Sustainability
A guide to WCC Library Resources
| Designing the New Kitchen Garden: An American Potager Handbook | SB324.3.B38 2006 |
| People’s Ecology: Explorations in Sustainable Living ~ Gregory Cajete | E99.P9P39 1999 |
| Winter Gardening in the Maritime Northwest ~ Binda Colebrook |
SB321.C6 1977 |
| Nature-friendly Communities: Habitat Protection and Land Use ~ Christopher J. Duerksen | QH76.D84 2005 |
| The Maritime Northwest Garden Guide: Planning Calendar for Year-round Organic Gardening ~ Carl Elliot and Rob Peterson |
SB453.5 .E45 2005 |
| The Northwest Gardeners’ Resource Directory ~ Stephanie Feeney | SB453.2 .P1F321 2002 |
| “Slow Food Movement.” Glazer, Sarah. CQ Researcher 17.4 (2007): 73-96. |
Link to CQ article |
| Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-scale Permaculture ~ Toby Hemenway | SB439.H44 2000 |
| Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability ~ David Holmgren & Kim Master | S494.5.P47H65 2002 |
| Edible Forest Gardens ~ Dave Jacke & Eric Toensmeier | SB454.3.E35J24 2005 |
| Earth User’s Guide to Permaculture ~ Rosemary Morrow | S494.5.P47M67 1993 |
| The Postage Stamp Garden Book: How to Grow All the Food You Can Eat in Very Little Space ~ Duane Newcomb | SB321 N45 1975 |
| Forests in Landscapes: Ecosystem Approaches to Sustainability ~ Sayer, Maginnis, & Laurie | SD131.S29 2005 |
| Growing Vegetables in the Pacific Northwest ~ Jill Severn |
SB321.S48 1978 |
| Tilth Producers Directory: A Washington Guide to Organic and Sustainable Growers, Food and farm Suppliers and Resources ~ Washington Tilth Association |
S605.5.W55 2007 |
| How to Make a Forest Garden ~ Patrick Whitefield | SB439.6.W59 2002 |
| Babusiaux, Denis. Oil and Gas Exploration and Production: Reserves, Costs, Contracts. | HD9560.5R34313 2004 |
| Berinstein, Paula. Alternative Energy: Facts, Statistics, and Issues. | TJ808.B467 2001 |
| Carson, Iain and Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran. Zoom : the global race to fuel the car of the future. | HD9710.A2C27 2007 |
| Chiras, Daniel D. The Solar House: Passive Heating and Cooling | TH7414.C475 2002 |
| Cipiti, Ben. The Energy Construct: Achieving a Clean, Domestic, and Economical Energy Future | TJ163.2.C44 2007 |
| Cothran, Helen. Energy Alternatives: Opposing Viewpoints | TJ808.2.E628 2006 |
| Darley, Julian. High Noon for Natural Gas: The New Energy Crisis | TP350.D37 2004 |
| Deffeys, Kenneth S. Beyond Oil: the View from Hubbert’s Peak | HD9502.A2D44 2005 |
| - -. Hubbert’s Peak: the Impending World Oil Shortage | TN870.D37 2003 |
| Dickson, Mary H. & Fanelli, Mario. Geothermal Energy: Utilization and Technology | TJ280.7.G443 2005 |
| Duany, Andres. Suburban Nation: the Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream. New York: North Point Press, 2000. Print. | HT384.U5D83 2000 |
| The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream. Dir. Gregory Greene & Barrie Zwicker. Electric Wallpaper Co, 2004. DVD | HT352.U6E54 |
| Fine, Doug. Farewell, my Subaru: An Epic Adventure in Local Living. New York: Villard, 2008. Print. | GE198.N45F56 2008 |
| Fritsch, Al and Paul Gallimore. Healing Appalachia: Sustainable Living Through Appropriate Technology. Lexinton, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2007. Print. | T21.5.A67F75 |
| Goodstein, David L. Out of Gas: the End of the Age of Oil. New York: Norton, 2005. Print. | TN870.G645 2005 |
| Goettemoeller, Jeffrey and Adrian Goettemoeller. Sustainable Ethanol: Biofuels, Biorefineries, Cellulosic Biomass, Flex-fuel Vehicles, and Sustainable Farming for Energy Independence. Maryville, MO: Prairie Oak Pub., 2007. | HD9502.5.A433U54486 2007 |
| Green Building Guidelines: Meeting the Demand for Low-Energy, Resource-Efficient Homes. Washington, DC: Sustainable Buildings Industry Council, 2004. Print. | TJ163.5.D86G74 2004 |
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Greene, Gregory and Barrie Zwicker. End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and The Collapse of the American Dream. Toronto: Electric Wallpaper Co., 2004. Print. |
JT352.U6E54 |
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Heinberg, Richard. The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 2005. Print. |
HD9560.6.H44 2005 |
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- – . Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 2004. Print. |
HC79.E5H443 2004 |
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Kamkwamba, William and Bryan Mealer. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Current of Electricity and Hope. New York, NY: William Morrow, 2009. Print. |
TJ820.K36 2009 |
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Kunstler, James Howard. The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century. New York, NY: Grove Press, 2009. Print. |
TP355.K862 2009 |
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Meadows, Donella H. and Club of Rome. The Limits to Growth; a Report for the Club of Rome’s Project on the Predicament of Mankind. New York: Universe Books, 1972. Print. |
HC59.L54 |
| National Research Council Committee on Alternatives and Strategies for Future Hydrogen Production and Use. The Hydrogen Economy: Opportunities, Costs, Barriers, and R&D Needs. Washington, D.C. National Academies Press, 2004. Print. | HD9660.H933U645 2004 |
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Olien, Roger M. Oil and Ideology: The Cultural Creation of the American Petroleum Industry. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Web. EBSCO |
eBook |
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Passero, Barbara. Energy Alternatives: Opposing Viewpoints. Detroit: Greenhaven Press/Thomson Gale, 2006. Print. |
TJ808.2.E628 2006 |
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Patel, Mukund R. Wind and Solar Power Systems: Design, Analysis, and Operation. Boca Raton, FL: Taylor & Francis, 2006. Print. |
TK1541.P38 2006 |
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Pelletiere, Stephen C. America’s Oil Wars. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004. Print. |
DS79.76.P35 2004 |
| Portland, Peak Oil Task Force. Descending the Oil Peak: Navigating the Transition from Oil and Natural Gas. Portland, OR: City of Portland, Oregon, Peak Oil Task Force, 2007. Print. | HD9502.U53O72 2007 |
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The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil. Community Service Inc, 2006. DVD. |
HC152.5.Z65P6 2006 |
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Rifkin, Jeremy. The Hydrogen Economy: The Creation of the Worldwide Energy Web and The Redistribution of Power on Earth. New York: J.P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2002. Print. |
TP359.H8R54 2002 |
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Roberts, Paul. The End of Oil: on the Edge of a Perilous New World. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004. Print. |
HD9650.6.R63 2004 |
| Sawin, Janet L. Mainstreaming Renewable Energy in the 21st Century. Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, 2004. Print. | TJ808.S28 2004 |
| Scheer, Hermann. Energy Autonomy: The Econonomic, Social and Technological Case for Renewable Energy. Sterling, VA: Earthscan, 2007. Print. | TJ163.2.S33 2007 |
| Schlager, Neil and Jayne Weisblatt, eds. Alternative Energy. Detroit: UXL, 2006. Print. | TJ808.A475 2006 |
| Simon, Christopher. Alternative Energy: Political, Economic, and Social Feasibility. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007. Print. | HD9502.U52S544 2007 |
| Sperling, Daniel. Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2009. Print. | HE5611.S67 2009 |
| Stankovic, Sinisa, Neil Campbell and Alan Harries. Urban Wind Energy. Sterling, VA: Earthscan, 2009. Print. | TJ820.S83 2009 |
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Timney, Mary M. Power for the People: Protecting States’ Energy Policy Interests in an Era of Deregulation. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2004. Print. |
HD9502.U52T55 |
| Washington State Dept. of Natural Resources. Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on the Oil and Gas Leasing Program for State Lands. Olympia, WA: Washington State Dept. of Natural Resources, 2005. Print. | Online (pdf), and TD195.E49 F56 2005 |
| Wizelius, Tore. Developing Wind Power Projects: Theory and Practice. Stering, VA: Earthscan, 2009. Print. | TJ825.W59 2007 |
| Who Killed the Electric Car? Chris Paine, dir. Culver City, CA: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 2006. DVD. | TL220.W46 2006 |
| Yergin, Daniel. The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. Print. | HD9560.6.Y47 1991 |
| Alexander, Jeff. Pandora’s Locks: The Opening of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2009. Print. | QH353.A44 2009 |
| Black, Maggie. The Atlas of Water: Mapping the World’s Most Critical Resource. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. Print. Reference | G1046.C3C5 2009 |
| Blue Gold: World Water Wars. Sam Bozzo. Purple Turtle Films prod. PBS Home Video, 2009. DVD. | HD1691.B58 2009 |
| Brown, Lester R. Outgrowing the Earth: The Food Security Challenge in the Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2004. Print. | HD9000.6.B777 2004 |
| Evenden, Mathew. Fish Versus Power: An Environmental History of the Fraiser River. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Print. | SH224.B6E83 |
| Feldman, David Lewis. Water Policy for Sustainable Development. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Print. | HD1694.A5F458 2007 |
| Flow: For the Love of Water. Dir. Irena Salina. Oscilloscope Pictures, 2008. DVD | HD1691.F56 2008 |
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Glennon, Robert. Unquenchable: America’s Water Crisis and What to Do About It. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2009. Print. |
TD223.G578 2009 |
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Gasland. Dir. Josh Fox, New Video Group. New York: Docurama Films, 2010. DVD. |
TN881.A1G373 2010 |
| Hunt, Constance Elizabeth.Thirsty Planet: Strategies for Sustainable Water Management. New York: Zed Books, 2004. Print. | TD345.H93 2004 |
| Langwith, Jacqueline. Water: Opposing Viewpoints. Detroit, MI: Greenhaven Press, 2010 Print. | TD348.W377 2010 |
| Longo, Peter Joseph & Yoskowitz, David W. Water on the Great Plains. Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press, 2002. Print. | TD223.W29197 2002 |
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Matthews, Robin A., et al. Lake Whatcom Monitoring Project 2007/08 Final Report. Bellingham, WA: Huxley College of Environmental Studies, 2009. Print. |
TD225.L35M38 |
| Mauser, Wolfram. Water Resources: Efficient, Sustainable, and Equitable Use. London: Haus Publishing, 2009. Print. | TD345.M2713 2007 |
| Miller, Char. Water in the West: A High Country News Reader. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2000. Print. | TD223.6.W38 2000 |
| McDonald, Bernadette and Douglas Jehl, ed. Whose Water is It?: The Unquenchable Thirst of a Water-hungry World. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society,2003. Print. | TD345.W58 2003 |
| Newton, David E. Encyclopedia of Water. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press,2003. Print. | GB655.N48 2003 |
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Pearce, Fred. When the Rivers Run Dry: Water, the Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century. Boston: Beacon Press,2006. Print. |
TC405.P43 2006 |
| Poisoned Waters. Dir. Rick Young. PBS Home Video, WGBH Education Foundation. 2009. DVD. | TD420.P65 2009 |
| Postel, Sandra. Dividing the Waters: Food Security, Ecosystem Health, and the New Politics of Scarcity. Washington, D.C.: Worldwatch Institute, 1996. Print. | TD345.P6651996 |
| —Liquid Assets: The Critical Need to Safeguard Freshwater Ecosystems. Worldwatch paper: 170. Washington, D.C: Worldwatch Institute,2005. Print. | QH541.5.F7P85 2005 |
| Ray, Binayak. Water: The Looming Crisis in India. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2008. Print. | HD1698.I4R39 2008 |
| Powell, James Lawrence. Dead Pool: Lake Powell, Global Warming, and the Future of Water in the West. Berkeley: University of California Press,2008 Print. | TC557.C62G54 2008 |
| Sacred Salmon. Yakama Tribal Fisheries Program, KSKC-TV. Salish Kootenai College, 2003. DVD. | SH348.S35 2003 |
| Simpson, John W. Dam!: Water, Power, Politics, and Preservation in Hetch Hetchy and Yosemite National Park. New York: Pantheon Books, 2005. Print. | TD225.S25S715 |
| Smith, Zachary A. and Grenetta Thomassey. Freshwater Issue: A Reference Handbook. Santa Barbara, CA :ABC-CLIO, 2002. Print. | TD345.S65 2002 |
| Thirst. Alan Snitow dir. and Deborah Kaufman. Oley, PA: Bullfrog Films, 2004. DVD. | HD1691.T54 2004 |
| Thirsty Planet: A World Transformed. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 2002. Map. MAP 253: Flat Map Case | MAP 253 |
| United Nations Development Program, ed. Human Development Report 2006: Beyond Scarcity: Power, Poverty and the Global Water Crisis. New York: Palgrave Macmillan,2006. Print. | HD82.H85 2006 |
| Ward, Diane Raines. Water Wars: Drought, Flood, Folly, and the Politics of Thirst. New York: Riverhead Books, 2002. Print. | TD345.W257 2002 |
| Zeitoun, Mark. Power and Water in the Middle East: The Hidden Politics of the Palestinian-Israeli Water Conflict. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2008. Print. | HD1698.P4Z45 2008 |
These films are kept in the Reserves Collection (at the Circulation Desk) and can be viewed in the library.
Films marked with an * can also be found in the Stacks. Those copies can be checked out and brought home.
| Addicted to Plastic. Ian Connacher dir. Oley, PA : Bullfrog Films. DVD. | TD798.A33 2008 |
| Bill Moyers Reports: Earth on the Edge. Perf. Bill Moyers. Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2001. DVD. | QH541.E265E17 2007 |
| Black Gold. Dir. Marc Francis and Nick Francis. Speak-it Films, 2006. DVD. | HD9199.A2B53 2006 |
| Blue Gold: World Water Wars. Sam Bozzo. Purple Turtle Films prod. PBS Home Video, 2009. DVD. | HD1691.B58 2009 |
| Broken Limbs: Apples, Agriculture, and the New American Farmer. Dir. Guy Evans & Jamie Howell. Bullfrog Films, 2004. DVD. | SB363.B76 2004 |
| The Business Case for Sustainability. Bob Willard, author. New York: SustainabiliTV, 2007. DVD. | HC79.E5B88 2007 |
| Earth Days: American Experience. Robert Stone, dir. Alexandria, VA: PBS Distribution, 2010. DVD. | GE195.A44 2010 |
| *The Ecological Footprint: Accounting for a Small Planet. Dir. Patsy Norcutt and Mathis Wackernagel. Global Footprint Network, 2005. DVD. | GF75.E266 2005 |
| *The End of Suburbia Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream. Dir. Gregory Greene & Barrie Zwicker. Electric Wallpaper Co, 2004. DVD. | HT352.U6E54 2004 |
| Flow: For the Love of Water. Dir. Irena Salina. Oscilloscope Pictures, 2008. DVD | HD1691.F56 |
| Frontline World: Stories From a Small Planet, June 23, 2009. A production of WGBH Boston. Alexandria, VA: PBS Video, 2009. DVD. | HD9975.F76 2009 |
| The Future of Food. Dir. Deborah Koons Garcia. Lily Films, 2004. DVD. | TP248.65.F66F88 2004 |
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The Global Banquet: Politics of Food. Dir. John Ankele and Anne Macksoud. Old Dog Documentaries, Inc., 2001. DVD. |
HD 900.6 2001 |
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Global Warming: The Signs and the Science. Dir. Michael Taylor and David Kennard. PBS Home Video, 2005. DVD. |
QC981.8.G56G563 2005 |
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Good Food, Good Business: New Connections for Farms and Markets. Arnold Creek Productions, 2006. DVD. |
HD9005.G66 2006 |
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*Inconvenient Truth. Dir.Guggenheim. Paramount, 2006. DVD. |
QC981.8.G56I53 2006 |
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Kilowatt Ours: A Plan to Reenergize America. Dir. Jeff Barrie. Kilowatt Ours.org, 2008. DVD. |
TJ163.3.K556 2008 |
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King Corn: You Are What You Eat. Aaron Woolf, dir., Ian Cheney, author. Mosaic Films Incorporated and the Independent Television Service. 2006. DVD. |
SB191.M2K56 2008 |
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Libby, Montana. Dir. Carr, Drury Gunn & Hawes-Davis, Doug. High Plains Films, 2005. DVD. |
TD887.A8L53 2005 |
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Manufactured Landscapes. Dir. Jennifer Baichwal. Zeitgeist Films, 2007. DVD. |
TR706.E39 2007. |
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The Power of Community How Cuba Survived Peak Oil. Community Service Inc, 2006. DVD. |
HC152.5.Z65P6 2006 |
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Revolution Green: The True Story of Biodiesel in America. Dir. Steven Strout. Rock Solid Pictures, 2007. DVD. |
Reserves – Sustainability |
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Sacred Salmon a Gift to Sustain Life. Salish Kootenai College, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Yakama Tribal Fisheries Program, 2003. DVD. |
SH348.S35 2003 |
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Seattle the Future is Now. Dir. Harry Wiland. M&P Center Foundation, 2007. DVD. |
HT175.E347 2007 |
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Small Fortunes: Microcredit and the Future of Poverty. BYU Broadcasting. 2005. DVD. |
HC79.S63 2005 |
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Thomas Berry: the Great Story. Dir. Stetson, Nancy and Penny Morell. Bullfrog Films, 2002. DVD. |
Reserves – Sustainability |
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Visions of Utopia Experiments in Sustainable Culture. Dir. Geoph Kozeny. Community Catalyst Project, 2004. DVD. |
HX810.V58 2004 |
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Who Killed the Electric Car? Dir Chris Paine. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 2006. DVD. |
TL220.W46 2006 |
Bellingham Technical College has also prepared a guide to Sustainability resources for students.
Kiki Tommila
