Academic Sustainability Programs, Auburn University
Dr. Nanette Chadwick, Director
Reference list of sustainability-related books
4 August 2013
Note: This book list was compiled during faculty training workshops in 2013 and 2013, from
faculty suggestions of sustainability-related books in their fields of expertise, plus from general
reference books collected by our program. Many of these titles are available through the Auburn
University Library system, and some also may be checked out from our program by contacting
the director at chadwick@auburn.edu
Abley I, Heartfield J. 2001. Sustaining Architecture in the Anti-Machine Age. Wiley-Academy, Great
Britain.
Anderson RC. 2009. Business Lessons From a Radical Industrialist. St. Martin's Press, New York.
Ashby MF. 2009. Materials and the Environment: Eco-Informed Material Choice. ButterworthHeinemann, Boston.
Avery DT. 2000. Saving the Planet with Pesticides and Plastic. Hudson Institute, Indianapolis.
Barry JM. 1997. Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America.
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, New York.
Berry T. 2006. Evening Thoughts. Sierra Club Books, San Francisco.
Berry W. 2002. The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry. Counterpoint,
Berkeley.
Bowe J. 2007. Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global
Economy. Random House, New York. (Note: selected as the Auburn University Common Book
for 2013-14]
Brand S. 2009. Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto. Penguin Group, New York.
Brown LR. 2011. World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse. W. W.
Norton & Company, New York.
Brown LR. 2012. Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity. W. W. Norton &
Company, New York.
Callenbach E. 1975. Ecotopia. Bantam Books, New York.
Clark WW. 2010. Sustainable Communities. Springer, New York.
Clugston CO. 2012. Scarcity: Humanity's Final Chapter? Booklocker.com, Port Charlotte.
Daly HE. 1973. Economy, Ecology, Ethics: Essays toward a steady state economy. W. H. Freeman
and Company, San Francisco.
Dodds F, Strauss M, Strong M. 2012. Only One Earth: The Long Road via Rio to Sustainable
Development. Routledge, New York.
Dramstad WE, Olson JD, Forman RTT. 1996. Landscape Ecology: Principles in Landscape
Architecture and Land-use Planning. Island Press, Boston.
Eckstein B, Throgmorton JA. 2003. The Story of Sustainability : Planning, Practice, and Possibility
for American Cities. The MIT Press, Cambridge.
Fletcher K. 2008. Sustainable Fashion & Textiles: Design Journeys. Earthscan, Washington DC.
Friedman TL. 2007. The World is Flat. Picador, New York.
George R. 2008. The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why it Matters.
Metropolitan Books, New York.
Gilding P. 2011. The Great Disruption. Bloomsbury Press, New York.
Goleman D, Bennett L, Barlow Z. 2012. Ecoliterate. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco.
Hanson D, Marty E. 2012. Breaking Through Concrete: Building an Urban Farm Revival. University
Of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles.
Harden B. 1996. A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia. W. W. Norton & Company, New
York.
Heinberg R, Lerch D. 2010. The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century's Sustainability
Crises. Watershed Media, Healdsburg. [chapters widely used for course readings]
Kellert SR, Heerwagen JH, Mador ML. 2008. Biophilic Design: The Theory, Science, and Practice of
Bringing Buildings to Life. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken.
MacKay DJC. 2009. Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air. UIT, Cambridge.
Perlman DL, Milder JC. 2004. Practical Ecology: For Planners, Developers, and Citizens. Island
Press, Washington DC.
Prud'homme A. 2011. The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Freshwater in the Twenty-First Century. Simon
& Schuster, New York.
Rankin WJ. 2011. Mineral, Metals, and Sustainability: Meeting Future Material Needs. CRC Press,
Australia.
Robèrt K-H. 2002. The Natural Step Story: Seeding a Quiet Revolution. New Society Publishers,
Gabriola Island. [Sweden’s journey toward sustainability; used in SUST 5000]
Solomon S. 2010. Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization. HarperCollins, New
York.
Steinberg T. 2009. Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History. Oxford University Press, New
York.
Stolzenburg W. 2008. Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land
of Vanishing Predators. Bloomsbury, New York.
Stuart T. 2009. Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal. W. W. Norton & Company, New York.
Sweeney LB, Meadows D. 2008. The Systems Thinking Playbook: Exercises to Stretch and Build
Learning and Systems Thinking Capabilities. Chelsea Green, White River Junction. [useful for
designing active learning exercises for courses]
Wallace MI. 2010. Green Christianity. Fortress Press, Minneapolis.