SUSTAINABLE MILTON READING LIST
WHAT WE ARE READING/LISTENING TO NOW:
THE DAILY: The Supreme Court Case That Could Doom US Climate Goals
Energy Policy: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Inside Clean Energy: Navigating the U.S. Solar Industry’s Spring of Discontent
New York Time: Climate and the Enviroment
BOOKS TO CHECK OUT
Braiding Sweet Grass 2020 by Robin Wall Kimmerier.
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need 2021 by Bill Gates.
Losing Earth: A Recent History 2019 by Nathaniel Rich.
Rescuing the Planet: Protecting Half the Land to Heal the Earth 2021 by Tony Hiss.
Drawdown 2017 by Paul Hawken.
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a FantasticFuture 2015 by Ashlee Vance.
FOR KIDS:
It's Getting Hot in Here: The Past, Present, and Future of Climate Change 2016 by Bridget Heos (for Gr 7-9).
CLIMATE CHANGE
INFORMATIVE LINKS:
Inside Climate News - https://insideclimatenews.org/
Plug In America - https://pluginamerica.org
Project Drawdown - https://www.drawdown.org
ClimateXchange - https://mailchi.mp/climate-xchange/u6nfap67n4-1796358?e=e57f4b23f7
Cape Cod Climate Change Collaborative - https://capecodclimate.org
FOOD
Article: Save Our Food. Free the Seed. https://nyti.ms/2Wtt5tO
Lentil Underground: Renegade Farmers and the Future of Food in America 2015 by Liz Carlisle.
Stolen Harvest: the Hijacking of the Global Food Supply 2000 by Vandana Shiva.
World Hunger: 10 Myths 2015 by Frances Moore Lappé and Joseph Collins.
Also see our specific FOOD INFORMATION PAGE!
NATURE
The Nature of the Oaks by Douglas W Tallamy 2021- The importance of these Native Species on our Ecology throughout the seasons.
The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson, 1951.
FILMS
List of Best Climate and Sustainability Documentaries. Complied November by Ryan Hagen (LinkedIn) 2021.
An Inconvenient Truth the Sequel: Truth To Power by Al Gore 2017.
An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore 2006.
The Biggest Little Farm 2019. View the Official Trailer
GARDENING BOOKS
Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens. Douglas W. Tallamy, Timber Press, 2007 and subsequent reprints
Gaia's Garden: a Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture. Toby Hemenway, Chelsea Greene Publishing Co., 2000
Native Plants for New England Gardens. Mark Richardson and Dan Jaffe, Globe Pequot Press, 2018
Native Plants of the Northeast: A Guide for Gardening and Conservation. Donald J. Leopold, Timber Press, 2005
The Living Landscape: Designing for beauty and biodiversity in the home garden. Rick Darke and Doug Tallamy, Timber Press, 2014
The Contrary Farmer. Gene Logsdon, Chelsea Green, 1995
Composting- an Easy Household Guide. Nicky Scott, Chelsea Green, 2005
CLASSICS
A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There. Aldo Leopold, Oxford University Press, 1949 (1987 Commemorative edition with introduction by Robert Finch)
Noah's Garden: Restoring the Ecology of Our Own Back Yards. Sara Stein, Houghton Mifflin, 1991.
Silent Spring. Rachel Carson, Houghton Mifflin, original edition 1962 (1994 reprint with introduction by Al Gore, V.P.)
The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture. Wendell Berry. Sierra Club Books/Counterpoint Press (1977) (2015)