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Books
Ashkin, S. P., & Healthy Schools Campaign. (2006). The quick & easy guide to green cleaning in schools: Five simple steps to a healthy school environment. Chicago, IL: Healthy Schools Campaign. The Healthy Schools Campaign is the leading authority on healthy school environments and a voice for people who care about our environment, our children and education. Their mission is to advocate for policies and model programs that allow students and staff members to learn and work in a healthy school environment. The booklet provides five simple steps to keep our school green. It is a process that can be accomplished in steps or phases, with positive results at each stage.
Bachman, L. R. (2003). Integrated buildings: The systems basis of architecture. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. This book discusses the integrated building concept through the exposition of theory, and the presentation of individual case studies. The case studies are organized into seven categories: Laboratories, Offices, Airport Terminals, Pavilions, Residential Architecture, High Tech Architecture, and Green Architecture. The author states, "What gravity is to structure...ecology is to Green." Each case study describes a project accompanied by a fact sheet. Program is broken down into client, brief, site, and climate. The case studies are enriched with biographical information on the individual architects.
Barlett, P. F., & Chase, G. W. (2004). Sustainability on campus: Stories and strategies for change. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. This book offers personal testimonials on greening college campus initiatives and with broader community significance. The strength of the book is in the diversity of case studies and approaches to the problem. Written by faculty, staff, administrators, and from varying perspectives and reflecting divergent experiences, these stories map the growing strength of a national movement toward environmental responsibility on campus.
Beatley, T. (2000). Green urbanism: Learning from European cities. Washington, DC: Island Press. The book describes European cities and their sustainability policies. Overall it is a solid, technical approach with detailed information about policy, institutions, research. The author seems to offer a methodology that could be tested on the market for green single-family homes in the one geographical area of the United States, namely, the Austin, Texas metro area.
Casten, Thomas R. (1999). Turning Off the Heat: Why America Must Double Energy Efficiency to Save Money and Reduce Global Warming. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books. Carbon dioxide emission and its relationship to global warming is the subject of a raging debate among scientists and world leaders. Federal and state governments have proposed three actions to de-carbonize our economy: put a cap on carbon emissions, place revenue-neutral taxes on energy, and establish a renewable energy portfolio standard. The author offers another solution showing how to keep the costs low for renewable energy.
Collett, Jonathan & Stephen Karakashian, eds. (1996). Greening the College Curriculum: A Guide to Environmental Teaching in the Liberal Arts. Washington, DC: Island Press. This book is a collection of chapters presented by different authors that explores the ways to include environmental literacy across the curriculum. There are chapters on Economics, Philosophy, Geography, History, etc. and they provide perspectives on how to "mainstream" environmental education.
Creighton, S. H. (1998). Greening the ivory tower: Improving the environmental track record of universities, colleges and other institutions. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Sarah Creighton was project manager of TUFTS Clean program at Tufts University. The mission of the TUFTS CLEAN program was to reduce Tufts University's environmental impact. This is a comprehensive instruction manual for improving environmental performance on campus. It is a how-to guide for staff, faculty, and students and offers detailed "greening" strategies.
Franko, Richard, & Jo Allen Gause, et al. (2007). Developing Sustainable Planned Communities. Washington, DC: Urban Land Institute. Urban Land Institute is a nonprofit research and education membership organization. They provide leadership in the responsible use of land and in creating and sustaining thriving communities worldwide. This practical guide provides down to earth, reality based insights into designing and developing sustainable planned communities that are environmentally responsible, attractive to the market, and profitable. Demand for green buildings is rapidly growing as companies seek office space that reduces energy costs and increases worker productivity, and consumers seek energy efficient, healthy indoor environments, both at work and at home.
Girling, C. L. K., Ronald. (2005). Skinny streets and green neighborhoods: Design for environment and community. Washington, DC: Island Press. Written by the Director and Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of British Columbia, this book offers in-depth analysis and moves beyond identifying problems to demonstrate proven methods and models that solve multiple, complex problems in concert. It is an innovative modern introduction and study of urban planning and ecology and it provides practical advice. It is a guide for today's planners, architects, engineers, and developers to better neighborhoods and a more natural metropolis.
Gissen, D., & National Building Museum. (2003). Big & green: Toward sustainable architecture in the 21st century. New York & Washington, DC: Princeton Architectural Press & National Building Museum. Fifty buildings and urban projects (most of which have been constructed and many by famous architects) from around the world are described and well illustrated in color. Five categories of Energy Generation are described: Light and Air, Greenery, Water and Waste, Construction and Urbanism.
Horton, Tom. (2003). Turning the Tide: Saving the Chesapeake Bay. Annapolis, MD: Chesapeake Bay Foundation. This book is a second edition of a 1991 book by the same title. It provides accessible examination of the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem. It also makes a vital contribution to the effort to restore the Bay. It addresses new developments of the past decade and examines the factors that will have the most significant effects of the health of the Bay in the coming years.
Keniry, Julian. (1995) Ecodemia: Campus Environmental Stewardship at the Turn of the 21st Century. National Wildlife Federation. This book provides stories and examples of how colleges and universities across the United States have altered their campus operations in response to growing environmental awareness.
Kibert, C. J. (2005). Sustainable construction: Green building design and delivery. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. This book uses US Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system and other tools and explains the best practices in building procurement and delivery systems. This text covers various factors involved with sustainable construction.
Lynne Elizabeth & Cassandra Adams. (2000). Alternative construction: Contemporary natural building methods. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons. This comprehensive guide talks about combining traditional natural materials and modern construction methods and how traditional building materials are being adapted to meet code-required standards for health and safety in contemporary buildings around the world. It further says how they are not only Not cost effective and environmentally friendly, but, when used correctly, these natural alternatives match the strength and durability of many mainstream construction materials. The book also examines a broad range of traditional and modern natural construction methods, including straw-bale, light-clay, cob, adobe, rammed earth and pis, earthbag, earth-sheltered, bamboo, and hybrid systems. It also covers key ecological design principles, as well as current engineering and building code requirements.
Mendler, Sandra, Odell, William, & Mary Ann Lazurus. (2006). The HOK guidebook to sustainable design.2nd ed. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. HOK Architectural firm is one of the leaders in sustainable design. This Guidebook is a very clearly written and organized. It provides a checklist of design guidelines and questions that you would want to know during the LEEDS design process. The second section looks at sustainability issues as related to certain building types. The last section includes a series of short articles on LEED projects the firm has worked on.
Orr, D. W. (2006). Design on the edge: The making of a high-performance building. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. David Orr is well known as someone to be on the cutting edge of sustainability issues for decades. In this book he writes about the planning and design of Oberlin's environmental studies building as part of a larger story about the art and science of ecological design. The Lewis Center, as a model of ecological design, operates according to environmental principles. It is powered entirely by solar energy, features landscaping with fruit trees and vegetable gardens, and houses a Living Machine, which processes all wastewater for reuse in the building or landscape. This book is certainly an essential reading for architects, planners, and environmentalists.
Snell, C. & Callahan, T. (2005). Building green: A complete how-to guide to alternative building methods: Earth plaster, straw bale, cordwood, cob, living roofs.1st ed. New York: Lark Books. This is a manual with lots of illustrations to help reader visualize the concept. It is an excellent primer on owner-designed and site-inspired buildings. It offers eco-friendly building techniques and talks about real world challenges and offers practical solutions in sidebars.
Werthmann, Christian.(2007) Green Roof: A Case Study Design. Washington, DC: Urban Land Institute. This book describes Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates design for the headquarters of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Author Christian Werthmann explains the history, methodology, and design process of green roof garden construction.
Wilson, Alex T. Piepkorn, Mark, & Malin, Nadav. (2005). Green building products: The GreenSpec guide to residential building materials. Brattleboro, VT; Gabriola Island, BC: Building Green Inc; New Society Publishers. This book is more like a directory of manufacturer contact information for more than 1,400 environmentally preferable products and materials. All phases of residential construction, from site work to flooring to renewable energy, are covered. Products are grouped by function, and each chapter begins with a discussion of key environmental considerations, and what to look for in a green product.

Books

Ashkin, S. P., & Healthy Schools Campaign. (2006). The quick & easy guide to green cleaning in schools: Five simple steps to a healthy school environment. Chicago, IL: Healthy Schools Campaign.

The Healthy Schools Campaign is the leading authority on healthy school environments and a voice for people who care about our environment, our children and education. Their mission is to advocate for policies and model programs that allow students and staff members to learn and work in a healthy school environment. The booklet provides five simple steps to keep our school green. It is a process that can be accomplished in steps or phases, with positive results at each stage.

Bachman, L. R. (2003). Integrated buildings: The systems basis of architecture. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.

This book discusses the integrated building concept through the exposition of theory, and the presentation of individual case studies. The case studies are organized into seven categories: Laboratories, Offices, Airport Terminals, Pavilions, Residential Architecture, High Tech Architecture, and Green Architecture.

The author states, "What gravity is to structure...ecology is to Green." Each case study describes a project accompanied by a fact sheet. Program is broken down into client, brief, site, and climate. The case studies are enriched with biographical information on the individual architects.

Barlett, P. F., & Chase, G. W. (2004). Sustainability on campus: Stories and strategies for change. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

This book offers personal testimonials on greening college campus initiatives and with broader community significance. The strength of the book is in the diversity of case studies and approaches to the problem. Written by faculty, staff, administrators, and from varying perspectives and reflecting divergent experiences, these stories map the growing strength of a national movement toward environmental responsibility on campus.

Beatley, T. (2000). Green urbanism: Learning from European cities. Washington, DC: Island Press.

The book describes European cities and their sustainability policies. Overall it is a solid, technical approach with detailed information about policy, institutions, research. The author seems to offer a methodology that could be tested on the market for green single-family homes in the one geographical area of the United States, namely, the Austin, Texas metro area.

Casten, Thomas R. (1999). Turning Off the Heat: Why America Must Double Energy Efficiency to Save Money and Reduce Global Warming. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books.

Carbon dioxide emission and its relationship to global warming is the subject of a raging debate among scientists and world leaders. Federal and state governments have proposed three actions to de-carbonize our economy: put a cap on carbon emissions, place revenue-neutral taxes on energy, and establish a renewable energy portfolio standard. The author offers another solution showing how to keep the costs low for renewable energy.

Collett, Jonathan & Stephen Karakashian, eds. (1996). Greening the College Curriculum: A Guide to Environmental Teaching in the Liberal Arts. Washington, DC: Island Press.

This book is a collection of chapters presented by different authors that explores the ways to include environmental literacy across the curriculum. There are chapters on Economics, Philosophy, Geography, History, etc. and they provide perspectives on how to "mainstream" environmental education.

Creighton, S. H. (1998). Greening the ivory tower: Improving the environmental track record of universities, colleges and other institutions. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Sarah Creighton was project manager of TUFTS Clean program at Tufts University. The mission of the TUFTS CLEAN program was to reduce Tufts University's environmental impact. This is a comprehensive instruction manual for improving environmental performance on campus. It is a how-to guide for staff, faculty, and students and offers detailed "greening" strategies.

Franko, Richard, & Jo Allen Gause, et al. (2007). Developing Sustainable Planned Communities. Washington, DC: Urban Land Institute.

Urban Land Institute is a nonprofit research and education membership organization. They provide leadership in the responsible use of land and in creating and sustaining thriving communities worldwide. This practical guide provides down to earth, reality based insights into designing and developing sustainable planned communities that are environmentally responsible, attractive to the market, and profitable. Demand for green buildings is rapidly growing as companies seek office space that reduces energy costs and increases worker productivity, and consumers seek energy efficient, healthy indoor environments, both at work and at home.

Girling, C. L. K., Ronald. (2005). Skinny streets and green neighborhoods: Design for environment and community. Washington, DC: Island Press.

Written by the Director and Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of British Columbia, this book offers in-depth analysis and moves beyond identifying problems to demonstrate proven methods and models that solve multiple, complex problems in concert. It is an innovative modern introduction and study of urban planning and ecology and it provides practical advice. It is a guide for today's planners, architects, engineers, and developers to better neighborhoods and a more natural metropolis.

Gissen, D., & National Building Museum. (2003). Big & green: Toward sustainable architecture in the 21st century. New York & Washington, DC: Princeton Architectural Press & National Building Museum.

Fifty buildings and urban projects (most of which have been constructed and many by famous architects) from around the world are described and well illustrated in color. Five categories of Energy Generation are described: Light and Air, Greenery, Water and Waste, Construction and Urbanism.

Horton, Tom. (2003). Turning the Tide: Saving the Chesapeake Bay. Annapolis, MD: Chesapeake Bay Foundation.

This book is a second edition of a 1991 book by the same title. It provides accessible examination of the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem. It also makes a vital contribution to the effort to restore the Bay. It addresses new developments of the past decade and examines the factors that will have the most significant effects of the health of the Bay in the coming years.

Keniry, Julian. (1995) Ecodemia: Campus Environmental Stewardship at the Turn of the 21st Century. National Wildlife Federation.

This book provides stories and examples of how colleges and universities across the United States have altered their campus operations in response to growing environmental awareness.

Kibert, C. J. (2005). Sustainable construction: Green building design and delivery.
Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.

This book uses US Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system and other tools and explains the best practices in building procurement and delivery systems. This text covers various factors involved with sustainable construction.

Lynne Elizabeth & Cassandra Adams. (2000). Alternative construction: Contemporary natural building methods. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons.

This comprehensive guide talks about combining traditional natural materials and modern construction methods and how traditional building materials are being adapted to meet code-required standards for health and safety in contemporary buildings around the world. It further says how they are not only Not cost effective and environmentally friendly, but, when used correctly, these natural alternatives match the strength and durability of many mainstream construction materials. The book also examines a broad range of traditional and modern natural construction methods, including straw-bale, light-clay, cob, adobe, rammed earth and pis, earthbag, earth-sheltered, bamboo, and hybrid systems. It also covers key ecological design principles, as well as current engineering and building code requirements.

Mendler, Sandra, Odell, William, & Mary Ann Lazurus. (2006). The HOK guidebook to sustainable design.2nd ed. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.

HOK Architectural firm is one of the leaders in sustainable design. This Guidebook is a very clearly written and organized. It provides a checklist of design guidelines and questions that you would want to know during the LEEDS design process. The second section looks at sustainability issues as related to certain building types. The last section includes a series of short articles on LEED projects the firm has worked on.

Orr, D. W. (2006). Design on the edge: The making of a high-performance building.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

David Orr is well known as someone to be on the cutting edge of sustainability issues for decades. In this book he writes about the planning and design of Oberlin's environmental studies building as part of a larger story about the art and science of ecological design. The Lewis Center, as a model of ecological design, operates according to environmental principles. It is powered entirely by solar energy, features landscaping with fruit trees and vegetable gardens, and houses a Living Machine, which processes all wastewater for reuse in the building or landscape. This book is certainly an essential reading for architects, planners, and environmentalists.

Snell, C. & Callahan, T. (2005). Building green: A complete how-to guide to alternative building methods: Earth plaster, straw bale, cordwood, cob, living roofs.1st ed. New York: Lark Books.

This is a manual with lots of illustrations to help reader visualize the concept. It is an excellent primer on owner-designed and site-inspired buildings. It offers eco-friendly building techniques and talks about real world challenges and offers practical solutions in sidebars.

Werthmann, Christian.(2007) Green Roof: A Case Study Design. Washington, DC: Urban Land Institute.

This book describes Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates design for the headquarters of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Author Christian Werthmann explains the history, methodology, and design process of green roof garden construction.

Wilson, Alex T. Piepkorn, Mark, & Malin, Nadav. (2005). Green building products: The GreenSpec guide to residential building materials. Brattleboro, VT; Gabriola Island, BC: Building Green Inc; New Society Publishers.

This book is more like a directory of manufacturer contact information for more than 1,400 environmentally preferable products and materials. All phases of residential construction, from site work to flooring to renewable energy, are covered. Products are grouped by function, and each chapter begins with a discussion of key environmental considerations, and what to look for in a green product.

Videos/DVD
Architecture to Zucchini: The People, Companies & Organizations Pioneering Sustainability. Lake Oswego, OR: Arnold Creek Productions, 2005. In this video clips of interviews and tours with the leaders of businesses that practice sustainability are presented. It also includes nationally recognized experts in the field. Companies and organizations represented include Barrs & Genauer Construction, Stahlbush Island Farms, Zenger Farm, New Seasons Market, the Collins Companies, ShoreBank Pacific, Ecotrust, Second Nature & Natural Step, U.S., Sustainable Northwest, and Oregon Natural Step Network. A list of resources and contact information is provided.
Power shift San Francisco, CA: World Link Media, 2003. This video is written and directed by Kirk Bergstorm. It is narrated by Cameron Diaz. It examines how current energy use affects the earth and people around the world and suggests ways to create a sustainable future by shifting from fossil fuels to alternative energy sources such as solar, wind, geothermal, and water power. It also offers action steps that individuals can take such as requesting renewable energy from utilities, driving hybrid cars, and buying energy-efficient appliances. Furthermore it examines how current energy use affects the earth and people around the world. The video also features commentary by architect William McDonough.
An Inconvenient Truth Los Angeles, CA: The Paramount Studio, 2006. Directed by Davis Guggenheim and narrated by former Vice president Al Gore, this documentary video weaves the science of global warming with Al Gore's personal history and lifelong commitment to reversing the effects of global climate change. The film makes a strong case that global warming is real, man-made, and its effects will be cataclysmic if we don't act now. A wide array of facts and information in a thoughtful and compelling way are presented thoughout. It is often humorous and emotional narration. It leaves the viewer shaken, involved and inspired.

Videos/DVD

Architecture to Zucchini: The People, Companies & Organizations Pioneering Sustainability.
Lake Oswego, OR: Arnold Creek Productions, 2005.

In this video clips of interviews and tours with the leaders of businesses that practice sustainability are presented. It also includes nationally recognized experts in the field. Companies and organizations represented include Barrs & Genauer Construction, Stahlbush Island Farms, Zenger Farm, New Seasons Market, the Collins Companies, ShoreBank Pacific, Ecotrust, Second Nature & Natural Step, U.S., Sustainable Northwest, and Oregon Natural Step Network. A list of resources and contact information is provided.

Power shift
San Francisco, CA: World Link Media, 2003.

This video is written and directed by Kirk Bergstorm. It is narrated by Cameron Diaz. It examines how current energy use affects the earth and people around the world and suggests ways to create a sustainable future by shifting from fossil fuels to alternative energy sources such as solar, wind, geothermal, and water power. It also offers action steps that individuals can take such as requesting renewable energy from utilities, driving hybrid cars, and buying energy-efficient appliances. Furthermore it examines how current energy use affects the earth and people around the world. The video also features commentary by architect William McDonough.

An Inconvenient Truth
Los Angeles, CA: The Paramount Studio, 2006.

Directed by Davis Guggenheim and narrated by former Vice president Al Gore, this documentary video weaves the science of global warming with Al Gore's personal history and lifelong commitment to reversing the effects of global climate change. The film makes a strong case that global warming is real, man-made, and its effects will be cataclysmic if we don't act now. A wide array of facts and information in a thoughtful and compelling way are presented thoughout. It is often humorous and emotional narration. It leaves the viewer shaken, involved and inspired.