Course Requirements
Most of these are available as eBooks that you can read on the free Kindle App for under or close to $10 each. We will add resources as they become relevant for our particular projects.
- The Great Turning, David Korten (website)
- Films for Action: 90 Inspiring and Visionary Films (website & videos)
- The Fifth Sacred Thing (Starhawk) OR Star’s Reach (John Michael Greer)
- Yes Magazine (website, magazine)
- Lexicon of Sustainability (community art, web-based and street art, community storytelling )
Future Scenarios
- Future Scenarios, David Holmgren
- The Fifth Sacred Thing (Starhawk)
- Star’s Reach (John Michael Greer)
- Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood (about to be released as a series on HULU)
- Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler
- Life Rules: Nature’s Blueprint for Surviving Economic nd Environmental Collapse
- Collapse Now & Avoid the Rush, Original Michael Greer version, David Holmgren Permaculture version
- Films: Hunger Games, Divergent series, Apocalypto, Terminator, Matrix, Minority Report, Oblivion, etc.
Recommended
- Life is easy , Ted Talk
- How We Choose to Be Happy: The 9 Choices of Extremely Happy People–Their Secrets, Their Stories (tips on a happy life; and insight into character complexity)
- Six Grand Illusions that Keep Us Enslaved
- A Simpler Way, Crisis as Opportunity
Ted Talks
- Ten Best TED talks on storytelling
- Secrets of Storytelling This is about branding, but has some great tips about story
Culture and Story
- Story Power within a Culture
- Breaking the Cultural Trance produced by Media we don’t control
- Digital Theater