We will add to this list periodically and post on the chat feed in your WYSE Student Portal when new items are added, so check there often!
Pick which items you want to review. You do not need to review them all! (Tip: Pick items from more than one subgroup to cover a broader range of topics)
Please remember your local library is a great place to find these books (and ebooks are often available if you cannot get to your library!).
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Conservation
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Letters to a Young Scientist by Edward O. Wilson ISBN: 978-0871403858 |
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Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman: Conservation Heroes of the American Heartland by Miriam Horn ISBN: 978-0393247343 |
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Resurrection Science: Conservation, De-Extinction and the Precarious Future of Wild Things by ISBN: 978-0813535401 |
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A Scientist Audits the Earth by Stewart Pimm ISBN: 0-8135-3540-9 |
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The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohllenben ISBN 978-1-77164-248-4 |
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Sustainability: A Love Story by Nicole Walker ISBN 978-0-8142-5485-1 |
Agriculture
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Gaining Ground: A Story of Farmers’ Markets, Local Food, and Saving the Family Farm by Forrest Pritchard ISBN 0762787252 |
Environmental Justice/Community Involvement/Action
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Silent Spring by Rachel Carson ISBN: 0-618-25305-x
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Dying from Dioxin: A Citizen’s Guide to Reclaiming our Health and Rebuilding Democracy by Lois Marie Gibbs ISBN 0-89608-525-2 |
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Junk Raft: An Ocean Voyage and a Rising Tide of Activism to Fight Plastic Pollution by Marcus Eriksen ISBN: 978-080705640-0 |
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Dumping In Dixie: Race, Class, And Environmental Quality, Third Edition by Robert Bullard |
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Unequal Protection: Environmental Justice and Communities of Color by Robert Bullard |
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Environmental Justice: Issues, Policies, and Solutions by Bryant Bunyan |
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From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement (Critical America) by Luke Cole |
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“Unequal Protection: The Racial Divide in Environmental Law” by Marianne Lavelle |
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Behavior Change for Nature: A Behavioral Science Toolkit for Practitioners by Rare |
General
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The Story of Stuff: How our obsession with stuff is trashing the planet, our communities, and our health – and a vision for change by Annie Leonard ISBN: 978-1-4391-2566-3 |
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The 100 Thing Challenge: How I got rid of almost everything, remade my life, and regained my soul by Dave Bruno ISBN: 978-0-06-178774-4 |
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Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life by Edward O. Wilson ISBN: 1631490826 |
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Beasts at Bedtime: Revealing the Environmental Wisdom in Children’s Literature by Liam Heneghan ISBN: 9780226431383 |
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Coming of Age at the End of Nature: A Generation Faces Living on a Changed Planet by Julie Dunlap ISBN: 9780226431383 |
Business of Environment
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Force of Nature: The Unlikely Story of Wal-Mart’s Green Revolution by Edward Humes ISBN: 978-0-06-169049-5 |
History: Where it all begins!
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A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold Specifically “The Land Ethic” Chapter. ISBN: 0-19-500777-8 |
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Before Earth Day: The Origins of American Environmental Law, 1945-1970 by Karl Boyd Brooks ISBN: 978-0-7006-1627-5 |
Climate: It’s Getting Hot in Here!
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The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated: The Fate of the World and What We Can DO before It’s Too Late by Thom Hartmann ISBN: 0- 8070-8572-3 |
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A Field Guide To Climate Anxiety by Sarah Jaquette Ray ISBN: 0520343301 |
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Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World ISBN: 9780691181202 |
Water: It’s Everywhere, but can I have a glass?
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When the Rivers Run Dry: Water- The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century by Fred Pearce ISBN: 0- 8070-8572-3 |
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Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future by Mary Robinson ISBN: 978-1-59691-372-1 |
Ocean Preservation/Conservation
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Pristine Seas: Journeys to the Ocean’s Last Wild Places by Enric Sala ISBN: 978-1-4262-1611-4 |