I just started this list............so some authors or titles are missing. Bear with me.........and please email me your favorites!
BOOKS ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES
| Desert Solitaire
The Monkeywrench Gang |
Abbey, Edward | Working for the National Park
Service in UT and reflections on living in the desert.
Ecoterrorism fiction |
| Anything written by ... | Barr, Nevada | Fiction. Mysteries written by a National Park Service employee. All are set in national parks |
| A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail | Byrson, Bill | Funny account of his through-hike attempt. Includes his thoughts on NPS and USFS |
| Silent Spring (1962) | Carson, Rachel | Written in the 1960s, this really started the environmental movement. Discusses pesticides and their effects on wildlife. Ranked by NYU panel as the 2nd most influential work of journalism in the 20th Century. |
| Our Stolen Future | Colborn, Theo | Modern version of Silent Spring |
| Blue Gold | Cussler, Clive | A fictional account of a process for ruling the world involving a cheap way to desalinize water |
| Into the Forest | Hegland, Jean | 2 sisters live through the U.S. losing electricity and gas - long but great! Also available as a book on tape at the public library. |
| Prodigal Summer | Kingsolver, Barbara | |
| Moma Poc, Woodswoman, others | LaBastille, Anne | Trying to save an endangered species......and failing. An account of an ecologist who builds a log cabin in the Adirondack mountains. |
| Sand County Almanac | Leopold, Aldo | The best chapters are Land Ethic, the one about the fierce green fire in a wolf, and thinking like a mountain. |
| The End of Nature
The Age of Missing Information |
McKibben, Bill | E of N - Nature
exists only where humans let it
Age - comparing what you learn about nature via being in it vs. watching it on TV |
| Ishmael | Quinn, Daniel | A fictional account of an ape's view on how humans' relate to the environment. |
| Cadillac Desert | Reisner, Marc | A great book about water in the West. |
| Anything written by ... | Speart, Jessica | Fiction books about USFWS |
| Living Downstream | Steingraber, Sandra | Another modern version of Silent Spring |
| Anything written by... | Stegner,Wallace | Fiction and nonfiction about the West |
| Anything written by ... | Williams, Terry Tempest | Southwestern setting |
| Anything written by ... | Charles Wilkinson | Fiction and nonfiction about the West |
MOVIES ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT/NATURAL RESOURCES
| A Civil Action (1998) | John Travolta | Efforts to discover the
source of pollution Read about the real story it is based on |
| An Inconvenient Truth | Al Gore | |
| Biosphere | Spoof about getting locked in the biosphere | |
| Brother Bear | Animated feature - ethical implications of humans/animals | |
| Chicken Run (2000) | Animated adventure about factory farming | |
| Chinatown (1974) | Jack Nicholson | Water wars in California |
| The Grey Owl (1999) | Pierce Brosnan as a Native American | Great ethical dilemmas about being a Native American, trapping, and other human activities. |
| Erin Brockovitch (2000) | Julia Roberts | Polluting groundwater and the effects on local residents |
| Fern Gully | Animated Feature - rainforest | |
| Fire Down Below | Steven Segal | Toxic Waste |
| Into the Wild (2007) | Emile Hirsch | Man goes to Alaska to live off the land |
| Medicine Man | Sean Connery | Biodiversity in the rainforest |
| North To Alaska | John Wayne | Mining |
| Oklahoma | Grazing | |
| Open Range (2003) | Kevin Costner | Grazing |
| Paint Your Wagon | Clint Eastwood | Mining |
| Rivers and Tides | Fascinating docudrama about use sticks, stones, leaves and ice in nature to create art. It really is an amazing video. | |
| Silkwood | Cher | Nuclear power plants |