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Creation Care
(formerly Green Cross) published by Evangelical Environmental Network
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Earth Letter
published by Earth Ministry
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| In Balance (formerly Enough!)
is published by the Center for a New American Dream
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Eco-Justice
Notes
a free email subscription to weekly essays on Eco-Justice; subscribe on the website. |
Here are some interesting books on a variety of
environment and lifestyle issues. Many are available at our local libraries.
| Ayres, Ed
God’s Last Offer: Negotiating for a Sustainable Future
With six billion natives and an onslaught of problems, old Mother Earth has
become a strange and agitated place. What's happening, and what can we do about
it? God's Last Offer sorts through the jumble of rumor, hyperbole, and laziness
that colors environmental coverage today, and emphasizes interdependence and
connectedness as it warns and inspires us to take heed -- now.
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| Berry, Thomas
The Great Work
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| Brower, Michael and Warren Leon
The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices:
Practical Advice from the Union of Concerned Scientists
The first comprehensive look at the full range of modern consumer
activities, identifying those that cause the most environmental damage and
those that cause the least.
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| deGraaf, John, David Wann and Thomas Naylor
Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic
Based on the popular PBS TV program - now in book form!
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| Dominguez, Joseph and Vicki Robin
Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and
Achieving Financial Independence
The authors set forth a step-by-step regimen that involves
accounting for every penny you spend, avoiding every expense you can, and
stashing all your savings in Treasury bonds until you're able to live off the
interest. The authors write eloquently of the mental and emotional toll taken by
a life of ceaseless getting and spending. Many readers--perhaps most--may never
follow the book's prescription in its entirety, but few will come away without
questioning their own priorities.
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| Durning, Alan
How Much is Enough?
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| Hawken, Paul, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
Hawken is the author of The Ecology of Commerce (1993) and is best known
for his PBS series Growing a Business. Amory and Hunter Lovins founded
the Rocky Mountain Institute, which promotes efficient resource use, and Amory
has been called the "godfather" of alternative energy. The three have joined
forces here to set a blueprint for sustainable development. The authors argue
that it is possible for companies to reduce energy and materials consumption by
up to 90 percent but still increase profits, production, and employment. They
outline the four strategies that underlie "natural capitalism" and, using
hypercars and neighborhood land use and superefficient buildings as examples,
show how these strategies are being applied. They also identify ways resources
are being wasted and explain the principles of "resource productivity."
Throughout their book, the authors indicate new business opportunities that will
be created by practicing "natural capitalism."
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| Hayes, Denis
The Earth Day Guide to Planet Repair
Good guide to the problems and what we need to do
about them.
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| McDonough, Bill and Michael Braungart
Cradle to Cradle
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| McKibben, Bill
Hope, Human and Wild: True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth
In lyrical, penetrating essays, Bill McKibben offers an optimistic response to
his bestselling The End of Nature, focusing on successful community ventures to
preserve the wilderness and reverse environmental damage. From his home in the
Adirondack Mountains to a city in Brazil and a state in India, McKibben searches
for realistic models for the future of the planet.
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| Stein, Sara Bonnett
Noah's Garden: Restoring the Ecology of Our Own Backyards
This book shows us how our landscape style of neat yards and gardens has
devastated suburban ecology, wiping out entire communities of plants and
animals. When Stein realized what her intensive efforts at making a garden
had done, she set out to "ungarden." It interweaves an account of
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