101 Ways to Help Birds, by Laura Erickson
Specific things individuals can to do help birds--both individual animals and bird populations as a whole--as well as explanations as to how the suggested actions help.

Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic, by John De Graaf
Based on two highly acclaimed PBS documentaries watched by 10 million viewers, the author uses the whimsical metaphor of a disease to tackle a very serious subject: the damage done to our health, our families, our communities, and our environment by the obsessive quest for material gain.  The book is about personal, social, economic and environmental costs of over-consumption, and what we can do to beat the 'all-consuming bug'.  The author also explores cures and suggests strategies for rebuilding families and communities and for restoring and respecting the earth. 

Alternative Energy Demystified: a Self-Teaching Guide, by Stan Gibilisco
This book shines the light on the various energy sources and technologies available today.  It begins by covering a wide range of heat sources, including wood, corn, coal, oil, gas, electricity, and solar heat. Propulsion methods are discussed next, including gasoline, methane, ethanol, biodiesel, hydrogen, fuel cells, and more.  Electricity from fossil fuels, water, wind, atoms, and other sources is also covered.  This guide explains the technical basics of many different forms of energy.  This self-paced guide gives you: A thorough overview of the various sources of energy. 

Atlas of Climate Change: Mapping the World's Greatest Challenge, by Kirstin Dow 
Recent events demonstrate the price of a changing climate as heat waves, droughts, and flooding cause deaths among vulnerable populations, destroy livelihoods, drive people from their homes, and create millions of environmental refugees.  This book gives shape and meaning to the key issues and debates around climate change.  The Atlas examines the signs of climate change-glacial and polar melting, rising sea levels, erratic weather patterns-and explains how global warming is being driven by the emission of greenhouse gases. It looks at the serious implications of these changes for food and water supplies, human health, sensitive ecologies, vulnerable cities, and cultural treasures-especially in those countries lacking the resources to adapt.  The book also provides insights into contentious climate-change politics as it reviews current response efforts: the progress being made in meeting Kyoto commitments, the development of emissions trading, patterns of funding, and the contributions being made by local action. 

Atlas of Global Development: a Visual Guide to the World's Greatest Challenges, World Bank, 2007.
This book vividly illustrates the key development challenges facing our world today.  Social, economic, and environmental issues that are facing the planet are presented by easy-to read, colorful world maps, tables, graphs, text and photographs.  Drawing on data from the World Bank's authoritative World Development Indicators, the book brings to life country comparisons of social indicators like life expectancy, infant mortality, safe water, population, growth, poverty, and energy efficiency.

Baking Soda: Over 500 Fabulous, Fun and Frugal Uses You've Probably Never Thought Of, by Vicki Lansky
Baking soda gets its due in: his fun collection gathered by Vicki Lansky and her readers over more than twenty years. From making an omelet extra fluffy or deodorizing those musty household smells, to improving flossing and mouth freshness or washing clay flower pots without leaving residue, the book offers hundreds of tips for making the most of this environmentally friendly and inexpensive product.

Beyond Oil: The View From Hubbert's Peak, by Kenneth S. Deffeyes
This book explains both why the decline of our most precious fuel is inevitable and how challenging it will be to cope with what comes next. 

Biodiesel: Growing a New Energy Economy by Greg Pahl 
Background information and practical advice on how to implement the new, easy, and increasingly popular technology of bio-based fuel.  The author reviews the history of the biofuels industry and assesses its recent successes and current shortcomings.

Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil And Coal, Journalists, And Activists Are Fueling The Climate Crisis—And What We Can Do To Avert Disaster, by Ross Gelbspan
The author, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, exposes the forces that perpetuate the crisis of global warming--with a prescription for saving the planet.  He argues that, unchecked, climate change will swamp every other issue facing us today.  He reveals exactly how the fossil fuel industry is directing the Bush administration's energy and climate policies.  He also points a finger at both the media and environmental activists for unwittingly worsening the crises.

Bottomless Well: The Twilight Of Fuel, The Virtue Of Waste, And Why We Will Never Run Out Of Energy, by Peter W. Huber
This book explains why energy is not scarce, why the quality of energy is more important than quantity, and why "waste" of energy is both necessary and desirable. 

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