
Books | Videos | Websites BOOKS Global Warming Eco-friendly Home Inside & Out
| 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 | 
| 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 | | 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 | | 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 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 | | 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 & 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 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 | | 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: 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: 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: 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 | | 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 | 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 | | 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: 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 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 | | 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 @ 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: 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: 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 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: 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? 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 “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 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. |