Environmental Reading

Some of my favorite resources on the environment, climate change, the Anthropocene, plastics, etc. I add to this page regularly, so check back!

ON SCIENCE
Science Is Not About Certainty - Carlo Rovelli

ON CLIMATE CHANGE
"Climate 101" - Bill Nye & the Climate Reality Project
What’s in a name? Weather, global warming and climate change - NASA
Who Is Responsible for Climate Change? - Naomi Oreskes at ASU

ON THE ANTHROPOCENE
Unearthing the Capitalocene - Jason W. Moore & Raj Patel
What Is the Anthropocene and Are We in It? - Joseph Stromberg

ON POLLUTION
Garbage Patches - NOAA
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch - The Ocean Cleanup
The Lawyer Who Became DuPont's Worst Nightmare - Nathaniel Rich
What are microplastics? - NOAA

ON WATER
Sustainable Earth: Water - Brian Handwerk

COOL EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
Robot Designed to Clean Ocean Tested in San Diego. - R Stickney
This scientist thinks she has the key to curb climate change: super plants - Adam Popescu
Water Filtration Using Plant Xylem - Boutilier, Lee, Chambers, Venkatesh, & Karnik

BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS
The Sixth Extinction - Elizabeth Kolbert
Merchants of Doubt - Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway
From Uneconomic Growth to a Steady State Economy - Herman Daly
The Geography of Risk - Gilbert M. Gaul
High Tide on Main Street - John Englander