For now I'm just creating my own booklist for future reference, so feel free to ignore/ browse/ add/ whatever. I haven't read them all, so I can't fully vouch for the refs - some are favorites and some I just think could be important. I think I'd like to make a list for each of the major sectors of society (food, housing, transport, healthcare, industry, finance) that covers books and websites that provide positive patterns that we could adopt and are being adopted - since I'm so impressed with how much good creative alternatives exist out there today - and how necessary they are. What I have here is so much just the tip of the iceberg... Really, Wiser Earth does this itself at a massive scale, but I'm thinking about this more from a 'pattern-language' frame of mind, and also from the perspective of what a course curriculum might look like (for Wiser Earth University, if nothing else). Also, there are so many variants on the same theme, it would be helpful to go through and really think about which serve what audiences which I haven't REALLY done yet (beginner references, geek-versions etc).  This is also mostly steering clear from some of the more dramatic cautionary books (peak everything, for example - those are covered off of the Phoenix Conversations Call page...

There are also concepts and approaches I'd like to cover - especially relating to systems approaches... such as this: "Using Disasters for Social Change" http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008039.html

(this was a list started for a friend and it is the bare beginnings of a draft, but I thought I'd put it up there anyway to get started)

PATTERNS FOR THE FUTURE I'D LIKE TO SEE MANIFEST

FOOD
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
The 100-Mile Diet by Alisa Smith
Eat Here: Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean, And Fair  

Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
This link has a bunch I haven't heard of or read: http://www.d4net.nl/node/422

Slow Food movement stuff (I'm not sure what)?
Permaculture
Easy 1st steps on home gardens?
Local-food recipe books and/or a long list of local foods and general availability (organized by month).
Amazon has a bunch of lists tagged "local food" I haven't seen/read: http://www.amazon.com/tag/local%20food/products/ref=tag_tdp_sv_istp

CLIMATE/GREEN BUILDING
Low Carbon Diet: A 30 Day Program to Lose 5000 Pounds  by David Gershon
Homemade Money: How to save energy and dollars in your home - RMI
Your Green Home: A guide to planning a healthy environmentally friendly new home - Alex Wilson (my boss)
The Consumers guide to Effective Environmental Choices (somewhat dry and old, but the BEST no-nonsense guide to what does and doesn't matter)
The Not So Big House: A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live by Sarah Susanka

KIDS BOOKS:
When a Butterfly Sneezes: A Guide for Helping Kids Explore Interconnections in Our World Through Favorite Stories By Linda Booth Sweeney (systems thinking for kids - I wish we could get this kind of thinking through to more people FAST...)
From Lava to Life: The Universe Tells Our Earth's Story
Mammals Who Morph: The Universe Tells Our Evolution Story
Born With a Bang: The Universe Tells Our Cosmic Story (series of stories which tell evolution in an exciting mythic way... too mythic for some of us even if technically correct, but certainly captures the imagination & fun for kids).

Our Family Tree: An Evolution Story
Life on Earth
list on "helping kids go green" from amazon - no idea if it is worth anything http://www.amazon.com/Helping-Kids-quot-Go-Green/lm/R2DG7R4N2FO67C/ref=tag_lag_rb_munk_lmfull

NOT CATALOGUED YET
Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century  (based on the website)
Biomimicry - Janine Benyus
Cradle-to-Cradle - (I may get annoyed at McDonough, and the devil is in the details, but the vision is a lovely one)
Mid-Course Correction: Toward a Sustainable Enterprise: The Interface Model by Ray Anderson (Author)
Hope, Human, and Wild - Bill McKibben
Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World
Thank God for Evolution - Michael Dowd
National Green Pages (latest from coop america)
Natural Capitalism: Creating the next industrial revolution
The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken (a classic, but I gravitate toward Natural Capitalism more)
The Audacity of Hope: Barack Obama
Deep Economy: the wealth of communities and the durable future - Bill McKibben
The impossible will take a little while (series of short essays)
Blessed Unrest

Design Like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises

The Future We Will Create, Inside the world of TED

The great turning - David Korten http://www.davidkorten.org/

The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition - http://www.small-mart.org/

http://www.conservationeconomy.net/

DENSE MATTER / KEY RESOURCES
Materials Matter - Geiser
The Web of Life or The Hidden Connections - Fritjof Capra
Diffusion of Innovations
The People's History of the United States
A Pattern Language and the Timeless Way of Building - Christopher Alexander

PICTURE BOOKS
- Andy Goldsworthy
- Andrew Wyeth
- Reading the Forested Landscape