Thanks to generous donations through our Giving Tree program over the past six weeks, we have been able to purchase a number of books to add to the library. Your support helps to keep our collection current, comprehensive, and relevant. We are going to keep the tree up, so if you would like to make a small donation you can bring it to the library during regular hours, or you can contact Bruce DeMartini. Thank you, and here are the new books for the Library:
Michael Mann & Lee R. Kump. Dire Predictions - Understanding Global Warming: The extensively illustrated and highly accessible guide to the findings of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
James Lovelock. The Revenge of Gaia - Earth's Climate Crisis and the Fate of Humanity: A perspective on climate change from the originator of the Gaia theory, which sees the Earth as a single, self-regulating entity subject to disturbance by human activity.
Tim Flannerty. The Weather Makers - How Man is Changing the Climate and What it Means for Life on Earth: The influential overview of climate science that helped bring the topic of global warming to national prominence.
Thomas L. Friedman. Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution - and How it Can Renew America: Influential and controversial New York Times columnist looks at the global environmental crisis and calls for a renewal of United States leadership.
William McDonough & Michael Braungart. Cradle to Cradle - Remaking the Way We Make Things: "Waste equals food" is the guiding principle behind this revolutionary reexamination of the way we design and manufacture almost everything.
Rachel Carson. Silent Spring: The fortieth anniversary edition of the classic that launched the environmental movement; with and introduction by Linda Lear and an afterword by Edward O. Wilson.
Aldo Leopold. A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There: Special commemorative edition of the landmark work of nature writing and environmental ethics.
Paul Hawken. Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being: A chronicle of the worldwide social movements today confronting issues like the destruction of the environment, the abuses of free-market fundamentalism, social justice, and the loss of indigenous cultures.
