New Books on Energy and the Environment

October, 2007
                         
Aldo Leopold's Odyssey by Julianne Lutz Newton.  2006

Americans and Climate Change: Closing the Gap Between Science and Action by Daniel R. Abbasi.  2006 

The Atlas of Climate Change by Kristin Dow and Thomas E. Downing.  2006

Bioenergy: Power, Fuels and Products by Jennifer A. DeCesaro.  2006

Bio-Mimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine M. Benyus.  2002

Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City by Jed Horne.  2006

The Columbia Guide to American Environmental History by Carolyn Merchant.  2002

Conservation in the Internet Age edited by James N. Levitt.  2002

Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough & Michael Braungart.  2002

The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth by E. O. Wilson.  2006

Crops and Environmental Change by Seth G. Prtichard.  2005

Design Like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises edited by Architecture for Humanity.  2006

The Discovery of Global Warming by Spencer R. Weart.  2003

The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability by Paul Hawken.  2005

Environment, Power, and Society for the Twenty-First Century by Howard T. Odum.  2007

Feeding the Fire: The Lost History & Uncertain Future of Mankind's Energy Addiction by Mark E. Eberhart.  2007

Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert.  2006 

Forging Environmentalism: Justice, Livelihood, and Contested Environments edited by Joanne Bauer.  2006

The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement by Mark Hamilton Lytle.  2007

Global Environmental Governance by James Gustave Speth.  2006

The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast by Douglas Brinkley.  2006

Hell and High Water: Global Warming - The Solution and the Politics - and What We Should Do by Joseph J. Romm.  2007

High Tech Trash: Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human Health by Elizabeth Grossman.  2006

Hungry for Profit: The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food, and the Environment edited by Fred Magdoff.  2000

An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore.  2006

Inside the Minds: The Green Company by Industry Leaders on the Environmental Benefits and Economic Rewards of Running an Ecologically-Minded Company.  2004

It’s a Long Road to a Tomato: Tales of an Organic Farmer Who Quit the Big City for the (Not So) Simple Life by Keith Stewart.  2006

Kicking the Carbon Habit: Global Warming and the Case for Renewable and Nuclear Energy by William Sweet.  2006

Killing Our Oceans by John Charles Kunich.  2006

Lives Per Gallon by Terry Taminen.  2006

The Midwestern Pastoral: Place and Landscape in Literature of the American Heartland by William Barillas.  2006

Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S. by Cynthia Barnett.  2007

Nuclear Power is Not the Answer by Helen Caldicott.  2006

Our Forest, Your Ecosystem, Their Timber by Nicholas K. Menzies.  2007

Safe Trip to Eden by David Steinman.  2007

Seeds for the Future by Jennifer A. Thomson.  2006

Sprawl: A Compact History by Robert Bruegmann.  c2005

Sprawl Kills: How Blandburbs Steal Your Time, Health and Money by Joel S. Hirschhorn.  2005

State of the World 2007: Our Urban Future by Worldwatch Institute.  2007

The Storm: What Went Wrong and Why During Hurricane Katrina: The Inside Story from One Louisiana Scientist by Ivor van Heerden and Mike Bryan.  2006

Swimming in Circles: Aquaculture and the End of Wild Oceans by Paul Molyneaux.  2007

This Land: The Battle over Sprawl and the Future of America by Anthony Flint.  2006

Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future by Peter D. Ward.  2007

Understanding Environmental Policy by Stephen Cohen.  2006

Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America’s Fresh Waters by Robert Glennon.  2002

The Weather Makers: How Man is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth by Tim F. Flannery.  2005

When America Became Suburban by Robert A. Beauregard.  2006

When Rivers Run Dry: Water, the Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century by Fred Pearce.  2006

Why Conservation is Failing and How It Can Regain Ground by Eric T. Freyfogle.  2006

The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations by Eugene Linden.  2006

With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change by Fred Pearce.  2007

Your Green Home: A Guide to Planning a Healthy, Environmentally Friendly New Home by Alex Wilson.  2006       

                                                                                
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