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In this age of information overload, we asked ourselves: If we could only choose a few books, which ones would we recommend to someone who wanted to get a broad feel for sustainability issues?
In his popular Skeptic column in the June edition of Scientific American, Michael Shermer provides a very good answer to this question. Here are the four books he credits with having brought him to the 'flipping point' from advocating environmental skepticism to advocating environmental activism.
More books
- Fritjof Capra The Hidden Connection: Integrating The Biological, Cognitive, And Social Dimensions Of Life Into A Science Of Sustainability (DoubleDay, 2002)
- Al Gore An Inconvenient Truth (Rodale, 2006)
- Lance Gunderson and C S Holling (editors) Panarchy: Understanding Transformations in Human and Natural Systems (Island Press, 2001)
- David W Orr Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment and the Human Prospect (Island Press, 2004)
- David W Orr Ecological Literacy (SUNY Press, 1991)
- David W Orr The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment in an Age of Terror (Island Press, 2005)
- Michael K. Stone and Zenobia Barlow (eds) Ecological Literacy: Educating our Children for a Sustainable World (UC Press, 2005)
- Ronald Wright A Short History of Progress (Carroll & Graf, 2005)
Presentations
Articles and commentaries
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Michael Shermer's column
Scientific American: The Flipping Point
How the evidence for anthropogenic global warming has converged to cause this environmental skeptic to make a cognitive flip
Stern review on the economics of climate change
Read the Stern review report via the HM Treasury web site.
Center for ecoliteracy
Read the writings of the centre's board (including Fritjof Capra and David Orr), staff and colleagues. |
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