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” by Jared Diamond
• “Stuff: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things” by Alan Thein Durning and John C. Ryan
• “The Sustainability Revolution: Portrait of 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
• “The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals” by Michael Pollan
• “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