Books List

Ecology-Farming-Gardening

Full Moon: Reflections on Turning Fifty by Susan Carol Hauser Papier Mache Press

 

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Desert Fathers, Uranium Daughters by Debora Gregor

 

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Confessions of an Igloo Dweller: Memoirs of the Old Arctic by Jim Houston

 

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Here and Nowhere Else: Late Seasons of a Farm and its Family by Jane Brox

 

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The New Seed Starter's Handbook by Jane Bubel Rodale Press

 

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Over Story Zero: Real Life in Timber Country by Robert Leo Heilman Sasquatch Books

 

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Becoming Native To This Place by Wes Jackson Counterpoint Press

 

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Field Without Dreams: Defending the Agrarian Idea by Victor Davis Hansen

 

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Some Flowers by Vita Sackville-West Trafalgar Publishing

 

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Heaven's Embroidered Cloth by William Butler Yeats Trafalgar Publishing

 

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Native Plant Primer by Carol Oddison Harmony Books

 

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Orlando by Virginia Woolf

 

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The Joy of Cooking Penguin

 

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The Compleat Cockroach by David George Gordon

 

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The Field Guide to the Slug by David George Gordon

 

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The Spell of the Tiger by Sy Montgomery

 

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The Natural Christmas by Tom Pritchard and Billy Jarecki Clarkson Potter

 

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The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody by Will Cuppy

 

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How to Tell Your Friends From the Apes by Will Cuppy

 

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How to Become Extinct by Will Cuppy

 

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How to Attract the Wombat by Will Cuppy

 

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This Place on Earth: Home and the Practice of Permanence by Alan Durning

 

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The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawkens

 

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Over Story Zero: Real Life in Timber Country by Robert Leo Heilman

 

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The Non-Toxic Home and Office by Debra Lynn Dadd

 

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The Home Safe Home by Debra Lynn Dadd

 

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The Closing Circle by Barry Commoner

 

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When Corporations Rule the World by David Korten

 

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The Car That Could: The Inside Story of GM's Revolutionary Electric Vehicle by Michael Schnayerson

 

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Native American Gardening: Stories, Projects, and Recipes for Families by Joseph Bruchac

 

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The Roots of Survival: Native American Storytelling and the Sacred by Joseph Bruchac

 

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The Old Farmer's Almanac

 

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The Spell of The Tiger by Sy Montgomery

 

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Here and Nowhere Else by Jane Brox

 

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Aftermath: The Remnants of War by Donovan Webster

 

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The Garden of God: Selections from the Bible's Teaching About the Creation by Glen Powell, ed. International Bible Society

 

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The Lost Gospel of the Earth: A Call for Renewing Nature's Spirit in Politics by Tom Hayden Sierra Club Books

 

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In A Dark Wood by Alston Chase Houghton Mifflin

 

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This Place on Earth by Alan Durning Sasquatch Books

 

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Cave Passages: Roaming the Underground Wilderness by Michael Ray Taylor

 

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The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnon Rawlings

 

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Cross Creek by Marjorie Kinnon Rawlings

 

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Earth in the Balance by Al Gore

 

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Citizen Perot: His Life and Times by Gerald Posner

 

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Full Moon: Reflections on Turning Fifty by Susan Carol Hauser Papier Mache Press

 

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Beluga: A Farewell to Whales by Pierre Beland

 

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Here and Nowhere Else by Jane Brox

 

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Life Worth Living: How Someone You Love Can Still Enjoy Life in a Nursing Home - The Eden Alternative in Action by William Thomas

 

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The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture by Wendell Berry

 

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The Gift of Good Land by Wendell Berry

 

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Fidelity by Wendell Berry

 

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What Are People For? by Wendell Berry

 

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Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community by Wendell Berry

 

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Solar Gardening by Leandra Poisson Chelsea Green Publishing

 

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Dracula by Bram Stoker

 

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Pterodactyl Rose by William Heyen

 

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The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places by Steven Trimble and Gary Paul Nabhan

 

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Limits to Growth

 

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Hope, Human and Wild by Bill McKibben

 

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Moby Dick by Herman Melville

 

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The Natural Garden by Ken Druse

 

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The Natural Habitat Garden by Ken Druse

 

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Field Guide to the Birds by Roger Tory Peterson

 

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The Forgotten Pollinators by Steve Buchman

 

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Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

 

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This Place On Earth by Alan Durning

 

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Just Weeds: History, Myths, and Uses Chapters Publishing

 

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The Spell of the Tiger by Sy Montgomery

 

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In A Dark Wood by Allston Chase

 

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Window of Opportunity by Newt Gingrich

 

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Memory of Fire by Eduardo Galeano

 

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Walking Words by Eduardo Galeano

 

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The People: Indians of the Southwest by Stephen Trimble

 

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Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth by Bill Logan

 

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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

 

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Environmentalism at the Crossroads by Jonathan Adler

 

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Nature's Revenge: the Secrets of Poison Ivy, Poison Oak and Poison Sumac and the Remedies by Susan Carol Hauser

 

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The Spell of The Tiger by Sy Montgomery

 

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Environmental Science, Ecology, and Human Impact Addison Wesley

 

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The First Time Gardener by Patty Barren Crown

 

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Our Stolen Future by Theo Colborn

 

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The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places by Stephen Trimble

 

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Confessions of an Igloo Dweller: Memories of the Old Arctic by James Houston

 

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Hope: Human and Wild by Bill McKibben

 

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The Everglades: River of Grass by Marjory Stoneman Douglas

 

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Here and Nowhere Else: Late Seasons of a Farm and Its Family by Jane Brox

 

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The Wolves of Isle Royale: A Broken Balance by Rolf Peterson

 

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Hope: Human and Wild by Bill McKibben

 

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The Last Stand by David Harris

 

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The Spell of the Tiger by Sy Montgomery

 

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A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold

 

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Game Management by Aldo Leopold

 

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A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean

 

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Dying from Dioxin: A Citizen's Guide to Reclaiming Our Health by Lois Gibbs

 

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Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

 

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Our Stolen Future by Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski and John Peterson Myers

 

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Northeast Regional Food Guide by Jennifer Wilkins Cornell University Press

 

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Who Will Feed China? Wake-Up Call for a Small Planet by Lester Brown

 

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The Spell of the Tiger by Sy Montgomery

 

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Testimony: Writers of the West Speak on Behalf of Utah Wilderness by Stephen Trimble and Terry Tempest Williams, eds.

 

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The Spell of the Tiger by Sy Montgomery

 

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The Last Harvest by Paul Raeburn

 

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Sociobiology: The New Synthesis by Edward O. Wilson

 

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The Biophilia Hypothesis by Stephen R. Kellert and Edward O. Wilson, eds.

 

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Edward Abbey by The Monkey Wrench Gang

 

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Edward Abbey by Desert Solitaire

 

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The New West of Edward Abbey by Ann Ronald

 

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The Making of a Conservative Environmentalist by Gordon Durnil

 

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Beyond the Rangeland Conflict: Toward a West That Works by Dan Dagget

 

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Here and Nowhere Else: Late Seasons of a Farm and its Family by Jane Brox Beacon Press

 

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The Day Before America: Changing the Nature of a Continent by William MacLeish

 

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Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

 

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The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

 

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The Log from the Sea of Cortez by Ed Ricketts and John Steinbeck

 

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Between Pacific Tides: A Study of Tidepools by Ed Ricketts Stanford University Press

 

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Children of the Morning Light by Medicine Story

 

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Return to Creation by Medicine Story

 

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Creative Storytelling With and For Children by Jack McGuire

 

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The Geography of Childhood by Gary Nabhan and Steven Trimble

 

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When Corporations Rule the World by David Korten

 

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Toxic Sludge Is Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies, and the Public Relations Industry by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber

 

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The End of Nature by Bill McKibben

 

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Hope, Human and Wild: True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth by Bill McKibben

 

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The Spell of the Tiger by Sy Montgomery

 

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Your Money or Your Life by Joe Domingus and VIcki Robin

 

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Home is the River by Dutch Salmon

 

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Kill the Cowboy by Charmin Apt Russell

 

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Who Will Feed China? Wake-Up Call for a Small Planet by Lester Brown

 

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The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places by Steven Trimble and Gary Paul Nabhan Beacon Press

 

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Sylva by John Evelyn

 

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The Outermost House by Henry Beston

 

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The Spell of the Tiger by Sy Montgomery

 

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Shopping for a Better World by Alice Tepper Martin

 

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The Sense of Wonder by Rachel Carson

 

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Living the Good Life by Helen Nearing and Scott Nearing

 

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Loving and Leaving the Good Life by Helen Nearing

 

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Light on Age and Dying by Helen Nearing

 

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The Making of a Conservative Environmentalist by Gordon Durnil

 

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The Antibiotic Paradox by Stuart Levy

 

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Evolutionary Medicine: Rethinking the Origins of Disease by Marc Lappé

 

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Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

 

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Taking Population Out of the Equation by Patricia Hynes

 

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Nuclear Wastelands by Arjun Makhijani

 

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Material World: A Global Family Portrait by Peter Menzel

 

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Fundamentals of Ecology by Eugene Odum

 

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Green Gold: Japan, Germany, the United States and the Race for Environmental Technology by Alan Miller and Curtis Moore

 

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The Greening of the Revolution: Cuba's Experiment with Organic Farming by Peter Rosset and Medea Benjamin, eds.

 

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Fidelity by Wendell Berry

 

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The Gift of Good Land by Wendell Berry

 

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Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community by Wendell Berry

 

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The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture by Wendell Berry

 

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What Are People For? by Wendell Berry

 

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Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappé

 

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Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

 

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The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

 

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The Log from the Sea of Cortez by Ed Ricketts and John Steinbeck

 

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Between Pacific Tides: A Study of Tidepools by Ed Ricketts Stanford University Press

 

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Let the Mountains Talk, Let the Rivers Run by David Brower

 

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This is the American Earth by Nancy Newhall, David Brower, Ansel Adams (Illustrator) and Beaumont Newhall (Introduction)

 

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Noah's Choice: The Future of Endangered Species by Charles Mann and Mark Plummer

 

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A Fierce Green Fire by Phil Shabecoff

 

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The Environmental Economic Revolution by Michael Silverstein

 

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Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

 

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The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson

 

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Always, Rachel by Rachel Carson

 

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The Antibiotic Paradox by Stuart Levy

 

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Evolutionary Medicine: Rethinking the Origins of Disease by Marc Lappé

 

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Lean and Clean Management by Joseph Romm

 

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The Day Before America: Changing the Nature of A Continent by William MacLeish

 

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The Amtrak Story by Frank Wilner

 

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War Against the Greens by David Helvarg

 

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The Illusion of Choice: How the Market Economy Shapes Our Destiny by Andrew Bard Schmookler

 

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The War Against the Greens by David Helvarg Sierra Club Books

 

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The Biophilia Hypothesis by Steven Kellert and Edward O. Wilson

 

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Keepers of Life: Discovering Plants Through Native American Stories and Earth Activities for Children by Joe Bruchac and Michael Caduto

 

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Material World: A Global Family Portrait by Peter Menzel Sierra Club Books

 

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The Greening of the Revolution: Cuba's Experiment with Organic Farming by Peter Rosset

 

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Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

 

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Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

 

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Living With Wildlife: How to Enjoy, Cope With, and Protect North America's Wild Creatures Around Your Home and Theirs by Diana Landau and Shelley Stump

 

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The Population Bomb by Paul Ehrlich

 

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Taking Population Out of the Equation by Patricia Hynes

 

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The Biophilia Hypothesis by Steven Kellert and Edward O. Wilson, eds.

 

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The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner

 

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Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

 

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Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

 

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The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken

 

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Breaking the Vicious Circle: Toward Effective Risk Regulation by Steven Breyer Harvard University Press

 

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Groundwork by Roger Swain

 

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The Human Body Shop: The Engineering and Marketing of Life by Andrew Kimbrell

 

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The High Frontier: Exploring the Tropical Rainforest Canopy by Mark Moffett Harvard University Press

 

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Paradigms and Progress: Life Beyond Economics by Hazel Henderson

 

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The Road from Rio: Sustainable Development and the Non-Governmental Movement in the Third World by Julie Fisher

 

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Informational Please Environmental Almanac by Kathleen Courrier

 

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Trees Dorling Kindersley Publishers

 

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Final Forest by William Dietrich

 

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The Naturally Elegant Home by Janet Marinelli

 

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Earth Follies by Joni Seager

 

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Save My Rainforest by Monica Zak

 

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Whale by Judy Allen

 

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Tiger by Judy Allen

 

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Elephant by Judy Allen

 

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Panda by Judy Allen

 

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Save the Elephants by The Sierra Club

 

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American Ground Zero: The Secret Nuclear War by Carol Gallagher

 

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The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken

 

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A Good House: Building a Life on the Land by Richard Manning

 

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The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape by James Howard Kunstler

 

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Fool's Gold: The Fate of Values in a World of Goods by Andrew Schmookler

 

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Visions of Caliban by Jane Goodall and Dale Peterson

 

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Poisoning Our Children: Surviving in A Toxic World by Nancy Sokol-Green

 

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50 Simple Things Kids Can Do To Save the Earth

 

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The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry

 

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The Woman Who Outshone the Sun Children's Book Press

 

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The E Factor by Joel Makower

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