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Luellen left a comment for Margaret Weiner

"Margaret: Yes, these books have really influenced who I am and who I want to be. It makes me feel more comfortable moving to Iowa knowing there are people there who value these issues."

Apr 23, 2011

Margaret Weiner left a comment for Luellen

"Luellen, your reading list (I just read it) really makes me want to know you face to face. There are so many of my personal favorites on this list, so many books that have shaped who I am today, and some I haven't read yet but seeing them…"

Apr 23, 2011

Margaret Weiner and Luellen are now friends

Apr 23, 2011

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Aug 23, 2010

Luellen replied to Les Squires's discussion 'One or Two or Three Wishes'

"My three wishes would be: a job closer to home so I could get rid of my truck and walk or bike instead a food co-op for Jackson, Michigan a raw food restaurant in Jackson Michigan"

Jul 17, 2010

Luellen is now friends with Margaret Schiesswohl and Ann Brigit Waters

Apr 24, 2010

Luellen left a comment for Margaret Schiesswohl

"My mom lives in Lapeer, and I was born in Lapeer 48 years ago. It would be something to be certified in permaculture."

Aug 21, 2009

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How are you currently involved in the Transition movement?: Attended a 2 day transition conference in East Lansing, Michigan. Will begin to read The Transition Handbook by Rob Hopkins.

In what ways do you identify with the Transition movement? Why are you interested?: I have tried for the past several years to live a more sustainable life and hope to find a community of people who want to reduce their footprint on the Earth.

How can you help the growth/acceptance/vitality of the Transition movement? What can YOU teach us? What can your GROUP teach us?: I would like to meet with other people who want to transition their communities, especially in the Lansing, Michigan area

Your Favorite Books/Websites/Blogs/RSS Feeds for Information about the Transition Movement: The Long Emergency by James Howard Kunstler
Home from Nowhere by the same
The Geography of Nowhere by the same
Amish Society by John A. Hostetler
The Making of a Counter Culture by Theodore Roszak
The Voice of the Earth by the same
Asphalt Nation by Jane Holtz Kay
Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv
My Story As Told By Water by David James Duncan
Beyond Civilization by Daniel Quinn
Green For Life by Victoria Boutenko
Raw Family by the same
Great Possessions by David Kline
Animal Vegetable Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
Small Wonder by the same
Against Civilization by John Zerzan
The City in History by Lewis Mumford
Ecopsychology edited by Theodore Roszak
Recovering the Sacred by Winona LaDuke
The Corporation by Joel Bakan
A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander
The Timeless Way of Building by the same
Consilience by Edward O. Wilson
A Century of Dishonor by Helen Hunt Jackson
everything by Wendell Berry
everything by Henry David Thoreau
everything by Derrick Jensen
everything by M. Scott Peck
Spirit Matters by Michael Lerner
Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television by Jerry
Mander
The Circle of Simplicity by Cecile Andrews
Hegemony or Survival by Noam Chomsky
Manufacturing Consent by Edward Herman and Noam
Chomsky
The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
The Good Society by the same
The Illuminated Rumi by Coleman Barks and Michael
Green
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
Into the Forest by Jean Hegland
The Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter
Radical Simplicity by Jim Merkel
The Legacy of Luna by Julia Butterfly Hill
Continuing the Good Life by Helen and Scott Nearing
Living the Good Life by Helen Nearing
The New Agrarianism edited by Eric T. Freyfogle
Love and Survival by Dean Ornish
Biomimicry by Janine M Benyus
Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
Small is Beautiful by E.F. Schumacher
The Tyranny of the Majority by Lani Guinier
Green Was the Earth on the Seventh Day by Thor
Heyerdahl
The Consumers Guide to Effective Environmental Choices
by Michael Brower and Warren Leon
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
The Limits to Growth by Donella H. Meadows
Gaviotas by Alan Weisman
To Have or To Be? by Erich Fromm
Culture Jam by Kalle Lasn
The End of Nature by Bill McKibben
Natural Capitalism by Paul Hawkin and Amory Lovins
The Spirit of Community by Amitai Etzioni
The New Golden Rule by the same
Believing Cassandra by Alan Atkisson
Discovering a Sense of Place by Northwest Earth Institute
Voluntary Simplicity by Duane Elgin
How Much is Enough? by Alan Thein Durning
A Thomas Merton Reader by Thomas Merton
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
Finding Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Seventy Times Seven by Johann Christoph Arnold
Our Stolen Future by Colborn, Dumanoski and Myers
The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow by Opal
Whiteley
The Doctor and the Soul by Viktor Frankl
A Different Kind of Teacher by John Taylor Gatto
Dumbing Us Down by the same
Plato not Prozac by Lou Marinoff
Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappe
Out of My Life and Thought by Albert Schweitzer
The Gift of Fear by Gavin DeBecker
The Alphabet Versus the Goddess by Leonard Shlain
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
Two Old Women by Velma Wallis
Miseducation by David Elkind
Punished by Rewards by Alfie Kohn
Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
Twenty Years at Hull House by Jane Addams
Tasha Tudor's Garden by Tovah Martin
Gift From the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
The Sense of Wonder by the same
Simplicity by Mark A. Burch
The Book of Life by J. Krishnamurti
Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher and William Ury
On Death and Dying by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Breakthrough by Matthew Fox
The Partnership Way by Riane Eisler
The Chalice and the Blade by the same
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

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At 10:56am on April 23, 2011, Margaret Weiner said…: Luellen, your reading list (I just read it) really makes me want to know you face to face. There are so many of my personal favorites on this list, so many books that have shaped who I am today, and some I haven't read yet but seeing them on this list convinces me I'd like to read them!

At 12:22pm on August 20, 2009, Margaret Schiesswohl said…: Luellen,
Good to hear from you. There was actually just a permaculture training in Lapeer county recently. I didn't attend, but felt encouraged to hear of folks in mid-michigan getting the "good word", lol.

At 8:54am on October 29, 2008, Lisa Bashert said…: I have read Last Child in the Woods -- an excellent book which describes so many of the ways we are disconnected from a meaningful relationship with our home and our place. I've been working on building that relationship for about the last 12 years. (Glad you liked my hair... This was my hairdo for the wedding of my daughter last month! I love it!!! Now I'm teaching myself how to do crown braids.)

At 3:59pm on October 23, 2008, Lisa Bashert said…: WOW, what a book list! I'm copying it and figuring out what I've already read...

At 1:20pm on October 17, 2008, Alice Kelsey said…: No his name is Chance Townsend.

At 12:02pm on October 16, 2008, Alice Kelsey said…: It's definitely my long-term goal to come back and start a Transition Initiative in my home county (Allegan). It's ironic that you mention construction because that's who I worked for in MI, Townsend Builders. There should be retrofitting, energy efficiency and new design work like strawbale housing in the future. Hey, wouldn't it be great if we could get these guys connected (oops, I made a sexist assumption that your construction friends were guys!) :-) Alice

At 1:28pm on October 15, 2008, Alice Kelsey said…: Just joined Transition US. Wanted to say hi to fellow Michiganian. I currently live in Colorado but was born and raised north of Kalamazoo.

At 6:48pm on October 13, 2008, Gail Brill said…: Barbara Kindsolver's book inspired me to start a local environmental group that is growing every day! www.adkgreencircle.org Thanks for the reading list.

At 6:11pm on October 13, 2008, Gail Brill said…: Hi Luellen, That's quite a reading list! What a great resource. Many thanks Gail

At 4:19pm on October 1, 2008, Les Squires said…: The ideal person is the one whose name is recognized widely throughout your community. In other words, someone trusted. That way when invitations and announcements go out, there is instant recognition.