What was the last good environmental book that you read?

Question

I just finished reading "The Living Great Lakes" and the "Mother Earth News Almanac" and they were both really good reads. I've still got "Endgame", "Omnivores Dilema", and "Botany of Desire" sitting on the shelf waiting to be finished.

Anyone been reading anything interesting?

Answer 1

Fallen Angel

Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Micheal Flynn

Baen Publishing Enterprises

ISBN 0-671-72052-X

Answer 2

Trashing the planet by Dixie Ray Lee.

Answer 3

I am reading Big Green Purse by Diane MacEachern.

Answer 4

I've read a couple recently.

This summer I read A Sand County Almanac, and it was pretty good.

Ishmael by Daniel Quinn, I read this year; it's about the environment, but more about the way we think about the world.  It is a really good book.

The novel Jaguar: One Man's Struggle to Establish the World's First Jaguar Preserve is an amazing novel about a scientist's experience fighting to help Jaguars.

Out of these, I enjoyed Ishmael the most, but the others I would suggest to any environmentalist.

Answer 5

Yeah some really interesting stuff

Buddhism and Deep Ecology Henning D H 2002

Biomimicry Inovation Inspired by Nature Benyus J 2002

Nature's Operating instructions The True Biotechnologies Eds Ausubel & Harpignies 2004

Beneath the Surface Critical Essays in Deep Ecology Katz, Light & Rothenberg 2002



Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth Bryant Logan  2006

Answer 6

cradle to cradle, its about buildings and product design. but it really describes in theory a better method than recycling (called "cradle to cradle") i highly recommend it.

Answer 7

Heat by George Monbiot

The Revenge of Gaia by James Lovelock

Answer 8

Omnivore's Dilemma is not light reading, but it is thought provoking, and probably one of the best I've read lately.

I frequently read the same books my son is reading so I can talk to him about them.  Books by Gary Paulsen, (Dogsong, Hatchet, Brian's Hunt, Brian's Return, and others) are light reading directed toward young teens or even pre-teens.  

The books have a decidedly "environmentalist" outlook as illustrated by a quote from the afterword of "Brian's Hunt":  "We are part of nature as much as other animals..."

The novels are not intended to convert anyone to an environmentalist attitude, but the young protagonist in the Brian series can not succeed or even survive until he tunes in to the natural world in which he finds himself, and paying attention allows him to flourish.  The descriptions of natural wonders and the challenges of working with the environment rather than at odds with it are quite engaging.   I think young readers will likely be drawn to observing the natural world more closely in their own lives.  In that regard, I'd classify these novels as "good environmental books."

Answer 9

Soilent Green count ?

Answer 10

"Cradle to Cradle" by William McDonough and Michael Braungart is a good one.