Environmental Reading List

  • Silent Spring (Rachel Carson, 1962)
  • How Many People Can the Earth Support? (Cohen)
  • Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Jared Diamond)
  • Our Stolen Future (Theo Colburn, Dumanoski, Myers, 1996)
  • The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Devra Davis, 2007)
  • Earth in the Balance (Al Gore, 1993)
  • An Inconvenient Truth (Gore)
  • The Hole in the Sky (Gribbin)
  • Watershed: The Undamming of America (Elizabeth Grossman)
  • The Alchemy of Air (Thomas Hager, 2008)
  • A Civil Action (Jonathan Harr, 1996)
  • The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies (Richard Heinberg)
  • Oxygen: the Molecule that Made the World (Nick Lane, 2002)
  • The Dying of the Trees (Charles E. Little, 1995)
  • The Sixth Extinction (Leakey and Lewin)
  • The Ages of Gaia (Lovelock)
  • The 2030 Spike: Countdown to Global Catastrophe (Colin Mason)
  • The Rising Sea (Orrin H. Pilkey, Rob Young, 2009)
  • A World Without Ice (Henry Pollack, 2009)
  • Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Marc Reisner, 1986)
  • The End of Oil (Paul Roberts, 2004)
  • The Carbon Age (Eric Roston, 2009)
  • Global Warming (Stephen H. Schneider, 1990)
  • Pandora's Poison: Chlorine, Health, & New Environmental Strat. (Joe Thornton, 2000)
  • The World Without Us (Alan Weisman, 2007)
  • The Diversity of Life (Edward O. Wilson, 1992)