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Recommended Reading and Viewing

Note: The titles listed on this page were submitted by members of Ecology’s sustainability team. Ecology does not necessarily endorse or agree with content.

Books

• Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine Benyus, 1997
• Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough, 2002
• Earth, The Sequel by Miriam Horn and Fred Krupp, 2008
• Fostering Sustainable Behavior by Doug McKenzie Mohr and William Smith, 1999
• The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community by David Korten, 2006
• The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight by Thom Hartman, 2004
• The Natural Step by David Cook, 2005
• Natural Capitalism- Creating the Next Industrial Revolution by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins, 1999
• The Necessary Revolution by Peter Senge, 2008
• Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan, 2006
• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, 1963
• Small-Mart Revolution by Michael Schuman, 2006
• Who Owns the Sky? Our Common Assets and the Future of Capitalism by Peter Barnes, 2001
• Who Owns the Sun? People, Politics, and the Struggle for a Solar Economy by Daniel Berman and John T. O’Conner, 1996

Magazines

• High Country News
• Sustainability Industries
• YES! Magazine

Videos

• Affluenza
• Architecture to Zucchini
• Biomimicry- Learning from Nature
• Blue Gold
• Blue Vinyl
• A Crude Awakening
• Crapshot- The Gamble with Our Wastes
• Deconstructing Supper
• Designing a Great Neighborhood
• El Dorado
• The Ecological Footprint
• Escape from Affluenza
• Going Green: Every Home an Eco-Home
• Heavy Metal: An American Pollution Story
• Indigenous People: Humans and Environmental Sustainability
• Livable Landscapes: By Chance or by Choice
• Native Water Talk
• No Room to Move
• Oil on Ice
• Paradise with Side Effects
• Power from the People-Breaking Barriers to Renewable Energy Distribution
• The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
• Rising Waters: Global Warming and the Fate of the Pacific Islands
• River Ways
• Shadow of the Salmon
• Subdivide and Conquer: A Modern Western
• Sustainable Communities
• Taken for a Ride
• Thirst
• Up Close and Toxic
• Washington’s High Performance School: Raising the Bar
• Who Owns Nature? An Evening with Robert Kennedy, Jr.