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Suggested Readings
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* - Especially recommended by the Office of Sustainability
Business Studies & Economics
Campus Sustainability
Consumption
Culture Change & Stewardship, Including Education & Philosophy
Design, Building & Land Use
Energy Consumption & Climate Change
Food & Agriculture
Nature & The Environment
Social Anthropology & Social Justice
Water Consumption & Wetlands
Business Studies & Economics
*Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development
Daly, Herman - 1997, ISBN 807047090
*Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age
Schuman, Michael - 2000, ISBN 1864031603
*Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
Hawken, Paul with Hunter Lovins, Amory Lovins - 2008, ISBN 316353000
*The Sustainability Advantage: Seven Business Case Benefits of a Triple Bottom Line
Willard, Bob - 2002, ISBN 865714517
*When Corporations Rule the World
Korten, David - 2001, ISBN 1887208046
Beyond the Limits: Confronting Global Collapse, Envisioning a Sustainable Future
Meadows, Donella with Dennis Meadows, Jorgen Randers - 1993, ISBN 930031628
Cannibals with Forks: The Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business
Elkington, John - 1999, ISBN 1841120847
Ecology of Commerce (The): A Declaration of Sustainability
Hawken, Paul - 1994, ISBN 887307043
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
Meadows, Donella & Dennis with Dennis Meadows, Jorgen Randers - 2004, ISBN 193149858X
Mid-Course Correction: Toward a Sustainable Enterprise—the Interface Model
Anderson, Ray - 1999, ISBN 964595354
Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
Schumacher, E.F. - 1989, ISBN 60916303
Stirring It Up: How to Make Money and Save the World
Hirshberg, Gary - 2008, ISBN 1401303447
Sustainable Capitalism: A Matter of Common Sense
Ikerd, John - 2005, ISBN 1565492064
The Economics of Happiness: Building Genuine Wealth
Anielski, Mark - 2007, ISBN 865715963
The Natural Step for Business: Wealth, Ecology & the Evolutionary Corporation
Nattrass, Brian with Mary Altomare - 1999, ISBN 865713847
The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism
Korten, David - 2000, ISBN 1864031603
Walking the Talk: The Business Case for Sustainable Development
Holliday, Chad with Stephan Schmidheiny, Philip Watts - 2002, ISBN 1576752348
What Matters Most: How a Small Group of Pioneers is Teaching Social Responsibility to Big Business, and Why Big Business is Listening
Hollender, Jeffrey - 2006, ISBN 465030866
Campus Sustainability
Degrees That Matter: Climate Change and the University
Rappaport, Ann with Sarah Hammond Creighton - 2007, ISBN 9780262182584
Higher Education: Good for the Planet?
Uhl, Christopher with Amy Anderson, Garrett Fitzgerald - Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America
April 2000, pp. 152-156 Higher Education.pdf
Planet U: Sustaining the World, Reinventing the University
Various - 2006, ISBN 865715572
Sustainability on Campus: Stories and Strategies for Change
Bartlett, Peggy with Geoffrey Chase - 2004, ISBN 262524228
Consumption
*Hundred Dollar Holiday: The Case for a More Joyful Christmas
McKibben, Bill - 1998, ISBN 068485595X
*Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth
Wackernagel, Mathis with William Rees - 1998, ISBN 086571312X
*The Economics of Happiness: Building Genuine
Wealth Anielski, Mark - 2007, ISBN 865715963
*Voluntary Simplicity: Toward a Way of Life That is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich
Elgin, Duane - 1998, ISBN 688121195
Living Simply With Children: A Voluntary Simplicity Guide for Moms, Dads, and Kids Who Want to Reclaim the Bliss of Childhood and the Joy of Parenting
Sherlock, Marie - 2003, ISBN 609809016
Stuff: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things
Durning, Alan - 1997, ISBN 1886093040
The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don't Need
Schor, Juliet - 1999, ISBN 60977582
What Kids Really Want that Money Can't Buy
Taylor, Betsy - 2004, ISBN 446691895
Culture Change & Stewardship, Including Education & Philosophy
*Fostering Sustainable Behavior: An Introduction to Community-Based Social Marketing
McKenzie-Mohr, Doug with William Smith - 1999, ISBN 865714061
*How Much Should a Person Consume?: Environmentalism in India and the United States
Guha, Ramachandra - 2006, ISBN 520248058
*Leading Change Toward Sustainability: A Change Management Guide for Business, Government, and Civil Society
Doppelt, Bob - 2003, ISBN 1874719640
*The Sustainability Revolution: Portrait of a Paradigm Shift
Edwards, Andres - 2005, ISBN 865715319
Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World
Macy, Joanna - 1998, ISBN 086571391X
Dream of the Earth
Berry, Thomas - 2006, ISBN 1578051355
Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment and the Human Prospect
Orr, David - 2004, ISBN 1559634952
Factor Four: Doubling Wealth—Halving Resource Use: A Report to the Club of Rome
von Weizacker, Ernst with B. Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins - 1995, ISBN 1853834068
Hope, Human and Wild: True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth
McKibben, Bill - 2007, ISBN 1571313001
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
Quinn, Daniel - 1995, ISBN 553375407
It's Easy Being Green: A Handbook for Earth Friendly Living
Trask, Crissy - 2006, ISBN 158685772X
Living Green: A Practical Guide to Simple Sustainability
Horn, Greg - 2006, ISBN 1893910474
Maybe One: A Case for Smaller Families
McKibben, Bill - 1998, ISBN 684852810
Place-Based Education: Connecting Classrooms & Communities
Sobel, David - 2004, ISBN 913098558
The Age of Missing Information
McKibben, Bill - 2006, ISBN 081297607X
The Great Work: Our Way Into the Future
Berry, Thomas - 2000, ISBN 609804995
The Green Book: The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time
Rogers, Elizabeth - 2007, ISBN 307381358
The Lazy Environmentalist: Your Guide to Easy, Stylish, Green Living
Dorfman, Josh - 2007, ISBN 1584796022
The Story of B
Quinn, Daniel - 1997, ISBN 553379011
The Web of Life: Weaving the Values that Sustain Us
Louv, Richard - 2008, ISBN 1573241407
Thinking Like a Mountain: Toward a Council of All Beings
Seed, John with Joanna Macy - 2007, ISBN 1897408005
Up From Eden: A Transpersonal View of Human Evolution
Wilbur, Ken - 1996, ISBN 835607313
Design, Building & Land Use
*Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
Benyus, Janine - 2002, ISBN 60533226
*Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
McDonough, William with Michael Braungart - 2002, ISBN 865475873
*Ecological Design
Cowan, Stuart with Sim Van der Ryn - 1995, ISBN 1559633891
Eco-Pioneers: Practical Visionaries Solving Today’s Environmental Problems
Lerner, Steve - 1998, ISBN 026262124X
Sustainable Construction: Green Building Design and Delivery
Kibert, Charles - 2007, ISBN 470114215
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jacobs, Jane - 1993, ISBN 679600477
Energy Consumption & Climate Change
Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert's Peak
Deffeyes, Kenneth S. - 2006, ISBN 9780809029570
Degrees That Matter: Climate Change and the University
Rappaport, Ann with Sarah Hammond Creighton - 2007, ISBN 9780262182584
Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming
Horn, Miriam with Fred Krupp - 2009, ISBN 9780393334197
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
Kolbert, Elizabeth - 2006, ISBN 1596911301
Oil 101
Downey, Morgan - 2009, ISBN 9780982039205
Resilient Cities: Responding to Peak Oil and Climate Change
Newman, Peter with Timothy Beatley, Heather Boyer - 2009, ISBN 9781597264983
The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook: 77 Essential Skills To Stop Climate Change
De Rothschild, David - 2007, ISBN 159486781X
The Long Descent: A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age
Greer, John Michael - 2008, ISBN 9780865716094
The Ravaging Tide: Srange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America's Coastal Cities
Tidwell, Mike - 2007, ISBN 743294718
The Rough Guide to Climate Change: 2nd Edition
Henson, Robert - 2008, ISBN 9781858281056
The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience
Hopkins, Rob with Richard Heinberg - 2008, ISBN 9781900322188
The Weather Makers: How Man is Changing the Climate and What it Means for Life on Earth
Flannery, Tim - 2001, ISBN 802142923
Food & Agriculture
*Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Kingsolver, Barbara - 2008, ISBN 60852569
*The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Pollan, Michael - 2007, ISBN 143038583
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
Montgomery, David - 2008, ISBN 9780520258068
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
Pollan, Michael - 2008, ISBN 1594201455
One Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming
Fukouka, Masanabu with Frederic P. Metreaud - 1985, ISBN 9780870406133
The Natural Way of Farming: The Theory and Practice of Green Philosophy
Fukouka, Masanabu - 1978, ISBN 9780878572205
Nature & The Environment
*A Naturalist in Florida: A Celebration of Eden
Carr, Archie with Majorie Carr - 1996, ISBN 300068549
*Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization
Brown, Lester - 2008, ISBN 393065898
A Sand County Almanac
Leopold, Aldo - 1949, ISBN 9780345345059
Al Burt's Florida: Snowbirds, Sand Castles, and Self-Rising Crackers
Burt, Al - 1997, ISBN 813015421
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
Ray, Janisse - 2000, ISBN 1571312471
Last Child in The Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
Louv, Richard - 2008, ISBN 156512605X
Pinhook: Finding Wholeness in a Fragmented Land
Ray, Janisse - 2005, ISBN 1931498741
Silent Spring
Carson, Rachel - 1962, ISBN 9780618249060
The Tropic of Cracker: (Florida History and Culture Series)
Burt, Al - 2009, ISBN 813033853
Social Anthropology & Social Justice
*Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Diamond, Jared - 2005, ISBN 143036556
*The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution
Bullard, Robert - 2005, ISBN 1578051207
*Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity
Daniel, Beverly - 1999, ISBN 465083617
Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality
Bullard, Robert - 2000, ISBN 813367921
Ecological Integrity: Integrating Environment, Conservation, and Health
Pimentel, David with Laura Westra, Reed F. Noss - 2000, ISBN 9781559638081
Environmental Justice and the New Pluralism: The Challenge of Difference for Environmentalism
Scholsberg, David - 2002, ISBN 199256411
Water Consumption & Wetlands
*Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Waters of the Eastern U.S.
Barnett, Cynthia - 2007, ISBN 9780472115631
*When the Rivers Run Dry: Water - The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century
Pearce, Fred - 2007, ISBN 9780807085738
An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans From Nature
Craig, Colten - 2006, ISBN 807132004
Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water
Barlow, Maude - 2003, ISBN 1565848136
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
Reisner, Marc - 1993, ISBN 140178244
Discovering the Unknown Landscape: A History of America's Wetlands
Vileisis, Ann - 1999, ISBN 1559633158
Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit
Shiva, Vandana - 2002, ISBN 089608650X
Wetlands Explained: Wetland Science, Policy, and Politics in America
Lewis, William - 2001, ISBN 195131843