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Environmental Books

Agriculture, ecology, and sustainable eating
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
Eating Fossil Fuels: Oil, Food And the Coming Crisis in Agriculture by Dale Allen Pfeiffer
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood by Janisse Ray
Fastfood Nation by Eric Schlosser
Land of Little Rain by Mary Austin
Living the Good Life: How to Live Sanely and Simply in a Troubled World by Helen and Scott Nearing
Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World by Paul Stamets
Radical Simplicity: Small Footprints on a Finite Earth by Jim Merkel
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Song for a Blue Ocean by Carl Safina
The Book of Yaak by Rick Bass
The Good Life by Helen and Scott Nearing
The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure by Joseph C. Jenkins
The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
The Rodale Guide to Composting by Jerry Minnich and Marjorie Hunt
Wintergreen by Robert Michael Pyle

Global warming and water conservation
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water by Marc Reisner
Chesapeake Bay Blues: Science, Politics, and the Struggle to Save the Bay by Howard R. Ernst
Field Notes From a Catastrophe, by Elizabeth Kolbert
Stop Global Warming: The Solution is You! by Laurie David
The Weather Makers by Tim Flannery
Turning the Tide: Saving the Chesapeake Bay by Tom Horton
When the Rivers Run Dry by Fred Pearce

Technology and design
A Safe and Sustainable World: The Promise of Ecological Design by Nancy Jack Todd
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine M. Benyus
Breaking Gridlock: Moving Toward Transportation That Works by Jim Motavalli
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough & Michael Braungart
Ecological Design by Sim Van der Ryn and Stuart Cowan
From Ecocities to Living Machines: Principles of Ecological Design by Nancy Todd and John Todd
Green Design published by Mark Batty

Sustainable living
Green Living: The E Magazine Handbook for Living Lightly on the Earth
Hope, Human and Wild: True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth by Bill McKibben
The Lazy Environmentalist: Your Guide to Easy, Stylish, Green Living by Josh Dorfman

Environmental policies and economics
Blessed Unrest by Paul Hawken
Collapse by Jared Diamond
Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future by Bill McKibben
Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect by David W. Orr
Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit by Al Gore
Ecological Literacy: Educating our Children for a Sustainable World (The Bioneers Series) by Michael K. Stone and Zenobia Barlow
Nature's Operating Instructions: The True Biotechnologies (The Bioneers Series) by Kenny Ausubel and J. P. Harpignies
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins
Paradise for Sale: A Parable of Nature by Carl N. McDaniel and John M. Gowdy
Restoring the Earth: Visionary Solutions from the Bioneers by Ken Ausubel
The Hydrogen Economy by Jeremy Rifkin
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, Joseph Chilton Pearce, and Neale Donald Walsch
The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment in an Age of Terror by David W. Orr
Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century by Alex Steffen, Al Gore, and Bruce Sterling

Fiction
The Creation by E.O. Wilson
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman

Anthologies
A Sand County Almanac by Adlo Leopold
Rooted in the Land: Essays on Community and Place by William Vitek and Wes Jackson
The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology by Cheryl Glotfelty and Harold Fromm
The Green Studies Reader: From Romanticism to Ecocriticism by Lawrence Coupe
The New Agrarianism: Land, Culture, and the Community of Life by Eric T. Freyfogle
The Norton Book of Nature Writing by Robert Finch and John Elder
Walden by Henry David Thoreau

Links

Environmental media/news
BuildingGreen and Environmental Building News
GreenBiz
TreeHugger
Baltimore Sun -- Green Tips

Environment programs/challenges
Baltimore Green Week
Campus Climate Challenge                                                                                   Cleaner Greener Baltimore
Earth Day Network
Eat Local Challenge
Green Festivals
Monterey Bay Aquarium: Seafood Watch Program - A Consumer's Guide to Sustainable Seafood

Environmental organizations
American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment (ACUPCC)
Anacostia Watershed Society of Washington DC & Maryland
Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE)
Audubon Naturalist Society
Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Chesapeake Climate Action Network
Chesapeake Sustainable Business Alliance
Clean Water Action
Earth Share
Environment Maryland
Friends of the Chesapeake
Greenpeace Student Network
International Environmental Data Rescue Organization
League of Conservation Voters
Maryland PIRG
National Resources Defense Council
National Wildlife Federation’s Campus Ecology Program
Oceana
Sierra Club
Young Sierrans
The Forest Stewardship Council
The Nature Conservancy
Wildlife Habitat Council
World Watch Institute
World Wildlife Fund

Government agencies
Bureau of Land Management
Environmental Protection Agency
Maryland Commission on Climate Change
Maryland Department of the Environment
Maryland Department of Natural Resources
Maryland Sea Grant
Parks and People: The Foundation for Baltimore Recreation and Parks
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
U.S. Geological Survey