The Beginning Comes After the End - by Rebecca Solnit - (mostly the title)
The Horizon Story - Norma Wong's website and podcast
Thomas Berry's Twelve Principles - (especially #6 and #11)
We Hold These Truths (aspirations articulated by current documents)
Leverage Points: Places To Intervene in a System (Donella Meadows)
How Plants Learned How To Share the Same Space (video)
David Bollier: News and Perspectives on the Commons
The Ecology of Law: Toward a Legal System in Tune with Nature and Community
Ecocivilization: Making a World That Works for All
Earth Community - David Korten
Living Earth Community: Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing
Earth Law Center: Giving Nature a Voice in Our Legal System
Living in Harmony with Nature and Future Generations: World Council Awards 2025
Our Wise Democracy Pattern Language
Project Reconstitution and Melissa Cosgrove on the Law of Relation - I found this well-resourced and important work by accident while preparing to make my own website available to the public. Her posts on Substack merit a close read and a wide share.
Hit Reset on the U.S. Constitution by Dr. Paul Zeitz - like one of the chapters in Jeremy Lent's Ecocivilization, but in more detail - and in a more accessible narrative than in Camilla Vergara's Systemic Corruption: Dr. Zeitz offers a practical plan for Peoples' Assemblies to generate a Second (Peaceful) American Revolution.
Recovering the Indigenous Principles of U.S. Democracy: Revelations and Invitations for the 250th - Sarah Bradley directs our attention to durable Indigenous values and democratic practices missing from the U.S. Constitution and pertinent to its tragic failure. What if we return to the perspective that American Democracy rose from the land itself as understood by Indigenous Peoples with much longer history here?
From Fracking to Data Centers, by Tish O'Dell of Community Environmental Legal Defense Center (CELDF) offers a vivid exposition of the failure of the regulatory system in a capitalist economy and under the current constitution. Her focus is on local community self-governance and rights of nature.