Environmental books of the year (2000 to 2007)

Note: this is an open list. Comments and suggestions about additions to the list are welcome to bill.kovarik@gmail.com

ENVIRONMENTAL BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2007:

• Peter Annin, Great Lakes Water Wars, Island Press
• David Beerling, The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth's History, Oxford University Press
• Mark Bowen, Censoring Science: Inside the Political Attack on Dr. James Hansen and the Truth ofGlobal Warming, Dutton
• Gary Braasch, Earth Under Fire University of California Press
• John D. Cox, Climate Crash: Abrupt Climate Change and What It Means for Our Future, Joseph Henry Press
• Gwyneth Cravens, Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy, Knopf
• Kevin Danaher, Jason Mark and Shannon Biggs, Building the Green Economy: Success Stories from the Grassroots, Polipoint Press
• Brangien Davis, Wake Up and Smell the Planet: The Non-Pompous, Non-Preachy Grist (magazine) Guide to Greening Your Day, Mountaineers Books
• Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer, Basic
• Bill DeBuys The Walk, Trinity University Press
• Josh Dorfman, The Lazy Environmentalist: Your Guide to Easy, Stylish, Green Living, Stewart, Tabori & Chang
• John Duffield, Over a Barrel: The Costs of U.S. Foreign Oil Dependence, Stanford Law Books
• Kerry Emanuel, What We Know About Climate Change, Boston Review Books
• H. Bruce Franklin, The most important fish in the sea, Island Books
• Eban Goodstein, Fighting for Love in the Century of Extinction: How Passion and Politics Can Stop Global Warming Vermont
• Al Gore, The Assault on Reason, Penguin
• Peter Grose, Power to People, Island Press
• Paul Hawken, How the Largest Movement in the World Came Into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming, Viking
• Mayer Hillman, The Suicidal Planet: How to Prevent Global Climate Catastrophe, Thomas Dunne  
• Gary Holthaus, From the Farm to the Table: What All Americans Need to Know About Agriculture, Univ. of Kentucky
• Julian Crandall Hollick, Ganga: A journey down the sacred river, Island Press
• Chrisopher C. Horner, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming, Regnery
• Joy Horowitz, Parts Per Million: the poisoning of Beverly Hills High School Viking
• Mark Harris, Grave Matters: A Journey through the modern funeral industry to a natural way of burial, Scribner
• Jay Inslee and Bracken Hendricks, Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy, Island Press
• Jonathan Isham and Sissel Waage, eds, Ignition: What You Can Do to Fight Global Warming and Spark a Movement, Island Press
• Eugene Linden, The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations, Simon & Schuster
• Penny Loeb, Moving Mountains How One Woman and Her Community Won Justice from Big Coal, KY
• Bjørn Lomborg, Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming, Knopf
• Chris Mooney, Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics and the Battle over Global Warming, Harcourt Inc.
• Timothy Morton, Ecology without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics, Harvard
• Bill McKibben, Fight Global Warming Now: The Handbook for Taking Action in Your Community, Holt
• Bill McKibben, Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future, Times
• Joseph F. C. DiMento an Pamela M. Doughman, Eds., Climate Change: What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren MIT Press
• George Monbiot and Matthew Prescott, Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning, South End Press
• John R. Nolon and Daniel B. Rodriguez, eds., Losing Ground: A Nation on Edge, Environmental Law Institute Pres
• Michael Novacek, Terra: Our 100-Million-Year-Old Ecosystem--and the Threats That Now Put It at Risk, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Fred Pearce, With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change, Beacon Press
• Dale Allen Pfieffer, Eating Fossil Fuels: Oil, Food And the Coming Crisis in Agriculture New Society
• Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma, Penguin
• Alan Rabinowitz, Life in the Valley of Death: The Fight to SaveTigersin a Land of Guns, Gold and Greed, Island Press
• Trish Riley, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Green Living, Penguin
• Callum Roberts, An UnNatural History of the Sea, Island Press
• Elizabeth Rogers , Thomas M. Kostigen The Green Book: The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time, Three Rivers Press
• David de Rothschild, The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook: 77 Essential Skills To Stop Climate Change, Rodale
• William Ruddiman, Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate Princeton University Press
• David Sandalow, Freedom From Oil: How the Next President Can End the United States' Oil Addiction, McGraw Hill
• Debra Schwartz, Writing Green, Apprentice House
• Mark Shapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power, Chelsea Green
• Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility, Houghton Mifflin
• Fred Singer, Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Rowman & Littlefield
• Henrik Svensmark, The Chilling Stars: the New Theory of Climate Change, Totem
• Peter Thompson, Sacred Sea:A Journey to Lake Baikal, Oxford University Press
• UN Development Program, ed., Human Development Report 2007: Climate Change and Human Development--Rising to the Challenge, Palgrave Macmillan
• Peter D. Ward, Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future, Collins
• Alan Rabinowitz, Life in the Valley of Death: The Fight to Save Tigers in a Land of Guns, Gold, and Greed, Island Press
• Thomas Raymond Wellock, Preserving the Nation: The Conservation and Environmental Movements, 1870-2000, Harlan Davidson
• David de Rothschild, The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook: 77 Essential Skills To Stop Climate Change,  Rodale
• Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility, Houghton Mifflin
• Alan Weisman, The World Without Us, Thomas Dunne Books
• David Wilcove, No Way Home: The Decline of the World's Great Animal Migrations, Island Press
• Wendy Williams and Robert Whitcomb, Cape Wind: Money, Celebrity, Class, Politics and the Battle for our Energy Future on Nantucket Sound (Public Affairs)
• E.O. Wilson, The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth, WW Norton & Co

ENVIRONMENTAL BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2006:

• Helen Caldicott, Nuclear Power is not the answer, New Press
• Daniel C. Esty, Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage, Yale University Press
• Gary Ginsberg and Brian Toal, What's Toxic, What's Not, Berkeley Trade
• David Gershon, Low Carbon Diet: A 30 Day Program to Lose 5000 Pounds--Be Part of the Global Warming Solution!, Empowerment Institute
• Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, Viking (Companion book to the documentary video)
• Roger S. Gottlieb, A Greener Faith: Religious Environmentalism and our Planet's Future, Oxford Univesity Press
• Karlson Hargroves and Michael H. Smith, The Natural Advantage of Nations: Business Opportunities, Innovation and Governance in the 21st Century, Earthscan
• Ivor van Heerden, The Storm: What Went Wrong and Why During Hurricane Katrina--the Inside Story from One Louisiana Scientist, Penguin
• Jed Horne, Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City, Random House
• Elizabeth Kolbert, Field Notes from a Catastrophe,: Man, Nature and Climate Change, Bloomsbury USA
• Dennis Love, My City Was Gone: The Poisoning of a Small American Town
• Douglass MacDougall, Frozen Earth: The Once and Future Story of Ice Ages University of California Press
• John McQuaid and Mark Schleifstein, Path of Destruction: The Devastation of New Orleans and the Coming Age of Superstorms, Little, Brown & Co.
• Ben A. Minteer, The Landscape of Reform: Civic Pragmatism and Environmental Thought in America, MIT Press
• Stacy Mitchell, Big Box Swindle: The true costs of mega-retailers and the fight for Ameria's independent businesses, Beacon
• Julianne Lutz Newton, Aldo Leopold's Journey: Rediscovering the Author of A Sand County Almanac, Island Press
• Joseph Romm, Hell and High Water -the Solution and the Politics--and What We Should Do, William Morrow
• David Sonnenfeld, David Naguib Pello, Ted Smith Challenging the Chip: Labor rights and environmental jutice in the global electronics industry Temple University Press
• David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown, Thunder's Mouth Press
• Terry Tamminen, Lives Per Gallon, The true cost of our oil addiction, Island Press
• Crissy Trask, It's Easy Being Green: A Handbook for Earth-Friendly Living Gibbs Smith
• Mike Tidwell, The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas and the coming death of America's coast cities, Free Press
• Mark Jerome Walters, Seeking the sacred raven: Politics and Extinction on a Hawaiian Island, Island Press
• E.O. Wilson, Nature Revealed: Selected Writings, 1949-2006, Johns Hopkins University Press
  

ENVIRONMENTAL BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2005

• Rocky Barker, Scorched Earth, How the Fires of Yellowstone Changed America, Island Press
• Robert D. Bullard The Quest For Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution, Sierra Club Books
• Alan Burdick, Out of Eden : An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• William James Burroughs, Climate Change in Prehistory: The End of the Reign of Chaos, Cambridge University Press
• Angela Cassar, Noemi Nemes, Water as a Human Right, World Conservation Union
• Bill Christofferson, The Man From Clear Lake: Earth Day Founder Gaylord Nelson, U. of Wisconsin Press '
• Marla Cone, Silent Snow: The Slow Poisoning Of The Arctic, Grove Press
• Jared M. Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Penguin Press 
• Andres R. Edwards, The Sustainability Revolution: Portrait Of A Paradigm Shift, New Society Publishers
• David Helvarg, Ocean and coastal conservation guide, Island Press
• James David Fahn, A Land on Fire: The Environmental Consequences of the Southeast Asian Boom, Westview Press 
• Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Environmental Justice: Creating Equality, Reclaiming Democracy Oxford University Press
• Andrew Jordan, et al.   Environmental Policy in Europe: The Europeanization of National Environmental Policy Routledge
• Amory B Lovins, Winning the Oil Endgame: Innovation for Profit, Jobs and Security, Earthscan/ James & James
• Thomas J. McEvoy, Positive Impact Forestry, Island Press
• Patrick J. Michaels, Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media, Cato Institute (also by the same author, same year, Shattered Consensus: The True State of Global Warming, Rowman Littlefield)
• David Robie, Eyes of Fire: the Last Voyage of the Rainbow Warrior, South Pacific Books
• Carolyn Merchant, The Columbia Guide to American Environmental History, Columbia University Press
• Elizabeth Royte, Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash, Little, Brown
• Bob Willard, The Next Sustainability Wave: Building Boardroom Buy-in, New Society

ENVIRONMENTAL BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2004:

• Patrick Beach, A Good Forest for Dying: The tragic death of a young man on the front lines of the environmental wars, Doubleday -- About the death of David "Gypsy" Chain.
• Scott R. Brennan, Essential Environment: The Science behind the Stories, Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Company
• Frederick Buell,  From Apocalypse to Way of Life: Environmental Crisis in the American Century, Routledge
• Jason Clay, World Agriculture and the Environment, Island Press
• William Cronon and David Stradling, eds, Conservation in the Progressive Era, University of Washington Press
• Karen Christensen, The Armchair Environmentalist: 3 Minute a Day Action Plan to Save the World M Q Publications,
• Dave Dempsey On the Brink: The Great Lakes in the 21st Century Island Press
• Richard Ellis, Empty Ocean, Island Press
• Paul and Anne Erlich, One with Nineveh, Island Press
• Ross Gelbspan, Boiling Point: How politicians, big oil and coal, journalists and activists have fueld the climate crisis -- and what we can do to avert disaster, Basic Books
• Linda K. Glover, Sylvia A. Earle, Defying Ocean's End: An Agenda for Action Island Press
• Amory Lovins, Winning the Oil Endgame, Rocky Mountain Institute
• Bjorn Lomborg, Global Crises, Global Solutions, Cambridge University Press
• Wangari Maathai, The Green Belt Movement, Lantern books
• Jim Motavalli, ed, Feeling the Heat: Dispatches from the Frontlines of climate change, from the editors of E/The Environment Magazine, Routledge
• John Okoro, The Earth As a Living Superorganism: From the Scientific Gaia (Hypothesis) to the Metaphysics of Nature Peter Lang Publishing
• David Orr, The Last Refuge: The Corruption of Patriotism in the Age of Terror Island Press
• Anne Primavesi, Making God Laugh: Human Arrogance and Ecological Humility, Polebridge Press
• Joseph J. Romm, The Hype about Hydrogen, Island Press
• Stephen Schneider, Scientists Debate Gaia: The Next Century, MIT Press
• Andrew Schneider and David McCumber, An Air That Kills: How the Asbestos Poisoning of Libby, Montana, Uncovered a National Scandal, Putnam
• James Gustave Speth, Red sky at morning : America and the crisis of the global environment, Yale University Press
• Rachael Stein, New Perspectives on Environmental Justice: Gender, Sexuality, and Activism, Rutgers University Press
• Jon Turney, Lovelock and Gaia: Signs of Life, Columbia University Press
• Rex Weyler, Greenpeace: How a group of ecologists, journalists and visionaries changed the world, Rodale Press
• E.O. Wilson, On Human Nature, Harvard University Press

 

ENVIRONMENTAL BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2003:

• Richard Alley, The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future, Princeton
• Emilie Buchwald, Toward the Livable City, Milkweed Editions
• Gretchen C. Daily and Katherine Ellison, The New Economy of Nature: The Quest to Make Conservation Profitable, Island Press
• Osha Gray Davidson, Fire in the Turtle House: The Green Sea Turtle and the Fate of the Ocean PublicAffairs
• Gregg Easterbrook, The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse, Random House
• Tom Horton, Turning the Tide: Saving the Chesapeake Bay, Island Press
• Robert Hunter, Thermageddon: Countdown to 2030, Arcade
• Carolyn Johnsen, Raising a Stink: The Struggle over Factory Hog Farms in Nebraska University of Nebraska Press,
• Lynn Margulis, Slanted Truths: Essays on Gaia, Symbiosis and Evolution, Springer
• Dana Phillips, The Truth of Ecology: Nature, Culture, and Literature in America, Oxford
• Richard B. Stewart and Jonathan B. Wiener, Reconstructing Climate Policy: Beyond Kyoto, AEI Press
• Mark Jerome Walters, Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them, Island Press
• Lois Warren, American Environmental History, Wiley-Blackwell
• E.O. Wilson, The Future of Life, Vintage

ENVIRONMENTAL BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2002:

• Janine M. Benyus, Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature, Harper Perennial
• Devra Davis, When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution, Basic Books
• Archon Fung, Bradley Karkkainen, Charles Sabel, Beyond Backyard Environmentalism, Beacon Press
• Carl Hiaasen, Hoot,Macmillan Children's Books
• Benita J. Howell, Culture, Environment and Conservation in the Appalachian South, Univeristy of Illinois Press
• Dominique Lapierre and Javier Moro, Five Past Midnight in Bhopal: The Epic Story of the World's Deadliest Industrial Disaster, translated from French, Warner Books.
• Andrew Kimbrell, Fatal Harvest: the tragedy of industial agriculture, Island Press
• William McDonough, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, North Point Press
• Frances Moore Lappe, et al.  Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet
• Peter Matthiessen, The Birds of Heaven: Travels with Cranes
• Farley Mowat High Latitudes: An Arctic Journey
• Gaylord Nelson, Beyond Earth Day: Fulfilling the Promise University of Wisconsin Press
• David Helvarg, Blue Frontier — Saving America's Living Seas Owl Books
• David Ropeik, Risk: A Practical Guide for Deciding What's Really Safe and What's Really Dangerous in the World Around You
• William Souder, A Plague of Frogs: Unraveling an Environmental Mystery
• Ted Steinberg, Nature's Role in American History, Oxford University Press
• Edward O. Wilson,The Future of Life

ENVIRONMENTAL BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2001:

• Lester Brown, Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth, W.W. Norton
• John Ross Edward Bliese, The greening of conservative America Westview Press
• Brian Fagan, The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850 , Basic
• Stephen Halliday, The Great Stink of London: Sir Joseph Bazelgette and the clensing of the Victorian metropolis, Sutton
• Andrew J. Hoffman, From heresy to dogma : an institutional history of corporate environmentalism Stanford Business Books
• Thomas Larsson, The Race to the Top National Book Network
• Bjorn Lomborg, The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World, Cambridge University Press
• Chris J. Magoc, So Glorious a Landscape: Nature and the Environment in American History and Culture, SR Books
• Kathryn Mutz, Gary Bryner, Douglas Kenney, Justice and Natural Resources, Island Press
• Mark Neuzil, Views on the Mississippi: The Photographs of Henry Peter Bosse, U. Minn Press
• Dick Russell, Eye of the Whale, Simon & Schuster, 2001 -- the story of author 's travels along the migratory route of the California gray whale from Baja to Siberia, focusing on the successful environmental fight to contain a saltworks at Laguna San Ignacio, on the Makah Tribe's hunt.
• Philip Schabecoff, Earth Rising: American Environmentalism in the 21st Century, Island Press
• David Schmidtz and Elizabeth Willott , Environmental Ethics Oxford University Press
• Paul F. Steinberg, Environmental leadership in developing countries : transnational relations and biodiversity policy in Costa Rica and Bolivia / MIT Press
• Roger D. Stone and Claudia D'Andrea,Tropical Forests & The Human Spirit: Journeys to the Brink of Hope, U. Calif. Press
• Leslie Thiele, Environmentalism for a New Millennium: The Challenge of Coevolution, Oxford

ENVIRONMENTAL BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2000:

• Terry L. Anderson, Political environmentalism : going behind the green curtain Hoover Institution Press, 2000
• Robert J Brulle, Agency, Democracy, and Nature. The U.S. Environmental Movement from a Critical Theory Perspective. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000.
• Gretel Ehrlich, John Muir: Nature's Visionary National Geographic Society, 2000
• Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins , L. Hunter Lovins, Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution, Back Bay
• Ramachandra Guha, Environmentalism: A Global History, Longman, 2000
• Brian Milani, Designing the Green Economy: The Postindustrial Alternative to Corporate Globalization, Rowman & Littlefield
• Phillip J. Pauley, Biologists and the Promise of American Life, Princeton University Press
• Charles T. Rubin, Conservation Reconsidered: Nature, Virtue, and American Liberal Democracy, Rowman & Littlefield
• Alan Tonelson, The Race to the Bottom Westview Press, 2000
• Christian Warren, Brush With Death: A Social History of Lead Poisoning, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000