Contents

Books

• Climate Change

• Sustainable Economy

Practical Resources

Surveys

Books

The following is suggested reading.

Climate Change

David Archer. 2006. Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast. Wiley Blackwell.

David Archer. 2009. The Long Thaw: How humans are changing the next 100,000 years of earth's climate. Princeton University Press.

Tim Flannery. 2006. The Weather Makers:The history & future impact of climate change. Text Publishing. Review and Preview on NPR.

Michael Mann and Lee Kump. 2008. Dire Predictions: Understanding global warming. DK Publishing. 

Joseph J. Romm. 2008. Hell and High Water: Global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we whould do. HarperCollins

Gavin Schmidt and Joshua Wolfe. Climate Change: picturing the science. W. W. Norton.

David Suzuki and David Robert Taylor. 2009. The Big Picture: relections on science, humanity and a quickly changing planet. Greystone Books. Preview on Google Books.

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Sustainable Economy

David Blockstein and Leo Weigman. 2009. The Climate Solutions Consensus: What we know and what to do about it. National Council for Science and the Environment. Island Press. (see visit ncseonline.org.)

Herman Daly and Joshua Farley. 2004. Ecological Economics: Principles and applications. Island Press. Preview on Google Books.

Herman Daly. 2007. Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development. Selected Essays by Herman Daly. Edward Elgar Publishing. Preview on Google Books.

Dauncey, Guy. 2009. The Climate Challenge: 101 Solutions to Global Warming. New Society Publishers. Sample Pages.

Paul Hawken. 2007. Blessed Unrest: How the largest movement in the world came into being and why no one saw it coming. Vicking Press. Blessed Unrest website.

Paul Hawken. 1999. Natural Capitalism: Creating the next industrial revolution. Little Brown and Company.

Paul Hawken. 1993. The Ecology of Commerce: A declaration of Sustainability. HarperCollins Publishers.

Hazel Henderson. 2006. Ethical Markets: Growing the green economy. Chelsea Green Publishing Company. Preview on Google Books. Preview on Google Books.

Tim Jackson. 2009 Prosperity without Growth. Sustainable Development Commission

William McDonough and Michael Braungart. 2002. Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the way we make things. North Point Press. Preview on mcDonough.com.

Bill McKibben. 2007. Deep Economy: The wealth of communities and the durable future. Times Books. Henry Holt and Company. Preview on billmckibben.com.

Mike Nickerson. 2006. Life, Money and Illusion: Living on earth as if we want to stay. New Society Publishers. Preview on Google Books.

Jeff Rubin. 2009. Why Your World is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller. Random House Canada. Preview on Google Books. 

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Practical Resources

Ontario’s Energy Efficiency Resource & Funding Guide. February 2009. Ontario Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure.

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