1. Building Sustainable Communities
   Tools and Concepts for Self-Reliant Economic Change
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1989
   The major sections of the book deal with community land trusts and other forms of community ownership of natural resources, worker-managed enterprises and other techniques of community self-management, and community currency and banking.
2. Deep Ecology
   Living as if Nature Mattered
   Resource Type: Book
   
3. Investing in a Sustainable Future
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1991
   The Cerro Gordo community.
4. Living with the Land
   Communities Restoring the Earth
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1992
   A collection of stories from grassroots communities about the benefits of ecological living.
5. Putting Power in its Place
   Create Community Control!
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1992
   Essays arguing for the devolution of government and putting forward workdable models, many of them tested in practice, of how we might restructure society to better represent the full diversity of its parts. Watershed stewartship, community forest boards, local currencies, and eco-constitutions are some of the ideas discussed.
6. Saving the Countryside
   Conserving Rural Character in the Countryside of Southern Ontario
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1995
   An overview of the issues and politics of preserving the rural nature of the countryside. Byrne outlines the problems facing rural communities: rapid pace of changge, not having access to the information necessary to cope with change and thirdly the failure to believe that individuals can make a difference. Includes has an extenisve list of resources including newsletters, government publications and academic papers to help promote community discussion.
   
7. The Suburban Nation
   The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2000
   The choice is ours: either a society of homogeneous pieces, isolated from one another in often fortified enclaves, or a society of diverse and memorable neighbourhoods, organized into mutually supportive towns, cities and regions.

Experts on Communities in the Sources Directory

1. Loving More
2. The Preservation Institute