(some resources drawn on in writing Already Home. More available in the appendix to the book)

Home and Homelesness
Archaeology
Berkeley History
Creeks
Geology and Natural History
Native American Resources
Plants and Trees
San Francisco Bay
Toxics and Environment

Home and Homelesness

Andruss, Van, Plant Christopher, Plant, Judith, Wright, Eleanor. 1990. Home! A bioregional reader. Santa Cruz, California: New Society Publishers. A compilation of essays, stories and poems by writers, activists and ecologists who have contributed to defining bioregionalism and to the practice of “living in place.”

Marin, Peter. 1995. Freedom and its discontents: Reflections on four decades of American moral experience. South Royalton, Vermont: Steerforth Press. This book of essays by an eloquent spokesperson for the down-and out-- welfare mothers, war-damaged veterans and the homeless-- includes several contemplations on homelessness.

Snyder, Gary. 1995. A place is space: ethics, aesthetics and watersheds. Washington, D.C.:Counterpoint.

-- 1990. The practice of the wild. San Francisco, California: North Point Press.
In these two brilliant and elegantly written books of essays, Gary Snyder draws on his profound understanding of Buddhism and study of the natural world to write exquisite primers on our relationship to the natural community.

Street Spirit. American Friends Service Committee, 65 Ninth Street, San Francisco, CA 94103.
This informative and well-written newspaper on homelessness is sold on street corners by the homeless of the San Francisco East Bay.

Archaeology

Luby, Edward M. and Mark F. Gruber. 1999. The dead must be fed: Symbolic meanings of the shellmounds of the San Francisco Bay Area. Cambridge archeological journal 9, no. 1: 95Ð108.

Shellmounder News. C/o Stephanie Manning, 2107 Fifth Street, Berkeley, CA 94710.
sfbayshellmounds@yahoo.com.
 

Berkeley History

Bancroft Library. University of California at Berkeley. (510) 642-6481. http://bancroft.edu/.

Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association (BAHA). P.O. Box 1137, Berkeley, CA 94701.
www. berkeleyheritage.com.
See especially The BAHA Newsletter.

Berkeley Historical Society. P.O. Box 1190, Berkeley, CA 94701.
www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/histsoc/.
See especially The Berkeley Historical Society Newsletter.

Oakland Public Library. Oakland History Room. 125 Fourteenth Street, Oakland, CA 94612.
oaklandlibrary.org/Seasonal/Sections/oakhr.html.

Schwartz, Richard. 2000. Berkeley 1900: Daily life at the turn of the century. Berkeley: Richard Schwartz Books. Newspaper articles from the Berkeley Daily Gazette and vintage photographs from family and other archives offer a sense of day-to-day life in Berkeley at this time.

Temple hill family history center. 4770 Lincoln Way, Oakland, CA 94602. (510) 531-3905.
templehill.com/family_history_center.html. 
The Oakland Family History Center, branch of the Family History Library of the Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah., is a wonderful resource for investigations of local and family history; offerings include: census records, voting and property records, passenger ship lists and military lists.

Wollenberg, Charles. 2002. Berkeley, a city history.  Berkeley history series at the Berkeley public library. 2090 Kittridge Street, Berkeley, CA 94704. (510) 981-6100. www.infopeople.org/bpl/system/historytext.html.
Read this informative and engaging history (including an excellent bibliography) on line.

Creeks

Aquatic Outreach Institute. 1327 South 46th Street, #155, Richmond, CA 94804.
www.fivecreeks.org.

Richard, Christopher M., ed. 1995. Guide to East Bay creeks. Rev. ed. Oakland: Oakland Museum of California.
Along with the Creek and Watershed Map of Oakland and Berkeley by Janet M. Sowers (also published by the Oakland Museum ), this is a wonderful resource on East Bay Creeks, as well as an insightful description of the ecology of the local watershed.

Urban Creeks Council. 1250 Addison Street, #107C, Berkeley, CA 94702.

Geology and Natural History

Alt, David and Donald W. Hyndman. 2000. Roadside geology of northern and central California. Missoula, Montana: Mountain Press Publishing Company.

Earth Science and Map Library. University of California at Berkeley. (510) 643-6576.
www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/.
This amazing map library offers the largest collection of maps in Northern California and one of the largest university map collections in the United States, including themes such as geology, soils, and climate, as well as city street maps from different eras.

Schoenherr, Allan A. 1992. A natural history of California. Berkeley: University of California Press.
A rich compendium of diverse aspects of California natural history.

Native American Resources

Margolin, Malcolm, ed. 1981. The way we lived: California Indian stories, songs and reminiscences. Berkeley: Heyday Books and California Historical Society.

--. 1978. The Ohlone way: Indian life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay area. Berkeley: Heyday Books.
This is an imaginative and fun-to-read book on the life and customs of the Ohlone Indians before the coming of Europeans.

Milliken, Randall. 1995. A time of little choice: the disintegration of tribal culture in the San Francisco Bay area 1769-1810. Menlo Park: Ballena Press.

News from native California: An inside view of the California Indian world. 2054 University Avenue, #400, Berkeley, CA 94704. heydaybooks.com/news/.
Each issue presents a range of articles by Native California Indians .

Plants and Trees

Bay Nature. Clapperstick Institute. P.O. Box 9145, Berkeley, CA 94709. www.baynature.com.

Keator, Glenn, Linda Yamane, and Ann Lewis. 1995. In full view: Three ways of seeing California plants. Berkeley: Heyday Books.
In this beautiful book, a botanist, a Native American scholar and an artist offer complementary perspectives on California native plants.

San Francisco Bay

Goals Project. 1999. Baylands ecosystem habitat goals: A report of habitat recommendations. San Francisco Bay Area Wetlands Ecosystem Goals Project. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, San Francisco, CA/S.F. Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board, Oakland, CA.  Prepared by Bay Area environmental scientists, this study of the changing baylands includes comparative maps from 1800 and 1998 which show the layout of Bay/channel, tidal flats, salt ponds, sandy beaches, Bay fill, etc.

San Francisco Estuary Project. 2101 Webster Street, Suite 500, Oakland, CA 94612. See especially Cohen, Andrew Neal. 1991. An introduction to the ecology of the San Francisco estuary, 2nd ed. Oakland: Save San Francisco Bay Association.

Toxics and the Environment

Breast Cancer Action newsletter. 55 New Montgomery Street, Suite 323, San Francisco, CA 94105. www.bcaction.org.

CNA newsletter. Council of Neighborhood Associations. P.O. Box 1217, Berkeley, CA 94701.
Terrain Magazine. The Ecology Center. 2530 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94702.A wonderful resource from Berkeley, California's Ecology Center which since 1969 has championed important  issues, fighting local battles for our global environment.  www.ecologycenter.org

Women's Cancer Resource Center newsletter. 5741 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, CA 94609. www.wcrc.org.

Wood, LA. 1999. A brief history of Strawberry Creek: Urban runoff, restoration, and related public health issues. CNA newsletter 254: 5, 7. See also LA Wood's website for many articles about environmental issues on topics including air quality, groundwater, toxics, hazardous waste and environmental enforcements in the San Francisco East Bay. www.berkeleycitizen.org.