Publications and Resources

Environmental Publications and Resources

Thousands of Environmental Publications and Resources are now available on-line. As we continue to develop our WEB site, additions will be made to this section. Please e-mail your favorite Publications & Resources Links

Fiction/ Poetry/ Nature Writing

Desert Solitaire, by Edward Abbey

The Monkey Wrench Gang, by Edward Abbey

Elizabeth Bishop: The Complete Poems, 1927-1979

A Walk in the Woods, by Bill Bryson

Krik? Krak!, by Edwidge Danticat

For the Time Being, by Annie Dillard

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard

The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology, ed. Cheryll Glotfelty, Harold Fromm

The Country of Pointed Firs, by Sarah Orne Jewett

Prodigal Summer, by Barbara Kingsolver

A Sand County Almanac, by Aldo Leopold

Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon: Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda

Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

Turtle Island by Gary Snyder

The Lorax, by Dr. Seuss

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman

Refuge by Terry Tempest Williams

Recycling, Reuse and Waste Reduction

Why Do We Recycle?: Markets, Values, and Public Policy, by Frank Ackerman

The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices: Practical Advice from the Union of Concerned Scientists, by M. and Leon Browner

Recycling and the Politics of Urban Waste, by Matthew Gandy

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, by William McDonough

Rubbish! The Archaeology of Garbage, by William Rathje, Cullen Murphy

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

Professional

Greening the Ivory Tower, by Sarah Hammond Creighton

Ecodemia: Campus Environmental Stewardship at the Turn of the 21st Century: Lessons in Smart Management from Administrators, Staff, and Students, by Julian Keniry

Harvard Business Review on Business and the Environment, by Amory Lovins, et al.

Buying for the Future: Contact Management for the Environmental Challenge, by Kevin J. Lyons

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

Natural Resources/ Natural History/ History/ Pollution

Human Ecology: The Story of Our Place in Nature from Prehistory to the Present, by Bernard Grant Campbell

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

Coal: A Human History, by Barbara Freese

Global Warming: The Complete Briefing, by John T. Houghton

Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape, by James Howard Kuntsler

Radical Simplicity: Small Footprints on Finite Earth, by Jim Merkel

Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water, by Marc Reisner

Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge, by Vandana Shiva
The Secret Life of Plants, by Peter Tompkins

The Diversity of Life, by Edward Osborne Wilson

Essays/ Philosophy

Off the Beaten Path: Stories of Place, edited by Joseph Barbato and Lisa Weinerman Horak

The Culture of Agriculture, by Wendell Berry

Plan B: Rescuing a Planet under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble, by Lester R. Brown

When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution, by Devra Less Davis

The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming, by Masanobu Fukuoka

Pip Pip: A Sideways Look at Time, by Jay Griffiths

Dancing with Mosquitoes: To Liberate the Mind from Humanism- A Way to Green the Mind, by Theo Grutter

The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Waking up to Personal and Global Transformation, by Thom Hartmann

Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution, by Paul Hawkens, Amory Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins

Hope, Human and Wild: True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth, by Bill McKibben

Encounters with the Archdruid, by John McPhee

The Control of Nature,by John McPhee

The Mountains of California, by John Muir

Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment and the Human Prospect, by David W. Orr

Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth, by William E. Rees, Phil Testemale and Mathis Wackernagel

Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas, by Carl Safina

Earth Medicine: Ancestors' Ways of Harmony for Many Moons, by Jamie Sams

Noah's Garden: Restoring the Ecology of our Own Backyards, by Sara Bonnett Stein

Consumerism

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

Biography

The Last American Man, by Elizabeth Gilbert

Sustainable Living

Chelsea Green Books - www.chelseagreen.com

Additional WEB sites:

Campus Ecology: National Wildlife Federation

Center for Environmental Citizenship

Composting Information

Dump and Run

Electronic Green Journal of the University of Idaho

Envirolink

Environmental Protection Agency

Environmental Virtual Campus

Grassroots Recycling Network

Green Guide

GreenPeace

National Recycling Coalition

National Wildlife Federation

Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation

Save Our Environment Action Center

Second Nature: Education for Sustainability

Sierra Club of RI

Student Environmental Action Coalition

University of Oregon Campus Recycling Program Links Page

United Plant Savers
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