things to read

Blogroll

It was getting a bit long, so I’ve put a full list of recommended blogs up, here.

Other Readable Things:

On global issues / development:

• anything by Samantha Power – including The Problem from Hell and Chasing the Flame.
• a great list compiled by EWB.
• The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Jane Jacobs)
• Arrival City (Doug Saunders)
• The Life You Can Save (Peter Singer) – or the related essay, “Famine, Affluence and Morality.”
• 28 Stories of AIDS in Africa (Stephanie Nolen) – or, for that matter:
• Anything by the Globe & Mail’s Stephanie Nolen
• Pathologies of Power (Paul Farmer)

On social change:

• The Art of the Possible: A Handbook for Political Activism (Amanda Sussman)
• The Tipping Point (Malcolm Gladwell)

On the social sector:

• Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits (Leslie Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant)
• Uncharitable (Dan Pallotta)
• Getting to Maybe: How the world is changed (Frances Westley , Brenda Zimmerman and Michael Patton)
• “Contentious citizens: Civil society’s role in campaigning for social change” – or anything by the  Young Foundation
  

On marketing:

• The Cluetrain Manifesto (Levine et al.)
• Permission Marketing (Seth Godin)

Other good stuff:

• Getting Things Done (David Allen)
• No Logo (Naomi Klein)
• Women Don’t Ask (Babcock & Laschever)
• Watching the English (Kate Fox)

Fiction

I have a weakness for CanLit.

• Unless (Carol Shields)
• The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
• Fugitive Pieces (Anne Michaels)
• Poems or fiction of Michael Ontaatje, generally.

Things that get mailed to my house

When it comes time to curl up and read, sometimes the laptop doesn’t cut it. My subscriptions to the following publications are worth the fee:

• The Walrus
• The Stanford Social Innovation Review

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