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Environmental Resources

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BOOKS

Global Warming

Earth Under Fire

Earth Under Fire: How Global Warming is Changing the World

A practical and thorough overview of the current state of global warming, from a ground-level definition to stunning images of its effects.

363.73874 BRA
Six Degrees

Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet

Based on authoritative scientific articles, the latest computer models, and information about past warm events in Earth history, Six Degrees is an eye-opening warning that humanity will ignore at its peril.

551.6 LYN
Unstoppable

Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years

In this New York Times bestseller, authors Singer and Avery present the compelling concept that global temperatures have been rising mostly or entirely because of a natural cycle.

551.6 SIN
The Plot to Save the Planet

The Plot to Save the Planet: How Visionary Entrepreneurs and Corporate Titans are Creating Real Solutions to Global Warming

An intriguing look into the near future filled with stories about the entrepreneurs, investors, and corporate mavericks who are combining economic growth and environmental protection to battle global warming.

658.4083 DUM


Eco-friendly Home Inside & Out

Raising Baby Green

Raising Baby Green

In this easy-to-use guide, noted pediatrician Dr. Alan Greene advises parents how to make healthy green choices for pregnancy, childbirth, and baby care.

618.2 GRE

Grow Fresh Air

How to Grow Fresh Air: 50 Houseplants That Purify Your Home or Office

This revolutionary guide, based on 25 years of research by NASA, shows how common houseplants can combat sick building syndrome and cleanse the home or office of common pollutants.

635.965 WOL
Eco-friendly Home

Your Eco-Friendly Home: Buying, Building, or Remodeling Green

This practical, reader-friendly guide gives readers all the guidance they need to easily become ecologically responsible homeowners.

643.12 DAV
Clean Green

Green Clean: The Environmentally Sound Guide to Cleaning Your Home

Green Clean is the definitive, step-by-step guide to cleaning better while using nontoxic, ecofriendly products. Room by room this book breaks environmentally conscious cleaning into simple principles and easily mastered techniques.

648.5 HUN
Clean House

Clean House, Clean Planet: Clean Your House for Pennies a Day

Explains how to make and use environmentally friendly and inexpensive household cleaners out of everyday ingredients, offering advice on how to do everything from cleaning the oven to unclogging the sink.

648.5 LOG
Green Housekeeping

A Guide to Green Housekeeping

This guide to natural housekeeping is full of helpful advice to help you take a more sustainable path and save the planet for future generations.

648.5 STR
Green Building

Green Building & Remodeling for Dummies

Green Building & Remodeling For Dummies is a friendly, step-by-step guide to every facet of this Earth-friendly method of construction.

690 FRE

Eco-friendly Living

Living Like Ed

Living Like Ed

A committed environmentalist for more than thirty years, Ed Begley, Jr., provides a wide array of practical options for anyone who wants to make his life a little-or a lot-greener.

333.72 BEG
Green Purse

Big Green Purse: Use Your Spending Power to Create a Cleaner, Greener World

Women spend eighty-five cents of every consumer dollar. So this book's message is clear-- if women change the way they spend their money, they can help solve the environmental crisis – and protect themselves and their families, too.

333.72 MAC
Go green

Go Green: How to Build an Earth-friendly Community

Go Green is an indispendable resource for the grown-up greenies who have accepted the philosophy and are ready to spread it.

333.72 TAY
It's Easy Being Green

It's Easy Being Green: A Handbook for Earth-friendly Living

Get comprehensive and practical information for adopting greener buying habits and identifying earth-friendly products; shopping for green products online; participating in online activism; and learning 250 eco-tips. What the busy person needs to start making changes today.

333.72 TRA
Gorgeously Green

Gorgeously Green: 8 Simple Steps to an Earth-Friendly Life

Green guru Sophie Uliano has sorted through all the eco-info out there and put everything you need to know about living a green lifestyle right at your fingertips.

333.72082 ULI
Green Beauty

The Green Beauty Guide: Your Essential Resource to Organic & Natural Skin Care, Hair Care, Makeup and Fragrances

Fashion writer, nutritionist, and beauty maven Julie Gabriel helps consumers find the true path to natural, healthy, green beauty.

646.72 GAB

Eco-friendly Traveling

Guide to Eco-Travel

Eco-Travel Guide

An essential resource for the next generation of travel: a liberating, responsible, and inspirational guide to resorts, hotels, cruises, and adventure.

338.4791 FUA
Green Travel

The Green Travel Guide

Paul Jenner and Christine Smith, professional travel journalists and writers, answer all your green travel questions.

910.2 JEN
Fodor's Green Travel

Fodor's Green Travel: The World's Best Eco-Lodges & Earth-Friendly Hotels

Featuring 100 clean, green accommodations that are not only environmentally friendly, but work to support local communities as well, this book celebrates the growing availability of green travel experiences

910.46 FOD

Business: Green Jobs

Profiting Clean

Profiting from Clean Energy

Respected investment analyst Richard Asplund provides an in-depth explanation of the technology and industry structure behind various sectors of this field and identifies more than 150 stocks related to clean energy.

332.644 ASP
Green Careers

Careers in Renewable Energy: Get a Green Energy Job

Numerous job opportunities await in the fast-growing field of renewable energy. Grab this handy book and discover how green energy can be a part of your future.

Job Center
333.79 MCN
True Green

True Green @ Work: 100 Ways You Can Make the Environment Your Business

This definitive do-it-yourself manual is for the working world-- businesses, workers, and day-to-day life at the office-- gives practical and positive advise on how to minimize your company’s carbon footprint.

363.7 MCK
Green Jobs

Green Jobs: A Guide to Eco-Friendly Employment

Green Jobs will help you to find a job you like-and that'll make the world a better place.

Job Center
650.14 LLE

VIDEOS

Everything's Cool

Everything's Cool: A Toxic Comedy About Global Warming

A group of self-appointed global warming messengers are on a life-or-death quest to help the public go from understanding the urgency of the problem to creating the political will necessary to push for a new energy economy.

363.73874 EVE
An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth makes the compelling case that global warming is real, man-made, and its effects will be cataclysmic if we don’t act now. Former Vice President Al Gore presents a wide array of facts and information in a thoughtful and compelling way: often humorous, frequently emotional, always fascinating.

363.73874 INC
Planet Earth

Planet Earth: The Complete Series

This astonishing 11-part BBC series covers a specific geographical region and/or wildlife habitat until the entire planet has been magnificently represented by the most astonishing sights and sounds you'll ever experience from the comforts of home.

500 PLA
Who Killed the Electric Car?

Who Killed the Electric Car?

In 1996, electric cars began to appear on roads all over California. They were quiet and fast, produced no exhaust and ran without gasoline. Ten years later, these futuristic cars were almost entirely gone. This documentary explores what happened and hope for the future.

629.2293 WHO
Simple Steps to a Greener Home

Simple Steps to a Greener Home

“Simply Green” is environmental lifestyle expert Danny Seo’s eco-friendly way of living, and he offers smart, stylish, practical ideas for transforming your home into an Earth-friendly oasis.

640 SMI
Building Green

Building Green

This dvd set, which includes the entire season 1 of the PBS series Building Green, is an interactive exploration of green building techniques and alternatives. Discover just how easy, cost-effective and healthy it can be to go green by watching Building Green.
690.8047 BUI


WEBSITES

Eco-Friendly Living

Earth Day Network
Website features environmental tips, clean energy campaigns, activist networks & an eco-store.

EcoWise
Website sells non-toxic sustainable products.

Sustainable Communities Network
Community website linking citizens to sustainable resources.

Global Warming

Climate Institute
Climate Institute is an organization whose mission is to raise international awareness about climate change.

U.S. EPA
Website gives information and links to information on global warming.

Recycling

Recycling Facts
Reliable recycling facts organized by category.

World.org: Recycling
Recycle database with information on how to reduce, reuse and recycle everyday things.

The library resources included in this list were purchased in part with a Texas Book Festival grant, awarded in 2007.