

• Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution -- Thomas L. Friedman (stopped at p. 171, "solutions")
• Crash Course (2008 film, documentary)
• Money: Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender -- Thomas Greco
• BerkShares (assorted TV news and online stories)
• Ithaca Hours (assorted TV news and online stories)
• Calgary Dollar (assorted TV news and online stories)
• Money As Debt (2007 film, documentary)
• The Great Crash, 1929 -- John Kenneth Galbraith (stopped at about 3/5 mark)
• Coming Home: E.F. Schumacher and the Reinvention of the Local Economy (2009 film, documentary)
• Feed-In Tariff event (Lansing, Michigan, video recorded four talks on feed in tariffs)
• The Ecology of Money -- Richard Douthwaite
• Milk (2008 film, based on historical events, about person murdered for due to his use of freedom of expression)
• Flow: For Love of Water (2008 film)
• Web of Debt: The Shocking Truth About Our Money System and How We Can Break Free -- Ellen Hodgson Brown
• The Story of Stuff (2007 film, documentary, about destruction via consumption)
• Earth Day Expo (Rochester, Michigan, video recorded talks on climate change and voluntary simplicity)
• Slumdog Millionaire (2008 film, about living life of poverty in a destroyed environment)
• Affluenza (documentary)
• As The World Burns: 60 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial -- Derrick Jensen
• Endgame (video talk) -- Derrick Jensen
• What We Leave Behind -- Derrick Jensen
• Life and Debt (2001 film, documentary, about how corporations & government destroy communities)
• The Century of the Self - Part 1: Happiness Machines (2002 film, documentary)
• Valkyrie (2008 film, based on historical events, about plan of resistance  to murder Hitler)
• Michigan Energy Fair (video recorded talks on Passive House, wind turbine production, peak oil, community generated electricity, etc.)
• What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire (2007 film, documentary, about our culture's overall situation)
• Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (2008 film, documentary, about global cultural similarities & differences)
• The Unforseen (2007 film, documentary, about the impacts of the concept of "property")
• The Slope of Dysfunction - Dmitry Orlov (essay)

To Read List

• Reinventing Collapse:  The Soviet Example and American Prospects -- Dmitry Orlov
• Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change -- William Catton
• Collapse: How Civilizations Choose to Fail or Succeed -- Jared Diamond
• The Collapse of Complex Societies -- Joseph Tainter
• The Future of Money -- Bernard Lietaer
• The End of Money and the Future of Civilization -- Thomas Greco
• Endgame (Volumes I & II) -- Derrick Jensen
• The Culture of Make Believe -- Derrick Jensen
• A Language Older than Words -- Derrick Jensen
• The Transition Handbook:  From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience -- Rob Hopkins
• Tales of Adam -- Daniel Quinn
• The Man Who Grew Young -- Daniel Quinn
• Blackout: Coal, Climate and the Last Energy Crisis -- Richard Heinberg
• Small is Beautiful:  Economics as if People Mattered -- E. F. Schumacher
• World Made by Hand -- James Howard Kunstler
• Silent Spring -- Rachel Carson
• Against Civilization: Reading and Reflections -- John Zerzan
• The World Without Us -- Alan Weisman
• Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future -- Bill McKibben
• The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism -- Naomi Klein
• Pacifism as Pathology: Reflections on the Role of Armed Struggle in North America -- Ward Churchill
• In Search of the Primitive -- Stanley Diamond
• The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight" The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late -- Thom Hartman
• The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community -- David C Korten
• Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television -- Jerry Mander
• The Dream of the Earth -- Thomas Berry
• Atlas Shrugged -- Ayn Rand
• The Revolution: A Manifesto -- Ron Paul
• The Selfish Gene -- Richard Dawkins
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make A Big Difference -- Malcolm Gladwell
• The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbably -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• The Lost Science of Money: The Mythology of Money, The Story of Power -- Stephen Zarlenga

To View List

• Zeitgeist
• Zeitgeist II
• Money as Debt II
• The Money Masters
• The Power of Nightmares
• The Century of Self
• Escape From Affluenza

Lists of Possibly Interesting Documentaries

• Zeitgeist.com
• HTFiddler.net
• UnitedDiversity.com