Resources
Resources for Political Action and To Learn to Live More Lightly on the Earth
The Consumer’s Guide to Effective Environmental Choices: Practical Advice from the Union of Concerned Scientists [1999, Three Rivers Press, $15]
Michael Pollan’s Omnivore’s Dilemma – A Natural History of Four Meals, [2006, Penguin Books]
Cynthia Barnett’s Mirage – Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S., [2007, University of Michigan Press]
Harvey Wasserman’s SolarTopia – Our Green-Powered Earth, A.D. 2030, [2007, Harvey Wasserman]
Bill McKibben’s Deep Economy – The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future, [2007, Times Books, Henry Holt and Company]
Lester R. Brown’s Plan B 2.0 – Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble, [2006, Earth Policy Institute, W.W. Norton & Company] www.earthpolicy.org
The Next Industrial Revolution: William McDonough, Michael Braungart and the Birth of the Sustainable Economy (video) [2004, American Planning Association]
Fostering Sustainable Behavior: An Introduction to Community-based Social Marketing by Doug McKenzie-Mohr and William Smith, Jr. [1999, New Society Publishers]
Environmental Protection Agency www.epa.gov [The mission of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is to protect human health and to safeguard the natural environment—air, water, and land—upon which life depends
International Panel on Climate Control www.ipcc.ch/
Union of Concerned Scientists www.ucsusa.org/
Audubon of Florida www.audubonofflorida.org [Alan Keller is president of the Collier County Audubon Society, 643-7822]
League of Conservation Voters www.lcv.org [They can help you decide who to vote for]
Sierra Club www.sierraclub.org and http://florida.sierraclub.org/calusa/ [The Calusa group general meeting is held the first Thursday of each month at 6:30pm at the UU Church at 13411 Shire Lane, off Daniels parkway, in Fort Myers.]
Cool Cities – Solving Global Warming One City at a Time
www.coolcities.us [As of January 2008, 784 mayors have endorsed the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement, including 68 Florida cities.]
Naples Network for Climate Action, board chair Dianne Rhodes, nnca@live.com.
www.foodroutes.org [a national nonprofit organization dedicated to reintroducing Americans to their food—the seeds it grows from, the farmers who produce it, and the routes that carry it from the fields to their tables
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