PRACTICAL (and other)
PERSPECTIVES
After Nature: A Politics
for the Anthropocene. Jedediah Purdy.
Atmosphere of Hope:
Solutions to the Climate Crisis. Tim Flannery.
Baptized with the Soil:
Christian Agrarians and the Crusade for Rural America. Kevin M. Lowe
The Big Ratchet: How
Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis/ A Biography of an Ingenious
Species. Ruth DeFries.
Blue Skies over Beijing:
Economic Growth and the Environment in China. Matthew E. Kahn and Siqi
Zheng.
Climate Shock: The
Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet. Gernor Wagner and Martin
Weitzman.
The Color of Food:
Stories of Race, Resilience & Farming, by Natasha Bowens.
Contemporary Moral and
Social Issues: An Introduction Through Original Fiction, Discussion, and
Readings. Thomas D. Davis and Wiley Blackwell.
Countdown: Our Last,
Best Hope for a Future on Earth? Alan Weisman.
Degrowth: A Vocabulary
for a New Era. Giacomo D'Alisa, Federico Demaria, and Giorgos Kallis.
Designing Our Way to a
Better World. Thomas Fisher.
Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice. Lisa Kemmerer.
Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice. Lisa Kemmerer.
The Ecological
Rift. John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark, and Richard York.
The End of Plenty: The Race to Feed a Crowded World. Joel K. Bourne Jr.
The End of Plenty: The Race to Feed a Crowded World. Joel K. Bourne Jr.
The Fabulous Future?
America and the World in 2040. Gary Saul Morson and Morton
Schapiro, editors.
Facing the Anthropocene:
Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System. Ian Angus (Angus
edits the web journal climateandcapitalism.com .
Famine, Affluence, and
Morality. Peter Singer.
Farm City: The Education
of an Urban Farmer. Novella Carpenter.
Foodopoly: The Battle
Over the Future of Food and Farming in America. Wenonah Hunter.
For Love of Animals:
Christian Ethics, Consistent Action. Charles Camosy (a member of the
Faith Advisory Council of the Humane Society of the United States.)
Frackopoly: The Battle
for the Future of Energy and the Environment. Wenonah Hunter.
Freegans: Diving into
the Wealth of Food Waste in America. Alex V. Barnard.
From Field to Fork: Food Ethics for Everyone. Paul Thompson.
From Field to Fork: Food Ethics for Everyone. Paul Thompson.
The Gene: An Intimate
History. Siddhartha Mukherjee.
Getting to Green: Saving Nature, a Bipartisan Solution. Frederic C. Rich.
Getting to Green: Saving Nature, a Bipartisan Solution. Frederic C. Rich.
The Glamour of
Strangeness: Artists and the Last Age of the Exotic. Jamie James.
Good and Cheap: Eat Well on $4/Day. Leanne Brown.
Good and Cheap: Eat Well on $4/Day. Leanne Brown.
The Great Transition
Today: A Report from the Future. Paul D. Raskin.
Green, American Style:
Becoming Earth-Friendly and Reaping the Benefits. Anna M. Clark.
Greening the Global
Economy. Robert Pollin.
Hands: What We Do With
Them---and Why. Darian Leader.
Hope on Earth: A Conversation. Paul R. Ehrlich and Michael Charles Tobias.
HOT: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth. Mark Hertsgaard.
Hope on Earth: A Conversation. Paul R. Ehrlich and Michael Charles Tobias.
HOT: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth. Mark Hertsgaard.
Imperial Ecology.
Peder Anker.
Keepers of the Green
World: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Sustainability, edited by Melissa
K. Nelson and Dan Shilling (2016).
Lethal but Legal:
Corporations, Consumption and Protecting Public Health, by Nicholas
Freudenberg.
Leviathan or, the
Whale. Philip Hoare.
Natural Capital: Valuing the Planet. Dieter Helm.
Natural Capital: Valuing the Planet. Dieter Helm.
Nature's Fortune:
How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature. Mark R.
Tercek and Jonathan S. Adams.
Not Natural: The
Production of Disasters and the Rush to Resilience. Stan Cox and Paul Cox
(2016).
Olmsted: Writings on
Landscape, Culture, and Society (re: Frederick Law Olmsted). Charles E.
Beveridge, ed.
The Organized Mind:
Thinking Straight in the Age of Information. Daniel J. Levitin.
Panic at the Pump:
The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the
1970s. Meg Jacobs.
Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing
to Save Civilization (Substantively Revised Edition). Lester R. Brown.
Plentitude: The New
Economics of True Wealth. Juliet Schor.
Prairie Crossing:
Creating an American Conservation Community. John Scott Watson.
Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet. Tim Jackson.
Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet. Tim Jackson.
Public Faith in Action:
How to Think Carefully, Engage Wisely, and Vote with Integrity. Miroslav
Volf and Ryan McAnnally-Linz.
Reason in a Dark Time:
Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed---And What it Means for Our
Future, by Dale Jamieson.
Rightful Heritage:
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America. Douglas Brinkley.
The Seventh Decade: The
New Shape of Nuclear Danger. Jonathan Schell.
Something New Under the
Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World. J.R.
McNeill.
Soul of an
Octopus. Sy Montgomery.
Spirituality and the
State: Managing Nature and Experience in America's National Parks. Kerry
Mitchell.
Strangers Drowning:
Grappling With Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge
to Help. Larissa MacFarquhar.
Stuffed and Starved, by
Raj Patel.
There is Still Time: To
Look at the Big Picture...And Act! Peter Seidel.
Think Like a Commoner: A
Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons, by David Bollier.
Thirst for Power:
Energy, Water and Human Survival. Michael E. Webber.
Too Many People? Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis. Ian Angus.
Too Many People? Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis. Ian Angus.
The Tragedy of the
Commodity: Oceans, Fisheries, and Aquaculture. Stefano B. Longo, Rebecca
Clausen, and Brett Clark.Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography
of Violence. Christian Parenti.
The Truth in Small
Doses: Why We're Losing the War on Cancer and How to Win It, by Clifton Leaf.
Two Percent Solutions
for the Planet: 50 Low-Cost, Low-Tech, Nature-Based Practices for
Combatting Hunger, Drought, and Climate Change. Courtney White.
Unstoppable: Harnessing
Science to Change the World. Bill Nye.
Utopia Drive: A Road
Trip Through America's Most Radical Idea. Erik Reece.
Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal. Tristram Stuart.
Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal. Tristram Stuart.
Waste Free Kitchen
Handbook: A guide to eating well and saving money by wasting less food.
Dana Gunders.
Water 4.0: The Past,
Present, and Future of the World's Most Vital Resource. David Sedlak.
Wattana: An Orangutan in
Paris. Chris Herzfeld.
The Weather
Makers: How Man is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on
Earth. Tim Flannery.
What Every
Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism. Fred Magdoff and John
Bellamy Foster.
What We're Fighting for Now
Is Each Other: Dispatches From the Front Lines of Climate Justice. Wen
Stephenson.
Who Rules the Earth?:
How Social Rules Shape Our Planet and Our Lives. Paul F. Steinberg.
Whole Earth Discipline:
Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, Restored Wildlands, and Geoengineering are
Necessary. Stewart Brand.
Why Are We Waiting?
The Logic, Urgency and Promise of Tackling Climate Change. Nicholas Stern.
Wonders of the National
Parks: A Geology of North America. Ford Cochran.
The Wood for the Trees:
The Long View of Nature from a Small Wood. Richard Fortey.
Fiction titles (summer
beach reading?)
Barkskins. Annie
Proulx.
Beast. Paul
Kingsnorth.
Heat and Light.
Jennifer Haigh (an ecologically minded novel).
The Last Wolf and
Herman. Laszlo Krasznahorkai (translated by George Szirtes and John
Batki).
Adventure Narratives by
Women (also summer reading potential?).
Climbing Days.
Dorothy Pilley.
Everything Is Teeth. Evie Wyld. (graphic novel).
Everything Is Teeth. Evie Wyld. (graphic novel).
Running: A Love
Story. Jen Miller.
This Road I Ride.
Juliana Buhring.
The Valley of the
Assassins. Freya Stark.
Welcome to the Goddamn
Ice Cube. Blair Braverman.
West with the
Night. Beryl Markham.
Wild. Cheryl
Strayed.
Also see other titles by
Gretel Ehrlich, Pam Houston, Kira Salak, and Sara Wheeler.
Films by Josh Fox (b.
1972, Wayne County, PA)
2010 Gasland (directed, wrote & produced).
2013 Gasland Part II
(directed, wrote & produced).
2016 How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can't Change (directed, wrote & produced).
2016 How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can't Change (directed, wrote & produced).
Nature Writing: See the Wainwright Prize.
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