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More resources for anyone inspired to do more research on the issues discussed in An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore.

2008 Capital Area Reads One Book - An Inconvenient Truth, by Al Gore

Books * Documentaries * Web Resources * Our Exhibitors * The Long List of Green Reads

Books

333.72 Rogers
Rogers, Elizabeth. The Green Book: the everyday guide to saving the planet one simple step at a time.

333.79 Pahl
Pahl, Greg. The Citizen-powered energy handbook: community solutions to a global crisis.

363.7 Steinman
Steinman, David. Safe Trip to Eden: 10 steps to save planet Earth from the global warming meltdown.

363.73874 Kolbert
Kolbert, Elizabeth. Field Notes From a Catastrophe: man, nature, and climate change.

363.73874 Lomborg
Lomborg, Bjorn. Cool It: the skeptical environmentalist's guide to global warming.

363.73874 Rothschild
Rothschild, David de. The Global Warming Survival Handbook: 77 essential skills to stop climate change-- or live through it.

641.0973 Kingsolver * Also available as book on cd and downloadable audio.
Kingsolver, Barbara. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: a year of food life.

643.7 Venolia
Venolia, Carol. Natural Remodeling For the Not-So-Green House: bringing your home into harmony with nature.

BCD 363.73874 Flannery * Also available as book and downloadable audio.
Flannery, Tim F. The Weather Makers: how man is changing the climate and what it means for life on earth.

BCD 363.73874 McElroy * Also available as book on tape.
McElroy, Michael B. Global Warming: global threat.
This 14-lecture course from the Modern Scholar series discusses the complex interdependent systems that regulate the environment of Earth. Also, this course offers listeners a comprehensive overview of the essential environmental issues of our time. Some of the issues discussed include: air pollution, acid rain, depletion of the stratospheric ozone, destruction of tropical forests, and impending climate changes.

Documentaries

DVD 363.7 SOS
SOS Planet
Experience the plight of the Earth and its changing environments using state-of-the-art 3-D and digital animation. Enter stunningly realistic depictions of Earth environments illustrating some of the greatest dangers facing Earth today: global warming, rainforest deforestation and ocean depletion.

DVD 363.73874 Global
Global Warming: the signs and the science
This documentary profiles people who are living with the grave consequences of a changing climate, as well as the individuals, communities and scientists inventing new approaches to safeguard our children’s future.

DVD 363.73874 Hot
Hot Times in Alaska
Alaska is warming up. It's now a few degrees warmer than it was a century and a half ago, and the trend seems to be accelerating. Already the landscape is changing dramatically -- permafrost is thawing, glaciers are melting, forests are succumbing to drought and insect attack. Alan Alda meets Alaskan scientists who are working to find out if these are the first signs of global warming and what the future may hold..

DVD 629.2293 Who
Who Killed the Electric Car?
Investigates the birth and death of the electric car, as well as the role of renewable energy and sustainable living in the future.

DVD 631.584 What
What Will We Eat?: the search for healthy local food
This DVD tells of the sustainable agriculture and organic farming movement in West Michigan (Newago, Oceana, and Muskegon counties). To meet the demand by consumers for natural foods, farmers' markets devoted to organic foods have evolved.