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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
"Called Home"
by Barbara Kingsolver
The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
of
Wendell Berry
"The Pleasures of Eating"
Best Food Writing 2004
"Farm-Fresh Find" from City Pages
Dara Moskowitz
Business Week
no.4085 May 26, 2008
"GM: Live Green or Die" by David Welch
Discover
v.29 no.5 May, 2008
"Biofuel Frenzy" by Jennifer Barone
"The Next Step: From Clean Energy to Sustainable Food..."
by Laurie David, founder, StopGobalWarming.org
Including:
"Better Energy" by Gwyneth Cravens
"Better Water" by Jennifer Barone
"Better Air" by Erika Check Hayden &
"Better Food" by Josie Glausiusz
"Plastic People of the Universe: Everything you wanted to know about the biology
of plastic (but were afraid to ask)."
by Jill Neimark
The Economist
v.387 no.8585 June 21-27, 2008
"The Power and the Glory: A special report on energy"
Including:
"Trade Winds" (wind power)
"Another Silicon Valley?"
(solar energy)
"Beneath Your Feet" (geothermal energy)
"Grow Your Own" (biofuels)
"The End of Petrolhead" (cars & electricity)
"Life After Death" (nuclear power)
"Flights of Fancy" (energy & change)
Field & Stream
v.113 no.6 October, 2008
"Heroes of Coservation 2008" Interviews by Brian McClintock
National Review
v.60 no. 11 June 16, 2008
"Nuclear Power?: yes please" by Iain Murray
New York Times Magazine
The Green Issue - April 20th, 2008
Act
Eat
Invent
Learn
(How green is my campus?)
Live
Move
Build
October, 5th, 2008
Capitalism to the Rescue by Jon Gertner
(Can the venture capitalists at Kleiner Perkins reduce our dependence on oil,
help stop global warming and make a lot of money at the same time?)
New Yorker
February 28th, 2008
"Big Foot" (carbon footprint -
morality & science)
by Michael Specter
Newsweek
v.151 no.15 April 14, 2008
"Just the Tree of Us"
(environment and presidential leadership)
by Jerry Adler
"A Leadership Reality Check" by Evan Thomas & Pat Wingert
"10 Fixes for the Planet" by Anne Underwood
"Iceland has Power to Burn" by Daniel Gross
"A Growth Industry"
(business students, the environment, & money)
by Martha Brant & Miyoko Ohtake
"Not Just Greener Grass" (sports stadiums & the environment)
by Matthew Philips
"Sense and Sensibility" (fashion and sustainability)
by Anna Kuchment
v.150 no.16 April 16, 2007
"Moment of Truth: is the push to save the planet a fad...?"
by Jerry Adler
"The Green Giant" (Arnold Schwarzenegger) by Karen Breslau
"How Green is Your Candidate?"
"Curbing Emissions Won't Be Enough" by Sharon Begley
"Mayors Take the Lead" (local leaders & the environment)
by Anne Underwood
"It's Hip to Be Green" (young people & activism) by Anna Kuchment
Popular Science
v.273 no.1 July, 2008
"10 Audacious Ideas to Save the Planet"
"Green Megalopolis" (urban planning)
"Carbon Discredit" (phytoplankton & carbon credits)
Scientific American
v.299 no.2 August, 2008
"Facing the Freshwater Crisis" by Peter Rogers
Time
v.171 no.14 April 7, 2008
"The Clean Energy Scam" (ethanol) by Michael Grunwald
v.171 no.17 April 28, 2008
"Why Green is the New Red, White and Blue" by Bryan Walsh
"The Right War" (the U.N. chief on why a greener planet would be a more peaceful
one) by Ban Ki-moon
"The First Big Test" (cap and trade & the presidential candidates)
by Eric Pooley
U.S. News
v. 143 no.16 November 5, 2007
"Power Revolution" (solar energy) by Marianne Lavelle
v.144 no.12 April 28-May 5
"Can America Use Less Energy?" by Marianne Lavelle
University Business
v.10 no.6 June, 2007
"Walking the Talk" (community & sustainability)
by caryn Meyers Fliegler
"Sustainability: An organizing principle for colleges and universities"
by Michael Crow
"It's Not Easy Eating Green" (sustainable campus kitchens)
by Ann McClure
v.11 no.6 June, 2008
"Campus Buildings Pushed to the Next Level"
(sustainability & energy management)
v.11 no.7 July, 2008
"Sustainable Admissions" by Howard and Martha Greene
Wisconsin Natural Resources
v.32 no.2 April, 2008
"Build Your Own Rain Garden" by David L. Sperling
Green Events:
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ASLE-The Association for the Study of
Literature & the Environment
Blue
Devils Go Green Blog
(You must create an account before posting.)
BioOne
An aggregation of full-text bioscience research journals including The
American Biology Teacher, BioScience, Conservation Ecology, Journal of Zoo and
Wildlife Medicine, and Wetlands. Most of BioOne's titles are
published by small societies and non-commercial publishers.
Council on Environmental
Quality NEPAnet
Links to information on the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), CEQ
Studies and Reports, and environmental impact statements and analysis.
Cows,
Colleges, & Curriculum:
sustainability issues in the classroom
Earth 911
Ecology and
Natural Resources Collection
The Ecology and Natural Resources Collection brings together in digital
form two categories of primary and secondary publications: writings about
research in ecology and natural resources conducted by University of Wisconsin
faculty and staff; and unique or valuable titles in these fields held by the
University of Wisconsin Libraries.
Environment Complete
Environment Complete offers deep
coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy,
renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science,
geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental
law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. It contains more
than 1,772,000 records from more than 1,680 domestic and international titles
going back to the 1940s (including 1,108 active core titles) as well as more
than 100 monographs. The database also contains full text for more than 650
journals. Via Ebsco.
Environmental Resource
Center for Higher Education
Go Green Manitowoc Blog
(from City of Manitowoc)
GreenFILE
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all
aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly,
government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green
building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and
more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for approximately 295,000
records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,600 records.
National Wildlife
Federation Campus Ecology Program
SAGE-Sustainability and the Global Environment
(UW-Madison)
Science Online
The world's leading journal of original scientific research, global news, and
commentary. Includes access to Science, STKE (Signal Transduction
Knowledge Environment), and Science Express.
Science.gov
Science.gov is a gateway to over 50 million pages of authoritative
selected science information provided by U.S. government agencies, including
research and development results. Sites are grouped by the topics agriculture &
food, applied science & technology, astronomy & space, biology & nature,
computers & communication, Earth & ocean sciences, energy & energy conservation,
environment & environmental quality, health & medicine, math, physics &
chemistry, natural resources & conservation, and science education.
TOXNET Toxicology Data Network
Databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic
releases.
UW-Madison Campus
Ecology Page
