EfS Reading List
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