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Earth Day 2021: Sustainability and the Environment: Books

Some books in our library on higher education and environmentalism

Higher Education for Sustainability by Lucas F. Johnston (Editor)
Call Number: LB2324 .H543 2012

ISBN: 9780415519359

Publication Date: 2012-07-26
Teaching As Activism by Linda June Muzzin; Peggy Tripp
Call Number: LC191 .T42 2005

ISBN: 9780773528079

Publication Date: 2005-09-27
EarthEd (State of the World) by The Worldwatch Institute
Call Number: Roy O. West Library General CollectionHC59 .S734 2017

ISBN: 9781610918428

Publication Date: 2017-04-20

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Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian removal and the making of the national parks by Mark David Spence
Call Number: Available as an ebook to DePauw users AND Roy O. West Library General Collection E98.R4 S64 1999

Publication Date: 1999
The Sixth Extinction: an unnatural history by Elizabeth Kolbert
Call Number: Prevo Science Library General Collection QE721.2.E97 K65 2014

Publication Date: 2014
The mushroom at the end of the world : on the possibility of life in capitalist ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Call Number: Available as an ebook for DePauw users.

Publication Date: 2015
Facing the Anthropocene : fossil capitalism and the crisis of the Earth system by Ian Angus
Call Number: Available as an ebook for DePauw users.

Publication Date: 2016
Creating an ecological society : toward a revolutionary transformation by Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams.
Call Number: Available as an ebook to DePauw users.

Publication Date: 2017
Boundaries: A casebook in environmental ethics by Christine E. Gudorf; James Edward Huchingson
Call Number: Available as an ebook (2010 ed) AND ROW Library General Collection GE42 .G83 2003

Publication Date: 2010
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Call Number: ROW Library General Collection QH545.P4 C38 2002

Publication Date: 2002 (reprint of 1962 edition)

First published by Houghton Mifflin in 1962, Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water.

Some books in our library related to sustainability

These links are dynamic so the information is always current.

Sustainability: the Basics by Peter J. Jacques
Call Number: GE .J34 2015

ISBN: 9780415608473

Publication Date: 2014-08-19
Flourishing by John Ehrenfeld; Andrew Hoffman
Call Number: HC79.E5 E36465 2013

ISBN: 9780804784146

Publication Date: 2013-05-15
Complexity and Sustainability by Jennifer Wells
Call Number: Q175.32.C65 W45 2012

ISBN: 9780415695770

Publication Date: 2012-08-16
Eco-Republic by Melissa Lane
Call Number: GE42 .L36 2012

ISBN: 9780691151243

Publication Date: 2011-11-06
The City as Fulcrum of Global Sustainability by Ernest J. Yanarella (Editor); Richard S. Levine (Editor)
Call Number: HT241 .Y37 2011

ISBN: 9780857287724

Publication Date: 2011-09-01
The Sustainability Transformation by Alan AtKisson
Call Number: GE170 .A856 2011

ISBN: 9781849712446

Publication Date: 2010-11-19
Human Rights and Environmental Sustainability by Kerri Woods
Call Number: JC571 .W8766 2010

ISBN: 9781848448537

Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Now or Never by Tim Flannery
Call Number: HC79.E5 F53 2009

ISBN: 9780802118981

Publication Date: 2009-09-29