Library Lists

Visit the Vancouver Public Library's Environmental Issues guide for information on environmental issues, both in the library and online.

The Sustainability Group has made a list of our favourites - most can be found at the Vancouver Public Library:

	All you can eat : greed, lust, and the new capitalism by McQuaig, Linda, 1951- Toronto : Viking, 2001. Call #: 330.122 M17a
	Biomimicry : innovation inspired by nature by Benyus, Janine M. New York : Morrow, c1997. Call #: 600 B47b
	Cradle to cradle : remaking the way we make things by McDonough, William. New York : North Point Press, 2002. Call #: 628.4458 M136c
	Dwellers in the land : the bioregional vision by Sale, Kirkpatrick. Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2000. Call #: 304.2 S16d1
	Fostering sustainable behavior : an introduction to community-based social marketing by McKenzie-Mohr, Doug, 1959- New Society Publishers, c1999. Call #: 179.1 M15f
	The Hannover Principles; Design for Sustainability by William McDonough Architects New York, New York, 1992 download here
	Heat : How To Stop The Planet From Burning by Monbiot, George, 1963- Doubleday Canada 2006 Call #: REPL
	Ishmael : a novel by Quinn, Daniel. New York : Bantam/Turner Book, 1992. Call #: FIC
	Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in America by Ehrenreich, Barbara. New York : Metropolitan Books, c2001. Call #: 305.56 E33n
	The Philosophy of Sustainable Design by Jason F. McLennan Kansas, EcoTone, 2004 (not yet available at the VPL)
	Rebels against the future by Sale, Kirkpatrick. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., c1995. Call #: 303.483 S16r
	Systems of Survival by Jane Jacobs New York, Vintage, 1992 #172 J17s
	The tipping point : how little things can make a big difference by Gladwell, Malcolm, 1963- Boston : Little, Brown, c2000. Call #: 302 G543t
	Waking Up the West Coast, Healers and Visionaries Photographed and edited by Jaimie Kowal Vancouver, Catalyst, 2006 #306.09711 W14k
	The Weather Makers by Flannery, Tim F. (Tim Fridtjof), 1956- Toronto : HarperCollinsCanada, 2006. Call #: 551.6 F58w
	Getting to Maybe by Westley,Zimmerman and Patton Random House Canada, 2005. ISBN-10: 0679314461
	No Impact Man by Beavan, Colin Toronto: McClelland & Stweart, c2009. Call # 333.72 B38n

	Beyond civilization : humanity's next great adventure by Quinn, Daniel. New York : Harmony Books, c1999.
	Cities for a Small Planet by Richard Rogers London, Faber and Faber, 1997
	Designing the Green Economy By Brian Milani Oxford, Rowman and Littlefield, 2000 (not yet available at the VPL)
	The ecology of commerce : a declaration of sustainability by Hawken, Paul. New York, NY : HarperCollins Publishers, c1993. Call #: 333.72 H39e
	Greater Vancouver Green Guide; seeding sustainability Vancouver, Design Centre for Sustainability UBC, 2006 #363.7009711 G786u
	Good news for a change : hope for a troubled planet by Suzuki, David T., 1936- Toronto : Stoddart, 2002. Call #: 363.7 S968g
	Human Scale by Sale, Kirkpatrick. New York : Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, c1980. Call #: 303.483 S16h
	The nature of economies by Jacobs, Jane, 1916-2006- Toronto : Random House Canada, c2000. Call #: 330.01 J17n
	Plan B 2.0 by Lester R. Brown New York, Earth Policy Institute, 2006 #333.72 B878p1
	The real world of technology by Franklin, Ursula M., 1921- Toronto : Anansi, 1999. Call #: 303.483 F83r1
	A short history of progress by Wright, Ronald, 1948- Toronto : House of Anansi Press, 2004. Call #: 303.483 W95s
	The Stern Report: The Economics of Climate Change Cabinet Office ; HM Treasury 2007 on Order
	The truth about stories : a native narrative by King, Thomas, 1943- Toronto : House of Anansi Press, c2003. Call #: c823.9 K54t
	Worldchanging : a user's guide for the 21st century New York : Abrams, 2006. Call #: 333.72 W92s
	The Story of Stuff By Leonard, Annie storyofstuff.com

DVD

	An inconvenient truth Paramount, c2006. Call #: 363.7387 G66i1		The 11th hour Warner Home video. :c2008. Call#: 363.7		No Impact Man Oscilloscope Labratories. c2009 Call#: TBD
	Who killed the electric car? Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, c2006 Call #: 629.2293 W628p		Suzuki Speaks Avanti Pictures Corp., c2004. Call #: 363.7 S968s1		Planet Earth DVD Set BBC Original Discovery Channel. c2009 Call#: TBD

The Nature of Things with David Suzuki
David Suzuki image A selection of documentaries that focus on what is being done - and what we CAN do - to change they way we live andthe way we think about the future of our world from The Nature of Things. Documentaries will be available seperately at the VPL.