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• Peter Annin, Great Lakes Water Wars, Island Press, 2007

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• Peter Asmus, Reaping the Wind. How Mechanical Wizards, Visionaries, and Profiteers Helped Shape Our Energy Future, Island Press, Washington, D.C., 2001.

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•• Helen Caldicott, If You Love this Planet, Norton, 2009 (updated)

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•• Rachel Carson, Silent Spring. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1962.

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• Cohen, M. 1984. The Pathless Way: John Muir and American Wilderness. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.

• Marla Cone, Silent Snow: The Slow Poisoning Of The Arctic, Grove Press, 2005

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•• William Cronon and David Stradling, eds, Conservation in the Progressive Era, University of Washington Press, 2004

William Cronon, Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature, Norton, 1996

William Cronon, Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West, New York: Norton,1992

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Gretchen C. Daily and Katherine Ellison, The New Economy of Nature: The Quest to Make Conservation Profitable, Island Press, 2003

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Devra Davis, When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution, Basic Books, 2002

•• Farrington Daniels, Direct Use of the Sun’s Energy(New Haven, Ct., Yale University Press, 1964)

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Joan DeBardeleben, To breathe free : Eastern Europe’s environmental crisis, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991

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Jared M. Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel, Norton, 1999

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Harold B. Dixon, “Researches on Alcohol as an Engine Fuel,” SAE Journal, Dec. 1920, p. 521.

Josh Dorfman, The Lazy Environmentalist: Your Guide to Easy, Stylish, Green Living, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2007

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•• Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Works, Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Co., 1904.

•• John Ericsson, Contributions to the Centennial Exhibition,New York: the Nation press, 1876.

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• Paul and Anne Erlich, One with Nineveh, Island Press, 2004

Paul Erlich, Human Natures: Genes, Cultures, and the Human Prospect, Penguin, 2002

Paul Erlich, Betrayal of Science and Reason: How Anti-Environmental Rhetoric Threatens Our Future, Island Press, 1998

Paul and Anne Ehrlich, Healing the planet : strategies for resolving the environmental crisis, Addison-Wesley, 1991

Paul Erlich, The Population Explosion, Touchstone, 1991

•• Paul Erlich, The Population Bomb, 1968

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Archon Fung, Bradley Karkkainen, Charles Sabel, Beyond Backyard Environmentalism, Beacon Press, 2002

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•• Glacken, Clarence J, 1973, Traces on the Rhodian shore; nature and culture in Western thought from ancient times to the end of the eighteenth century (Berkeley: University of California Press).

Glick, Thomas F., 1980, “The Great Stink of 1858,” in Lester J. Bilsky, ed., Historical Ecology: Essays on Environment and Social Change (Port Washington, N.Y., Kennikat Press, 1980): 122.

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David Gershon, Low Carbon Diet: A 30 Day Program to Lose 5000 Pounds–Be Part of the Global Warming Solution!, Empowerment Institute, 2006

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Gary Ginsberg and Brian Toal, What’s Toxic, What’s Not, Berkeley Trade, 2006

Paul Gipe, Wind Energy Comes of Age, New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1995.

Chellis Glendinning, Off the Map: An Expedition Deep into Imperialism, the Global Economy and Other Earthly Whereabouts, 1999

Chellis Glendenning When Technology Wounds: The Human Consequences of Progress, 1992

Linda K. Glover, Sylvia A. Earle, Defying Ocean’s End: An Agenda for Action Island Press, 2004

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Al Gore, The Assault on Reason, Penguin, 2007

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Al Gore, Earth in the balance : ecology and the human spirit Plume, 1993

Robert Gottlieb, Reinventing Los Angeles: Nature and Community in the Global City, MIT Press, 2007

• Robert Gottlieb, Forcing The Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1993.

Roger S. Gottlieb, A Greener Faith: Religious Environmentalism and our Planet’s Future, Oxford Univesity Press, 2006

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William Graebner, “Ethyl in Manhattan: A Note on the Science and Politics of Leaded Gasoline,” New York History, 57:4, Oct. 1986, 436-43.

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Alan Green, Animal Underworld: Inside America’s Black Market for Rare and Exotic Species, PublicAffairs

Tom Griffiths and Libby Robin, Ecology and Empire: Environmental History of Settler Societies (University of Washington Press, 1998)

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RH Grove, Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600-1860. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

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Alice Hamilton, “What Price Safety? Tetraethyl Lead Reveals a Flaw in Our Defenses,” The Survey Mid-Monthly, June 15, 1925.

Alice Hamilton, “The Growing Menace of Benzene (Benzol) Poisoning in American Industry, Journal of the American Medical Association, 78:9, March 4, 1922.

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•• Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action, Knopf Publishing Group, 1995

Mark Harris, Grave Matters: A Journey through the modern funeral industry to a natural way of burial, Scribner, 2007

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Samuel P. Hays, Beauty, Health, and Permanence: Environmental Politics in the US, 1955-1985

Paul Hawken, How the Largest Movement in the World Came Into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming, Viking, 2007

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