Recommended Readings

Would you like to learn more about environmental concepts, issues, or perspectives? Consider reading any of the selections below, as recommended by CFES members and supporters.

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Better NOT Bigger: How to Take Control of Urban Growth and Improve Your Community
By: Eben Fodor
Recommended by: Heather Reynolds
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
By: Janine M. Benyus
Recommended by: Heather Reynolds
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
By: William McDonough & Michael Braungart
Recommended by: Megan Hollingsworth, Alison Waske, Heather Reynolds
Ecological Literacy: Education and the Transition to a Postmodern World
By: David W. Orr
Recommended by: Paul Schneller
The Ecology of Commerce
By: Paul Hawken
Recommended by: Heather Reynolds
The End of Nature
By: Bill McKibben
Recommended by: Alison Waske
Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century
By: James Howard Kunstler
Recommended by: Heather Reynolds

Ishmael
By: Daniel Quinn
Recommended by: Paul Schneller, Heather Reynolds

The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment in an Age of Terror
By: David W. Orr
Recommended by: Paul Schneller
Living Downstream: A Scientist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment
By: Sandra Steingraber
Recommended by: Heather Reynolds
Mid-Course Correction: Toward a Sustainable Enterprise: The Interface Model
By: Ray C. Anderson
Recommended by: Heather Reynolds
Natural Capitalism
By: Paul Hawken , L. Hunter Lovins & Amory Hu Lovins
Recommended by: Alison Waske, Paul Schneller
The Natural Step for Business: Wealth, Ecology, and the Evolutionary Corporation
By: Brian Nattrass & Mary Altomare
Recommended by: Paul Schneller

The Natural Step for Communities: How Cities and Towns can Change to Sustainable Practices
By: Sarah James & Torbjörn Lahti
Recommended by: Paul Schneller

The Natural Step Story
By: Karl-Henrik Robert
Recommended by: Paul Schneller
One Makes the Difference: Inspiring Actions that Change our World
By: Julia Butterfly Hill & Jessica Hurley
Recommended by: Alison Waske
Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth
By: William Rees & Mathis Wackernagel
Recommended by: Heather Reynolds
A Sand County Almanac
By: Aldo Leopold
Recommended by: Alison Waske, Heather Reynolds
Silent Spring
By: Rachel Carson
Recommended by: Alison Waske
The Solar Economy: Renewable Energy for a Sustainable Global Future
By: Hermann Scheer
Recommended by: Eric Roberts
Sustainability on Campus: Stories and Strategies for Change
By: Peggy F. Barlett (Editor) & Geoffrey W. Chase (Editor)
Recommended by: Paul Schneller
Toward Sustainable Communities: Transition and Transformations in Environmental Policy
By: Daniel A. Mazmanian (Editor) & Michael E. Kraft (Editor)
Recommended by: Paul Schneller
When Corporations Rule the World
By: David C. Korten
Recommended by: Paul Schneller

 

 

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