AP Environmental Science Reading List
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The Omnivore’s Dilemma - (2006) Michael Pollan
The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and What We Eat - (2006) Clover
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed - (2005) Jared Diamond
Field Notes From a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change - (2006) Elizabeth Kolbert
Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble – Lester Brown
Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment (2005) – James Speth
Sustainable Planet: Solutions for the Twenty-first Century (2003) – ed. Juliet Schor
The Burning Season - The Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest (1990):
Andrew Revkin
A Sand County Almanac - (1949): Aldo Leopold
Desert Solitaire (1968) - Edward Abbey
Silent Spring (1962) - Rachel Carson
The Song of the Dodo - David Quammen
Of Wolves and Men - Barry Lopez
Deep Ecology - Artie Kness
Tracking the Vanishing Frogs: An Ecological Mystery - (1994) Kathryn Phillips
The Naturalist - (1994) E.O. Wilson
And no birds sing - Mark Jaffe
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water - (1986) Marc Reisner
Wolves of Isle Royale: A Broken Balance - (1995) Rolf Peterson
Night of the Grizzlies - (1969, 1996) Jack Olsen
The Control of Nature- John McPhee
Ecotopia - Ernest Callenbach
Act Now Apologize Later - Adam Werbach
The Heat is On - Ross Gelbspan
Our Stolen Future - Theo Colborn
Riddle of the Ice - Myron Arms
Witness the Nature - Linda Lear
Prairie Keeper - Marcy Houle
Living Downstream - Susan Steingraber
The Orchid Thief - Susan Orlean
Last Refuge - Jim Robbins
The Monkeywrench Gang - Ed Abbey
Science Under Siege - Todd Wilkinson
Nature’s End - Strieber and Kunetka
The Earth in Balance - Al Gore
The Los Angeles River - Blake Gumprecht
Any full-length book by John Muir
Water and Power - Miriam R. Lowi
Legacy of Luna - Julia Butterfly Hill
Song for the Blue Ocean - Carl Sarfina
Ocean Warrior - Paul Watson
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Killer Algae - Alexander Meinesz
Tinkering with Eden: A natural history of exotics in America - Kim Todd
Sagebrush and Cappuccino: Confessions of an LA Naturalist - David Wicinas
Desert Year - Joseph Krutch
Wolves of Denali - Adolph Marie
And the Waters Turned to Blood – Rodney Barker
Our Ecological Footprint; Reducing Impact on the Earth – William Rees
Nature’s Services – Gretchen Daily
Limits to Growth – Donella Meadows
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek – Annie Dillard
Crossing the Next Meridian; Land, Water, and the Future of the West – Charles Wilkinson
The Diversity of Life – E. O. Wilson
Ecological Integrity – Reed Noss
The Work of Nature – Yvonne Baskin
The Living Ocean – Boyce Thorne-Miller
Who Owns the Sky? – Peter Barnes
Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity – William Ophuls
Nature and the Marketplace – G. Heal
Consuming Desires: Consumption, Culture, and the Pursuit of Happiness – R. Rosenblatt
The End of Nature – Bill McRibben
Where Have All the Birds Gone? Essays on the Biology and Conservation of Birds that Migrate to
the American Tropics – J. Terborgh
The Snow Leopard – Peter Matthiessen
The Stork and the Plow – Paul Ehrlich
Life in the Balance – Niles Eldredge
Tales of a Shaman’s Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist’s Search – Mark Plotkin
Philosophers of the Earth – Anne Chisholm
Vanishing Borders – Hilary French
A Plague of Frogs – William Sounder
Ocean’s End – Colin Woodard
Watching from the Edge of Extinction – Beverly Peterson Stearns & Stephen C. Stearns
Alien Invasion; America’s Battle with Non-Native Animals and Plants – Robert Devine
Plundered Promise: Capitalism, Politics, and the Fate of the Federal Lands – Richard W. Behan
Ecological Imperialism- Alfred Crosby
Guns, Germs, and Steel- Jared Diamond
Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England- William Cronon
Nature’s Metropolis- William Cronon
Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America- John Barry
Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth- Henry Nash Smith
Unquenchable: Robert Glennon
Water: Alice Outwater
The Future of Life: E.O. Wilson (Edward O. Wilson)
Sustainable Homes: 26 Designs that Respect the Earth: James Grayson Trulove, Dennis Wedlick,
Richter Greer
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The World Without Us: Alan Weisman
The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s Eye View of the World: Michael Pollan
Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert’s Peak: Kenneth S. Deffeyes
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things: William McDonough and Michael Braungart
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