Environmental Book Review- Due May 1st
You will need to open a google doc for this assignment. Title it “Your Name Book project”. And you will need to share this with my school email address howellb@calschools.org Copy and paste questions 1-10 into your document and answer them as you wish.
Due May 11th
1. What is the name of your book and who is the author? (10 points)
2. Why did you originally choose this book and what do you hope to learn? (1 paragraph, 10 points)
3. 1 paragraph summary of a 20 page section of the book you just read. List the page numbers read for your summary. (10 points)
4. 1 paragraph summary of a 20 page section of the book you just read. List the page numbers read for your summary. (10 points)
5. 1 paragraph summary of a 20 page section of the book you just read. List the page numbers read for your summary. (10 points)
6. 1 paragraph summary of a 20 page section of the book you just read. List the page numbers read for your summary. (10 points)
7. 1 paragraph summary of a 20 page section of the book you just read. List the page numbers read for your summary. (10 points)
8. Would you recommend this book to a friend? Explain why or why not. (1 paragraph, 5 points)
9. Give a review of what you learned about from this book. (15 points)
10. What did you think of this book reading thing? What did you like, dislike, or how would you change it? (10 points)
100 points
Environmental Book List
Silent Spring-Rachel Carson
The Omnivore’s Dilemma-Michael Pollan
Sand County Almanac-Aldo Leopold
In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto-Michael Pollan
Last Child in the Woods-Richard Louv
Hot, Flat, and Crowded-Thomas L. Friedman
The End of Nature-Bill McKibben
Bringing Nature Home-Douglas Tallamy
Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education-Michael Pollan
The Accidental Farmers-Tim Young
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal-Eric Schlosser
Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden and Your Neighborhood into a Community-Heather Flores
The Weather Makers: How Man is Changing the Climate and What it Means for Life on Earth-Tim Flannery
Eating Animals-Jonathan Safran Foer
Refuge-An Unnatural History of Family and Place-Terry Tempest Williams
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl-Timothy Egan
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in the Age of Extinction-David Quammen
Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating –Jane Goodall, Gail Hudson, Gary McAvoy
The World Without Us-Alan Weisman
Walden, or Life in the Woods-Henry David Thoreau
The Diversity of Life-Edward O Wilson
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things-William McDonough
Desert Soliaire-Edward Abbey
The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back-and How We Can Still Save Humanity-James Lovelock
Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators-William Stolzenburg
Heat: How to Stop the Planet From Burning-George Monbiot, Matthew Prescott
Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal-Joel Salatin
Noah’s Garden: Restoring the Ecology of Our Own Backyards-Sara Stein
Diet for a Small Planet-Frances Moore Lappe
The World Is Blue-Sylvia A Earle
A World Without Ice-Henry Pollack
Climate Change: Biological and Human Aspects-Jonathan Cowie
The Forgotten Pollinators-Stephen L Buchmann and Gary Paul Nabhan
The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World-John Robbins
Hope, Human and Wild: True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth-Bill McKibben
Small Wonder: Essays by Barbara Kingsolver
Soft Energy Paths-Amory Lovins
The Ecology of Commerce-Paul Hawken
The Population Bomb-Paul R Ehrlich
Our Stolen Future-Theo Colborn
The Big Burn- Timothy Egan
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food- Paul Greenberg
When the Rivers Run Dry: Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century- Fred Pearce
The Road- Cormack McCarthy
The Hot Zone-Richard Preston
Collapse-Jared Diamond
Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills- Abigail Gehring
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope- William Kamkwamba
Slow Death by Rubber Duck: The Secret Danger of Everyday Things- Rick Smith, Bruce Lourie
Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry- Stacy Malkan
The Body Toxic: How the Hazardous Chemistry of Everyday Things Threatens Our Health and Well-being- Nena Baker
The Monkeywrench Gang
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
Defending Beef: The Case for Sustainable Meat Production- Nicolette Hahn Niman
Righteous Porkchop-Nicolette Hahn Niman
The Sea Around Us- Rachel Carson
Drop-Dead Gorgeous: Protecting Yourself from the Hidden Dangers of Cosmetics- Kim Erickson
Slow Food Nation- Carlo Petrini
Gorillas in the Mist- Dian Fossey
The Diversity of Life- E.O. Wilson
The Journals of Lewis and Clark
Undaunted Courage- Stephen Ambrose
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1526.Best_Environmental_Books