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Green Books
Gorgeously Green - Sophie Uliano
ISBN/ISSN: 0061575569
This is a fun book for people who want to be fashionable, healthy, and eco-conscious.
The Corporate Planet: Ecology and Politics in the Age - Joshua Karliner
ISBN/ISSN: 0871564343
Earth in the Balance - Al Gore
ISBN/ISSN: 1594866376
More Green Books
- Green Book List
A blog listing some favorite green books
Green Classics
The End of Nature - Bill McKibben
ISBN/ISSN: 0812976088
The first book on global warming, McKibben's enduring treatise has proven to be painfully prescient and remains undiminished in its power.- Booklist
Essential Muir: ASelection of John Muir's Best Writings. - John Muir and Fred D. White (Ed.)
ISBN/ISSN: 1597140279
Not only did Muir (1838-1914) found the Sierra Club and preserve Yosemite, he wrote rhapsodically yet precisely about the landscapes he explored, celebrarting life's interconnectedness.- Booklist
Of Wolves and Men - Barry Lopez
ISBN/ISSN: 0743249364
A traveler, scholar, ethicist, and commanding prose stylist, Lopez infuses his natural history of the long relationship between wolves and humankind with both myth and science, then revisits the controversial subject of wolf reintroduction in the twenty-fifth anniversary edition of this seminal work. -Booklist
One Planet: A Celebration of Biodiversity - Nicholas Hulot
ISBN/ISSN: 0810955342
French journalist Hulot assembled breathtaking color photographs by a cast of international photographers to create a spectacular and eye-opening pictoral survey of the precious web of life. -Booklist
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - Annie Dillard
ISBN/ISSN: 0061233323
Following Thoreaus's practice of solitary communion with nature and rigorous observation, Dillard penned indelible reflections on the beauty, harshness, and mystery of life and death. -Booklist
This is a personal favorite of mine as well- Annie Dillard explores the experience of the blind who are able to see for the first time, the behavior of insects, and the nature of consciousness.
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There - Aldo Leopold
ISBN/ISSN: 0195146174
One of the nation's first professional foresters, Leopold (1887-1948) is revered for his gorgeous prose, deep appreciation for the "rightness" of the living world, and profound "land ethic." -Booklist
The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter - Colin Tudge
ISBN/ISSN: 0307395391
Tudge praises trees as the planet's lungs, organic metropolises for wildly diverse species, and the source of food, medicine, wood, and a large quotient of nature's most majestic beauty, then explains why they are crucial to combating global warming. -Booklist
Walden, Civil Disobedience, and Other Writings - Henry David Thoreau
ISBN/ISSN: 0451529456
Thoreau (1817-1862) was shockingly prescient, a veritable "prophetic explosion," according to Bill McKibben, and Thoreau's insights into nature and critique of the human condition remain fresh, arresting, and instructive. -Booklist
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