A Green Library to Save the Blue Marble
Annotation:If you read only one book on this list, read this one. This book has saved countless lives, and none of the incredible information in it has been refuted since it was first published in 1962.
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Annotation:This is the book that provides the foundation for the current movement to save the planet. Gore's ideology is based on a simple premise: Reconnect the human spirit to the Earth, as it was in the time of Creation.
Annotation:Soaring ecological literature by arguably the greatest nature writer ever. Read these writings, and you will learn to love Mother Nature and her good earth.
Annotation:Van Jones lays out the plan to save the planet: establish environmental justice and transform the global economy to a green one.
Annotation:Literature of the highest order describing the natural world of central Wisconsin written by one of the great conservationists, who also happened to be an avid hunter.
Annotation:A primer on becoming one with nature, with several fascinating stories and essays on conservation and preservation of the natural world, written by one of the great iconoclasts of environmental writing.
Annotation:Kryptonite for climate science deniers and skeptics, this Academy Award-winning film produced by a Nobel laureate explains global warming in about a minute and proves beyond a reasonable doubt that it's happening, it's getting worse and it will get much worse unless good people do something about it.
Annotation:This post-apocalypic story is great on several levels, but one is the reality-based description of the eco-apocalypse of "city killer" storms, massive flooding from melted ice caps resulting in a radical deterioration in the quality of life for the "99 percent of the human race.
Annotation:One of the first pieces of American literature on nature, it's still one of the greatest today.
Annotation:A cautionary tale about protecting the environment published the same year as the first Earth Day, sounding a legendary call: "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing's going to get better. It's not."
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A collection of fiction and nonfiction books and films with environmental and ecological themes that provide information and solutions to save planet Earth.