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Art

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Culture/Environment/Society

Education

Food / Agriculture

Art

Andrews, Max
    Land, Art: A Cultural Ecology Handbook
Bang, Molly
    Nobody Particular:  One Woman's Fight to Save the Bays
The beauty of craft: a resurgence anthology / edited by Sandy Brown and Maya Kumar Mitchell ; designed by David Baker. TT157 .B43 2004
Beuys, Joseph
    What Is Art?: Conversations With Joseph Beuys
Danto,  Arthur C.
    Joseph Beuys: The Reader
Esche, Charles
    Art and Social Change: A Critical Reader
Grande, John K.
    Art Nature Dialogues: Interviews with Environmental Artists
Kwon, Miwon
    One Place after Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity N6490 .K93 2002
Pye, David
    The Nature and Art of Workmanship
Watson, Aldren A.
    Hand Tools: Their Ways and Workings
Weintraub, Linda
    ECOcentric Topics : Pioneering Themes for Eco-Art: (Series: Avant-Guardians: Textlets on Art and Ecology)
    Cycle-Logical Art: Recycling Matters for Eco-Art: (Series: Avant-Guardians: Textlets on Art and Ecology)
    EnvironMentalities: Twenty-Two Approaches to Eco-Art
    One Place after Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity.
    N6490 .K93 2002 

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Built Environment/ Architecture / Design

Alexander, Christopher
     A Pattern Language:  Towns, Buildings, Construction. NA2500 .A445 1977
    The Nature of Order:  An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe. NA2500 .A444 2002
    The Timeless Way of Building.
Benyus, Janine M.
    Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
Brady, Nyle C.
    The Nature and Properties of Soils
Brown, G.Z. and DeKay, Mark
    Sun, Wind & Light: Architectural Design Strategies, 2nd ed.
Elpel, Thomas J.
    Botany in a Day: Thomas J. Elpel's Herbal Field Guide to Plant Families. QK99.U6 E46 2001    
Flores, H.C.
    Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard Into a Garden and Your Neighborhood Into a Community.
Fukuoka, Masanobu
    One Straw Revolution:  An Introduction to Natural Farming. S604 .F8413 1985
    The Natural way of Farming:  The Theory and Practice of Green Philosophy
Graham, Bell
    The Permaculture Way:  Practical Steps to Create a Self-Sustaining World. S494.5.P47 B45 2005  
Hart, Robert A. de J. (Robert Adrian de Jauralde)
    Forest Gardening:  Cultivating and Edible landscape. S494.5.A45 H37 1996   
Hemenway, Toby
    Gaia’s Garden: a guide to home-scale permaculture. SB439 .H44 2001  
Heschong, Lisa
    Thermal Delight in Architecture  
Holmgren, David   
    Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability. S494.5.P47 H65 2002 
Hyams, Edward S.
    Soil and Civilization
Jacke, Dave and Toensmeier, Eric
    Edible Forest Gardens: Ecological Design and Practice for Temperate Climates Vol. 1. SB454.3.E35 J24 2005
    Edible Forest Gardens:  Ecological Design and Practice for Temperate Climates Vol. 2. SB454.3.E35 J24 2005
Jenkins, Joseph C.
    Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure
Kunstler, James Howard
    The Geography of Nowhere: The rise and decline of America’s man-made landscape. NA2542.35 .K86 1994   
    Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century
    The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition   
    The Long Emergency         
Lancaster, Brad
    Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond – Vol. 1
    Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond – Vol. 2
Lyle, John Tillman
    Regenerative Design for Sustainable Development
Mars, Ross
    The Basics of Permaculture Design. S494.5.P47 M37 2005   
    Getting Started in Permaculture: 50 Practical Projects to Build and Design Productive Gardens
McDonough, William
    Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things / William McDonough & Michael Braungart. TD794.5 .M395 2002     
McHarg, Ian L.
    Design with Nature. HC110.E5 M33 
McLennan, Jason F.
    The Philosophy of Sustainable Design: The Future of Architecture
Mendler, Sandra F.
    The HOK Guidebook to Sustainable Design 
Mollison, B.C.
    Permaculture:A Designer’s Manual. S494.5.P47 M635 1988     
    Introduction to Permaculture. S494.5.P47 M63 2004  
    The Permaculture Book of Ferment and Human Nutrition
Morrow, Rosemary
    Earth User’s Guide to Permaculture. S494.5.P47 M67 2006
Nature's operating instructions: the true biotechnologies/ edited by Kenny Ausubel with
    J.P. Harpignies. QH541.29 .N38 2004
Prigann, Herman; Strewlow, Heike; and David, Vera
    Ecological Aesthetics: Art in Environmental Design: Theory and Practice    
Rudofsky, Bernard
    The Prodigious Builders
Stamets, Paul
    Mycelium Running: How mushrooms can save the World. QK601 .S73 2005     
Stitt,  Fred A.
    The Ecological Design Handbook   
Toensmier, Eric
    Perennial Vegetables: From Artichokes to Zuiki Taro, a Gardener's Guide to Over 100 Delicious, Easy-to-Grow Edibles
Thompson, George F. and Steiner, Frederick R.
    Ecological Design and Planning  Watkins, David
Urban Permaculture. S494.5.P47 W258 1993
    Whitefield, Patrick
    How to make a Forest Garden. SB439.6 .W5 2002  
Williams, Daniel E.
    Sustainable Design: Ecology, Architecture, and Planning 

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Business/Economy/Policy

Beatley,  Timothy
    The ecology of place: planning for environment, economy, and community.
    HT167 .B43 1997 
Brown, Lester R.
    Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization
Brown, Lester R.; Flavin, Christopher; and Postel, Sandra
    Saving the Planet: how to shape an environmentally sustainable global economy
    HD75.6 .B76 1991
Catton, William R.
    Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change
Costanza, Robert
    Sustainability or Collapse:  An Integrated History and Future of People on Earth
Daly, Herman E.
    Beyond Growth; the Economics of Sustainable Development
    Steady-State Economics; Second Edition with New Essays 
    For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future
Daly, Herman E. and Farley, Joshua
    Ecological Economics; Principles and Applications
    Ecology, economics, ethics : the broken circle / edited by F. Herbert Bormann, Stephen R.
    Kellert. QH541 .E31934 1991  
Epstein, Marc J
    Making Sustainability Work: Best Practices in Managing and Measuring Corporate Social, Environmental and Economic Impacts 
Edwards-Jones, Gareth
    Ecological Economics : an introduction. HC79.E5 E328 2000
Hawken, Paul
    The Ecology of Commerce : a declaration of sustainability. HD60 .H393 1993  
    Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
Heinberg, Richard
    The Party’s Over:  Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies.
    HD9560.6 .H45 2005   
Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines 
    Ikerd, John E.
    Sustainable Capitalism : a matter of common sense. HB501 .I54 2005   
    Jainism and ecology : nonviolence in the web of life / edited by Christopher Key.
    BL1375.H85 J35 2002   
Keohane, Nathaniel O.
    Markets and the Environment. HC79.E5 K422 2007 
    A New Century for Natural Resources Management / edited by Richard L. Knight and Sarah F. Bates. HC21 .N44 1995  
Lawn, Philip A.
    Toward Sustainable Development : an ecological economics approach.
    HD75.6 .L38 2001   
McKibben, Bill
    Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future.
    HD75 .M353 2008 
Meadows, Donella H.
    Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update. HD75.6 .M437 2004
Odum, Eugene Pleasants
    Ecology : a bridge between science and society. QH541 .O293 1997   
Odum, Howard T.
    Environment, Power, and Society. QH541 .O33  
Speth, James Gustave
    The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability 
Sustainable development of the biosphere / editors, William C. Clark and R.E. Munn
    HD75.6 .S87 1986   
A Sustainable World : defining and measuring sustainable development / edited by
    Thaddeus C. Trzyna with the assistance of Julia K. Osborn. HC79.E5 S869 1995 
The Worldwatch Institute
    State of the World 2008:  Towards a Sustainable Global Economy

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Civilization/Anthropology

Churchill, Ward
    Pacifism as Pathology: Reflections on the Role of Armed Struggle in North America. JZ5584.N7 C49 1998    
Diamond, Jared M.
    Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. HN13 .D5 2005   
Glenn M. Schwartz, John J. Nichols
    After Collapse: The Regeneration of Complex Societies   
Jensen, Derrick
    The Culture of Make Believe
    A Language Older Than Words
    Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization  
    Endgame, Vol. 2: Resistance
Korten, David C.
    The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community 
Mann, Charles C.
    1491:  New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus. E61 .M266 2006  
Manning, Richard
    Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization    
Tainter, Joseph
    The Collapse of Complex Societies 

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Culture/Environment/Society

Abbey, Edward
    Desert Solitaire: A season in the wilderness. PS3551.B2 Z463 1990     
    The Monkey Wrench Gang.  PS3551.B2 M6 2006    
Berry, Wendell
    The Gift of the Good Land: further essays, cultural and agricultural.
    S441 .B4725 1982
    The Unsettling of America: culture & agriculture. HD1761 .B47 1997
    Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community: eight essays. HN59.2 .B47 1994x   
Boulding, Kenneth E.
    Ecodynamics: a new theory of societal evolution. HM106 .B57   
Brende, Eric
    Better Off: flipping the switch on technology
Broswimmer. Franz
    Ecocide : a short history of the mass extinction of species. GF75 .B73 2002 
Brush, Stephen B. and Stabinsky, Doreen
    Valuing Local Knowledge:  Indigenous People and Intellectual Property Rights
Capra, Fritjof
    The Web of Life: a new scientific understanding of living systems.
    The Hidden Connections: A Science for Sustainable Living.
    The Hidden Connections: Integrating the Biological, Cognitive, and Social
    Dimensions of Life into a Science of Sustainability.
Carson, Rachel
    Silent Spring. SB959 .C3
Clayton, Anthony M.H.
    Sustainability : a systems approach. HD75.6 .C55 1996     
Crawford, Stanley
    The River in Winter:  New and Selected Essays
    A Garlic Testament:  Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm
    Mayordomo:  Chronicle of an Acequia
Dobson, Andrew
    Environmental Citizenship
Eaton, Heather
    Ecofeminism and Globalization : exploring culture, context, and religion.
    HQ1194 .E18 2003  
Ecofeminist Literary Criticism : theory, interpretation, pedagogy/ edited by Greta Gaard and Patrick D. Murphy. PS169.E25 E25 1998   
Ecocide and Genocide in the Vanishing Forest: the rainforests and native people / [edited
    by] Gary E. McCuen. GF54.5 .E26 1993
Edwards, Andres R.
    The Sustainability Revolution: Portrait of a Paradigm Shift. HC79.E5 E327 2005   
Fadiman, Clifton
    Ecocide--and thoughts toward survival. HC110.E5 F32  
Fox, Nicols 
    Against the Machine:  The Hidden Luddite Tradition in Literature, Art and Individual Lives. T14.5 .F66 2002
    Spoiled:  Why our Food Is Making Us Sick and what we can do about it
    Eco-justice-- the unfinished journey / edited by William E. Gibson.
    GE220 .E26 2004     
John, Gowdy
    Limited Wants, Unlimited Means: a reader on hunter-gatherer economics and the environment
Hawken, Paul
    Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World
Jensen, Derrick
    Strangely Like War: The Global Assault on Forests. SD418 .J46 2003                
Kellert, Stephen
    The Value of Life:  Biological Diversity and Human Society. GF21 .K47 1997   Kingsolver, Barbara
    Small Wonder. PS3561.I496 S63 2002
    Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Malcom, Gladwell 
    The Tipping Point:  How Little Things can make a Big Difference.
    HM1033 .G53 2002 
Marten, Gerald G.
    Human Ecology: basic concepts for sustainable development
McKibben, Bill
    Hope, Human and Wild: True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth
    The End of Nature
    Enough:  Staying Human in an Engineered Age. QH438.7 .M38 2004
    American Earth: Environmental Writing since Thoreau
Mies, Maria
    Ecofeminism. HQ1233 .M53 1993 
Meadows, Donella
    Thinking in Systems: a primer
Nearing, Scott & Nearing, Helen
    The Good Life:  Helen and Scott Nearing’s Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living.
    Living the Good Life: How to Live Sanely and Simply in a Troubled World.
O'Reilley, Mary Rose
    The Barn at the End of the World: the apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist shepherd.
Ryan, John C.
    Stuff: The secret lives of everyday things. HF5413 .R93 1997       
Schell, Jonathan           
    The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People
Stein, Matthew
    When Technology Fails: A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the Long Emergency (revised and expanded)
Steiner, Frederick R.
    Human ecology: following nature's lead. GF41 .S73 2002   
Sturgeon, Noel
    Ecofeminist Natures: race, gender, feminist theory, and political action.
    HQ1233 .S78 1997 
Taylor, Betsy
    Sustainable Planet: Solutions for the Twenty-first Century  
Teich, Albert H.
    Technology and the Future
Thomashow,  Mitchell
    Bringing the Biosphere Home: Learning to Perceive Global Environmental Change              
Thoreau, Henry David
    Walden:  A Story of Life in the Woods
    Wackernagel, Mathis
    Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth.
     HC79.E5 W32 1996

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Education

Barlett, Peggy F. and Chase, Geoffrey W.
    Sustainability on Campus: Stories and Strategies for Change 
Blewitt, John and Cullingford, Cedric
    The Sustainability Curriculum: The Challenge for Higher Education
Bowers, Chet A.
    The Culture of Denial: Why the Environmental Movement Needs a Strategy for Reforming Universities and Public Schools 
Collett, Jonathan and Karakashian, Stephen
    Greening the College Curriculum: A Guide to Environmental Teaching in the Liberal Arts : a project of the Rainforest Alliance.
Corcoran, Peter Blaze and Wals, Arjen E.J.
    Higher Education and the Challenge of Sustainability: Problematics, Promise, and Practice
Creighton, Sarah Hammond
    Greening the Ivory Tower: Improving the Environmental Track Record of Universities, Colleges, and Other Institutions
Fullan, Michael
    Leadership & Sustainability: System Thinkers in Action 
    Ecocomposition : theoretical and pedagogical approaches / edited by Christian R. Weisser
    and Sidney I. Dobrin. PE1404 .E27 2001  
Eherenfield, Paul
    Swimming Lessons:  Keeping Afloat in the Age of Technology. GF49 .E47 2002    
Gordon, John C.
    Environmental Leadership Equals Essential Leadership: Redefining Who Leads and How    
Hicks, David
    Lessons for the Future: The Missing Dimension in Education 
Holt , John
    Instead of Education:  Ways to Help People Do Things Better
Litten,  Larry H. and Terkla, Dawn Geronimo
    Advancing Sustainability in Higher Education: New Directions for Institutional Research
Louv, Richard
    Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder.
    BF353.5.N37 L68 2005 
Noddings, Nel
    Educating Citizens for Global Awareness 
Orr, David
    The Nature of Design: Ecology, Culture and Human Intention. GF75 .O77 2002
    Ecological Literacy:  education and the transition to a postmodern world.
    LB41 .O745 1992  
    Earth in Mind:  On Education, the Environment and the Human Prospect
Prince, Cynthia
    Environmental and Sustainability Education in Early Childhood: Creating a Community of Learners 
Rappaport, Ann and Creighton, Sarah Hammond
    Degrees That Matter: Climate Change and the University 
Sobel, David
    Place-Based Education: Connecting Classrooms & Communities 
Sterling, Stephen R.
    Sustainable Education: Re-Visioning Learning and Change (Schumacher Briefing, No. 6) 
Stone, Michael K. and Barlow, Zenobia
    Ecological Literacy:  Educating our Children for a Sustainable World .
Williams, Dilafruz R.
    Ecological Education in Action: On Weaving Education, Culture, and the Environment 

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Food / Agriculture

Adams, Barbara Berst
    Micro Eco-Farming:  Prospering from Backyard to Small Acreage in Partnership with the Earth
Bubel, Mike
    Root Cellaring:  Natural Cold Storage of Fruits & Vegetables
Carroll, Stephen B.
    Ecology for Gardeners
Coleman, Eliot
    Four-Season Harvest:  Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long
    The New Organic Grower:  A Master’s Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market
Deppe, Carol
    Breed your Own Vegetable Varieties:  The Gardener’s and Farmer’s Guide to Plant Breeding and seed saving           
Faulkner, Edward
    Plowman’s Folly
Lee, Forman
    Chicken Tractor:  The permaculture guide to happy hens and healthy soil            
Goodall, Jane
    Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating 
Ling, Tim
    Food Wars: The global battle for mouths, minds and markets. TX359 .L36 2004 
Jackson, Dana L. & Jackson, Laura L.
    Farm as Natural Habitat:  Reconnecting Food Systems with Ecosystems
Jeavons, John
    How to Grow More than you Thought Possible on Less Land than You can Imagine. SB324.3 .J424 2002
    Sustainable Vegetable Garden:  A Backyard Guide to Healthy Soil and Higher Yields           
Kaupf, Pettersson, Schaumann
    Bio-Dynamic Agriculture
Kimbrell, Andrew (editor)
    Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture S589.75 .F38 2002
    The Fatal Harvest Reader S589.75 .F379 2002
Lanzing, Patricia
    Lasagna Gardening
Lappe, Francis Moore
    Diet for a Small Planet  TX392 .L27 1991  
    Hope’s Edge:  New Diet for a Small Planet  GE42 .L364 2002  
Manning, Richard
    Food’s Frontier:  The Next Green Revolution S494.5.I5 M365 2001
McNeely & Scherr
    EcoAgriculture: Strategies to Save the World and Biodiversity     
Petrini, Carlo
    Slow Food:  Collected Thoughts on Taste, Tradition and the Honest Pleasures of Food
    Slow Food:  The Case for Taste TX631 .P474 2003
Pollan, Michael
    The Botany of Desire:  A Plant’s-eye View of the World QK46.5.H85 P66 2001
    In Defense of Food:  An Eater’s Manifesto RA784 .P643 2008
    The Omnivore’s Dilemma:  A Natural History of Four Meals GT2850 .P65 2006
Solomon, Steve
    Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades: The Complete Guide to Organic Gardening SB324.3 .S67 2000
    Gardening When it Counts:  Growing Food in Hard Times
    Gardening Without Irrigation:  or without much, anyway
    Water-Wise Vegetables:  For the Maritime Northwest Gardener
Smith, Jeffrey
    Seeds of Deception TP248.65.F66 S64 2003                
Seymour, John
    The Self-sufficient Life and How to Live It
Ashworth, Susan
    Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners SB324.75 .A8 2002

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