Suggested Readings

The following are a selection of suggested readings on sustainability.

Quick Links to Subject Areas:

Global Environment
Systems Theory
Environmental Education
Ecological Industry
Philosophical
Sustainable Economics
Publications

Global Environment

• Brown, Lester; Flavin, Christopher; and French, Hilary.  State of the World 2001—A World Watch Institute Report on Progress Toward a Sustainable Society.  New York:  W.W. Norton & Company, 2001
  
  
• Beder, Sharon.  Global Spin—The Corporate Assault On Environmentalism.  White River Junction, Vermont, Green Books and Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 1997.
  Davis, Devra. When Smoke Ran Like Water.  Basic Books, 2002.
  
  
• Friedman, Thomas L.. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century. Farrar. Straus and Giroux, 2005.
  
  
• Speth, James Gustave. Red Sky At Morning. Yale University Press, 2004.
  
  
• Wilson, Edward O.. The Future of Life. Vintage Books, 2002.

Systems Theory

• Bateson, Gregory.  Mind and Nature, A Necessary Unity.  Cresskill, New Jersey, 2002.
  
  
• Gladwell, Malcolm.  The Tipping Point—How Little Things Can Make A Difference.  Boston:  Little, Brown & Company, 2000.
  
  
• Senge, Peter M.. The Fifth Discipline. Doubleday,1990.
  
  
• Sweeney, Linda Booth. When a Butterfly Sneezes. Pegasus Communications Inc., 2001.
  
  
• Wolfram, Stephen.  A New Kind of Science.  Champaign, Illinois:  Stephen Wolfram.  2002.

Environmental Education

• Brower, Michael and Leon, Warren.  The Consumer’s Guide to Effective Environmental Choices—Practical Advice From The Union of Concerned Scientists.  New York:  Three Rivers Press, 1999.
   
  Ehrlich, Paul and Ehrlich, Anne.  Betrayal of Science and Reason—How Anti-Environmental Rhetoric Threatens Our Future.  Washington D.C.:  Island Press, 1996.
• Elgin, Duane.  Voluntary Simplicity—Toward a Way of Life that Is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich.  New York, Quill Press, 1993.
• Kimbrell, Andrew, edt.  Fatal Harvest—The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture.  Washington, Island Press, 2002.
• Lieberman, Gerald A.; Hoody, Linda L. Closing the Achievement Gap: Using the Environment as an Integrating Context for Learning. State Education and Environment Roundtable. Poway, CA: Science Wizards, 1998.
• Milbrath, Lester W.. Learning to Think Environmentally – While There Is Still Time.  State University of New York Press, Albany,1996.
• Orr, David W. Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment and the Human Prospect. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1994.

Ecological Industry

• Benyus, Janine.  Biomimicry—Innovation Inspired By Nature.  New York:  Quill—William Morrow, 1997.
  
  
• McDonough, William and Braungart, Michael.  Cradle To Cradle—Remaking the Way We Make Things.  New York:  North Point Press, 2002. 
  
  
• Pauli, Gunter.  Upsizing—The Road To Zero Emissions.  Sheffield, England, Greenleaf Publishing, 1998.
  
  
• Van der Ryn, Sim and Cowan, Stuart.  Ecological Design.  Washington D.C., Island Press, 1996.

Philosophical

• Wilbur, Ken.  The Marriage of Sense and Soul—Integrating Science and Religion.  New York:  Random House.  1998.

Sustainable Economics

• Hawken, Paul. The Ecology of Commerce. HarperBusiness - A Division of HarperCollins Publishers,1993.
  
  
• Hawken, Paul; Lovins, Amory; Lovins, Hunter.  Natural Capitalism—Creating the Next Industrial Revolution.  Boston, Little, Brown & Company, 1999.

PUBLICATIONS

• “Advancing Education Through Environmental Literacy”, Archie,  Michele L., Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development(2003)
  
  
• “Education for a Sustainable future: Creating Curriculum that Encourages Interdisciplinary, Life-Long Learning”, Wheeler, Keith, Center for a Sustainable Future
  
  
• “Education for sustainable development, Toolkit”, McKeown, R. (2002)
  www.esdtoolkit.org/ (2004)
  
  
• “Education for Sustainability”, Santone, Susan, ASCD Educational Leadership (December 2003/January 2004)
  
  
• “Education for Sustainability”, Santone, S. , Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, (1/04)
  
  
•  “Education for Sustainability: An Agenda for Action”, Hulbert, S., Schaefer, M. Wacey, C., & Wheeler, K. (1994), Wash. D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office, a demonstration project of the President’s Council on Sustainable Development ww.gcrio.org/edu/pcsd/toc.html
  
  
• “Environment Tops Kids’ List of Concerns”, Chubb, Lucy (December 1999)
  
  
• “From Straight Answers to Complex Questions: A Study of Premises for Learning for Sustainable Development”, Björneloo, I., International Consultation on Education for Sustainable Development, Göteborg University (2004), http://www.learning2004.se/documents/From_straight.pdf
  
  
• “Is the Future Yours?”, United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP)
  
  
• “Kindergarten Through Twelfth Grade – Education for Sustainability”, Wheeler, K., Byrne, J., Cloud, J., Federico, C.M. (2002)
  
  
•  “Planting the Seeds of Knowledge How Environmental Literacy Helps Students Achieve”, Franklin, John, ASCD Curriculum Update (Summer 2004)
  
  
•  “Public Linkage, Dialogue, and Education, from Classroom to Community and Beyond: Educating for a Sustainable Future”, Task Force Report, The President’s Council on Sustainable Development (2/96)
  
  
• “Sustainability Education Guide”, Goldman, H., The Tahoe Center for a Sustainable Future (1999)
  
  
• “Transforming Education: Case Studies in Systems Thinking”, King, Kira S PhD, Frick, Theodore PhD, American Educational Research Association (April 1999)
  
  
• “Understanding Environmental Literacy in America: And Making it a Reality”, Kevin J. Coyle, J.D.National Environmental Education & Training Foundation ( May 2004)