Sustainable NSCC Students: Green Sleeves

Practical composting know-how for small-space living.

Try going a day without plastic.

How to use less plastic, eat better, keep toxins out of your body, and help save the sea turtles!

A yurt, a straw bale house, and ecological living.

Hale argues that environmentalists needn't feel compelled to defend the value of nature, or even to adopt the attitudes of tree-hugging nature lovers. We can acknowledge nature's indifference and periodic hostility. Deftly weaving anecdote and philosophy, he shows that we don't need to love nature to be green. What really ought to be driving our environmentalism is our humanity, not nature's value.

This book diagnoses the problems of Anthropocene thinking and propose an alternative: the global crises of the 21st century are rooted in the Capitalocene; not the Age of Man but the Age of Capital.

Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West.

The author recounts his stint as a park ranger at Arches National Monument, his love for the natural beauty that surrounded him, and his distaste for the modernizing improvements designed to increase visitation to the park.

Naturalist Joel Greenberg relates how the pigeons' propensity to nest, roost, and fly together in vast numbers made them vulnerable to unremitting market and recreational hunting. His cautionary tale provides a close look at what happens when species and natural resources are not harvested sustainably.

A sometimes dismaying, weirdly reassuring story about looking at people looking at animals in America.

The race to build "clean" cars for the future.

Global water inequality and the coming chaos.

Principles and practices of water supply operations.

America's water crisis and what to do about it.

Sprinkled throughout are inspirational thoughts from acclaimed activists, such as Jane Goodall, Bill McKibben, Wade Davis, Annie Leonard, and Terry Tempest Williams. An activist's companion in the environmental movement.

An ecologist's vision for a plundered planet.

The end of separation.

Readings on religion and the environment.

The past, present, and future of our forests.

"Lost groves, the future of our forests, and a radical plan to save our planet."

How I fought big oil and won, and what you should know about the new environmental attack on America. .