Books

Most books are available through your public library or local bookstore. Check your library catalog. Click here to access online public library catalogs by county. If you do not find a book at your public library request an interlibrary loan. This is a free service available at all PA public libraries with your library card. You may also search ACCESS PA by clicking here. This will enable you to search all libraries in PA. At this site look under "Find A Book" and click on "Access Pennsylvania Database". In upper left click on "Search the Database" tab .  At next site click "here" at top of page above PA map. At next site click "All Libraries".  Click "Title" at next site then paste in book title. Click "Search". If the book is available in the state all books will be listed. Only a few libraries automatically update their holdings on this site so an individual library may actually have a book even though it is not listed on the ACCESS PA site.  Best to contact your local library for an interlibrary loan if you do not see the book you desire as they have current search engines.  Books published within the past 6 months are not available for interlibrary loan.

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One book is available online in full digital text. Follow directions at book title below.

• 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth - Javna, Javna and Javna
  
• Affluenza - John DeGraaf
• An Inconvenient Truth - Al Gore

book + movie

• Better Basics for the Home: Simple Solutions for Less Toxic Living - Annie Berthold-Bond
• Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature - Janine Benyus
• Bringing Nature Home - Doug Tallamy  Click on links for further info on Dr. Tallamy's research.

Well delineates need to replace suburban landscape with native plants to increase biodiversity. 96% of song birds depend on insects to feed their young. Beneficial native insects are dependent on specific native plants for various life phases.

• Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Marc Reisner

Details the history of the crazy water ways of the west.  John Wesley Powell, 140 years ago, cautioned against any settlement in the Great American Desert (the plains).  We are profligate with water as with so many other things.

• Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy- Arjun Makhijani, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research and Nuclear Policy Research Institute.

Presents a roadmap for how a zero-CO2 U.S. economy can be achieved within the next 30-50 years without the use of nuclear power, without acquiring carbon credits from other countries, with technologies that are now available or foreseeable, and at reasonable cost. Prepublication copy online here.

• The China Study - T. Colin Campbell and Thomas M. Campbell II

Discusses findings from longitudinal research into the relationship between diet, nutrition and health, with significant questions drawn about the viability and value of protein, particularly animal-based.  Recommended by Rolf

• Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices - Union of Concerned Scientists
• Cradle to Cradle - William McDonough

Centers on principle of waste equals food, design products to biodegrade or be nourishment for something new. Book made from plastic resins + inorganic fillers, waterproof, extremely durable.

• Deep Economy - Bill McKibben
• Earth Odyssey -  Mark Hertsgaard
• Ecotopia - Ernest Callenbach
• End of Nature - Bill McKibben
• The End of Oil - Paul Roberts
• Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal - Eric Schlosser

Full text available online with Union County Library card. Copy book title then use  link and your Union County Public Library card number. At POWER Library site under "Find A Book" click on "netLibrary". Paste in book title and click "Search". Scroll down book info and click on "View this ebook". Read entire text by clicking "Next" in upper right corner of each page.  Use this process to see if other books you desire to read digitally are available on netLibrary.

•  Fat Land - Greg Critser
• Four-Season Harvest:How to harvest fresh, organic vegetables from your home garden all year - Eliot Coleman
• Greening Congregations Handbook - Tanya Barnett, ed.
• Harvest for Hope - Jane Gododall

Highly recommended by a LAN person, "well-written and it is the reason I have found a vegetarian, organic, sustainable lifestyle for myself, my son, and my husband. "

• Healthy Foods from Healthy Soils - Elizabeth Patten & Kathy Lyons

For educators K-6

• Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning - George Monbiot 

Does anyone know where to obtain this book?

• Hungry Planet - Peter Menzel
• Keepers of Life: Discovering Plants Through Native American Stories and Earth Activities for Children - Michael Caduto
• Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder - Richard Louv
• The Long Emergency - James Kunstler
• Low Carbon Diet: A 30 Day Program to Lose 5,000 Pounds - David Gershon

Book reviews: Empowerment Institute and Christian Science Monitor.

• Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die  - Chip and Dan Heath

Authors are a Stanford Business School professor and an education entrepreneur respectively...."powerfully useful checklist for understanding how connections can be wired between ideas and people – between your ideas and the people you hope will be struck by them"....Common thread why ideas stick is "summed up in acronym SUCCESs simple, unexpected, concrete, credible, emotional, and story-containing." Christian Science Monitor review. 

• Material World - Peter Menzel
• Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution - Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins. Full text downloadable at link. 
• The Natural Step for Communities - Sarah James

LAN discussion course book.

• The Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollan
• Pacific Edge - Kim Stanley Robinson
• Plan B 2.0 - Lester Brown

Scroll down link to read a sample chapter.

• Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity - Eric Chivian, M.D.

Project of the Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Medical School. 
To be published by Oxford Press.  Interim summary downloadable at link, 11.67 MB.

• Stuff: The Secret Life of Things - John Ryan & Alan Durning
• Superbia! 31 Ways to Create Sustainable Neighborhoods  - Dave Wann & Dan Chiras
• Susquehanna River Birding and Wildlife Trail - Audubon Pennsylvania
• Teaching About Climate Change: Cool Schools Tackle Global Warming - T. Grant & G. Littlejohn, ed.
• Teaching Green – The Elementary Years: Hands-on Learning in Grades K-5 - T. Grant & G. Littlejohn, ed.
• Triple Bottom Line: Why Sustainability is Transforming the Best-Run Companies and How It Can Work for You - Andrew W. Savitz, Morgan McVicar
• Worms Eat My Garbage - Mary Appelhof. Classic vermicomposting (worm composting) book, funny and informative.

Children's Literature LINK

Native Plant References LINK

Please Contact LAN with further reading recommendations.