This page lists all of the books recommended by the OSU Sustainability Community for the Sustainability Resource Library. These books explain important sustainability concepts, demonstrate how sustainability can be achieved in a university setting, and tell stories about real-world applications of sustainable concepts.
9 Elements of a Sustainable Campus by Mitchell Thomashow
Alternatives to Deforestation: Steps Toward Sustainable Use of the Amazon Rainforest by Anthony B. Anderson
Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came Into Being by Paul Hawken
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine M. Benyus
The Bioregional Imagination: Literature, Ecology, and Place by Tom Lynch, Cheryll Glotfelty, Karla Armbruster, and Ezra J. Zeitler
Building a Better Nest by Evelyn Searle Hess
Cannibals with Forks: The Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business by John Elkington
The Citizen-Powered Energy Handbook: Community Solutions to a Global Crisis by Greg Pahl
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough
Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse by David Orr
The Earth's Blanket: Traditional Teachings for Sustainable Living by Nancy J. Turner
Ecoliterate: How educators are cultivating emotional, social, and ecological intelligence by Daniel Goleman, Lisa Bennett, and Zenobia Barlow
Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development by Herman Daly
Ecological Economics and the Ecology of Economics: Essays in Criticism by Herman Daly
Ecological Education in Action by Gregory Smith and Dilafruz Williams
Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World by Michael K. Stone and Zenobia Barlow
Ecological Literacy: Education and the Transition to a Postmodern World by David Orr
The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken
Ecotopia Emerging by Ernest Callenbach
Educating for an ecologically sustainable culture: rethinking moral education, creativity, intelligence, and other modern orthodoxies by C. A. Bowers
Educating for Humanity: Rethinking the Purposes of Education by Mike Seymour
The End of Nature by Bill McKibben
Environmental Decision Making: A Multidisciplinary Perspective by Richard A. Chechile and Susan Carlisle
Greening the College Curriculum: A Guide to Environmental Teaching in the Liberal Arts by Jonathan Collet and Stephen Karakashian
Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World gone Mad by Frances Moore Lappe
Higher Education for Sustainability: Cases, Challenges, and Opportunities from Across the Curriculum by Lucas F. Johnston
Hope, Human and Wild: True Stories of Living Lightly on Earth by Bill McKibben
Hope is an Imperative: The Essential by David Orr
Inside and out: Universities and education for sustainable development by Robert Forrant and Linda Silka
Kitchen Table Sustainability: Practical Recipes for Community Engagement with Sustainability by Wendy Sarkissian and Nancy Hofer
Learning, Food, and Sustainability: sites for resistance and change by Jennifer Sumner
Let them eat data: How computers affect education, cultural diversity, and the prospects of ecological sustainability by C. A. Bowers
Look to the mountain : an ecology of indigenous education by Gregory Cajete
Natural Capitalism: The Next Industrial Revolution by Paul Hawken
The Nature of Design: Ecology, Culture, and Human Intention by David Orr
The Necessary Revolution: How Individuals and Organizations are Working Together to Create a Sustainable World by Peter M Senge
No Impact Man by Collin Beavan
Place-Based Education: Connecting Classrooms and Communities by David Sobel
The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century's Sustainability Crisis by Richard Heinberg and Daniel Lerch
Problem-based Learning into the Future: Imagining an Agile PBL Ecology for Learning by Megan Kek, Chyn A. Yih, and Henk Huijser
Reinventing Fire by Amory Lovins, Marvin Odum, and John W. Rowe
Schumacher Briefings 6: Sustainable Education: Revisioning Learning and Change by Stephen R. Sterling
Second Nature: A Gardener's Education by Michael Pollan
Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global by Ursula K. Heise
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered by E. F. Schumacher
Smart by Nature by Michael Stone/Center for Ecoliteracy
Sustainability by Kent E. Portney
Sustainability Education: Perspectives and Practice across Higher Education by Stephen Sterling
Sustainability Education: Revisioning Learning and Change (Schumacher Briefings) by Stephen Sterling
Sustainability on Campus: Stories and Strategies for Change by Peggy F. Bartlett and Geoffrey W. Chase
The Sustainability Revolution Portrait of a Paradigm Shift by Andres R. Edwards
Sustainable Development and Learning: Framing the Issues by William Scott and Stephen Gough
Taking Sustainable Cities Seriously by Kent E. Portney
Teaching Ecocriticism and Green Cultural Studies by Greg Garrard
Through a green lens: fifty years of writing for nature by Robert Michael Pyle
This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein
Toward An Ecological Society by Murray Bookchin
The web of life: A new scientific understanding of living systems by Fritjof Capra