Thursday, November 20, 2008

BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR GREEN BOOKWORMS


Rick Smith, Bruce Lourie: Slow Death by Rubber Duck (Alfred A.Knopf Canada, 2009)

Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski, John Peterson Myers: Our Stolen Future

Stacy Malkan: Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry

George Monbiot: Heat (Penguin Press, 2006) Read why we cannot surpass 2 degrees C.

David Steinman: Safe Trip to Eden, 10 Ways to Save the World from a Global Warming Meltdown (Freedom Press)

John Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry: This Moment on Earth, Today’s Environmentalists and their Vision for the Future (People from all walks of life, without concern for party or ideological lines, are coming together in unprecedented numbers across the globe) Perseus Books Group, 2007

Theodore Roszak: The Voice of the Earth

Marla Cone: Silent Snow: The Slow Poisoning of the Arctic (Grove Press, NY 2005)

Maude Barlow: Blue Gold (the Chairperson of The Council of Canadians on the world water crisis, a must read for every Canadian!)

Thom Hartmann: The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight (about our dependence on fossil fuels and new economy perspectives)

Guy Dauncey, Liz Armstrong, Anne Wordsworth: Cancer: 101 Solutions to a Preventable Epidemic (New Society Publishers)

Sandra Steingraber: Having Faith, An Ecologist’s Journey to Motherhood

Diane Wilson: An Unreasonable Woman

Rachel Carson: Silent Spring (the American scientist who stands behind the DDT ban, died of breast cancer)
Also authored The Sense of Wonder (lyric prose about nature)

Byron Katie: The Work (the says it all)

Thoreau: Walden (literary classic written by a sage who dismissed teaching)

Grey Owl, Collected Works (an English aristocrat converted into an Ojibway, considered to be the Canadian Conservation Pioneer) Prospero Books, 1999

Joseph Tainter: The Collapse of Complex Societies

Jeanine Benyus: Biomimicry (can biology help new technology to be less heavy on the environment?)

Paul Hawken: Blessed Unrest, How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming (for all of us who are squirreling away in our individual small ways and add up to an irresistible force) Viking, 2007
By the same author (featured in the Eleventh Hour movie):
Natural Capitalism,
The Ecology of Commerce
Growing a Business


Wayne Roberts: The No Nonsense Guide to World Food (the chair of the Toronto Food Policy Council is a compelling author and activist)

Ricky Burdett, Deyan Sudjic: Endless City, An authoritative and visually rich survey of the contemporary city. The late twentieth century was the age of economic globalization.

Adria Vasil: Ecoholic (the NOW Magazine columnist gives practical tips for everyday greener living) Random House 2007

Greentopia, Towards Sustainable Toronto (a collection of articles about Toronto’s past, present and rethinking sustainable future (Coach House)

Green Leaders, Canada’s Environment and Health Resource Directory (2008/09) free at health food stores (produced by Index Media, tel. 416-661-8146

Green Tips, How to Save Money and Planet, a booklet compiled by Gillian Deacon

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Global Warming, digest version (Alpha Books), available at Sobey’s for $3.95 (2008)
Linda Hogan: The Sweet Breathing of Plants: Women and the Green World (2000)

No comments: