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Alternative Energy Demystified: a Self-Teaching Guide by Stan Gibilisco
This book shines light on the various energy sources and technologies available today. It begins by covering a wide range of heat sources, including wood, corn, coal, oil, gas, electricity and solar heat. This guide explains the technical basics of many different forms of energy and gives a thorough overview of the various sources of energy. |
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Alternative Energy: political, economic, and social feasibility by Christopher Simon.
Systematic approaches to various alternative sources of energy, discussing in simple terms the current state of public policy, energy technology and the political, economic, and social feasibility of the alternative energy. Perfect for less technically-minded participants to help choose the energy future for their community. |
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: a year of food life by Barbara Kingsolver
With characteristic poetry and pluck, Barbara Kingsolver and her family describe their move to buy only food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. A passionate case for putting the kitchen back at the center of family life and locally-made food the center of the American diet. |
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Apollo’s Fire: Igniting America’s Clean-Energy Economy by Jay Inslee
The author, U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee, calls for a revolution in how we produce and consume energy, a revolution that will transform our economy with new technologies, reinvest in our communities, and create millions of new "green collar" jobs. |
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Architecture: nature by Philip Jodidio
Examine the relationship between nature and architecture: nature as inspiration; imitating and mimicking natural patterns; landscape design; ecologically sensitive structures, and ways the natural world has inspired architects.
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Atlas of Climate Change: Mapping the World’s Greatest Challenge by Kirstin Dow
Recent events demonstrate the price of a changing climate as heat waves, droughts, and flooding cause deaths among vulnerable populations, destroy livelihoods, drive people from their homes and create millions of environmental refugees. This book gives shape and meaning to the key issues and debates around climate change. |
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Atlas of Global Development: a Visual Guide to the World’s Greatest Challenges
This book vividly illustrates the key development challenges facing our world today. Social, economic, and environmental issues that face the planet are presented by easy-to read, colorful world maps, tables, graphs, text and photographs. The book includes country comparisons of social indicators like life expectancy, infant mortality, safe water, population, growth, poverty and energy efficiency. |
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Beginner’s Guide to Natural Living by Larry Brown
Learn why it’s a good idea to shop at local farmer’s markets, local natural food stores, or sustainable-product chains like Whole Foods and Wild Oats, and the health advantages of natural living. |
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Be the Change you Want to See in the World: 365 Things you can do for Yourself and Your Planet by Julie Fisher-McGarry
Organized by month, the author includes tips on living green, such as where to purchase organic and fair trade products, how to unplug from the grid, and how to nourish the earth and create a sustainable lifestyle. |
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Better World Handbook: small changes that make a big difference by Ellis Jones
Learn about the global challenges we face, solutions to those challenges, and a wide range of follow-up resources that cover everything from fair trade coffee to alternative news sources to hybrid cars.
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Better World Shopping Guide: every dollar makes a difference by Ellis Jones
A comprehensive, up-to-date set of rankings on the social and environmental responsibility of businesses and corporations. Use this book to guide your choices and voice your concerns about creating a better environment by purchasing wisely.
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Beyond Oil: the View from Hubbert’s Peak by Kenneth S. Deffeyes
This book explains why the decline of our most precious fuel is inevitable and also how challenging it can be to cope with what comes next. |
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Biodiesel: Growing a New Energy Economy by Greg Pahl
Get practical advice on bio-based fuel. The author of this book reviews the history of the biofuels industry and assesses its recent successes and current shortcomings. |
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Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists are fueling the Climate Crisis— and what we can do to Avert Disaster by Ross Gelbspan.
The author, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, exposes the forces that perpetuate the crisis of global warming- with a prescription for saving the planet. |
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Bottomless Well: the Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy by Peter W. Huber.
This book explains why energy is not scarce, why the quality of energy is more important than quantity, and why "waste" of energy is both necessary and desirable. |
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Building Green: a complete how-to guide to alternative building methods: earth, plaster, straw bale, cordwood, cob, living roofs by Clarke Snell.
With more than 1,200 how-to photos, this book takes you through the construction of a small building that incorporates a wide spectrum of alternative techniques and materials to create an attractive and environmentally responsible alternative or green home. |
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Building the Green Economy: Success Stories from the Grassroots by Kevin Danaher.
This book shows how community groups, families, and individual citizens have taken action to protect food and water, clean up their neighborhoods, and strengthen their local economies. |
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Building with Vision: optimizing and finding alternatives to wood by Dan Imhoff.
Sustainable building, by reusing and substituting recycled products for wood with alternative materials: adobe, bamboo, or compressed soil blocks. Includes exteriors, insulation, building methods, recycled materials, and surface and finish materials.
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Bush Verses the Environment by Robert S. Devine.
The author, a veteran journalist, examines the environmental policies of the Bush administration. This book shows how the White House is quietly undermining the entire system of environmental safeguards that has developed over the past 30 years. |
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The Business Guide to Sustainability: practical strategies and tools for organizations by Darcy Hitchcock.
Demystify 'sustainability' and learn sustainable frameworks and practices, incorporating them into daily work for both reduced environmental impacts and real cash savings.
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Carbon Buster’s Home Energy Handbook: slowing climate change and saving money by Godo Stoyke.
Review this detailed carbon accounting of a family's carbon emissions and learn how to reduce them, systematically analyzing energy costs and evaluating which measures yield the highest returns for the environment and the pocketbook. |
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Chilling Stars: A New Theory of Climate Change by Henrik Svensmark.
In this book, you’ll learn about the theory that sub-atomic particles from exploded stars have more impact on the climate than manmade CO2. |
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Citizen-powered Energy Handbook: community solutions to a global crisis by Greg Pahl.
Explore successful renewable energy technologies and strategies that can be adopted by individuals and communities, bringing people together to create collective energy security for a neighborhood or town while strengthening local economies.
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The Clean Tech Revolution: The Next Big Growth and Investment Opportunity by Ron Pernick.
By highlighting eight major clean-tech sectors, this book uncovers how investors, entrepreneurs, and individuals can profit from the next wave of technological innovation. |
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Cob Builders Handbook: you can hand-sculpt your own home by Becky Bee.
One-third of the world's population lives in homes made of unbaked earth, including 50,000 still in use in England today, most built in the 18th and 19th Centuries. This building technique has stood the test of time. It is also, unfortunately, one of the many environmentally friendly techniques nearly lost.
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Complete Guide to Reducing Energy Costs by Consumer Reports.
Slash your energy bills with expert, money-saving tips and easy-to-follow advice on home improvement, appliances, and autos. |
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Complete Idiot’s Guide to Green Living by Trish Riley.
This book provides an overview of global warming and environmental degradation of air, water, and soil; what sustainable living is and how to do it; how to cut down on carbon output with alternative cars and fuels; and environmentally friendly home and lawn care products. |
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Complete Organic Pregnancy by Deirdre Dolan. ISBN: 0060887451; ISBN13 – 9780060887452.
The authors address how to minimize exposure to the invisible toxins that surround us in everything from food, cleaning products and cosmetics to furniture, rugs, air and water. |
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Composting: An Easy Household Guide by Nicky Scott. ISBN: 1933392746; ISBN13 – 9781933392745
This book contains everything you need to know about composting, from the different containers available, to what to put in them and to how to use the resulting compost. |
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Complete Tightwad Gazette: promoting thrift as a viable alternative lifestyle by Amy Dacyczyn.
Learn how to save money and resources with this compilation of sensible advice, hints, recipes, tips, tricks, and strategies. |
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Consumer’s Guide to Effective Environmental Choices by Warren Leon and Michael Brower.
A clear, practical, and rational overview of the choices you can make that will have a large positive impact on the environment--and other fears you can cross off your list.
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Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming by Bjorn Lomborg.
This author argues that many of the elaborate and expensive actions now being considered to stop global warming will cost hundreds of billions of dollars, are often based on emotional rather than scientific assumptions, and may very well have little impact on the world's temperature. |
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The Country in the City: the greening of the San Francisco Bay Area by Richard Walker.
Learn how the Bay Area got its green grove in this positive political and environmental story about the groups who helped establish and defend the many greenbelts around San Francisco from the 19th Century to the present.
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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough.
This book offers a new approach to the concept of recycling. The authors propose that products might be designed so that, after their useful life, they provide nourishment for something new. |
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The Creation: an appeal to save life on earth by Edward O. Wilson.
Learn about the survival of life on this planet, which according to the author is more endangered than ever before. The author, drawing on his own personal experiences as a world-leading biologist, prophesies that at least half the species of plants and animals on Earth could either be gone or fated for early extinction by the end of the century. |
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Creative Recycling in Embroidery by Val Holmes.
Recycling is one of the hottest new trends in embroidery. Learn the techniques of both hand and machine embroidery using different types of salvaged material—from fabric, paper, dried flowers, and tree bark, to metal waste, plastic, broken jewelry, and personal souvenirs. |
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Drawing Lines in the Forest: creating wilderness areas in the Pacific Northwest by Kevin Marsh.
This book looks at the process of establishing boundaries around wild lands. It offers insights that are relevant to all regions of the United States, and that may change how we think of the wilderness and also American land conservation in general.
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The Drinking Water Book: how to eliminate harmful toxins from your water by Colin Ingram.
A level-headed look at the serious issues surrounding America's drinking water supply, with unbiased reporting on what's in your water and how to ensure the water you drink is safe. Learn the latest scientific research, different kinds of filters and bottled waters, and ratings for specific products on the market. |
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Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit by Al Gore.
This book, first published in 1992, helped place the environment on the national agenda. It focuses on the threats that everyday choices pose to our climate, water, soil, and diversity of plant and animal life. |
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Earth under Fire: How Global Warming is Changing the World by Gary Braasch.
In 1999 the author, a photojournalist, began a journey around the world to observe and document environmental changes resulting from the warming of our planet. In this book, he brings us along to witness first hand what he saw as he crossed both the Antarctic and Arctic Circles, trekked in the Andes, and followed scientists into the field on four continents. |
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Eco Design: the sourcebook by Alastair Fuad-Luke.
More than 700 useful and beautiful consumer products that make a minimal impact on the earth, with detailed, illustrated entries of products and an extensive reference section with new and hybrid materials, manufacturers, design studios, and green organizations.
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The Eco Guide to Careers that Make a Difference by Environmental Careers Organization.
This guide to environmental careers takes an issue-oriented approach, identifying 19 environmental, conservation, and sustainable development concerns, featuring interviews with specialists, advice for people who want to get involved, and what resources are available for those who want to learn more.
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EcoNest: creating sustainable sanctuaries of clay, straw and timber by Paula Baker-Laporte.
An introduction to accessible alternative energy sources, including solar panels, wind generators, hydrogen fuel cells, wood, hydroelectric, and more. Great for anyone who gets electricity and heat from traditional oil-burning sources, but wants to be free of fossil-fuels.
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Ecovillages: new frontiers for sustainability by Jonathan Dawson.
Ecovillages are local communities that aim to minimize their ecological impact but maximize human well-being and happiness, and they are springing up all over the world. Learn about the ecovillage movement and the Global Ecovillage Network.
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Elements of Organic Gardening: Highgrove, Clarence House, Birkhall by Charles, Prince of Wales
This book is a practical guide to organic gardening as practiced at Highgrove and the Prince of Wales' two other gardens. The Prince explains his techniques for maintaining healthy soil, planting varieties and sustaining an ecosystem in harmony with nature. |
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Empty Ocean: Plundering the World’s Marine Life by Richard Ellis
This book gives a compelling view of the damage we have caused to life in the sea and what we can do about it. Through fascinating portraits of a wide array of creatures, the author introduces us to the many forms of sea life that humans have fished, hunted, and collected over the centuries, leaving the once-teeming ocean greatly depleted. |
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Environmental Disasters, Natural Recovery and Human Responses by Roger del Moral
This book provides a comprehensive summary of the diverse ways in which nature disrupts humanity and how humans have coped. |
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Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy by Hazel Henderson
This book takes an inside look at the green economy that already exists and is growing by leaps and bounds. |
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The Everything Green Living Book by Diane Gow McDilda
Learn easy ways to conserve energy, protect your family’s health and help save the environment. |
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Experimental Eco Design: architecture/fashion/product by Cara Brower
Designers embrace environmentally sound working practices and techniques. An extensive reference section included sources of "green" materials, manufacturers, design studios, and organizations for environmentally considerate design. |
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Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products – Who’s at Risk and What’s at Stake for American Power by Mark Schapiro
Exploring recent changes in the European Union - where strict consumer safety regulations have demanded manufacturing safer products – the author shows that short of strong government intervention, the U.S. will lose whatever claim it has to commercial supremacy. |
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The Farmers’ Market Book: growing food, cultivating community by Jennifer Meta Robinson
Learn about the market in Bloomington, Indiana, and the social, ecological, and economic power of farmers' markets.
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Feeding the Fire: The Lost History and Uncertain Future of Mankind’s Energy Addiction by Mark Eberhart.
The author examines the history of energy, and reveals how we became energy-dependent creatures. |
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Field Guide to Buying Organic by Luddene Perry
This book provides a self-test that allows you to determine your current organic shopping habits and the type of organic shopper you want to become. It serves a primer on organic food standards, labels and seals. |
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Field Notes from a Catastrophe: man, nature and climate change by Elizabeth Kolbert.
View every angle of global warming through interviews with researchers and environmentalists. Drop the politics and learn the science and the studies, and the frightening parallels to lost ancient civilizations through personal tales of those who are being affected most--the people who make their homes near the poles and are watching their worlds disappear. |
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Food Not Lawns: how to turn your yard into a garden and your neighborhoods into a community by H.C. Flores.
Follow this nine-step plan to build fertile soil, raise your own food, promote biodiversity, and increase natural habitat in your own "paradise garden"—on a tiny city plot or a half acre of lawn—for a stronger, healthier neighborhood.
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Forest Gardening: Cultivating an Edible Landscape by Robert Hart
Based on the model of a natural woodland, a forest garden incorporates a wide variety of useful plants, including fruit and nut trees, perennial herbs, and vegetables. Practical features of the book include design guidelines for creating your own perennial food-producing garden, lists of recommended plants and varieties keyed to different climates. |
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Freedom from Oil: How the Next President can End the United States’ Oil Addiction by David Sandalow
The author explores what would happen if the next President made breaking the United States' addiction to oil a top priority. |
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From Windmills to Hydrogen Fuel Cells: Discovering Alternative Energy by Sally Morgan
This book discusses alternatives to traditional energy sources that contribute to global warming. |
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Gaiam Real Goods Solar Living Sourcebook: Your Complete Guide to Renewable Energy Technologies and Sustainable Living by John Schaeffer
This fully updated, 30th Anniversary edition book, is the ultimate resource on renewable energy, sustainable living, alternative construction, green building, homesteading, off-the-grid living and alternative transportation.
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Gaia’s Garden: a guide to home-scale permaculture by Toby Hemenway
Organic garden design, with illustrations, information about building ecosystems, a designer's checklist, plants for attracting wildlife, and helpful resources.
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Gardening for the Future of the Earth by Howard-Yana Shapiro
Learn the techniques of the great innovators of organic gardening, to create a flourishing plot that also helps to renew and preserve the earth's resources.
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Global Warming: Personal Solutions for a Healthy Planet by Christopher Spence
Global warming has been described as the biggest environmental threat facing humanity. People fear potentially catastrophic consequences, but there has been a disturbing lack of understanding about global warming and what can be done about it- until now. This book breaks through the jargon, and offers both a clear description of the problem and solutions. |
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Global Warning: The Last Chance for Change by Paul Brown.
This author discusses technologies and renewable energy solutions that can reduce our impact on global warming. |
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Good Green Kitchens: the ultimate resource for creating a beautiful, healthy, eco-friendly kitchen by Jennifer Roberts
In-depth information for selecting eco-friendly designed kitchen materials and products, including an extensive resource list.
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Got Sun? Go Solar: Get Free Renewable Energy to Power your Grid-tied Home by Rex A. Ewing
This book explains to grid-connected homeowners how to use free energy from the sun and wind to reduce or even eliminate electric bills. With rebates and incentives from most states, installing a home system is economically viable and environmentally responsible. |
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Green Babies, Sage Moms: The Ultimate Guide to Raising your Organic Baby by Lynda Fassa.
This book is a guide for new mothers on how to raise a “green” family simply and inexpensively. |
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The Green Belt Movement: sharing the approach and the experience by Wangari Maathai
The Green Belt Movement is an internationally acclaimed tree-planting movement founded and run by and for Kenyans. They have planted millions of trees throughout East Africa to provide fuel and food, stop soil erosion and environmental degradation. An outstanding indigenous movement working to influence Africa's future.
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Green Book: The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time by Elizabeth Rogers.
This guide offers hundreds of simple steps readers can take to help save the Earth and pinpoints the smallest changes that have the biggest impact. |
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Green Building Products: the GreenSpec guide to residential building materials edited by Alex Wilson
2nd ed.
Descriptions and manufacturer contact information for nearly 1,600 environmentally preferable products and materials for all phases of residential construction, from site work to flooring to renewable energy. Includes key environmental considerations and product selection.
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Green Business Directory, 2001: consumer guide to environmentally sound businesses by King County Dept. of Natural Resources, 2001.
Consumer guide to environmentally sound businesses. |
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Green Chic: Saving the Earth in Style by Christie Matheson
This book offers dozens of author-tested, earth-friendly ideas that help you be chic while saving the planet. |
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Green Clean: The Environmentally Sound Guide to Cleaning your Home by Linda Mason
This book is a step-by-step guide to cleaning better while using nontoxic, eco-friendly products. It breaks environmentally conscious cleaning into simple principles and easily mastered techniques. |
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Green by Design: creating a home for sustainable living by Angela Dean
Learn how to think about building sustainable homes through this hands-on guide to creating a sustainable home, with floor plans and full-color photographs of more than a dozen successful green homes.
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Green Gardener’s Guide: Simple, Significant Actions to Protect & Preserve our Planet by Joe Lamp’l.
With a platform that encourages earth-friendly gardening, the author offers tips that save water, conserve resources and promote healthy and safe plant growth. |
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The “Green” Gardener: Working with Nature, Not Against It by Brenda Little
This illustrated manual includes easy-to-follow information on such tasks as improving the soil, saving water, mulching, and creating green gardens. |
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Green Homes by Sergi Duran. ISBN: 0061348260; ISBN13 – 9780061348266
Filled cover to cover with full-color photographs, architectural plans, and detailed drawings, this book features more than 20 projects, which explore various aspects of green design. |
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Green House: new directions in sustainable architecture by Alanna Stang
See a variety of ways architects have achieved sustainability, whether by incorporating common-sense strategies of solar orientation, natural ventilation, and recycling of household water or by making use of cutting-edge materials and building technologies such as geothermal heat pumps and sophisticated smog filtration systems. |
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Green Living: the E magazine handbook for living lightly on the earth by the editors of E/the environmental magazine
This work grew out of a regular feature from the publication on how to lessen your impact on the environment.
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Green Places to Stay by Alastair Sawday. ISBN: 1901970779; ISBN13 – 9781901970777
This guide features destinations around the world that go the extra mile to make sure your vacation is an ecologically responsible one, including tree houses in rainforests, fair-trade tented camps, organic mountain farms and eco-chic hotels. |
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Green Roof Plants: a resource and planting guide by Edmund C. Snodgrass
You’ll find photographs and information on more than 200 species of drought-tolerant plants and cultivars, with data on moisture needs, heat tolerance, hardiness, bloom color, foliage, and height. Includes suggestions on planting, along with helpful lists organized by bloom and foliage color and plant type. |
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Green Roofs: ecological design and construction by Earth Pledge
Explore the benefits and design possibilities of environmentally conceived roof gardens, green roofs in the context of urban design and as a solution to such environmental challenges as the urban heat island effect, storm water runoff, resource use, native species, and human health. |
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Green Scissors 99: cutting wasteful and environmentally harmful spending. by Friends of the Earth
The recommendations address a broad range of threats to citizens, wildlife and natural resources in every state, offering policymakers 72 common-sense recommendations on how to cut more than $50.7 billion in spending and subsidies that hurt the environment. |
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Green Seduction: money, business, and the environment by Bill Streever
Drawn from the experience of environmental workers, a look at the battlegrounds where business engages—for better or worse--the environment.
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Green Self-Build Book: How to Design and Build your Own Eco-home by Jon Broome
This book gives an overview of the different methods of sustainable and eco-friendly construction techniques, and presents the information in a way that is relevant to anyone who is planning a do-it-yourself project, as well as for housing professionals, students and teachers. |
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Green to Gold: How Smart Companies use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage by Daniel Esty
This book highlights practical 'how-to' suggestions that will help bankers, analysts, fund managers and investors stay on top of the “green wave.” |
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Greening your Cleaning by Deirdre Imus
Change the way you clean and keep your home wholesome and healthy.
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Grow Organic by Doug Oster.
Learn to garden cooperatively with nature using this book which contains more than 250 tips and ideas for growing flowers, veggies, lawns and more. |
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Green Wealth by Kevin Noon.
This book explains how individuals can create environmental “banks,” which are established by converting useless property into one of several types of environmentally protected land. |
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Growing Green: animal-free organic techniques by Jenny Hall
An essential guide to organic growing, perfect for absolute beginners and experienced professionals, introducing stockfree-organics and showing that animal-free cultivation produces healthier crops and fewer weeds, pests and diseases.
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Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen by Anna Lappe
Here’s a savvy and practical guide to organic eating for urban dwellers. The author gives the reader compelling arguments for buying organic food, revealing the pesticide industry's influence on government regulations, and the extent of the pollution in our waterways and bodies. |
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Healthy House Building for the New Millennium: a design and construction guide by John Bower
Indoor air pollution and ways to solve it, from foundations, flooring, cabinets, painting, filters, to ventilation and more, with a complete set of detailed house plans. |
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Heat: how to stop the planet from burning by George Monbiot
An ambitious and far-reaching program to cut our carbon dioxide emissions to the point where the environmental scales start tipping back--away from catastrophe. He supports his proposals with a rigorous investigation into what works, what doesn't, how much it costs, and what the problems might be.
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Hell and High Water: Global Warming – The Solution and the Politics – and What we Should do by Joseph Romm.
This book serves as a wake-up call to the country. It is a critique of America’s environmental and energy policies as well as a passionate call to action. |
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The HOK Guidebook to Sustainable Design by Sandra Mendler
This updated edition on sustainable design includes extensive new design process information, updated case studies, and post-occupancy evaluations organized to support use of the USGBC's LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Green Building Rating System. |
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Homeowners Guide to Energy Independence: alternative power sources for the average American by Christine Woodside
An introduction and guide to accessible alternative energy sources, including solar panels, wind generators, hydrogen fuel cells, wood, hydroelectric, and more, whether you want to supplement your traditional fuel-burning furnace, or completely revamp your home.
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