Environmental Resources Library
Located at the Sustainability Center, the Environmental Resource Library offers titles covering a wide array of topics in sustainability. Whether you are looking for material to supplement your degree program or would like more information about green career paths, the ERL is the place to look! Here you will find a current inventory of titles available for checkout to current Santa Monica College Students. Please be sure to have your student ID available in order to checkout books from the Sustainability Center.
| Book Title | Author(s) |
|---|---|
| 136 Best Ways to Save On Your Home Energy | Sunset Bk. Editors |
| 15 Simple Things Californians Can Do To Recycle | The Earth Works Groups |
| 2010 Pure Seed Book | Baker Greek Heirloom Seeds |
| 30 Ways to Shine As A New Employee | Denise Bissonnette |
| 365 Days to Live Green | Diane McDilda |
| 50 Simple Things Your Business Can Do To Save The Earth | The Earth Works Groups |
| 50 Ways To Save the Ocean | David Helvarg |
| A Fierce Green Life | Shabecoff, Phillip |
| A Sand County Almanac | Aldo Leopold |
| Almanac of the Environment | Valerie Harms |
| American Earth | Bill Mc Kibben |
| American Wasteland | Bloom, Jonathan |
| America's National Parks | Paul Schullery |
| Animal, Vegetable, Miracle | Barbara Kingsolver |
| Backyard Composting | Harmonious Technologies |
| Beyond Ecophobia | David Sobel |
| Beyond Recycling | Kathy Stein |
| Big Coal | Jeff Goodell |
| Biomicry | Janine M. Benyos |
| Blue Frontier | David Helvarg |
| Blue Gold | Maude Barlow |
| Blueprint for a Green School | Jayni Chase |
| Careers in Renewable Energy | Gregory McNamee |
| Careers in The Environment | Mike Fasulo and Paul Walker |
| Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems | Peter Newman |
| City of Quartz | Mike Davis |
| Confessions of a Radical Industrialist | Ray C. Anderson |
| Cooking with Sunshine | Lorraine Anderson |
| Cosmetic Ingredients | Ruth Winter |
| Cradle to Cradle | William McDonough |
| Crimes Agains Nature | Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. |
| Cultural Geography | Richard H. Jackson |
| Deep Ecology | Bill Devall |
| Deep Economy | McKibben, Bill |
| Deforesting the Earth | Michael Williams |
| Degrees that Matter - Climate Change and the University | Ann Rappaport |
| Earth Community Earth Ethics | Larry Rsmussen |
| Earth Democracy | Vandana Shiva |
| Earth First | Martha Lee |
| Earth In the Balance | Al Gore |
| Ecological Literacy - Educating our children | Michael Stone |
| Ecological Literacy - Education & The Transition to a Post Modern World | David Orr |
| Ecology of Fear | Mike Davis |
| Ecomind | Lappe, Francis Moore |
| Edens Lost and Found | Joseph D'Agnese |
| Education for the Earth | Petersons Guides |
| Emissions Trading | TH Tietenbert |
| Environmental Audit of SMC 2005-2006 | Santa Monica College |
| Environmental Careers in the 21st Century | The Environmental Org. |
| Environmental Ethics | Joseph DesJardins |
| Environmental Politics | Switzer |
| Environmental Science: Sustaining the Earth | Miller, Tyler |
| Environmental Science: Working with the Earth | Miller, Tyler |
| Everything Green Living Book | Diane McDilda |
| Exposed | Mark Schapiro |
| Finding the Sweet Spot | Dave Pollard |
| Food Not Lawns | HC Flores |
| Forces of Nature: The Unlikely Story of Walmart’s Green Revolution | Humes, Edward |
| Fostering Sustainable Behavior | Doug McKenzie-Mohr |
| Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist | Steven D. Levitt |
| Gaias Garden: A Guide to Home-scale Permaculture | Hemenway, Toby |
| Garbage Land | Elizabeth Royte |
| Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash | Humes, Edward |
| Generation Green | Simon Pulse |
| Getting into Smart Growth II | Smart Growth Net |
| Global Renaissance | Steven Hackin |
| Global Warming Survival Handbook | Rothschild, David |
| Global Warning | Paul Brown |
| Gone Tomorrow | Heather Rogers |
| Good Work | E.F Schumacher |
| Good, Green Jobs | Joel Makower |
| Great Jobs For Environmental Studies Majors | Julie Degalan & Bryon Middlekauff |
| Green Festival Reader | Poli Point Press |
| Green From the Ground Up | David & Scott Gibson |
| Green Is the New Black | Tamsin Blanchard |
| Green Jobs: A Guide Eco-Friendly Employment | A. Bronqyn Llewellyn |
| Green Urbanism: Learning from European Cities | Timothy Beatley |
| Greening Philosophy | Amber L. Katherine |
| Greening the Ivory Tower | Sarah Creighton |
| Greenopia: The Urban Dweller's Guide to Green Living Vol. and 2 | Greenopia |
| GreenSource | McGraw Hill Construction |
| Grow Organic | DK Books |
| Guns, Germs and Steal | Jared Diamond |
| Hands-On Nature | Vermont Institute of Natural Science |
| High Tech Trash | Elizabeth Grossman |
| Higher Education and the Change of Sustainability | Peter Blaze Corcoran |
| Hope, Human and Wild | Bill McKibben |
| Hot, Flat and Crowded | Thomas L. Friedman |
| How Green Is Your City? | Karlenzing, Marquardt |
| It's All For Sale | James Ridgeway |
| Junkyard Planet | Minter, Adam |
| Let My People Go Surfing | Yvon Chouinard |
| Living Green: A Practical Guide To Simple Sustainability | Greg Horn |
| Living Like ED: A Guide to the Eco-Friendly Life | ED Begley, Jr. |
| Living on the Earth | Alicia Bay Laurel |
| Losing Ground | Mark Dowie |
| Major Problems in American Environmental History | Carolyn Merchant |
| Making A Difference College & Graduate Guide | Miriam Weinstein |
| Making Sustainability Work | Marc J. Epstein |
| Management Recycling and Reuse of Waste Composites | Vannessa Goodship |
| Meditations of John Muir | Chris Highland |
| Mid-Course Correction | Ray C. Anderson |
| Natural Capitalism | Paul Hawken |
| Nature In a Nutshell for Kids | Jean Potto |
| Not Just a Pretty Face | Stacy Malken |
| Ocean Friendly Gardens | Douglas Kent |
| One Makes The Difference | Julia Butterfly Hill |
| Our Ecological Footprint | Mathis Wackernagel |
| Paper or Plastic | Daniel Imhoff |
| People, Penguins, and Plastic Trees | Donald VanDeVeer |
| Physical Geography | E. Willard Miller |
| Plan B 3.0 | Lester R. Brown |
| Planet Earth | Alastair Fothergill |
| Planet of Slums | Mike Davis |
| Planet U | Michael M'Gonigle & Justine Starke |
| Plastic: A Toxic Love Story | Freinbel, Susan |
| Plows, Plagues, & Petroleum | William F. Ruddiman |
| Plug-In Hybrids | Sherry Boschert |
| Plundering Appalachia | Douglas r. Tompkins |
| Profiting From Clean Energy | Richard W. Asplund |
| Radical simplicity | Jim Merkel |
| Reason for Hope | Phillip Berman |
| Rebuild The Dream | Van Jones |
| Santa Monica Review | Santa Monica College |
| Save the Earth | Jonathan Porrit |
| Sharing Nature's Interest | Nicky Chambers |
| Silent Spring (40th Anniversary Edition) | Rachel Carson |
| Silent Spring (The Classic Edition) | Rachel Carson |
| Six Degrees | Mark Lynas |
| Small is Beautiful | Schumachder, E.F. |
| Solar | Ian McNewman |
| State Of The World | The Worldwatch Institute |
| Stolen Harvest | Vandana Shiva |
| Successful Beginnings for College Teaching | Angela Provitera McGlynn |
| Successful Beginnings for College Teaching | McGlynn, Provitera |
| Superbia! | Dan Chiras |
| Sustainability on Campus | Peggy F. Barlett |
| Sustainable Energy on Campus | Bartlett, Reggy |
| Sustainable Energy without the Hot Air | Mackay, David |
| Sustainable Urbanism | Douglas Farr |
| Sustainable Value | Chris Laszlo |
| Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Environmental Issues | Easton, Thomas |
| Teaming with Microbes | Lowenfels, Jeff |
| The Assault On Reason | Al Gore |
| The Better World Handbook | Ellis Jones |
| The Business Guide To Sustainability | Darcy Hitchcock |
| The Carbon-Free Home | Stephen & Rebekah Hren |
| The China Study | Colin Campbell |
| The Clean Tech Revolution | Ron Pernick |
| The Company We Keep | John Abrams |
| The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices | Michael Brower |
| The Deluge and the Ark | Dale Peterson |
| The Eco Guide to Careers that Make a Difference | The Environmental Org. |
| The Ecology of Commerce | Paul Hawken |
| The Ecology of Invations by Animals and Plants | Charles Elton |
| The Economics of Waste | Richard Porter |
| The Economy of Nature | William Ashworth |
| The Elements of Moral Philosophy | James Rachels |
| The Empty Ocean | Ricahard Ellis |
| The Environmental Ethics and Policy Book | Donald VanDeVeer |
| The Great Disruption | Gilding, Paul |
| The Green Book | E. Rogers & T.M Kostigen |
| The Green Collar Economy | Van Jones |
| The Green Encyclopedia | Irene Franck & David Brownstone |
| The Green Revolution | Kirkpatrick Sale |
| The Hockey Stick and Climate Wars | Mann, Michael |
| The Key To Sustainable Cities | Gwendolyn Hallsmith |
| The Kids Nature Book | A. Milford |
| The Lazy Environmentalist | Josh Dorfman |
| The Little Earth Book | James Bruges |
| The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook | David De Rothschild |
| The Making of a Continent | Ron Redfern |
| The Man Who Planted Trees | Green, Chelsea |
| The Monkey Wrench Gang | Edward Abbey |
| The Natural Shade Garden | Ken Druse |
| The Natural Step For Business | Brian Nattrass |
| The Natural Step For Business | Brian Nattrass |
| The Natural Step story | Karl-Henrik Robert |
| The Nature Principle | Louv, Richard |
| The New School: College of Environmental Design at Cal Poly Pomona | Craig Hammond |
| The Smart Office | A.K. Townsend |
| The Story of Stuff | Annie Leonard |
| The Sustainability Handbook | William R. Blackburn |
| The Sustainability Revolution | Andres R. Edwards |
| The Tipping Point | Macolm Gladwell |
| The Transition Handbook | Rob Hopkins |
| The Travels of a T-shirt In The Global Economy | Pietra Rivoli |
| The Triple Bottom Line | Andrew W. Savitz |
| The Urban/Suburban Composter | Mark Cullen, Lorraine Johnson |
| The War Against The Greens | David Helvarg |
| The Web of Life | John H. Storer |
| Toward Sustainable Communities | Jeb Brugmann |
| Toward Sustainable Settlements | Department of Housing |
| True Green @ Work | Kim McKay, Jenny Bonnin |
| Urban Sprawl and Public Health | Howard Frumkin, Lawrence Frank |
| Vanishing Borders | Hilary French |
| Visualizing Environmental Science | Linda R. Berg |
| Voluntary Carbon Markets | Ricardo Bayon |
| Wake Up and Smell the Planet | Branglen Davis, Kathrine Wroth |
| Walden Henry David Thoreau | Walden Henry |
| Waste and Want | Susan Strasser |
| Water and the Shaping of California | Sue McClurg |
| Water Wars | Vandana Shiva |
| Water: The Fate Of Our Most Precious Resource | Marq De Villiers |
| Western Garden Book | Sunset |
| What's In This Stuff? | Patricia Thomas |
| What's Mine Is Yours | Rachel Botsman, Roo Rogers |
| When The Rivers Run By | Beacon Piere |
| Whole Food Recipes | Vitamix |
| Wild Earth | Tom Butler |
| World Changing: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century | Al Gore |
| Zero Waste Home | Johnson, Bea |