ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION

All education is an investment in the future and environmental education     even more so, because environmental education increases the likelihood that  we will have a future worth living for all the generations of plants, animals and humans to come.

A sound environmental education results in sufficient understanding of the earth sciences and physics, chemistry, biology, ecology and toxicology to guide well-infomed decision-making about human impacts on the natural world at every scale from the individual and family unit to the school, community, city, county, state, nation and the world.

What is environmental education? Wikipedia defines environmental education as follows: 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_education

While a formal environmental education  is desirable, it is not necessary to have one for someone to act in a well-informed, foresightful, environmentally responsible manner. This is because a sound environmental education can be had from the local public library and the Internet for a fraction of the cost of a formal environmental education.

Below are books to inspire and guide one in that pursuit. For balance, we have included a book by an environmental skeptic, so that you are exposed to the most effective contrary arguments. 

Basic Books

on the

Environment

• Thomas Robert Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population, 1798  http://www.esp.org/books/malthus/population/malthus.pdf
• Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854 http://books.google.com/books/about/Walden_Pond.html?id=wMDVLVduRdAC
• John Muir, "Studies in the Sierra," 1874 http://www.amazon.com/Studies-Sierra-John-Muir/dp/1596054263
• Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 1949 http://books.google.com/books/about/A_Sand_County_Almanac.html?id=Gxq72yz1z6EC
• Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, 1962 http://books.google.com/books/about/Silent_spring.html?id=HeR1l0V0r54C
• Garrett Hardin, Nature and Man’s Fate, New American Library, NY, 1965 http://www.garretthardinsociety.org/tributes/tr_bajerna_2003dec.html
• Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1968 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_Manual_for_Spaceship_Earth
• Garrett Hardin, “The Tragedy of the Commons,” 1968  http://dieoff.org/page95.htm
• Paul Ehrlich, The Population Bomb, NY,1968 http://icte.umsl.edu/WEArecipients/ehrlich.html
• Barbara Ward and Rene Dubos, Only One Earth, 1968      http://www.amazon.com/Only-One-Earth-Maintenance-Planet/dp/039330129X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1363819122&sr=1-1&keywords=only+one+earth
• Ian McHarg, Design with Nature, 1969 http://www.time.com/time/magazine
• Barry Commoner, The Closing Circle, Knopf, NY, 1971 (introduces The Four Laws of Ecology) http://www.amazon.com/Closing-Circle-Nature-Man-Technology/dp/0553202464
• Howard T. Odum, Environment, Power, and Society, Wiley Interscience, NY, 1971 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_T._Odum
• Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows and Jorgen Randers, Limits to Growth, Universe Press, NY, 1972 http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED065302&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED065302
• E.F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered, Blond & Briggs, London, 1973 http://www.ecobooks.com/books/smbeaut.htm
• Barry Commoner, The Poverty of Power, Random House, NY, 1976 http://compare.ebay.com/like/160505984616?var=lv&ltyp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes&var=sbar&_lwgsi=y
• Paul Ehrlich, Ann Ehrlich and John Holdren, Ecoscience, Freeman, NY, 1977 http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/archivos_pdf/ecoscience.pdf
• Sim Van Der Ryn, The Toilet Papers, Ecological Design Press, Sausalito, CA, 1978  http://www.amazon.com/The-Toilet-Papers-Recycling-Conserving/dp/1890132586
• John Todd and Nancy Jack Todd, Tomorrow Is Our Permanent Address, 1980 http://www.amazon.com/Tomorrow-Our-Permanent-Address-Ecological/dp/0060907126
• Jeremy Rifkin, Entropy, Viking Press, NY, 1980  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Rifkin
• World Commission on the Environment and Development, Our Common Future, 1987  http://www.un-documents.net/our-common-future.pdf
• James Lovelock, Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth, 1990  http://www.amazon.com/Gaia-New-Look-Life-Earth/dp/0192862189
• Jeremy Rifkin, The Green Lifestyle Handbook, Holt, NY, 1990 http://www.foet.org/books/green-handbook.html
• Robert Costanza (Ed), Ecological Economics: The Science and Management of Sustainability, Columbia University Press, NY,    1991 http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Ecological-Economics/Robert-Costanza/e/9780231075633
• Isaac Azimov & Frederick Pohl, Our Angry Earth, TOR, NY, 1991   http://www.amazon.com/Our-Angry-Earth-Isaac-Asimov/dp/0812520963
• Al Gore, Earth in the Balance, Houghton Mifflin, NY, 1993 http://www.amazon.com/Earth-Balance-Ecology-Human-Spirit/dp/0452269350
• Theo Colburn, Dianne Dumanoski and John Petersen Myers, Our Stolen Future, Penguin, NY, 1996 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Stolen_Future
• Eugene Odum, Ecology: A Bridge Between Science and Society, Sinauer, Sunderland, MA, 1997 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Odum
• Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins and Hunter Lovins, Natural Capitalism:Creating the Next Industrial Revolution, Little, Brown & Co, NY, 1999 http://www.amazon.com/Natural-Capitalism-Creating-Industrial-Revolution/dp/B00008RWBH 
• Bjorn Lomborg, The Skeptical Environmentalist, Cambridge University Press, 2001 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjørn_Lomborg
• Green Living, E/Environmental Magazine. Penguin, NY, 2003 http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/green-living-e-magazine/1007078413
• Donella H. Meadows, Jorgen Randers and Dennis L. Meadows, Limits to Growth: A Thirty-Year Update, Chelsea Green Publishing, NY, 2004 http://www.amazon.com/Limits-Growth-Donella-H-Meadows/dp/193149858X
• Lester R. Brown, Plan B 2.0, Norton, NY, 2006 http://www.earth-policy.org/books/pb2
• Michael Grunwald, The Swamp, Simon & Schuster, New York, 2007 http://www.amazon.com/Swamp-Everglades-Florida-Politics-Paradise/dp/0743251059
  
• Howard Odum, Environment, Power and Society for the 21^st Century, Columbia U Press, NY, 2007 http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-12886-5/environment-power-and-society-for-the-twentyfirst-century
• Chris Mooney, Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming, Harcourt, NY, 2000 http://www.amazon.com/Storm-World-Hurricanes-Politics-Warming/dp/0151012873
• World Commission on Environment and Development, Our Common Future, United Nations, NY, 2007 http://www.un-documents.net/our-common-future.pdf
• Bill McKibben (Ed.), American Earth:Environmental Writing Since Thoreau, Library of America, DesMoines, IA, 2008 
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MORE RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE ENVIRONMENTALIST'S LIBRARY

• Fred Krupp and Miriam Horn, Earth: The Sequel: The Race To Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming, Norton, NY, 2008  http://www.amazon.com/Earth-Sequel-Reinvent-Energy-Warming/dp/0393066908/ref=cm_lmf_img_10
• Paul H. Raven, Environment, Wiley, NY, 2008  http://www.textbooks.com/BooksDescription.php?BKN=916061&SBC=ABQ&mcid=XCS-Become-9780470118573-N&utm_medium=shoppingengine&utm_term=9780470118573N&utm_source=become
• Thomas Friedman, Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution and How It Can Renew America, Farrar, NY, 2008  http://www.booklistonline.com/Hot-Flat-and-Crowded-Why-We-Need-a-Green-Revolution-and-How-It-Can-Renew-America-Thomas-L-Friedman/pid=3015680
• James Hoggan with Richard Littlemore, Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade To Deny Global Warming, D&M, Toronto, 2009  http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/photos/top-10-environmental-books-of-2009/iclimate-cover-up-the-crusade-to-de
• Charles Wohlforth, The Fate of Nature: Rediscovering Our Ability to Rescue the Earth, McMillan, NY, 2010 http://us.macmillan.com/thefateofnature/CharlesWohlforth
• Thomas Easton, Classic Edition Sources: Environmental Studies, 4th Ed., McGraw Hill, NY, 2011 http://www.amazon.com/Classic-Edition-Sources-Environmental-Studies/dp/0073527645/ref=pd_luc_top_sim_02_02_t_lh?ie=UTF8&psc=1
• Alexis Madrigal, Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology, DeCapo Press, Philadelphia, PA, 2011  http://www.amazon.com/Powering-Dream-History-Promise-Technology/dp/B006CDDHOK
• Richard Alley, Earth: The Operators Manual, Norton, NY, 2012  http://www.booklistonline.com/Earth-The-Operators-Manual-Richard-Alley/pid=4647554
• Sarah Gilbert, The Imperfect Environmentalist, Ballantine, NY, 2013 http://www.amazon.com/The-Imperfect-Environmentalist-Practical-Clearing/dp/0345537580/ref=zg_bsnr_14459_4

High School Environmental Science Text Books

http://www.amazon.com/ENVIRONMENTAL-SCIENCE-STUDENT-EDITION-HARDCOVER/dp/0133724751/ref=pd_luc_top_sim_02_04_t_lh?ie=UTF8&psc=1

More Books on the Environment 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_environmental_books

http://newbooksinenvironmentalstudies.com/

http://www.amazon.com/Recent-Environmental-Books/lm/R3IR7N2TWSVN0S



http://www.amazon.com/gp/new-releases/books/14459

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_10?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=environment&sprefix=environmen%2Cstripbooks%2C225

http://www.crcpress.com/browse/category/ENV 

More Books on the Earth Sciences

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=earth+science&rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3Aearth+science

More Books on Nature and Ecology

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo3613618.html

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=nature+and+ecology&rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3Anature+and+ecology

More Books on Climate Change

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_7?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=climate+change&sprefix=climate%2Cstripbooks%2C173&rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3Aclimate+change

More Books on Technology

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=technology&rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3Atechnology 

Academic Programs 

Arizona State University

http://sese.asu.edu/ba-earth-and-environmental-studies 

Brown

http://envstudies.brown.edu/documents/ESPrograms.html

College of the Atlantic

http://www.coa.edu/environmental-science.htm 

Cornell

http://cals.cornell.edu/admissions/academics/majors/environmental-science-and-sustainability/ 

Duke

http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/ 

Florida State University

http://www.academic-guide.fsu.edu/environmental_studies.html

Green Mountain College

 http://greenmba.greenmtn.edu/mba-a/?r=g&tag=adgroup||gmc&tag=campaign||brand&tag=keyword||green%20mountain%20university&cid=1131&ibp-adgroup=google&tag=device||c&gclid=CI-87vrAhbYCFRGqnQodR2EA6A

Harvard 

http://environment.harvard.edu/ 

Michigan State University

 http://www.espp.msu.edu/index.php

Middlebury College

 http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/es

Montana State University

http://landresources.montana.edu/ 

Northland College

http://www.northland.edu/ 

Northwestern University

http://www.envsci.northwestern.edu/ 

Notre Dame University

 http://www3.nd.edu/~cest/

Ohio State University

http://senr.osu.edu/ 

Oregon State University

http://envsci.science.oregonstate.edu/ 

Purdue University 

https://ag.purdue.edu/nres/Pages/default.aspx 

State University of New York at Syracuse

http://www.esf.edu/es/

Texas A&M University

 http://envp.tamu.edu/environmental-studies

University of California at Berkeley

http://ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/ 

University of California at Santa Barbara

http://www.es.ucsb.edu/

University of Colorado

http://envs.colorado.edu/about/

University of Florida

http://snre.ufl.edu/

University of Illinois

  http://nres.illinois.edu/



University of Indiana

http://www.indiana.edu/~spea/ 

University of Michigan

http://www.snre.umich.edu/ 

University of North Carolina

http://www.ie.unc.edu/

Unievrsity of Oregon

http://envs.uoregon.edu/ 

University of Southern California

 http://dornsife.usc.edu/environmental-studies

University of Texas

http://www.esi.utexas.edu/index.php 

University of Vermont

http://www.uvm.edu/~envprog/ 

University of Wisconsin

http://pubs.wisc.edu/ug/nelson_contents.htm

Yale

http://environment.yale.edu/

Federal Programs

http://www.epa.gov/enviroed/

http://www.epa.gov/teachers/

State Programs

http://www.dec.ny.gov/education/74.html

http://www.ee.enr.state.nc.us/

http://dnr.wi.gov/eek/

http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/Education/index.cfm

http://www.ecy.wa.gov/services/ee/index.html

NGO Programs

http://www.eeexchange.org/

http://www.neefusa.org/

http://www.gdrc.org/uem/ee/6.html

http://www.naaee.org/

http://www.ceeonline.org/

http://www.councilforee.org/

http://eetap.org/

Environmental Organization Programs

http://www.sierraclub.org/education/

http://www.nwf.org/ChildrensMagazineCenter/KidsPubs_Offer.aspx?campaignid=NS10AG9XXXRSXX&s_src=GoogleAdWords_Toggle&s_subsrc=TOG_KidsPubs_School_OutdoorEducation_New_Merkle15&ssource=GoogleAdWords_Toggle&kw=TOG_KidsPubs_School_OutdoorEducation_New_Merkle15&gclid=CPLRxI_Yx6UCFYNl7AodO1DyXg

Exchanges and Directories

http://eelink.net/pages/EE-Link+Introduction

http://wilderdom.com/environment/

http://www.enviroeducation.com/

 http://www.cbf.org/ncli/action/environmental-literacy-plans-by-state

Environmental Encyclopedias

http://www.eoearth.org/

Environmental Magazines, Websites & Blogs

• Grist http://www.grist.org/

• E The Environmental Magazine http://www.emagazine.com/

• Yes http://www.yesmagazine.org/ 

• BBC News Science/Environment http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science_and_environment/

• Environmental News Network http://www.enn.com/

• Environmental Health News http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/

• Earth Policy Institute        http://www.earth-policy.org/

• People and the Planet  http://www.peopleandplanet.net/

• Best Green Blogs Director http://www.bestgreenblogs.com/

Links to Educational Resources and References

General Knowledge

https://www.khanacademy.org/

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 

http://www.noaa.gov/

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

http://www.epa.gov/education/

http://www.epa.gov/students/http://www.epa.gov/students/http://www.epa.gov/students/http://www.epa.gov/students/http://www.epa.gov/students/http://www.epa.gov/students/

http://www.epa.gov/enviroed/

http://www.epa.gov/teachers/

LEED Certification Traning for Energy Conservation Design

http://www.greenexamacademy.com/

Energy-Saver Tips

http://www.energysavers.gov/

http://www.climateworks.org/

Water-Saver Tips

http://wateruseitwisely.com/100-ways-to-conserve/index.php

 http://www.sjrwmd.com/education/

http://waterwise.arizona.edu/

Green Lifestyle

http://www.treehugger.com/

Carbon Footprint Calculation and Offsets

http://www.climateworks.org/

http://www.carboncatalog.org/

http://www.carbonfootprint.com/

Links to Environmental Restoration and Protection Resources

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

http://www.epa.gov/

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

http://www.usace.army.mil/Pages/Default.aspx

U.S. Geological Survey

http://www.usgs.gov/

U.S. Department of Energy

http://www.energy.gov/

Great Lakes Program

http://www.epa.gov/glnpo/index.html

Chesapeake Bay Program

http://www.epa.gov/region03/chesapeake/

San Francisco Bay Program

http://www.epa.gov/region09/

Gulf of Mexico Program

http://www.epa.gov/gmpo/

Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Program

http://www.evergladesplan.org/index.aspx

http://my.sfwmd.gov/sfer