Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Some of these books came from an AP Environment list serve, some I have read, some friends have read, some I’ve
been meaning to read. Ones that I can be fairly assured are worthwhile (either read by me, personally recommended
to me, or from “Best Nature Books” lists) are in BOLD.
(If you find a book that you think is appropriate that is not on this list, feel free to ask me for permission to read that
instead.)
Barlow, Maude and Clarke, Tony. Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World’s Water. 2002.
Bonnann and Kellert. Ecology, Economics, Ethics: The Broken Circle. 1991.
Brouder, Paul. Outrageous Misconduct: The Asbestos Industry on Trial. 1985. Pantheon.
Brower, David. Let the Mountains Talk, Let the Rivers Run.
Published just before his death, David Brower reflects on decades of controversial environmental activism.
Brown, Kenneth. Four Corners: History, People and Land of the Desert Southwest. 1995.
Chase, Alston. Playing God in Yellowstone: Destruction of America’s First National Park.
Colbert, Elizabeth. Field Notes of a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change. 2006
This will help you understand what climate change is all about…and may scare you
a bit!
Cone, Marla. Silent Snow.: The Slow Poisoning of the Arctic. 2005 Great book!
Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England. 1984.
Davis, Devra Lee. When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against
Pollution 2002.
De Graf, John. Affluenza. 2001.
- Affluenza is about the personal, social, economic, and environmental costs of over-consumption
Graedel, Thomas, and Paul Crutzen. Atmosphere, Climate and Change. 1997.
Harr, Jonathan. A Civil Action. 1995. (This was a recent major motion picture, but you need to read the book.)
Harris, David: The Last Stand : The war between Wall Street and Main Street over California’s ancient
redwoods.
Hawken, Paul, et al. Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution. 1999.
“Save the Earth and make money doing it!” Is this a new model for saving the environment and jobs?
Heinberg, Richard. The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies. 2003.
Hill, Julia Butterfly. The Legacy of Luna. 2000 (Get a feel for “tree-sitter” activists
who sit up in the giant redwoods to protect them from loggers!)
Lichatowich, Jim. Salmon without Rivers: A History of the Pacific Salmon Crisis. 1999. LIBRARY
Norris, Jr. Hundley. The Great Thirst: Californians and Water-A History, Revised Edition 2001.
Pimm, Stuart. The World According to Pimm: A scientist audits the Earth. 2001
Plotkin, Mark. Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazon Rain
Forest. 1994.
Pollen, Michael. The Omnivore’s Dilemma. 2006 (This will make you never want to eat corn again! Haha! I
loved it! )
Pointing, Clive. A Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations. 1992.
Pyne, Stephen. Fire in America: A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire. 1997.
Quammen, David. The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions. 1997.
Quinn, Daniel. Ishmael. 1995 reissue. (I loved this book! It’s a novel but will get you
thinking!)
Reisner, Marc. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water. 1986. (If you didn’t already read…
a must!)
Reisner, Marc. A Dangerous Place: California’s Unsettling Fate. 2003 This outstanding book traces the history of
development in California and scientifically predicts the aftermath of a 7.2 Earthquake in San Francisco.
Revkin, Andrew. The Burning Season: The Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest.
1990.
Schlosser, Eric. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal. 2001.
Shabecoff, Phillip. A Fierce Green Fire: The American Environmental Movement. Revised 2003.
Suzuki, David. The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature. 1998..
Wackernagel and Rees. Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth. 1995.
Ward, Diane Raines. Water Wars: Drought, Flood, Folly, and the Politics of Thirst. 2002.
Wargo, John. Our Toxic Legacy: How Science and Law Fail to Protect us from Pesticides. 1996.
Wessels, Tom. Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England.
Each chapter of this book starts with a drawing of a forest scene, and then Wessels describes all that can be learned
about that ecosystem (and it’s past) by the careful observer. Fascinating.
Weisman, Alan. The World Without Us. 2007 (Makes you see how things would be without
us on the planet)
Wilkinson, Charles. Crossing the Next Meridian: Land, Water, and the Future of the West. 1993.
Wilson, Duff. Fateful Harvest: The Story of a Small Town, a Global Industry, and Toxic Secret. (Pulitzer Prize
Finalist)