MEDIA RESOURCES Table of Contents* Books and Articles • Climate Change and Environmental Justice • Economy • Environmental Racism • Indigenous Perspectives • Kid’s Corner • Philosophy and Religion • Policy Films Videos Podcasts Media Outlets *Hyperlinked to sections in document Books and Articles • Climate Change and Environmental Justice o Joyce M. Barry: Standing our Ground Standing our Ground examines women’s efforts to end mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia. https://primo.seattleu.edu/permalink/f/olv9iv/CP71137785770001451 o Mike Berners-Lee: How Bad Are Bananas? The Carbon Footprint of Everything We understand the calorie consequences of what we eat, but understanding the carbon footprint associated with our decisions is another story. From a cup of tea to your computer, Mike Berners-Lee reveals the carbon footprint of everything to help you build a carbon intuition. https://primo.seattleu.edu/permalink/f/olv9iv/CP71147434510001451 o Daniel T. Blumstein and Charles Saylan: The Failure of Environmental Education At a time when wild places everywhere are vanishing before our eyes, Saylan and Blumstein offer this passionate indictment of environmental education and a new vision for the future. https://primo.seattleu.edu/permalink/f/olv9iv/CP71113075400001451 o Mary Joy Breton: Women Pioneers for the Environment Breton interweaves her accounts of women activists around the world with narrative of the ecological hazards that drove these women to spearhead their environmental campaigns, examining why and how they challenged, and often defeated, the power structures of government and industry. https://primo.seattleu.edu/permalink/f/olv9iv/CP71102960060001451 o Rachel Carson: Silent Spring Published in 1962, Rachel Carson’s foundational book highlights the negative impacts of chemicals on biodiversity and wildlife populations – not to mention on the food we eat. Silent Spring is key to understanding the beginnings of the US environmental movement. https://primo.seattleu.edu/permalink/f/olv9iv/CP71158730330001451 o John Cleveland and Peter Plastrik: Life After Carbon: The Next Global Transformation of Cities Plastrik and Cleveland, urban sustainability consultants, explain that our modern city models exacerbate global warming. We need a new city model – one that addresses climate change. Discover the stories of 25 innovative green cities as the authors travel the globe to find climate solutions. https://www.elliottbaybook.com/book/9781610918497 o Dan Egan: The Death and Life of the Great Lakes When the Great Lakes hold 20% of the Earth’s fresh surface water supply, we should be worried about the increasing threats they face. With history, science, reports, and personal anecdotes, Egan weaves you through this ecological catastrophe and how we can help to preserve them for the future. https://www.elliottbaybook.com/book/9780393355550 o Taras Gescoe: Straphanger: Saving our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile Due to America’s auto-centric culture and city planning, most cities lack effective public transportation. Gescoe travels the world in search for ideas about convenient and sustainable urban transportation in order to undo the damage that car-centric city planning has done. https://primo.seattleu.edu/permalink/f/olv9iv/CP71116864100001451 o Al Gore: An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power The sequel to Gore’s bestselling book, An Inconvenient Truth, it exposes the truth of how we have contributed to Earth’s degradation and will inspire you with what you can do to combat it. https://www.elliottbaybook.com/book/9781635651089 o Hope Jahren: The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where We Go From Here If you’re looking for actions you can do to combat climate change and further your understanding of global warming, this book is for you. https://primo.seattleu.edu/permalink/f/olv9iv/CP71320200420001451 o Barbara Kingsolver: Flight Behavior Kingsolver dissects the motives that drive climate change denial and belief in today’s precarious world. https://primo.seattleu.edu/permalink/f/olv9iv/CP71182430870001451 o Anna Lappé: Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It When one third of greenhouse gas emissions are due to food production and its waste, are you putting thought into the social and environmental impact of what you put on your plate? This book will educate and inspire you to help heal the planet through your plate. https://primo.seattleu.edu/permalink/f/olv9iv/CP71147441840001451 o Thomas E. Lovejoy: Biodiversity and Climate Change: Transforming the Biosphere Lovejoy synthesizes the ever-expanding understand of how climate change is transforming Earth’s biodiversity. This is perfect for scientists, students, and members of the general public who want more of a scientific understanding on the effects of climate change. https://primo.seattleu.edu/permalink/f/olv9iv/CP71291848750001451 o George Marshall: Don’t Even Think About It A witty, insightful, and groundbreaking take on one of the most urgent questions of our time: Why, despite overwhelming scientific evidence, do we still ignore climate change? https://primo.seattleu.edu/permalink/f/olv9iv/CP71206108570001451 o Bill McKibben: Eaarth Our old familiar globe is suddenly melting, drying, acidifying, flooding, and burning in ways no human has ever seen. To McKibben, we have created such a fundamentally different planet, we may as well call it Eaarth. https://primo.seattleu.edu/permalink/f/olv9iv/CP71156571490001451 o Michael Pollan: The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals What should we have for dinner? The question has confronted us since man discovered fire, but according to Michael Pollan, how we answer it today, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, may well determine our very survival as a species. What’s at stake in our eating choices is not only our own and our children’s health, but the health of the environment that sustains life on earth. https://primo.seattleu.edu/permalink/f/olv9iv/CP71157019510001451 o Ramanathan, Veerabhadran, et al: Bending the Curve: Climate Change Solutions This textbook book lays out ten solutions that together can bend the curve of climate warming below dangerous levels. These solutions fall into 6 categories: science, societal transformation, governance, economics, technology, and ecosystem management. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6kr8p5rq o Mary Robinson: Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future Robinson travels the world to share stories of ordinary people starting grassroots movements to ensure the future and health of their communities. From matriarchs in Mississippi to small farmers in rural Uganda, each story is relatable and instills a sense of hope. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/climate-justice-9781635575927/ o Douglas W. Tallamy: Nature’s Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard How can average homeowners help to keep declining wildlife populations alive? Tallamy answers this question, along with outlining many specific suggestions that you can immediately incorporate into your yard to transform it into a wildlife habitat. https://primo.seattleu.edu/permalink/f/olv9iv/CP71311569920001451 o Dorceta Taylor: The Environment and the People in American Cities Taylor examines the development of urban cities and urban environmentalism in the US. https://primo.seattleu.edu/permalink/f/olv9iv/CP71180526940001451 o Greta Thunberg: No One is Too Small to Make a Difference When Greta Thunberg delivered her first speech to the UN, she commanded the world’s attention. Since then, she has delivered speeches to the world’s most powerful leaders and inspired thousands of students to walk out of school and strike for climate. This compilation of her speeches captures her sense of urgency and hope: no one is too small to make a difference. o Gordon Walker: Environmental Justice: Concepts, Evidence, and Politics Walker explores the diversity of ways in which environmental and social difference are intertwined and how the justice of their interrelationship matters. https://primo.seattleu.edu/permalink/f/olv9iv/CP71204773280001451 o David Wallace-Wells: The Uninhabitable Earth Without apology, David Wallace-Wells tells the story of our planet if we do not slow global warming. From deadly famines to ravaging hurricanes and rising sea levels, Wallace-Wells shares the cold, hard underbelly of climate change. • Economy o Paul Hawken: Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution While business doesn’t hold the key to solving the climate crisis on its own, Paul Hawken highlights the potential for capitalism to amend environment and profitability. https://primo.seattleu.edu/permalink/f/olv9iv/CP71179342560001451 o Paul Hawken: The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability In this updated edition, Hawken argues why business success and sustainable environmental practices need not and can no longer be mutually exclusive, for the sake of the planet. https://primo.seattleu.edu/permalink/f/2mlme0/TN_proquest214518093 o Institute for Policy Studies: The Souls of Poor Folk The Souls of Poor Folk examines the intersectionality of systematic racism and poverty, environmental devastation, the war economy, and more. It calls for governmental action on the violence against America’s poor and related injustices that connect to poverty in the world’s wealthiest nation. https://ips-dc.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/PPC-Audit-Full-410835a.pdf o Tim Jackson: Prosperity Without Growth