| Author
|
Sex
|
Lifespan
|
Theme(s)
|
Selected book
|
Category
|
| Edward Abbey |
M |
1927–1989 |
Various themes |
The Monkey Wrench Gang |
|
| Virginia Abernethy |
F |
1934– |
Carrying capacity |
Population Politics: The Choices that Shape our Future |
|
| Terry L. Anderson |
M |
fl. 2000s |
Free-market environmentalism |
Free Market Environmentalism (co-authored) |
|
| Ron Arnold |
M |
1937– |
Natural resources |
|
|
| Ed Ayres |
M |
b.1941 |
Various themes |
God's Last Offer: Negotiating for a Sustainable Future |
|
| Ronald Bailey |
M |
1953– |
Global warming |
|
|
| Bruce Barcott |
M |
fl. 1990s-2000s |
Wildlife |
The Measure of a Mountain: Beauty and Terror on Mount Rainier |
|
| Peter Barnes |
M |
b.1940 |
Carbon emissions |
Climate Solutions: A Citizen's Guide |
|
| Albert Bates |
M |
1947– |
Various themes |
Climate in Crisis |
|
| Art Bell |
M |
1945–2018 |
Climate change |
The Coming Global Superstorm |
|
| Tom Bender |
M |
fl. 1970s-2000s |
Green architecture |
Environmental Design Primer |
|
| Wendell Berry |
M |
1934– |
Sustainable agriculture, Agrarianism, Conservation |
The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture |
|
| Henry Beston |
M |
1888–1968 |
Natural history |
The Outermost House |
|
| Robert O. Binnewies |
M |
1937– |
Environmental protection |
Palisades: 100,000 acres in 100 years |
|
| Brian Black |
M |
|
Various themes |
Petrolia: The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom |
|
| H. Emerson Blake |
M |
|
Ecology |
|
|
| Murray Bookchin |
M |
1921–2006 |
Social ecology |
Our Synthetic Environment (pseudonymously) |
|
| Stewart Brand |
M |
1938– |
Various themes |
Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto |
|
| Lester R. Brown |
M |
1934– |
Various themes |
World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse |
|
| Marilyn A. Brown |
F |
|
Various themes |
Climate Change and Global Energy Security |
|
| Michael Brune |
M |
|
Various themes |
Coming Clean: Breaking America's Addiction to Oil and Coal |
|
| Robert Bryce |
M |
|
Various themes |
Power Hungry: The Myths of "Green" Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future |
|
| Ernest Callenbach |
M |
1929– |
Simple living |
|
|
| David George Campbell |
M |
1949– |
Tropical wildlife |
A Land of Ghosts |
|
| Archie Carr |
M |
1909–1987 |
Sea turtle conservation |
A Naturalist in Florida |
|
| Donald Eaton Carr |
M |
1903–1986 |
Air and water pollution |
Death of the Sweet Waters |
|
| Rachel Carson |
F |
1907–1964 |
Environmental impact of pesticides |
Silent Spring |
|
| Steve Chase |
M |
|
Environmental justice |
|
|
| Ward Churchill |
M |
1947– |
Indigenous land rights |
Struggle for the Land: Native North American Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide and Colonization |
|
| Theo Colborn |
M |
|
Endocrine disruptors |
Our Stolen Future : How We Are Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence and Survival (co-authored) |
|
| Melissa Coleman |
F |
1969– |
Back-to-the-land movement |
This Life Is in Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family Undone |
|
| Barry Commoner |
M |
1917–2012 |
Ecology |
Making Peace with the Planet |
|
| Philip Connors |
M |
|
Wilderness |
Fire Season: Field Notes From a Wilderness Lookout |
|
| Erik M. Conway |
M |
|
|
|
|
| Joseph Bharat Cornell |
M |
|
Outdoor education |
Sharing Nature with Children |
|
| Greg Craven |
M |
|
Climate change |
What's the Worst That Could Happen?: A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate |
|
| Heidi Cullen |
F |
|
Climate change |
The Weather of the Future: Heat Waves, Extreme Storms, and Other Scenes From a Climate-Changed Planet |
|
| E. Kyle Datta |
M |
|
Renewable energy |
Winning the Oil Endgame: Innovation for Profits, Jobs and Security (co-authored) |
|
| Laurie David |
M |
1958– |
Climate change |
Stop Global Warming: The Solution Is You! |
|
| Osha Gray Davidson |
M |
1954– |
Natural history |
The Enchanted Braid: Coming to Terms with Nature on the Coral Reef |
|
| Kenneth S. Deffeyes |
M |
|
Peak oil |
Hubbert's Peak |
|
| Mark Derr |
M |
|
Environment of Florida |
Some kind of paradise : a chronicle of man and the land in Florida |
|
| Nate Dickinson |
M |
1932–2011 |
Wildlife management |
Common Sense Wildlife Management: Discourses on Personal Experiences |
|
| Marjory Stoneman Douglas |
F |
1890–1998 |
Everglades |
The Everglades: River of Grass |
|
| Morgan Downey |
M |
|
Oil |
Oil 101 |
|
| K. Eric Drexler |
M |
1955– |
Molecular nanotechnology |
Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology (not the foreword) |
|
| Curtis Ebbesmeyer |
M |
1943– |
Flotsam |
Flotsametrics and the Floating World: How One Man's Obsession with Runaway Sneakers and Rubber Ducks Revolutionized Ocean Science |
|
| Anne H. Ehrlich |
F |
1933– |
Human overpopulation |
The Stork and The Plow: The Equity Answer to the Human Dilemma (co-authored) |
|
| Paul R. Ehrlich |
M |
1932– |
Human overpopulation |
Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment (co-authored) |
|
| Daniel C. Esty |
M |
|
Environment of Connecticut |
Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage |
|
| Dan Fagin |
M |
1963– |
Environmental health |
Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation |
|
| Arthur Firstenberg |
M |
1950– |
Microwave engineering |
Microwaving Our Planet: The Environmental Impact of the Wireless Revolution |
|
| Christopher Flavin |
M |
|
Natural resources |
Power Surge: Guide to the Coming Energy Revolution |
|
| Paul Fleischmann |
M |
1952– |
|
Eyes Wide Open: Going Behind the Environmental Headlines |
|
| David Foreman |
M |
1947– |
Wilderness |
Ecodefense: A Field Guide To Monkeywrenching (not the foreword) |
|
| Hilary French |
F |
|
Environmental analysis |
|
|
| Thomas Friedman |
M |
1953– |
Various themes |
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution—And How It Can Renew America |
|
| Howard Friel |
M |
|
Various themes |
Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming |
|
| Buckminster Fuller |
M |
1895–1983 |
|
Approaching the Benign Environment (co-authored) |
Category:Books by Buckminster Fuller
|
| Medard Gabel |
|
|
Various themes |
Environmental Design Science Primer |
|
| Ross Gelbspan |
M |
1939–2024 |
Global warming |
The Heat Is On |
|
| Harold Gilliam |
M |
|
San Francisco Bay Area |
Between the Devil & the Deep Blue Bay: The Struggle to Save San Francisco Bay |
|
| Juan Gonzalez |
M |
1947– |
Various themes |
Fallout: The Environmental Consequences of the World Trade Center Collapse |
|
| Jeff Goodell |
M |
|
Energy |
Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future |
|
| David Goodstein |
M |
1939–2024 |
Fossil fuels |
Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil |
|
| Al Gore |
M |
1948– |
Climate change |
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It |
Category:Books by Al Gore
|
| Dan Haifley |
M |
|
Oceanography |
|
|
| John D. Hamaker |
M |
1914–1994 |
Various themes |
|
|
| Terri Crawford Hansen |
F |
1953– |
Indigenous rights |
|
|
| Garrett Hardin |
M |
1915–2003 |
Human overpopulation |
Living Within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos |
|
| Jonathan Harr |
M |
|
Water pollution |
A Civil Action |
|
| Jonathan Baxter Harrison |
M |
1835–1907 |
Forests |
|
|
| Paul Hawken |
M |
1946– |
Environmental justice |
Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming |
|
| Richard Heinberg |
M |
|
Oil depletion |
The Party's Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies |
|
| Lawrence Joseph Henderson |
M |
1878– |
Environmental science |
The Fitness of the Environment |
|
| Julia Butterfly Hill |
F |
1974– |
Clearcutting |
The Legacy of Luna |
|
| Erich Hoyt |
M |
1950– |
Conservation: cetaceans |
Marine Protected Areas for Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises |
|
| Wes Jackson |
M |
1936– |
Polyculture |
|
|
| Derrick Jensen |
M |
1960– |
Civilization |
A Language Older Than Words |
|
| Van Jones |
M |
1968– |
Environmental economics |
The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems |
|
| Lierre Keith |
F |
1964– |
Various themes |
The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability |
|
| Kevin Kelly |
M |
1952– |
Conservation movement |
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World |
|
| Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. |
M |
1954– |
Environmental law |
Crimes Against Nature : How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy |
|
| Bruce Kershner |
M |
1950–2007 |
Old-growth forests |
Sierra Club Guide to Ancient Forests of the Northeast |
|
| Gilbert Klingel |
M |
1908–1983 |
Chesapeake Bay |
The Bay |
|
| Elizabeth Kolbert |
F |
1961– |
Various themes |
Field Notes from a Catastrophe |
|
| David Korten |
M |
1937– |
Globalization |
When Corporations Rule the World |
|
| Joel Kovel |
M |
1936– |
Eco-socialism |
The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World? |
|
| Bernie Krause |
M |
1938– |
Acoustic ecology |
The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places |
|
| James Howard Kunstler |
M |
1948– |
Various themes |
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape |
|
| Joseph LaDou |
M |
1938– |
Occupational and environmental medicine |
Current Occupational and Environmental Medicine |
|
| Winona LaDuke |
F |
1959– |
Indigenous land rights |
All our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life |
|
| Richard Lamm |
M |
1935– |
|
The Angry West: A Vulnerable Land and Its Future |
|
| Aldo Leopold |
M |
1887–1948 |
Land ethic |
A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There |
|
| Amory Lovins |
M |
1947– |
Energy policy |
Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era (co-authored) |
Category:Books by Amory Lovins
|
| Benton MacKaye |
M |
1879–1975 |
Conservation movement |
The New Exploration: A Philosophy of Regional Planning |
|
| Charles C. Mann |
M |
1955– |
Science |
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created |
|
| Michael E. Mann |
M |
1965– |
Climate change |
The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines |
|
| Richard Manning |
M |
1951– |
American prairie |
Rewilding the West: Restoration in a Prairie Landscape |
|
| Emma Marris |
F |
1979– |
Environmentalism |
Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World |
|
| George Perkins Marsh |
M |
1801–1882 |
Conservationism |
The Earth as Modified by Human Action |
|
| Anne Matthews |
F |
|
Various themes |
Where the Buffalo Roam: Restoring America's Great Plains |
|
| Timothy R. McClanahan |
M |
|
Ecology: coral reefs |
Coral Reefs of the Indian Ocean: Their Ecology and Conservation |
|
| Michael J. McGuire |
M |
1947– |
Drinking water quality standards |
|
|
| Stephen McIntyre |
M |
1947– |
Temperature record of the past 1000 years |
|
|
| Bill McKibben |
M |
1960– |
Global warming |
The End of Nature |
|
| Barbara McMartin |
F |
1931–2005 |
Adirondack Park |
The Great Forest of the Adirondacks |
|
| Tom McNamee |
M |
1947– |
Conservation biology |
Nature First: Keeping Our Wild Places and Wild Creatures Wild |
|
| John McPhee |
M |
1931– |
Various themes |
The Control of Nature |
|
| Dennis Meadows |
M |
1942– |
Environmental economics |
The Limits to Growth (co-authored) |
|
| Donella Meadows |
F |
1941–2001 |
|
The Limits to Growth (co-authored) |
|
| George J. Mitchell |
M |
1933– |
|
World on Fire: Saving an Endangered Earth |
|
| Chris Mooney |
M |
1977– |
Various themes |
Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming |
|
| Ted Nace |
M |
1956– |
Coal industry |
Climate Hope: On the Front Lines of the Fight Against Coal |
|
| Ralph Nader |
M |
1934– |
Environmental economics |
Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile |
Category:Works by Ralph Nader
|
| Richard B. Norgaard |
M |
1943– |
Ecological economics |
An Introduction to Ecological Economics |
|
| Naomi Oreskes |
F |
|
Global warming |
Merchants of Doubt (co-authored) |
|
| Henry Fairfield Osborn, Jr. |
M |
1887–1969 |
Conservation movement |
Our Plundered Planet |
|
| Riki Ott |
F |
|
Aquatic toxicology |
Sound Truth and Corporate Myth$: The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill |
|
| David Naguib Pellow |
M |
1969– |
Various themes |
Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago |
|
| Ron Pernick |
M |
|
Clean technology |
The Clean Tech Revolution (co-authored) |
|
| Frederik Pohl |
M |
1919– |
|
Our Angry Earth: A Ticking Ecological Bomb (co-authored) |
Category:Books by Frederik Pohl
|
| Michael Pollan |
M |
1955– |
Food |
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals |
Category:Books by Michael Pollan
|
| Carl Pope |
M |
|
Various themes |
Strategic Ignorance: Why the Bush Administration Is Recklessly Destroying a Century of Environmental Progress (co-authored) |
|
| Richard Posner |
M |
1939– |
Various themes |
Catastrophe: Risk and Response |
|
| Sandra Postel |
F |
|
Fresh water |
|
|
| Robert Michael Pyle |
M |
1947– |
Forests |
Wintergreen |
|
| Stephen J. Pyne |
M |
|
Forests: wildfires |
Awful Splendour: A Fire History of Canada |
|
| Ray Raphael |
M |
1943– |
Environment of California |
Edges: Human Ecology of the Backcountry |
|
| Paul Rauber |
M |
|
|
Strategic Ignorance: Why the Bush Administration Is Recklessly Destroying a Century of Environmental Progress |
|
| Andrew Revkin |
M |
|
Global warming |
The North Pole Was Here: Puzzles and Perils at the Top of the World |
|
| Jeremy Rifkin |
M |
1945– |
Various themes |
The Green Lifestyle Handbook: 1001 Ways to Heal the Earth (edited by Rifkin) |
|
| Paul Roberts |
M |
|
Various themes |
The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World |
|
| Joseph J. Romm |
M |
1960– |
Energy |
The Hype about Hydrogen: Fact and Fiction in the Race to Save the Climate |
|
| Jonathan F.P. Rose |
M |
1952– |
Various themes |
The Well-Tempered City: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life |
|
| Donald K. Ross |
M |
|
|
|
|
| William Ruddiman |
M |
|
Paleoclimatology |
Plows, Plagues and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate |
|
| Kirkpatrick Sale |
M |
1937– |
Various themes |
The Green Revolution: The American Environmental Movement |
|
| Jonathan Schell |
M |
1943– |
Nuclear weapons |
The Gift of Time: The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons Now |
|
| Auden Schendler |
M |
|
Sustainability |
Getting Green Done |
|
| J. Michael Scott |
M |
1941– |
Wildlife |
|
|
| Julian Simon |
M |
1932–1998 |
Carrying capacity |
The Ultimate Resource |
|
| Fred Singer |
M |
1924– |
Air pollution |
The Greenhouse Debate Continued |
|
| Alexander Skutch |
M |
1904–2004 |
Natural history |
Helpers at Birds’ Nests: A Worldwide Survey of Cooperative Breeding and Related Behavior |
|
| Ted Smith |
M |
1945– |
Electronic waste |
Challenging the Chip (co-authored) |
|
| Gary Snyder |
M |
1930– |
Deep ecology |
|
|
| David A Sonnenfeld |
M |
|
Environmental social science |
Challenging the Chip (co-authored) |
|
| James Gustave Speth |
M |
1942– |
Various themes |
Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment |
|
| Sandra Steingraber |
F |
1959– |
Pollution |
Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment |
|
| Thomas H. Stoner, Jr. |
M |
1960– |
Sustainable development |
Small Change Big Gains: Reflections of an Energy Entrepreneur |
|
| John Tallmadge |
M |
|
Nature |
Reading Under the Sign of Nature: New Essays in Ecocriticism (co-edited) |
|
| Sarah McFarland Taylor |
F |
|
Various themes |
Green Sisters: A Spiritual Ecology |
|
| Henry David Thoreau |
M |
1817–1862 |
Various themes |
|
Category:Books by Henry David Thoreau
|
| Karen J. Warren |
F |
1947– |
Various themes |
|
|
| Arthur Waskow |
M |
1933– |
Various themes |
Torah of the Earth: Exploring 4,000 Years of Ecology in Jewish Thought |
|
| Harvey Wasserman |
M |
1945– |
Anti-nuclear movement in the United States |
Killing Our Own: The Disaster of America’s Experience with Atomic Radiation (co-authored) |
|
| Spencer R. Weart |
M |
1942– |
Global warming |
The Discovery of Global Warming |
|
| Linda Weintraub |
F |
|
Various themes |
Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet |
|
| Alan Weisman |
M |
1947– |
Human extinction |
The World Without Us |
|
| Adam Werbach |
M |
1973– |
|
|
|
| Tom Wessels |
M |
|
Conservation biology |
The Myth of Progress: Toward a Sustainable Future |
|
| Rex Weyler |
M |
1947– |
Various themes |
Greenpeace: The Inside Story |
|
| Clint Wilder |
M |
|
Clean technology |
The Clean Tech Revolution (co-authored) |
|
| E. O. Wilson |
M |
1929– |
Biodiversity |
The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth |
|
| Bruce Yandle |
M |
|
Free-market environmentalism |
Taking the Environment Seriously |
|
| Daniel Yergin |
M |
1947– |
Energy |
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power |
|
| Ozzie Zehner |
M |
|
Renewable energy and consumption |
Green Illusions: The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism |
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