Sustainability

Go green with these library resources. Learn how you can save money and the planet at the same time!

Books

• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
• Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine M. Benyus
• Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast by Mike Tidwell
• Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility by Ted Nordhaus
• The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability by James Gustave Speth
• Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water by Marc Reisner
• The Clean Tech Revolution by Ron Pernick
• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
• Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet by Jeffrey Sachs
• Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by Edward O. Wilson
• Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future by Bill McKibben
• Design with Nature (Wiley Series in Sustainable Design) by Ian L. McHarg
• Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History by Theodore Steinberg
• Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming by Fred Krupp
• The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability by Paul Hawken
• Encounters with the Archdruid by John McPhee
• Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are the Keys to Sustainability by David Owen
• Hell and High Water: Global Warming--the Solution and the Politics--and What We Should Do by Joseph J. Romm
• The Living Company by Arie De Geus
• The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
• Operating Manual For Spaceship Earth by R. Buckminster Fuller
• The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature by David Suzuki
• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
• Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered by E. F. Schumacher
• The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy by William Greider
• The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade by Pietra Rivoli
• Unbowed by Wangari Maathai
• Urban Sprawl and Public Health: Designing, Planning, and Building for Healthy Communities by Howard Frumkin
• Water: A Natural History by Alice Outwater
• When Corporations Rule the World by David C. Korten

DVDS

• Big Ideas for a Small Planet
• Building Green  (TV series)
• Car of the Future: Engineering for the Environment
• EZ Design (TV series)
• Go Further
• Go Green Around Your Home
• Going Green: Every Home an Eco-Home
• The Great Squeeze: Surviving the Human Project
• The Greening of Southie
• Greening the Federal Government
• Mine Your Own Business
• Monumental: David Brower's Fight for Wild America
• Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
• Renovation Nation: Gardening
• Simple Steps for a Greener Home 

For more titles, use the Library catalog (search for "sustainability") or ask a reference librarian via email or by phone: 503-682-2744.