St. Luke Environmental Focus Group Reading List Print E-mail
Created by Cel Smith

Three Books You Should Read:

Wilson, E. (2002). The future of life. NY: Vintage Books. (About the environment)

Louv, R. (2008). Last child in the woods. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books.  (About kids, the environment, and education)

Orr, D. (2004). Earth in mind. WA: Island Press. (About the environment)

The Schoolyard Workbook:

Moore, R. & Wong, H. (1997). Natural learning: the life history of an environmental schoolyard. Berkeley, CA: MIG Communications.

Old Folks You Should Know:

Carson, R. (1962). Silent spring. NY: Houghton Mifflin Co.

Leopold, A. (1966). A sand county almanac. NY: Sierra Club/Ballantine.  (First     published in 1949/53).

Any writings of John Muir or Henry David Thoreau

New Folks With Happening Ideas:

Orr, D. (1992). Ecological literacy: Education and the transition to a postmodern world. NY: State University of New York Press.

Wilson, E. (2006). The creation. NY: W.W. Norton & Company.

Palmer, J. (1998). Environmental Education in the 21st Century: Theory, Practice, Progress and Promise. London: Routledge.

Thomashow, M. (1995). Ecological identity: becoming a reflective environmentalist. Cambridge Massachusetts: MIT Press.

Capra, F. (1996). The web of life: A new scientific understanding of living systems. New York: Anchor Books.

Golley, F. B. (1998). A primer for environmental literacy. New Haven: Yale University     Press.

Johnson, E. and Mappin, M. (2005). Environmental education and advocacy.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

McLaren, B. D. (2007). Everything must change: Jesus, global crises, and a revolution of hope. Nashville: Thomas Nelson.

***Shepard, P. (1996). The others: How animals made us human. Washington, DC:     Island Press.
    (Shepard is the ONLY author who has a different perspective from the others. Shepard is an anthropologist.  He wrote another book titled Coming Home to the Pleistocene. His guiding theme and the central tenet of his thought is “that our essential human nature is a product of our genetic heritage, formed through thousands of years of evolution during the Pleistocene epoch and that the current subversion of that Pleistocene heritage lies at the heart of today's ecological and social ills.”  It’s pretty hefty reading but well worth his message.  The author died in 1996.)

Steingraber, S. (1997). Living downstream. New York: Vintage Books.
Naess, A. (2002). Life’s philosophy: Reason and feeling in a deeper world.  Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.

Spellerberg, I. (2005). Monitoring ecological change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Sterling, S. (2001). Sustainable education. Foxhole, UK: Green Books.

Stone, M. & Barlow, Z., eds. (2005). Ecological literacy. San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books.

Dobson, A. & Bell, D., eds. (2006). Environmental citizenship. MA: MIT Press.

Bringle, R., Phillips, M., & Hudson, M. (2004). The measure of service learning. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.

Brosterman, N. (1997). Inventing Kindergarten. NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers.

Hughes, J. (2006). What is environmental history? Malden, MA: Polity Press.

Jones, E., Haenfler, R., & Johnson, B. (2007). The better world handbook.  Canada: Society Publishers.

Kula, E. (1998). History of environmental economic thought.  London: Routledge.