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Baer-Brown, Leslie and Bob Rhein.	Earth Keepers: a Sourcebook for Environmental Issues and Action. San Francisco, CA: Mercury House, 1995. 274p. Based on interviews with guests on the radio program EarthWatch, the book is a tool for environmental self-education. Explores root causes of some of the earth’s key problems and charts paths to solve them.
Harker, Donald F. and Elizabeth Ungar Natter.	Where We Live: a Citizen’s Guide to Conducting a Community Environmental Inventory. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1995. 319p. Guide designed to help citizens sort, understand, and interpret the documents they re-view and help them become active participants in the environmental decisions made in their communities.
Kleymeyer, Charles David, ed.	Cultural Expression and Grassroots Development: Cases from Latin America and the Caribbean. Boulder, CO.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1994. 293p. Describes cultural productions and programs which demonstrate a pluralistic, open approach to development themes.
Positive Futures Network.	Yes! A Journal of Positive Futures. Bainbridge Island, WA: Positive Futures Network, 1996- . The successor journal to In Context magazine, Yes! provides a creative and multi-media sampling of emerging sustainability themes. Includes excellent cartoons and clever graphics, with some funny bits too.
Pye-Smith, Charlie et al.	The Wealth of Communities: Stories of Success in Local Environmental Management. London: Earthscan, 1994. 213p. ‘Tells the stories of ten communities which are making intelligent and sustainable use of the world around them’ - HRH The Prince of Wales.
White, Jonathan.	Talking on the Water: Conversations About Nature and Creativity. San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1994. 271p. Interviews with writers, scientists, environmentalists, and poets that gathered on the author’s boat over the last ten years to explore humanity’s relationship to the ‘wild’.