Recommended Reading and Resources

TOP PICKS FROM OUR READING LIST

• Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature, Janine M. Benyus

• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Jared Diamond

• Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, William McDonough and Michael Braungart

• Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World, Heidi Hayes Jacobs (ed)

• Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect, David Orr

• Ecological Literacy: Education and the Transition to a Postmodern World, David Orr

• Educating for Sustainability with the Brain in Mind, Jaimie Cloud

• Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution, Paul Hawken, Amory B. Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins

• Neuroscience of engagement and SCARF: why they matter to schools, Dr. Giselle O. Martin-Kniep

• Quiet Leadership, David Rock

• The Necessary Revolution: How Individuals & Organizations are Working Together to Create a Sustainable World, Peter M. Senge, Joe Laur, Sara Schley, and Bryan Smith

• sCARF: a brain-based model for collaborating with and influencing others, David Rock

• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Malcolm Gladwell

• Your Brain at Work, David Rock

• Whole New Mind, Daniel Pink

The Role of Equity in Sustainability

This list focuses on equity / ecology / economics or features black characters

• One Hen, Katie Smith Milway

• Wangari Maathai : The Woman Who Planted Millions of Trees, Franck Prévot

• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer, illustrated by Elizabeth Zunion

• One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia, Miranda Paul

• Books to Support Conversations and Thoughts About Race and Racism (K-3)

• Books to Support Conversations and Thoughts About Race and Racism (3-5)

Curriculum & Teaching Materials

This list focuses on sustainability resources that may be useful to educators

• Seven Wonders: Everyday Things for a Healthier Planet, John C. Ryan 

•  Connected Wisdom: Living Stories about Living Systems, Linda Booth Sweeney

• Creating Better Cities for Children and Youth: A Manual for Participation, David Driskell

• When a Butterfly Sneezes, Linda Booth Sweeney

• Mapmaking with Children: Sense of Place Education for the Elementary Years, David Sobel

• Stuff: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things, Alan Thein Durning and John C. Ryan

•  Asphalt to Ecosystems: Design Ideas for Schoolyard Transformation, Sharon Gamson Danks

CLOUD IN THE NEWS

• Teaching Sustainability: The Denver Green School is Thriving Thanks to Alumni from DU's Education Leadership Program, Tamara Chapman

• ‘Women In Green’ Supporting The Green Schools Movement, Bridgitte Alomes

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