Recommended Readings

Here's a list of books we recommend you pick up from your local library or bookstore:

“Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature” by Janine Benyus

“Cradle to Cradle, Remaking the Way we Make Things” by Michael Braungart and William McDonough

“Eco-Economy, Building an Economy for the Earth” by Lester R. Brown

“Plan B: Rescuing a Planet under Stress & a Civilization in Trouble” by Lester R. Brown

“Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival?-A Scientific Detective Story” by Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski, and John Peter Meyers

“Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed” Jared Diamond

"Stuff: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things" by Alan Thein Durning and John C. Ryan

"The Sustainability Revolution: portrait o f a paradigm shift" by Andres R. Edwards and David W. Orr

“The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth” by Tim Flannery

“High Tech Trash: Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human Health” by Elizabeth Grossman

"Sustainable Leadership" by Andy Hargraves and Dean Fink

“The Ecology of Commerce: a Declaration of Sustainability” by Paul Hawken

“Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution” by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins

“Earth Odyssey: Around the World in Search of Our Environmental Future” by Mark Hertsgaard

“Paper or Plastic: Searching for Solutions to an Overpackaged World” by Daniel Imhoff

“Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals are Plundering the Country and Hijacking our Democracy” by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

"Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change" by Elizabeth Kolbert

“Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder” by Richard Louv

"Fostering Sustainable Behavior: An Introduction to Community-Based Social Marketing" by Doug McKenzie-Mohr and William Smith

“Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update” by Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows and Jorgen Randers

“Rubbish! The Archeology of Garbage” by Cullen Murphy and William Rathje

“The Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics” by Roderick Frazier Nash

"Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals" by Michael Pollen

"Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal" by Eric Schlosser

“Sustainable Planet, Solutions for the 21 Century” by Juliet B. Schor and Betsy Taylor

"Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash" by Susan Strasser

“Revolution in a Bottle” by Tom Szaky

“Biophilia” by Edward O. Wilson

“Ishmael: An Adventure of Mind and Spirit” by Daniel Quinn