As much a harrowing study as a call to arms Extreme Cities is a necessary read for anyone concerned with the threat of global warming, and of the cities of the world.
The Archipelago of Hope by Gleb Raygorodetsky
Call Number: GN476.7 .R35 2017
Publication Date: 2017
A breathtaking adventure across six continents that reveals the intricate cultures of native societies and their strategies of coping with climate change.
Overheated by Andrew T. Guzman
Call Number: QC903 .G895 2013
Publication Date: 2013
The human cost of climate change.
Tipping Point for Planet Earth by Anthony D. Barnosky; Elizabeth A. Hadly
Call Number: GE149 .B37 2016
Publication Date: 2016
How close are we to the edge?
Half-Earth by Edward O. Wilson
Call Number: QH75 .W536 2016
Publication Date: 2016
Our planet's fight for life.
Earth in Human Hands by David Grinspoon
Call Number: GF47 .G75 2016
Publication Date: 2016
Shaping our planet's future
How Climate Change Comes to Matter by Candis Callison
Using the built environment to revitalize college education. A guide for community colleges.
Energy
The Green and the Black by Gary Sernovitz
Call Number: TD195 .G3 S45 2016
Publication Date: 2016
The complete story of the shale revolution, the fight over fracking, and the future of energy.
The Oracle of Oil by Mason Inman
Call Number: TN869.2 .H83 I56 2016
Publication Date: 2016
In 1956, geologist and Shell Oil researcher Marion King Hubbert delivered a speech that has shaped world energy debates ever since.
The Great Transition by Lester R. Brown
Call Number: TJ808 .B756 2015
Publication Date: 2015
Shifting from fossil fuels to solar and wind energy.
Gasland (DVD)
Call Number: TN881 .A1 G373 2010 DVD
Publication Date: 2010
Can you light your water on fire?
Clean disruption of energy and transportation by Tony Seba.
Call Number: HD9502.5 .C542 S42 2014
Publication Date: 2014
How Silicon Valley will make oil, nuclear, natural gas, coal, electric utilities and conventional cars obsolete by 2030.
The Future Is Not What It Used to Be by Jörg Friedrichs
Call Number: QC903 .F74 2013
Publication Date: 2013
Climate change and energy scarcity.
Food
Never Out of Season by Robert Dunn
Call Number: TP248.65 .F66 D86 2017
Publication Date: 2017
How having the food we want when we want it threatens our food supply and our future.
Our Daily Poison by Allison Schein (Translator)
Call Number: RA1226 .R6213 2014
Publication Date: 2014
From pesticides to packaging, how chemicals have contaminated the food chain and are making us sick.
Green Living
Compost City by Rebecca Louie
Call Number: S661 .L68 2015
Publication Date: 2015
Practical composting know-how for small-space living.
Bag it! Is your life too plastic? by Reel Thing Films
Call Number: TP1120 .B324 2010 DVD
Publication Date: 2010
Try going a day without plastic.
Plastic Purge by Michael SanClements
Call Number: TP1122 .S24 2014
Publication Date: 2014
How to use less plastic, eat better, keep toxins out of your body, and help save the sea turtles!
Sustainable Compromises by Alan Boye
Call Number: GE198 .V5 B69 2014
Publication Date: 2014
A yurt, a straw bale house, and ecological living.
Natural history
The Wild and the Wicked by Benjamin Hale
Call Number: GE195 .H34 2016
Publication Date: 2016
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.
Anthropocene or Capitalocene? nature, history, and the crisis of capitalism by Moore, Jason W., editor
Call Number: GF75 .A58 2016
Publication Date: 2016
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.
All the Wild That Remains by David Gessner
Call Number: PS3551 .B2 Z66 2015
Publication Date: 2015
Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West.
Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
Call Number: PS3551 .B2 Z463 1988
Publication Date: 1988
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.
A Feathered River Across the Sky by Joel Greenberg
Call Number: QL696 .C6 G74 2014
Publication Date: 2014
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.
Wild Ones by Jon Mooallem
Call Number: QL84.2 .M66 2014
Publication Date: 2014
A sometimes dismaying, weirdly reassuring story about looking at people looking at animals in America.
Grain Vapor Ray by Katrin Klingan; Ashkan Sepahvand; Christoph Rosol; Bernd M. Scherer
Publication Date: 2015
Transportation
Forward Drive by Jim Motavalli; Sierra Club Books Staff; Ed Begley (Foreword by)
Call Number: TL221.15 .M68 2001
Publication Date: 2001
The race to build "clean" cars for the future.
Water
The Price of Thirst by Karen Piper
Call Number: HD1691 .P486 2014
Publication Date: 2014
Global water inequality and the coming chaos.
Water Quality by Joseph Ritter
Call Number: TD370 .W392 2010
Publication Date: 2010
Principles and practices of water supply operations.
Your Water Footprint by Stephen Leahy
Call Number: TD345 .L43 2014
Publication Date: 2014
Unquenchable by Robert Jerome Glennon
Call Number: TD223 .G578 2009
Publication Date: 2010
America's water crisis and what to do about it.
Environmental Stewardship
Tools for Grassroots Activists by Nora Gallagher (Editor); Lisa Myers (Editor); Yvon Chouinard (Introduction by)
Call Number: GE197 .T66 2016
Publication Date: 2016
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.
A World to Live In by George M. Woodwell
Call Number: QH541.15 .R45 W65 2016
Publication Date: 2016
An ecologist's vision for a plundered planet.
Developing Ecological Consciousness by Christopher Uhl
Call Number: QH541 .U44 2013
Publication Date: 2013
The end of separation.
Many Heavens One Earth by Clifford Chalmers Cain
Call Number: BL65 .N35 M36 2012
Publication Date: 2012
Readings on religion and the environment.
Trees
How Trees Die by Jeff Gillman
Call Number: SD373 .G555 2015
ISBN: 9781594162305
Publication Date: 2015
The past, present, and future of our forests.
The Man Who Planted Trees by Jim Robbins
Call Number: SD399.7 .R63 2012
Publication Date: 2012
"Lost groves, the future of our forests, and a radical plan to save our planet."
BP Deepwater Horizon
Oil spill in the Gulf, May 2010.
Crude Justice by Stuart H. Smith
Call Number: KF1298 .S62 2015
Publication Date: 2015
How I fought big oil and won, and what you should know about the new environmental attack on America. .