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 Book First Author
Publisher Year
Comment
 The Transition Handbook
 Rob Hopkin
 Green Books
2008
The book that started the Transition movement from a Permaculture Teacher
 Introduction to Permaculture
 Bill Mollison
Tagari Publications
 1991  One seminal work that describes the evolution of Permaculture
 The Holistic Life  Ian Lillington  Axiom Australia
 2007
 Great sustainability book based on Permaculture
Peak Everything: Waking up to the century of declines Richard Heinberg Clairview Books 2007 From the introduction "In the course of the present century we will see an end to growth and a commencement of decline in all of these parameters:
  • Population
  • Grain production (total and per capita)
  • Uranium production
  • Climate stability
  • Fresh water availability per capita
  • Arable land in agricultural production
  • Wild fish harvests
  • Yearly extraction of some metals and minerals (including copper, platinum, silver, gold, and zinc)"