Possibilities for Environmental Reading
Inspiration and Wonder
Thoreau’s Legacy: American Stories about Global Warming edited by Richard Hayes
(available in print, but easily read online at http://www.ucsusa.org/americanstories/ )
Blessed Unrest by Paul Hawken
Reflections on Natural History
The Immense Journey by Loren Eiseley
The Song of the Dodo by David Quammen
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
History and Classics
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
Encounters with the Archdruid by John McPhee
Creation Care
Befriending the Earth: A Theology of Reconciliation Between Humans and the Earth by Thomas Berry
Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality by Matthew Fox
Creation Spirituality: Liberating Gifts for the Peoples of the Earth by Matthew Fox
Climate Change and Energy
The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future by Richard B.Alley
The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies by Richard Heinberg
Analysis, Argument, and Action
Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization by Lester R. Brown
Available online for free at http://www.earth-policy.org/index.php?/books/pb4
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution by Amory Lovins, Hunter Lovins and Paul Hawken
Collapse by Jared Diamond
Blessed Unrest by Paul Hawken
Earth in Mind by David Orr
Ecological Literacy by David Orr
No Impact Man by Colin Beaven
The World Is Blue by Sylvia Earle
The Omnivore’s Dilemna by Michael Pollan
Poetry
Many of Emily Dickinson’s poems have powerful natural themes. Many on nature themes can be found at http://www.bartleby.com/113/index2.html
Gary Snyder is a more recent environmental writer known for his poetry. See some of his work at http://www.wenaus.com/poetry/snyder.html.
Children’s books
A Drop Around the World by Barbara Shaw McKinney
Go Wild! 101 Things To Do Outdoors Before You Grow Up by Jo Schofield
Heroes of the Environment: True Stories of People Who Are Helping to Protect Our
Planet by Harriet Rohmer
How to Turn Your Parents Green by James Russell
Our World of Water: Children and Water Around the World, by Beatrice Hollyer
Smart by Nature: Schooling for Sustainability by Michael K. Stone
10 Things I Can Do To Help My World by Melanie Walsh
Using Water by Sally Hewitt
Water, Water Everywhere by Mark J. Rauzon and Cynthia Overbeck Brix