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Recommended Resources for
Understanding Sustainability


Contemporary Books      Classics of Environmental Literature and Nature Writing Web Resources   
Quotes Organizations  Magazines

Favorite resources from those working on CCC's Spring Term "Understanding Sustainability" events.


Contemporary Titles

Recommended by...


Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by Jared Diamond

HN 13 .D5 2005

Karen Halliday
(Library)

 

Good News for a Change: How Everyday People are Helping the Planet
by David Suzuki
Valerie McQuaid
(Library)

 

Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble
by Lester Brown

Jim Grabill
(English)

 

A River Lost: the Life and Death of the Columbia
by Blaine Harden

HC 107 .A195 H37 1996

Tom Laugle
(Wildland Fire Program)

 

Classics of Environmental Literature and Nature Writing

Recommended by...

The Diversity of Life
by Edward O. Wilson

QH 313 .W55 1992

Karen Halliday
(Library)

 

Nature's Web: Rethinking Our Place on Earth
by Peter Marshall

BD 581 .M3197 1994

Valerie McQuaid
(Library)

The Population Bomb
by Paul Ehrlich

HB 875 .E35 1968

Jim Grabill
(English)

Refuge: an Unnatural History of Family and Place
by Terry Tempest Williams. 1991
Tom Laugle
(Wildland Fire Program)

 

 

Web Resources
Submitted by...
 
World Population Clock (Princeton University Office of Population Research)
opr.princeton.edu/popclock
Tom Laugle
(Wildland Fire Program)
 
Portland Area Community-Supported Agriculture Coalition:
www.pacsac.org
Karen Halliday
(Library)

 


Well-said on sustainability...
Submitted by...

The greatest challenge of the twenty-first century is to settle humanity down and accommodate 8 to 10 billion people with a decent standard of living before they wreck the planet.[...] Humanity's responsibility to the rest of life and to future generations is clear: bring with us as much of the environment and biodiversity through the bottleneck as possible.

- Edward O. Wilson. "Biodiversity at the Close of the Century." The Diversity of Life, rev. ed. 1999

Karen Halliday
(Library)

 


Organizations
Submitted by...

Worldwatch Institute
www.worldwatch.org

"Independent research for an environmentally sustainable and socially just society."

Karen Halliday
(Library)

White Earth Land Recovery Project:
www.nativeharvest.com

Trista Cornelius
(English)
Xerces International Society for Invertebrate Conservation
www.xerces.org
Karen Halliday
(Library)

 



Last revised: February 13, 2006