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RECOMMENDED READING LIST
Abbey, Edward Desert Solitaire
Abbey, Edward Down The River
Ackerman, Diane The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds
Adams, Douglas Last Chance to See
Avery, Dennis Saving the Planet With Pesticides and Plastic
Aylesworth, Thomas This Vital Air, This Vital Water
Bailey, Ronald Ecoscam: The False Prophets of Ecological Apocalypse
Bormann, F. and Kellert, S. Ecology, Economics, Ethics: The Broken Circle
Braungart, Michael Cradle To Cradle: Remaking the Way we Make Things
Brick, P., Snow, D., Bates, S., and Kemmis, D. Across the Great Divide: Explorations in Collaborative Conservation
and the American West
Bryson, Bill In A Sunburned Country
Bullard, Robert D. Unequal Protection: Environmental Justice and Communities of Color
Burdick, Alan Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion
Campbell, David The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica
Colburn, T., Dumanoski, D., and Myers, J. Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence,
and Survival?--A Scientific Detective Story
Corson, Trevor The Secret Life of Lobsters
Cronon, William Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
Cummings, Claire Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds
Davis, Mike Planet of Slums
Devall, Bill and Sessions, George Deep Ecology: Living as if Nature Mattered
Diamond, Jared Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Dietrich, William The Final Forest: Big Trees, Forks, and the Pacific Northwest
Dillard, Annie Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Dolan, Edward Our Poisoned Waters
Dotto, Lydia Planet Earth in Jeopardy: Environmental Consequences of Nuclear War
Ehrlich, Gretel The Solace of Open Spaces
Ehrlich, Paul and Ehrlich, Anne The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment
Elkington, John The Green Capitalists: Industry's Search for Environmental Excellence
Estill, Lyle Small is Possible: Life in a Local Economy
Finney, Carolyn Black Faces, White Spaces
Flannery, Tim The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
Flannery, Tim and Schouten, Peter A Gap in Nature: Discovering the World's Extinct Animals
Flowers, Catherine Coleman Waste: One Woman's Fight Against America's Dirty Secret
Garreau, Joel Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What
It Means to Be Human
Gerdes, Louise The Environment: Opposing Viewpoints
Giblin, James When Plague Strikes: The Black Death, Smallpox, AIDS
Gilio-Whitaker, Dina As Long As Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight For Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock
Goodall, Jane Harvest for Hope
Gore, Albert Earth in the Balance
Greenberg, Paul American Catch: The Fight For Our Local Seafood
Grescoe, Taras Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood
Gribbin, John Hothouse Earth
Gribbin, John The Hole in the Sky; Man's Threat to the Ozone Layer
Grunwald, Michael The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise
Hager, Thomas The Alchemy of Air
Hardin, Garrett Living within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos
Harr, Jonathan A Civil Action
Harte, John and Kamp, Len The Green Fuse: An Ecological Odyssey
Heinberg, Richard The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies
Hightower, Jane Diagnosis: Mercury: Money, Politics & Poison
Houghton, John T. Climate Change: The IPCC Scientific Assessment
Humes, Edward Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair With Trash
Jacobs, Chip Smogtown: The Lung-Burning History of Pollution in Los Angeles
Jahren, Hope Lab Girl
Jahren, Hope The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where To Go From Here
Johnson, Steven The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science,
Cities, and the Modern World
Kidder, Tracy Mountains Beyond Mountains
Klare, Michael Blood and Oil
Kolbert, Elizabeth Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
Kottak, Conrad Assault on Paradise
Kuenzler, Edward Time and the Piedmont
Kunstler, James The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes
of the Twenty-First Century
Kurlansky, Mark Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
Kurlansky, Mark Salt: A World History
Lapierre, D. and Moro, J. Five Past Midnight in Bhopal: The Epic Story of the World's Deadliest Industrial Disaster
Laszlo, Ervin Inner Limits of Mankind
Leopold, Aldo A Sand County Almanac (Outdoor Essays & Reflections)
Lewis, Martin Green Delusions: An Environmentalist Critique of Radical Environmentalism
Leydet, Francois The Last Redwoods
Likens, G. and Bormann, F.H. Biogeochemistry of a Forested Ecosystem
Little, Charles Hope for the Land
Lovelock, James The Ages of Gaia
Lovelock, James Gaia
Lovelock, James Gaia: Practical Medicine for the Planet
Lovelock, James The Revenge of Gaia
Lovins, Amory Soft Energy Paths: Towards a Durable Peace
Manes, Christopher Green Rage: Radical Environmentalism and the Unmaking of Civilization
Manning, Richard Last Stand
Margonelli, Lisa Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline
Masson, Jeffrey and McCarthy, Susan When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals
Matthews, Anne Where the Buffalo Roam: Restoring America's Great Plains
Matthiessen, Peter Baikal: Sacred Sea of Siberia
Matthiessen, Peter End of the Earth: Voyaging to Antarctica
McKibben, Bill The End of Nature
McPhee, John Coming Into the Country
McPhee, John Encounters With the Archdruid
Meadows, D., Meadows, D., and Randers, J. Beyond the Limits: Confronting Global Collapse, Envisioning
a Sustainable Future
Meadows, Donella Limits To Growth
Meadows, Donella Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
Monbiot, George Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
Monbiot, George Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea, and Human Life
Moore, Curtis Green Gold: Japan, Germany, the United States, and the Race for Environmental Technology
Morris, Desmond The Human Zoo
Mowat, Farley Woman in the Mists
Ophuls, William Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity
Parkinson, Claire Earth from Above: Using Color-Coded Satellite Images to Examine the Global Environment
Patterson, Charles Animal Rights
Pearce, Fred When the Rivers Run Dry: Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century
Phillips, Kathryn Tracking the Vanishing Frogs: An Ecological Mystery
Pimm, Stuart The World According To Pimm: A Scientist Audits the Earth
Plotkin, Mark Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazon Rain Forest
Pollan, Michael The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Ponting, Clive A Green History of the World
Preston, Richard Demon in the Freezer
Preston, Richard The Hot Zone
Pringle, Laurence Rain Of Troubles: The Science and Politics of Acid Rain
Pringle, Laurence The Environmental Movement
Rabinowitz, Alan Beyond the Last Village
Ray, Ybarra, Wald, and Vazquez Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the Decolonial
Reece, Erik Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness: Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia
Regenstein, Lewis Replenish the Earth: A History of Organized Religions' Treatment of Animals and Nature--Including
the Bible's Message of Conservation and Kindness
Reisner, Marc Cadillac Desert
Reynolds, William Energy
Roberts, Paul The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World
Roberts, Paul The End of Food
Rothstein, Richard The Color of Law
Royte, Elizabeth Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash
Savage-Rumbaugh, Sue Kanzi
Scarce, Rik Eco-Warriors: Understanding the Radical Environmental Movement
Schapiro, Mark Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products
Schlosser, Eric Fast Food Nation
Schumacher, E.F. Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
Shabecoff, Philip A Fierce Green Fire: The American Environmental Movement
Silver, Cheryl, and DeFries, Ruth One Earth, One Future: Our Changing Global Environment
Simmons, Matthew Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy
Simon, Alvah North to the Night: A Spiritual Odyssey in the Arctic
Sinclair, Upton The Jungle
Spitsbergen, Judith Seacoast Life: An Ecological Guide to Natural Seashore Communities in North Carolina
Stauber, John, and Rampton, Sheldon Toxic Sludge is Good For You!: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry
Steingraber, Sandra Raising Elijah: Protecting Our Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis
Stern, Gerald M. The Buffalo Creek Disaster
Sullivan, Robert Rats
Taylor, Dorceta Toxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility
Thomson, Peter Sacred Sea: A Journey to Lake Baikal
Thorne-Miller, B. and Earle, S. The Living Ocean: Understanding and Protecting Marine Biodiversity
Thunberg, Greta The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions
Turnbull, Colin The Forest People
Van Tulleken, Chris Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food
Washington, Harriet A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and It's Assault on the American Mind
Watkins, T.H., Mills, W., and Wolfe, A. Vanishing Arctic: Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge
Weisman, Alan The World Without Us
Wheelwright, Jeff Degrees of Disaster: Prince William Sound: How Nature Reels and Rebounds
Wilson, Duff Fateful Harvest: The True Story of a Small Town, a Global Industry, and a Toxic Secret
Wright, Robert Three Scientists and their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information
Zimring, Carl A. Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States