We Recommend
Check the various categories for films, websites and books recommended by our SW Members. Have any recommendations to add to this list? Let us know!
Films
Chemicals in the Environment:
Living Downstream (2010)
Food and Agriculture:
Fed Up (2014)
Food, Inc. (2008)
Forks over Knives (2011)
King Corn (2007)
Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us? (2010)
The World According to Montsanto (2008)
Fossil Fuels:
Gasland (2010)
Gasland 2 (2013)
Burning the Future: Coal in America (2008)
Crude (2009)
Sweet Crude (2007)
The End of Suburbia (2004)
Global Warming and Renewable Energy:
Global Warming: the Signs and the Science (PBS, 2005)
Carbon Nation (2010)
Chasing Ice (2012)
Plastics:
Bag It (2010)
A Plastic Ocean (2016)
The Story of Plastic (2019)
Water:
Flow: For Love of Water (2008)
Blue Gold: World Water Wars (2009)
Tapped (2004)
Liquid Assets (PBS, 2008)
The Water Front (2010)
Books
The Sustainable World Book Club meets on the 2nd Tuesday of the month at the Albert Wisner Library. Join us!
Nonfiction:
Falter by Bill McKibben
On Fire: The Case for a Green New Deal by Naomi Klein
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Plastic, A Toxic Love Story by Susan Freinkel
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
Green Guide Families: The Complete Reference for Eco-friendly Parents by Catherine Zandonella
Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth about the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity by James Hansen, former NASA scientist
Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse by David Orr
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert
The Heat Is On: The Climate Crisis, the Cover-up, the Prescription by Ross Gelbspan
Under the Surface: Fracking, Fortunes, and the Fate of the Marcellus Shale by Tom Wilbur
365 Ways to Save the Earth by Phillippe Bourseiller
Stop Global Warming: The Solution Is You! by Laurie David
The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth by Tim Flannery
Boiling Point by Rob Gelbspan
The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability by James Gustave Speth
Deep Economy by Bill McKibben
Big Coal: the Dirty Secret Behind America’s Energy Future by Jeff Goodell
Fiction:
Strange as This Weather Has Been by Ann Pancake
Hazard by Gardiner Harris
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
Heat and Light by Jennifer Haigh