Further Reading. Two. Terri Swearingen: Pollution and Social Justice

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1 Further Reading Each of the eight people about whom I have written was asked to suggest half a dozen books that explore the issues he or she has championed and that would be appropriate for the general reader. The suggested readings are listed below by chapter number and subject. The list under the chapter 10 heading indicates six books I encourage everyone to read. Two. Terri Swearingen: Pollution and Social Justice Michelle Allsopp, Pat Costner, and Paul Johnson, Incineration and Human Health: State of Knowledge of the Impact of Waste Incinerators on Human Health (Exeter, U.K.: Greenpeace Research Laboratories, 2001). Keeny Ausubel, ed., Ecological Medicine: Healing the Earth, Healing Ourselves (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 2004). Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski, and John Peterson Myers, Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival? A Scientific Detective Story (New York: Dutton, 1996). Ken Geiser, Materials Matter: Toward a Sustainable Materials Policy (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001). Carolyn Raffensperger and Joel Tickner, eds., Protecting Public Health and Environment: Implementing the Precautionary Principle (Wasington D.C.: Island Press, 1999). Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber, Trust Us We re Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future (New York: Tracher/ Putnam, 2001). 261

2 262 Further Reading Three. Dave Foreman: Conservation and Biodiversity David Maehr, Reed Noss, and Jeffery Larkin, eds., Large Mammal Restoration (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2001). Reed Noss and Allen Cooperrider, Saving Nature s Legacy (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1994). Michael Soulé and John Terborgh, eds., Continental Conservation (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1999). John Terborgh, Requiem for Nature (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1999). Edward O. Wilson, The Diversity of Life (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992).. The Future of Life (New York: Knopf, 2002). Four. Wes Jackson: Agriculture and Place-Based Communities Wendell Berry, Home Economics (New York: North Point Press, 1987).. Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1977). Daniel Hillel, Out of the Earth: Civilization and the Life of Soil (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992). Andrew Kimbrell, ed., The Fatal Harvest Reader: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2002). Judith D. Soule and Jon K. Piper, Farming in Nature s Image: An Ecological Approach to Agriculture (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1992). William Vitek and Wes Jackson, eds., Rooted in the Land (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996). Five. Helena Norberg-Hodge: Globalization and Living Locally Derrick Jensen, The Culture of the Make Believe (New York: Context Books, 2002).. A Language Older Than Words (New York: Context Books, 2000).

3 Further Reading 263 David Orr, Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment and the Human Prospect (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1994). Majid Rahnema, ed., The Post-Development Reader (London: Zed Books, 1997). E. F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered (New York: Harper and Row, 1973). Michael Schuman, Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age (New York: Routledge, 2000). Six. Werner Fornos: Population and Consumption Lester R. Brown, Who Will Feed China: Wake-up Call for a Small Planet (New York: W. W. Norton, 1995). Joel E. Cohen, How Many People Can the Earth Support? (New York: Norton, 1995). Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich, The Population Explosion (New York: Touchstone, 1990).. One with Nineveh: Politics, Consumption, and the Human Future (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2004). Donella H. Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis L. Meadows, Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update (White River Junction, Vt.: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2004). Mathis Wackernagel and William Rees, Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth (Gabriola Island, B.C.: New Society Publishers, 1996). Seven. Herman Daly: Economics and Livable Communities Peter Barnes, Who Owns the Sky? Our Common Assets and the Future of Capitalism (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2001). Lester Brown, Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth (New York: W. W. Norton, 2001).

4 264 Further Reading Brian Czech, Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train: Errant Economists, Shameful Spenders, and a Plan to Stop Them All (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000). Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins, Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution (Boston: Little, Brown, 1999). Wes Jackson, Becoming Native to This Place (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1994). Carl N. McDaniel and John M. Gowdy, Paradise for Sale: A Parable of Nature (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000). Eight. Stephen Schneider: Climate Change and Scientific Uncertainty Ross Gelbspan, The Heat is ON: The High Stakes Battle over Earth s Threatened Climate (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1997). Stephen H. Schneider and Terry L. Root, eds., Wildlife Response to Climate Change: North American Case Studies (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2001). Stephen H. Schneider, Armin Rosencranz, John O. Niles, eds., Climate Change Policy: A Survey (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2002). Richard C. J. Somerville, The Forgiving Air: Understanding Environmental Change (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996). Clive L. Spash, Greenhouse Economics: Value and Ethics (London: Routledge, 2002). Spencer R. Weart, The Discovery of Global Warming (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003). Nine. David Orr: Environmental Education and Ecological Design J. Glen Gray, Rethinking American Education: A Philosophy of Teaching and Learning (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1984).

5 Further Reading 265 Amory B. Lovins et al., Small Is Profitable: The Hidden Economic Benefits of Making Electrical Resources the Right Size (Snowmass, Colo.: Rocky Mountain Institute, 2002). John Tillman Lyle, Regenerative Design for Sustainable Development (New York: Wiley, 1996). J. R. McNeill, Something New under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (New York: W. W. Norton, 2000). Sim Van der Ryn and Stuart Cowan, Ecological Design (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1996). Alfred North Whitehead, The Aims of Education and Other Essays (New York: Macmillan, 1929). Ten. Carl McDaniel: Life Support and Cultural Change Thomas Berry, The Great Work: Our Way into the Future (New York: Bell Tower, 1999). Lester R. Brown, Plan B: Rescuing a Planet under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble (New York: W. W. Norton, 2003). Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (New York: Oxford, 1949). Reg Morrison, The Spirit in the Gene: Humanity s Proud Illusion and the Laws of Nature (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999). Clive Ponting, A Green History of the World: The Rise and Collapse of Great Civilizations (New York: Penguin Books, 1991). Edward O. Wilson, Consilience (New York: Knopf, 1998).