Books on Sustainable Design Many of these books were purchased collectively by the staff and interns at Cross Timbers Permaculture Institute while I worked there in late 1995 and early 1996. Since then I've occasionally added new titles. Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh. Helena Norberg-Hodge. Sierra Club Books, 1991. A Conspiracy of Optimism: Management of the National Forests since World War Two. Paul W. Hirt. University of Nebraska Press, 1994. Cornucopia: A Source Book of Edible Plants. Stephen Facciola. Kampong Press, 1990. Ecological Design. Sim Van der Ryn and Stuart Cowan. Island Press, 1996. Feng Shui: The Chinese Art of Placement. Sarah Rossbach. Penguin Arkana, 1983. The Findhorn Garden. Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation.. The Findhorn Community. HarperPerennial, 1975. How Buildings Learn. What Happens After They're Built. Stewart Brand. Penguin Books, 1994. How to Grow More Vegetables. 5th edition. John Jeavons. Ten Speed Press, 1995. The Living Fields: Our Agricultural Heritage. Jack R. Harlan. Cambridge University Press, 1995. A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia. Blaine Harden. W.W. Norton and Co., 1996. Seeds of Change: The Living Treasure. Kenny Ausubel. HarperSanFrancisco, 1994. Shattering: Food, Politics, and the Loss of Genetic Biodiversity. Cary Fowler and Pat Mooney. University of Arizona Press, 1990. Shelter. Shelter Publications, 1973. Sustaining the Soil: Indigenous Soil and Water Conservation in Africa. Edited by Chris Reij, Ian Scoones and Camilla Toulmin. Earthscan Publications, 1996. Thermal Delight in Architecture. Lisa Heschong. MIT Press, 1979. Last updated December, 1996 CSF's main permaculture page