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| Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World |
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 B. H. Walker
Resilience Thinking is an impressive and highly successful effort to explain complex ecological and social interactions and changes in a unified framework and in language accessible to a wide audience. This book should stimulate extensive discussions on these critical issues and innovative ways to approach them. |
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| Sustainable Landscape Construction: A Guide to Green Building Outdoors, Second Edition |
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 J. William Thompson
Sustainable Landscape Construction is a crucial complement to basic landscape construction texts, and is a one-of-a-kind reference for professionals, students, and concerned citizens. |
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| Principles of Ecosystem Stewardship: Resilience-Based Natural Resource Management in a Changing World |
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 F. Stuart Chapin III
This book introduces an intriguing new approach to the philosophy of resource management emphasizing proactive policies that shape change for sustainability, in contrast to current reactions to observed changes. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate through professional collections. |
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| Just Enough: Lessons in Living Green from Traditional Japan |
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 Azby Brown
Just Enough is a book of stories, depictions of vanished ways of life told from the point of view of a contemporary observer. The stories tell how people lived in Japan some two hundred years ago, during the late Edo Period, when traditional technology and culture were at the peak of development and realization, just before the country opened itself to the West and joined the ranks of the industrialized nations. |
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| Siesta Lane: One Cabin, No Running Water, and a Year Living Green |
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 Amy Minato
A poet at heart, Amy Minato rejects her life of consumption in Chicago to go back to nature -- specifically, to a commune in Oregon, where she rediscovers herself. |
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| Ecoholic: Your Guide to the Most Environmentally Friendly Information, Products, and Services |
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 Adria Vasil
Ecoholic is your guide to separating the green from the greenwashed. It names names and gives you the dirt on what not to buy, and why. It's filled with tips on everything from which seafood is safe to eat to greener choices for clothes, beauty products, and home supplies to getting the hormone disruptors out of your kids, your carpets, and even your love life. Veteran planet-saver David Suzuki says, This book is for people who want to do something to lighten their impact on the planet. |
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