Brighton Goes Green

Brighton Goes Green: A Resource List compiled by Brighton Memorial Library

Books (arranged by subject areas)

Alternative Energy
Hydrogen Economy: the Creation of the World-Wide Energy Web and the Redistribution of Power on Earth by Jeremy Rifkin
Renewable Energy Handbook for Homeowners: The Complete Step-by-Step Guide to making (and Selling)
Your Own Power from the Sun, Wind and Water by William H. Kemp
Wind Power in View: Energy Landscapes in a Crowded World ed.: Martin J. Pasqualetti, Paul Gipe & Robert W. Righter

Classics
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
Sand County Almanac: With Essays on Conservation by Aldo Leopold
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Walden by Henry David Thoreau

Consumers
Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean-Energy Economy by Jay Inslee, Bracken Hendricks
Before Silent Spring; Pesticides and Public Health in Pre-DDT America by James Whorton
Cool Green Stuff: A Guide To Finding Great Recycled, Sustainable, Renewable Objects You Will Love
by Dale Evans
Complete Guide to Reducing Energy Costs. Consumer Reports, 2006
Complete Idiot's Guide to Green Living by Trish Riley
Complete Idiot's Guide to Solar Power for Your Home by Dan Ramsey with David Hughes
Don't Throw it Out: Recycle, Renew, and Reuse to Make Things Last by Lori Baird & the editors of Yankee Magazine
Fight Global Warming Now: The Handbook for Taking Action in Your community by Bill McKibben
From the Farm to the Table: What All Americans Need to Know About Agriculture by Gary Holthaus
The Green Book: The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time by Rogers and Kostigen
Green Book of Household Hints: Keeping an Efficient and Ecologically Sound Home by Marjorie Harris
Green Building & Remodeling for Dummies by Eric Corey Freed
Greening your Cleaning by Deirdre Imus
Homeowners Guide to Energy Independence: Alternative Power Sources for the Average American
by Christine Woodside
Homeowner's Guide to Renewable Energy: Achieving Energy Independence through Solar, Wind, Biomass and Hydropower
by Dan Chiras
Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappé and Anna Lappé Ignition:
What You Can Do to Fight Global Warming and Spark a Movement edited by Jonathan Isham, Jr., Sissel Waage
Living Green: A Practical Guide to Simple Sustainability by Greg Horn
Living Like Ed: One Man’s Guide to Living an Environmentally Friendly Life by Ed Begley, Jr.
Off the Grid Homes: Case Studies for Sustainable Living by Lori Ryker
Off the Grid : Modern Homes + Alternative Eenergy by Lori Ryker
Save Energy Save Money! : 201 Do-It-Yourself Projects, Tips, and Ideas from the editors of The Family Handyman
This Cold House: the Simple Science of Energy Efficiency by Colin Smith
Your Green Home: A Guide to Planning a Healthy, Environmentally Friendly New Home by Alex Wilson

Environment – general
Citizenship Papers by Wendell Berry
Cool it: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide by Bjorn Lomborg
Empty Ocean: Plundering the World's Marine Life, written and illustrated by Richard Ellis
Freedom From Oil: How the Next President Can End the United States' Oil Addiction by David Sandalow
Future of Life by Edward O. Wilson
Last Stand: The War Between Wall Street and Main Street Over California's
Ancient Redwoods by David Harris
Light at the Edge of the World: A Journey Through the Realm of Vanishing Cultures text and photographs
by Wade Davis
Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the 21st Century
by James Howard Kunstler
Of Wolves and Men by Barry Holstun Lopez
One Planet: A Celebration of Biodiversity by Nicolas Hulot
Saving Energy, Growing Jobs: How Environmental Protection Promotes Economic Growth, Profitability
by David B. Goldstein
Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter by Colin Tudge
Winning our Energy Independence: An Energy Insider Shows How by S. David Freeman

Environmentalists
American Women Conservationists: Twelve Profiles by Madelyn Holmes
Courage for the Earth: Writers, Scientists, and Activists Celebrate the Life and Writing of Rachel Carson
by Peter Matthiessen
End of nature by Bill McKibben
Gentle subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement
by Mark Hamilton Lytle
Good Forest For Dying: The Tragic Death of a Young Man on the Front Lines of the Environmental Wars
by Patrick Beach
John Muir: Nature's Visionary by Gretel Ehrlich
John Muir and His Legacy: The American Conservation Movement by Stephen Fox
John Muir: Magnificent Tramp by Rod Miller
Man from Clear Lake: Earth Day Founder Gaylord Nelson by Bill Christofferson
Ten Trusts: What We Must Do to Care for the Animals We Love by Jane Goodall and Marc Bekoff
Reason for hope: a Spiritual Journey by Jane Goodall with Phillip Berman

Global Warming
Censoring Science: Inside the Political Attack on Dr. James Hansen and the Truth of Global Warming
by Mark Bowen
Climate Change: Human Effects on the Nitrogen cCycle by Jeri Freedman
Global Warming Survival Handbook: 77 Essential Skills to Stop Climate Change -- or Live Through It
by David De Rothschild
Global Warning: The Last Chance for Change by Paul Brown
Hell and High Water: Global Warming, the Solution and the Politics, and What We Should Do by Joseph J. Romm
Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It by Al Gore
Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate in Crisis and the Fate of Humanity by James Lovelock
Safe trip to Eden: 10 Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown by David Steinman
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet by Mark Lynas
Thin Ice: Unlocking the Secrets of Climate in the World's Highest Mountains by Mark Bowen

Multimedia
A Crude Awakening the Oil Crash Written produced & directed by Basil Gelpke & Ray McCormack DVD
Design EP2s: The Economies of Being Environmentally Conscious director, Tad Fettig DVD
Dimming Sun, a Dox production for Nova/WGBH and BBC directed by Duncan Copp DVD
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert (spoken CD)
Fight Global Warming Now: The Handbook for Taking Action in Your Community by Bill McKibben
Future of Food by Lily Films Presents directed, produced and written by Deborah Koons Garcia DVD
Global Warming: The Signs and the Science written by Michael Taylor and David Kennard DVD
Global Warming: What's Up With the Weather?, a Frontline/Nova co-production DVD
Hot Times in Alaska written, produced, and directed by John Angier DVD
In Our Own Backyard: The First Love Canal a production of Buffalo Documentary Group VHS
An Inconvenient Truth: A Global Warning produced by Lawrence Bender DVD
Masters of the Arctic Ice, National Geographic Television DVD
Planet Earth: The Complete Series DVD
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring DVD or VHS
Saved by the Sun produced by Steve Latham, Larry Klein, Evan I. Schwartz DVD
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (audio ebook - digital, Greece Library; book on tape, Chili Library)
Who Killed the Electric Car? Sony Pictures Classics DVD

Pollution

Web links – a sample of ‘green related’ sites

Consumer related sites

http://www.colorbrightongreen.org/site/ - Brighton's community organization

http://www.nytimes.com/ref/science/earth/energy.html More than 20 recent ‘green’ related NY Times articles

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/14/technology/14basics.html?ref=technology
Putting Energy Hogs in the Home on a Strict Low-Power Diet by Larry Magid 6/14/07

http://hes.lbl.gov/ Home Energy Saver; a web based ‘do-it-yourself’ energy audit tool

http://hes.lbl.gov/hes/makingithappen/mih.html Home Energy Librarian

http://www.bp.com/extendedsectiongenericarticle.do?categoryId=9015627&contentId=7029058 Carbon footprint calculator

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/ind_calculator.html
Estimate of your personal greenhouse gas emissions or your family’s greenhouse gas emissions

http://www.thedailygreen.com/ Consumers guide to the green revolution (blog roll at bottom of page)

http://www.greenerchoices.org/home.cfm Products and green ratings from Consumer Reports

http://www.treehugger.com/science_technology/alternative_energy/
TreeHugger is all about ‘going green’; has been called the ‘green CNN’ (blog rolls)

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/sustainable/ National Geographic Center for Sustainable Destinations

http://www.reduce.org/ Tips on cutting waste

http://www.cosmeticdatabase.com/index.php?nothanks=1 Skin deep, cosmetic safety database, research on thousands of products

http://www.greenmatters.com The busy person’s guide to greener living

General information

http://www.nytimes.com/ref/science/earth/energy.html More than 20 recent ‘green’ related NYTimes articles

http://www.riverwired.com/ Eco-friendly news, entertainment, and community to help people live just a little greener

http://www.enn.com Environmental News Network (ENN)

Organizations and government agencies

http://www.altenergy.org/ AEI: the Alternative Energy Institute

http://www.climatehotmap.org Global warming; early warning signs from the Union of Concerned Scientists

http://www.darvill.clara.net/altenerg/index.html Energy resources
http://www.eere.energy.gov U.S. Department of Energy: energy efficiency and renewable energy

http://www.eia.doe.gov/fuelrenewable.html Renewables; energy information administration

http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/index.html Energy quest

http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: global warming

http://www.globalstewards.org Global stewards

http://www.greenpeace.org Greenpeace international

http://www.nrel.gov/learning National renewable energy laboratory

http://www.nrdc.org/ Natural Resources Defense Council, the earth’s best defense

http://www.sierraclub.org Sierra Club

http://www.solarnow.org Solar Now, Inc.
Monroe County Library System databases – a sampling; many others available
EBSCO General Science Collection
Provides information on all aspects of the scientific world and offers full-text coverage for more than 60 of the most popular science publications, including Archaeology, Astronomy, Discover, National Wildlife, New Scientist, Popular Science, Science News, Scientific American, and many others.
Expanded Academic ASAP From arts and the humanities to social sciences and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers.
InfoTracOneFile
One-stop source for news and magazine articles on a wide range of topics. Search more than 9,000 periodicals for issues going as far back as 1980. InfoTrac OneFile is updated daily. Many of the articles are full text (the entire article) and include pictures.


Suggested ‘keywords’ to use when searching for information online

Alternative energy
Alternative fuel
Buildings energy conservation
Buildings environmental engineering
Carbon footprint
Conservation
Dioxins
Dwellings energy conservation
Earth Day
Ecological houses design and construction
Ecologists biography
Energy conservation
Energy efficiency
Environment
Environmental ethics
Environmental policy
Environmental health
Environmentalists
Environmentally induced diseases
EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)
Epidemiology
Extinction
Fuel
Gas industry
Genetically modified foods
Geothermal
Global warming
Globalization
Green products
Green technology
Greenhouse effect
Hazardous waste
Human ecology
Hydrogen as fuel
Love canal
Pesticides
Pesticides environmental aspects
Petroleum industry
Photovoltaic power
Pollution
Power resources
Recycle
Recycling
Renewable energy sources
Solar energy
Solar houses
Superfund
Sustainable buildings
Toxic
Toxins
Waste minimization
Wind power
Wind turbines

Materials are available through the Monroe County Library System

Resource List created February 2008