A List from 1000 Friends of Iowa Board Member, Erv Klaas

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Global Warming

Cox, Peter, Deepak Rughani, Peter Wadhams and David Wasdell.  2007. Planet Earth—We have a Problem. Feedback Dynamics and the Acceleration of Climate Change. Proceedings of a briefing given in the House of Commons, London to the All Party Parliamentary Climate Change Group (APPCCG), on the 6th June, 2007. 125 pp. Published by the APPCCG in association with the Meridian Programme.

Emanuel, Kerry. 2007.  With an afterward by Judith A. Layzer and William R. Moomaw. What We Know About Climate Change.  85 pp. A Boston Review Book, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

Krupp, Fred and Miriam Horn.  2008.  Earth: the Sequel.  The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming.  279 pp. W.W. Norton, New York and London.

Orr, David W.  2004. Optimism and Hope in a Hotter Time.  Conservation Biology, Volume 21, No. 6.  (Reprinted in The Leopold Outlook Summer 2008 Volume 8, Issue 1: 5-9.  Land Ethic Press, the Aldo Leopold Foundation.)

Pearce, Fred. 2007.  With Speed and Violence, Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change.  Beacon Press, Boston.

Speth, James Gustave.  2004.  Red Sky at Morning. America and the Crisis of the Global Environment.  329 pp. (Paper) Yale University Press, New Haven and London.

Speth, James Gustave. 2008.  The Bridge at the Edge of the World. Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability. 295 pp. Yale University Press, New Haven and London.

Ecology and Environment

Brower, Michael and Warren Leon.  1999.  The Consumer’s Guide to Effective Environmental Choices.  Practical Advice from the Union of Concerned Scientists. 292 pp. (Paper). Three Rivers Press, New York.

Chambers, Nicky, Craig Simmons, and Mathis Wackernagel.  2000.  Sharing Nature’s Interest.  Ecological Footprints as an Indicator of Sustainability.  185 pp. (Paper), Earthscan Publications Ltd., London and Sterling, VA.

Hawken, Paul.  2007.  Blessed Unrest.  How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming.  342 pp.  Penguin Group, New York.

Kunstler, James Howard.  2005.  The Long Emergency.  Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century.  324 pp. (Paper). Grove Press, New York.

McKibben, Bill.  2007.  Deep Economy. 261 pp.  Time Books, Henry Holt & Co., New York.

Meadows, Donella H., Dennis L. Meadows, Jorgen Randers and William W. Behrens III.  1972.  The Limits to Growth. A Report for the Club of Rome’s Project on the Predicament of Mankind.  207 pp. (Paper).  Signet Books, New York.

Orr, David W. 2004.  The Last Refuge.  Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment in an Age of Terror. 172 pp.  Island Press, Washington, Covelo, London.
Wackernagel, Mathis and William Rees.  1996.  Our Ecological Footprint.  160 pp. (Paper).  New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, British Columbia, Canada.

Wessels, Tom.  2006.  The Myth of Progress.  131 pp. University of Vermont Press, Burlington, VT.

Land Use and Sustainability 

Benfield, F. Kaid, Jutka Terris, Nancy Vorsanger.  2001.  Solving Sprawl. Models of Smart Growth in Communities Across America.  200 pp. (Paper).  Natural Resource Defense Council, New York, Washington, Los Angeles, San Francisco.

Hallsmith, Gwendolyn.  2003.  The Key to Sustainable Cities. Meeting Human Needs Transforming Community Systems.  258 pp.  (Paper, second printing).  New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, British Columbia, Canada.
 
Hylton, Thomas.  2003.  Save Our Land, Save our Towns.  127 pp. (Paper, Fifth Printing).  RB Books, Seitz and Heitz, Inc., Harrisburg, PA.

James, Sarah and Torbjorn Lahti.  2004.  The Natural Step for Communities.  How Cities and Towns can Change to Sustainable Practices.  277 pp. (Paper).  New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, British Columbia, Canada.

Karlenzig, Warren, Frank Marquardt, Paula White, Rachel Yaseen and Richard Young. 2007.  How Green is Your City. A Sustainability Ranking for the 50 Largest U.S. Cities. 205 pp. (Paper).  New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, British Columbia, Canada

Portney, Kent E.  2003.  Taking Sustainable Cities Seriously: Economic Development, the Environment, and Quality of Life in America Cities.  284 pp. (Paper).  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.

Roseland, Mark.  2005.  Toward Sustainable Communities. Resources for Citizens and Their Governments.  239 pp. (Paper).  New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, British Columbia, Canada.

Schor, Juliet B. and Betsy Taylor, Editors.  2002.  Sustainable Planet.  Solutions for the Twenty-first Century.  273 pp. (Paper).  Beacon Press, Boston, MA.

Farming and Farmland 

Bell, Michael Mayerfeld.  2004.  Farming For Us All.  299 pp. The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park.

Orngard, Shellie and Jan Joannides, Editors. Renewing the Countryside.  159 pp. (Paper).  Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Ames, Iowa.