A Little Book Of Coincidence In The Solar System.
John Martineau. 2002. Walker & Company.
ISBN: 9780802713889
This book reveals the orbital patterns of the planets and the mathematical relationships that govern them.
Alcohol Can Be A Gas.
David Blume. 2007. International Institute for Ecological Agriculture.
ISBN: 9780979043772
International Institute for Ecological Agriculture. Comprehensive text on alcohol fuel production and use.
Beyond Oil, The View From Hubbert's Peak.
Kenneth S. Deffeyes. 2006. Hill and Wang.
ISBN: 9780809029570
Deffeyes looks at the earth's supply of potential replacement fuels and their likely production futures.
Blessed Unrest.
Paul Hawken. 2008. Penguin Group (USA).
ISBN: 9780143113652
An account of how people redefine our relationship to the environment and one another.
Boldly Sustainable: Hope and Opportunity for Higher Education in the Age of Climate Change.
Peter Winthrop Bardaglio, Andrea Putman. 2009. National Association of College & University Business Officers.
ISBN: 9781569720462
Boldly Sustainable examines how colleges and universities can leverage their commitment to sustainability to not only save money and have a positive impact on the environment, but also to carve out a distinctive niche in the marketplace.
Clean Energy Common Sense: An American Call to Action on Global Climate Change.
Frances Beinecke with Bob Deans. 2009. Rowman & Littlefield Publisher.
ISBN:
As America confronts global climate change, this documents the problem, sets forth solutions, and challenges each of us to do our part to embrace a clean and sustainable energy future, today and in the years ahead. Doing so, she convincingly argues, will help put Americans back to work, reduce our reliance on foreign oil and create a healthier planet, for ourselves and for our children.
Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming.
James Hoggan, Richard Littlemore. 2009. Douglas & McIntyre Publishing Group.
ISBN: 9781553654858
Talk of global warming is nearly inescapable these days - but there are some who believe the concept of climate change is an elaborate hoax. Despite the input of the world's leading climate scientists, the urgings of politicians, and the outcry of many grassroots activists, many Americans continue to ignore the warning signs of severe climate shifts. How did this happen? Climate Cover-up seeks to answer this question, describing the pollsters and public faces who have crafted careful language to refute the findings of environmental scientists. Exploring the PR techniques, phony "think tanks," and funding used to pervert scientific fact, this book serves as a wake-up call to those who still wish to deny the inconvenient truth.
Climate in Peril: A Popular Guide to the Latest IPCC Reports.
Alex Kirby. 2009. United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
ISBN: 9788277010533
The main purpose of this short guide is to help bridge the gap between science and policy and to increase public awareness about the urgency of action to combat climate change and its impacts.
Collapse: How Societies Choose To Fail Or Succeed.
Jared Diamond. 2005. Penguin Books.
ISBN: 9780143036555
Diamond explores how humankind's use and abuse of the environment reveal the truth behind the world's great collapses.
Coming Climate Crisis?: Consider the Past, Beware the Big Fix
Claire L. Parkinson, Lonnie G. Thompson (Foreword by) 2010. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 9780742556157
Parkinson presents a coherent synopsis of the 4.6-billion-year history of climate change on planet Earth - both before and after humans became a significant factor - and explores current concerns regarding continued global warming and its possible consequences.
Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming.
Bjorn Lomborg. 2008. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
ISBN: 9780307386526
A startling book that reshapes the debate about global warming and offers a moderate approach to meeting its challenges.
Cradle to Cradle.
William McDonough & Michael Braungart. 2002. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
ISBN: 9780865475878
McDonough and Braungart explain how products can be designed from the outset so that, after their useful lives, they will provide nourishment for something new.
Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future.
Bill McKibben. 2008. Henry Holt and Company, LLC.
ISBN: 9780805087222
A new way to think about things we buy, food we eat, energy we use, and the money that pays for it all.
Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet.
Bill McKibben. 2010. Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9780805090567
Twenty years ago, with The End of Nature, Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about global warming. Those warnings went mostly unheeded; now, he insists, we need to acknowledge that we've waited too long, and that massive change is not only unavoidable but already under way. Our old familiar globe is suddenly melting, drying, acidifying, flooding, and burning in ways that no human has ever seen. We've created, in very short order, a new planet, still recognizable but fundamentally different. We may as well call it Eaarth.
Earth: The Sequel. The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming.
Fred Krupp and Miriam Horn. 2009. W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9780393334197
In this book, readers will encounter innovators and investors who are reinventing energy and the ways we use it.
Energy Efficiency Guide for Existing Commercial Buildings: The Business Case for Building Owners and Managers.
Mychele R. Lord, Steven Carlson and Fredric Goldner Dennis R. Landsberg. 2009. ASHRAE.
ISBN: 978-1933742632
Energy Efficiency Guide for Existing Commercial Buildings: The Business Case for Building Owners and Managers provides the rationale for making economic decisions related to improving and sustaining energy efficiency in existing buildings. Approximately 86 percent of U.S. annual building construction expenditures relate to renovation of existing buildings vs. new construction.
Freedom From Oil: How the Next President Can End the United States' Oil Addiction.
David Sandalow. 2007. The McGraw-Hill Companies.
ISBN: 9780071489065
With these opening words, Freedom from Oil takes the reader to the highest levels of government, as Cabinet members and White House aides debate how to break our addiction to oil. In a fast-moving narrative, David Sandalow shows how to solve this problem while offering a unique window into the White House at work.
Greed to Green: Solving Climate Change and Remaking the Economy.
Charles Derber. 2010. Paradigm Publishers.
ISBN: 9781594518126
This book shows how we can solve the climate change crisis, which is the greatest threat humanity has faced. Charles Derber, a prominent sociologist and political economist, shows that global warming is a symptom of deep pathologies in global capitalism. In conversational and passionate writing, Derber shows that climate change is capitalism's time bomb, certain to explode unless we rapidly transform our economy and create a new green American Dream. Derber shows there is hope in the financial meltdown and Great Recession we are now suffering. The economic crisis has raised deep questions about Wall Street and the US capitalist model. Derber systematically explores the causal links between capitalism and climate change, a taboo subject in the U.S, and opens up new thinking to solve both the economic and climate crises.
Green Gone Wrong: How Our Economy Is Undermining the Environmental Revolution.
Heather Rogers. 2010. Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group.
ISBN: 9781416572220
In Green Gone Wrong environmental writer Heather Rogers blasts through the marketing buzz of big corporations and asks a simple question: Do today's much-touted "green" products-carbon offsets, organic food, biofuels, and eco-friendly cars and homes-really work? Implicit in efforts to go green is the promise that global warming can be stopped by swapping out dirty goods for "clean" ones. But can earth-friendly products really save the planet? This far-reaching, riveting narrative explores how the most readily available solutions to environmental crisis may be disastrously off the mark. Rogers travels the world tracking how the conversion from a "petro" to a "green" society affects the most fundamental aspects of life-food, shelter, and transportation. Reporting from some of the most remote places on earth, Rogers uncovers shocking results that include massive clear-cutting, destruction of native ecosystems, and grinding poverty. Relying simply on market forces, people with good intentions wanting to just "do something" to help the planet are left feeling confused and powerless.
Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution - and How It Can Renew America.
Thomas L. Friedman. 2009. Picador.
ISBN: 9780312428921
Why we need a green revolution, and how it can renew America
Limits To Growth: The 30-Year Update.
Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, Dennis Meadows. 2004. Chelsea Green Publishing Company.
ISBN: 9781931498586
This 30-year update presents the essential parts of the authors' original analysis and summarizes some of the relevant data and the insights they acquired over the past three decades.
Managing your Environmental Responsibilities: A Planning Guide For Construction And Development.
U. S. Environmental Protection Agency. 2005. U. S. Environmental Protection Agency.
ISBN: 9780865874725
Presents background information on environmental requirements, contains a checklist to help assign environmental responsibilities, and contains seven self-audit checklists to help evaluate compliance status.
Mid-Course Correction.
Ray C. Anderson. 1998. Chelsea Green Publishing Company.
ISBN: 9780964595354
Business book about the environment that is written from a personal perspective.
Natural Capitalism: Creating The Next Industrial Revolution.
Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins. 1999. Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company.
ISBN: 9780316353007
This book reveals how tomorrow's most successful global businesses will draw profit from their own environmental responsibility.
Natural Gas and Hydrogen (Energy and the Environment).
John Tabak. 2009. Facts on File, Incorporated.
ISBN: 9780816070848
Whether solid, liquid, or gaseous, the phase of a fuel has important implications for how it can be used. In the United States approximately 20 per cent of the nation's electricity is obtained from natural gas-fired power plants, and natural gas is extremely important to residential and commercial heating markets. Hydrogen - a fuel that continues to attract a great deal of attention and research - derives its importance from the promise that it may one day be competitive with oil as a transportation fuel. "Natural Gas and Hydrogen" describes the technology and scale of the infrastructure that has evolved to produce, transport, and consume natural gas. It emphasizes the business of natural gas production and the energy futures markets that have evolved as vehicles for both speculation and risk management. This resource focuses on possible advantages to the adoption of hydrogen as well as the barriers that have so far prevented large-scale fuel switching. An interview with Dr. Ray Boswell of the U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory discusses his work in identifying and characterizing methane hydrate reserves, one of the most promising fields of energy research today.
Oil Panic and the Global Crisis: Predictions and Myths.
Steven M. Gorelick. 2009. Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated.
ISBN: 9781405195485
There has been continuing alarm about the imminent exhaustion of earth's non-renewable resources. Yet, the world has never run out of any significant, globally traded, non-renewable resource. Is the world finally facing a non-renewable resource depletion catastrophe, or is the current concern just another one of a succession of panics? In this book, key assumptions and underlying arguments in the global oil-depletion debate are first summarized and then challenged. Facts about oil supply, production, and consumption are made accessible using concise and simple graphics.
Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised).
Lester R. Brown. 2009. Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9780393337198
As fossil fuel prices rise, oil insecurity deepens, and concerns about climate change cast a shadow over the future of coal, a new energy economy is emerging. Wind, solar, and geothermal energy are replacing oil, coal, and natural gas, at a pace and on a scale we could not have imagined even a year ago. For the first time since the Industrial Revolution, we have begun investing in energy sources that can last forever. Plan B 4.0 explores both the nature of this transition to a new energy economy and how it will affect our daily lives.
Post Carbon Cities: Planning for Energy and Climate Uncertainty.
Daniel Lerch. 2008. New Society Publishers.
ISBN: 9780976751052
Post Carbon Cities examines how peak oil and global warming are creating new uncertainties for cities of all sizes. It explains how local decision makers can address the energy and climate challenges of the twenty-first century.
Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed.
Christopher C. Horner. 2008. Regnery Publishing, Inc., An Eagle Publishing Company.
ISBN: 9781596985384
Horner argues his case against global warming and its supporters
Science Magazine's State of the Planet 2006-2007.
Donald Kennedy and the Editors of Science. 2006. Island Press.
ISBN: 9781597264051
Brings together leading environmental scientists and researchers to give readers a comprehensive yet accessible overview of current issues.
Small is Possible: Life in a Local Economy.
Lyle Estill. 2008. New Society Publishers.
ISBN: 9780865716032
The residents of Chatham County, North Carolina discover it really is possible for a community to feed, fuel, heal, and govern itself.
Solar Power In Building Design: The Engineer's Complete Design Resource.
Peter Gevorkian, Ph.D. 2008. The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
ISBN: 978-0071485630
Complete guide to designing, implementing, and auditing energy-efficient, cost-effective solar power systems for residential, commercial, and industrial buildings.
State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures: From Consumerism to Sustainability.
The Worldwatch Institute. 2010. The Worldwatch Institute.
ISBN: 978-0-393-33726-6
In this year's volume, the D.C.-based Worldwatch Institute think-tank considers, in several dozen pieces, how "cultures of consumption" can be transformed into "cultures of sustainability." Many ideas take inspiration from diverse traditions: religions can be called upon to embrace their own deepest values and renounce materialism, while establishing new holidays, rituals and taboos incorporating strategies for sustainability (Earth Day, "Green funerals," new days of fasting, etc.); practices honoring elders as transmitters of ancient wisdom can be spread beyond regions where they still thrive (Africa, India, etc.); thousand-year-old Asian farming methods can be revived.
Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity.
James Hansen. 2009. Bloomsbury USA.
ISBN: 9781608192007
Starred Review. Hansen, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, lays all the cards on the table in this thorough, detailed analysis of the history, science and politics of climate change, a Silent Spring-style warning cry that predicts "a rough ride" for our grandchildren. Using numerous charts and graphs alongside accessible explanations, Hansen presents copious climate data for a broad audience. After discussing the recent history of global warming science, from the Climate Task Force of 2000 to his up-to-the-minute carbon dioxide limit of 350ppm, Hansen provides recommendations for achieving greenhouse gas reduction, as well as strategies for reducing or eliminating fossil fuel use: "For the sake of our children and grandchildren, we cannot allow our government to continue to connive with the coal industry in subterfuges that allow dirty-coal use to continue."
The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices: Practical Advice From The Union of Concerned Scientists.
Michael Brower, Ph.D. and Warren Leon, Ph.D. 1999. Three Rivers Press.
ISBN: 9780307427021
A clear, practical, and rational overview of the relationship between consumers and the environment.
The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability.
Paul Hawken. 1993. Harper Collins Publishers.
ISBN: 9780887307041
Ecological analysis of business.
The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis.
Jeremy Rifkin. 2009. Penguin Group (USA).
ISBN: 9781585427659
Jeremy Rifkin shows that this disconnect between our vision for the world and our ability to realize that vision lies in the current state of human consciousness. The very way our brains are structured disposes us to a way of feeling, thinking, and acting in the world that is no longer entirely relevant to the new environments we have created for ourselves.
The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World.
Paul Roberts. 2004. Houghton Mifflin Company.
ISBN: 9780618239771
The New York Review of Books calls this book "the best single book ever produced about our energy economy and its environmental implications."
The GeoPolitics of Energy: Achieving a Just and Sustainable Energy Distribution by 2040.
Judith Wright and James Conca. 2007. BookSurge, LLC.
ISBN: 9781419675881
By taking Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth to the next level, The GeoPolitics of Energy: Achieving a Just and Sustainable Energy Distribution by 2040 by Judith Wright, Ph.D. and James Conca, Ph.D. not only raises awareness of the issues surrounding global warming, but provides concrete solutions.
The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community.
David C. Korten. 2007. Kumarian Press, Inc.
ISBN: 9781576755396
Korten makes the case that an"earth community"is possible.
The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems.
Van Jones. 2008. Harper Collins Publishers.
ISBN: 9780061650765
A plan for solving the failing economy and environment.
The Hidden Connections.
Fritjof Capra. 2002. Doubleday.
ISBN: 9780385494717
Fritjof Capra applies the principles of complexity theory to an analysis of the broad sphere of all human interactions.
The Holographic Universe.
Michael Talbot. 1991. Harper Perennial, A Division of Harper Collins Publishers.
ISBN: 9780586091715
Talbot explores the concept of the universe as a giant hologram containing both matter and consciousness as a single field.
The Passive Solar House: The Complete Guide to Heating and Cooling Your Home.
James Kachadorian. 2006. Chelsea Green Publishing Company.
ISBN: 9781933392035
This book offers a technique for building homes that heat and cool themselves in a range of climates using ordinary building materials available anywhere and with methods familiar to all building contractors and many do-it-yourselfers.
The Solar House: Passive Heating and Cooling.
Daniel D. Chiras, Ph.D. 2002. Chelsea Green Publishing Company.
ISBN: 9781931498128
Chiras provides home builders with all the necessary tools for successful solar design.
The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff Is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health-and a Vision for Change.
Annie Leonard. 2010. Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group.
ISBN: 9781439125663
Leonard describes the five stages of the materials economy - extraction, production, distribution, consumption, and disposal - and vividly illuminates how this "growth at all costs" system operates.
The Sustainability Revolution: Portrait of a Paradigm Shift.
Andres R. Edwards. 2005. New Society Publishers.
ISBN: 9780865715318
Illustrates ways the environment can be restored.
The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age.
John Heider. 1985. Humanics Publishing Group.
ISBN: 9780893340797
Book of wisdom.
The Transition Handbook: From oil dependency to local resilience.
Rob Hopkins. 2008. Green Books Ltd.
ISBN: 9781900322188
This book shows how we can move from feeling anxiety and fear in the face of 'peak oil' to developing a positive vision and taking practical action to create a more self-reliant existence.
The Triple Bottom Line : Why Sustainability is Transforming the Best-Run Companies and How It Can Work for You.
Andrew W. Savitz, Karl Weber. 2006. Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated.
ISBN: 9780787979072
The Triple Bottom Line is the groundbreaking book that charts the rise of sustainability within the business world and shows how and why financial success increasingly goes hand in hand with social and environmental achievement. Andrew Savitz chronicles both the real problems that companies face and the innovative solutions that can come from sustainability. His is a hard-line approach to bottom-line fundamentals that is re-making companies around the globe.
Twilight In The Desert.
Matthew R. Simmons. 2005. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
ISBN: 9780471738763
Looks behind the curtain to reveal a Saudi oil and production industry that could soon approach a serious, irreversible decline.
What's the Worst That Could Happen?: A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate.
Greg Craven. 2009. Penguin Group (USA).
ISBN: 9780399535017
Based on a series of viral videos that have garnered more than 7.2 million views, this visually appealing book gives readers-be they global warming activists, soccer moms, or NASCAR dads-a way to decide on the best course of action, by asking them to consider, "What's the worst that could happen?" And for those who decide that action is needed, Craven provides a solution that is not only powerful but also happens to be stunningly easy. Not just another "change your light bulb" book, this intriguing and provocative guide is the first to help readers make sense-for themselves-of the contradictory statements about global climate change.
Wind and Water (Energy and the Environment).
John Tabak. 2009. Facts on File, Incorporated.
ISBN: 9780816070879
There are enormous reserves of energy in the winds and the tides and in the temperature difference between the upper and lower regions of the oceans. If the energy produced from wind and water were converted into electrical energy, it would satisfy the electricity demands of the entire world many times over. However, this kind of conversion isn't possible - not now or in the future. "Wind and Water" describes conventional hydropower, or wind power, and some of the newer technologies (with less certain futures) that are being introduced to harness the power of ocean currents, ocean waves, and the temperature difference between the upper and lower layers of the ocean. The strengths and limitations of each technology are discussed as well as mathematical models that describe the maximum amount of energy that can be harnessed by such devices. This comprehensive new volume also examines how these power producers benefit from government support and the economics of operating these types of generating stations. An interview with Dr. Stan Bull, former Associate Director for Science and Technology at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, is included in which he shares his views about how scientific research is - and should be - managed, nurtured, and evaluated.
Wind Energy Basics: A Guide to Small and Micro Wind Systems.
Paul Gipe. 1999. Chelsea Green Publishing Company.
ISBN: 9781890132071
An introductory guide to wind-energy systems.
Winning the Oil Endgame: Innovation for Profit, Jobs and Security.
Amory B. Lovins. 2004. Earthscan/James & James.
ISBN: 9781844071944
Winning the Oil Endgame offers a strategy for ending US oil dependence, and is applicable worldwide. There are many analyses of the oil problem. This synthesis is the first roadmap of the oil solution-one led by business for profit.
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