We’re getting to the point where long-range analyses of our movement should be available
Earth Day and the first Green parties date from about fifty years ago. Some of the enduring intentional community settlements were established during the 1990s:
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2021/07/30/BC-Celebrates-Quarter-Century-Co-Housing/
These are different manifestations of the greening movement. It now has enough of a legacy as to be subjected to meaningful evaluation.
There are, of course, many particular books about different aspects of the movement. In 1991 Andrew Dobson published a good “broad overview” type of book, The Green Reader, and the following year Kirk Sale offered The Green Revolution. It would be great to see someone follow-up with a similar text now, thirty years later. Such a work should analyze the individual currents and their interrelationships:
. Deep Ecology
. Social Ecology
. Transition Towns
. Ecovillages
. Cohousing communities
. Green parties
. Indigenism
. Bioregionalism
. Eco-socialism
. Eco-communitarianism
. Permaculture
. Renewable energy
. Decentralism
. Degrowth theory
. Voluntary simplicity
. Appropriate technology
. Animal rights