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