Sustainability Education Resources

Content curated by PCC's SPARC (Sustainable Practices for Academics and Resources Council).

More recommended books & articles

These books and articles are either available through the PCC libraries, or are available free online.

Adams, M., Bell, Lee Anne, & Griffin, Pat. (2007). Teaching for diversity and social justice (2nd ed.). New York: Routledge.

Dillard, J., Dujon, Veronica, & King, Mary C. (2009). Understanding the social dimension of sustainability (Routledge studies in development and society ; 17). New York: Routledge.

Merculieff, I., & Roderick, L. (2013). Stop Talking: Indigenous Ways of Teaching and Learning and Difficult Dialogues in Higher Education. Retrieved from http://www.difficultdialoguesuaa.org/images/uploads/Stop_talking_final.pdf
 

Okun, T. (2006). From White Racist to White Anti-Racist: The lifelong journey. Dismantling Racism Works. Retrieved from http://www.dismantlingracism.org/uploads/4/3/5/7/43579015/white_identity_ladder_2013.pdf
 

The 17 Principles of Environmental Justice (1991). Retrieved from http://www.ejnet.org/ej/principles.pdf.

Jones, V. (2011). Vanity Fair: The Unbearable Whiteness of Green. Huffington Post. Retrieved from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/van-jones/vanity-fair-the-unbearabl_b_48766.html.

Deranger, E. (2015). The Fight Against Tar Sands is About More than the Environment. RedPepper.com. Retrieved from http://www.redpepper.org.uk/the-fight-against-tar-sands-is-about-more-than-the-environment/

Confronting the Whiteness of Big Green NGOs. More Like People. Retrieved from http://morelikepeople.org/confronting-whiteness/.

Hanson, J. (2015). The Modern Environmental Movement's Big Failure. Pacific Standard. Retrieved from https://psmag.com/environment/the-modern-environmental-movements-big-failure#.mzomasu0l.

Steingraber, S. (2001). Having faith : An ecologist's journey to motherhood. Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus.

(2011). Raising Elijah : Protecting our children in an age of environmental crisis. Cambridge: Da Capo.

(1997). Living downstream : An ecologist looks at cancer and the environment. Reading, Mass.:  Addison-Wesley Publishing.     

McDonough, W., & Braungart, Michael. (2013). The Upcycle. New York: North Point Press.

Magnuson, J. (2013). The Approaching Great Transformation : Toward a Livable Post Carbon Economy. New York: Seven Stories Press.

Willard, B. (2012). The New Sustainability Advantage. Gabriola Island, B.C.: New Society.

Tiscareño-Sato, G. (2011). Latinnovating : Green American jobs and the Latinos Creating Them. Hayward, Calif.: Gracefully Global Group.

Chapin, R. (2011). Pocket neighborhoods : Creating Small-Scale Community in a Large-Scale World. Newtown, CT: Taunton Press.

Hawken, P. (2010). The Ecology of Commerce : A Declaration of Sustainability (Rev. ed.). New York: Harper Business.

Kaplan, J. (2009). Greening your small business : How to improve your bottom line, grow your brand, satisfy your customers--and save the planet. New York: Prentice Hall Press.

O'Brien, K., & Smith, Kathleen. (2008). The Northwest Green Home Primer. Portland, Or.: Timber Press.

Epstein, M., Rejc, Adriana, Elkington, John, & Leonard, Herman B. "Dutch.". (2014). Making Sustainability Work. San Francisco: Greenleaf Publishing/Berrett-Koehler.

McDonough, W., & Braungart, Michael. (2002). Cradle to Cradle : Remaking the Way We Make Things. New York: North Point Press.

Benyus, J. (2002). Biomimicry : Innovation Inspired by Nature. New York: Perennial.

Gladwell, M. (2000). The Tipping Point : How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. Boston: Little, Brown.

Anderson, R. (2005). Mid-course Correction : Toward a Sustainable Enterprise :The Interface model. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green.

Durning, A. (1996). This Place on Earth : Home and the Practice of Permanence. Seattle: Sasquatch Books.

Carson, R. (2002). Silent spring (40th anniversary ed). Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

UCLA School of Public Affairs. What is Critical Race Theory? UCLA. Retrieved from https://spacrs.wordpress.com/what-is-critical-race-theory/.

Ladson-Billings, G. and Tate, W. (1995). Toward a Critical Race Theory of Education. Retrieved from http://www.unco.edu/education-behavioral-sciences/pdf/TowardaCRTEduca.pdf.

 

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