Resources
Laurier's Green Guide outlines simple ways to improve sustainability on campus and at home.
Planning an event? Make it green with the help of LSPIRG's Greening Your Group guidebook.
The following is a list of well known films, books, activists, leaders and links on the topic of sustainability.
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Books:
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Other Links:
- An Inconvenient Truth - Davis Guggenheim (2006)
- Darwin’s Nightmare – Hubert Sauper (2004)
- Earth Days – Robert Stone (2009)
- Flow: For the Love of Water – Irena Salina (2008)
- Food Inc. - Robert Kenner (2008)
- Fuel – Josh Tickell (2008)
- Home – Yann Arthus-Bertrand (2009)
- King Corn - Aaron Woolf (2007)
- Manufactured Landscapes – Jennifter Baichwal (2006)
- Planet Earth: The Future - BBC Natural History Unit (2006)
- Taking Root: the Vision of Wangari Maathai – Dater and Merton (2008)
- The 11th Hour – Leonardo DiCaprio (2007)
- The Cove – Louie Psihoyos (2009)
- The Story of Stuff - Anne Leonard (2007)
- Water - Deepa Mehta (2005)
- Who Killed the Electric Car? – Chris Paine (2006)
Books:
- A Short History of Progress - Ronald Wright
- Blue Gold – Maude Barlow
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed - Jared Diamond
- Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things - William McDonough
- Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future - Bill McKibben
- Food Rules: An Eater's Manual - Michael Pollan
- Naturalist - Edward O. Wilson
- Organic, Inc.: Natural Foods and How They Grew - Samuel Fromartz
- Silent Spring – Rachel Carson
- Sustainable Planet: Solutions for the Twenty-first Century - Juliet Schor, Betsy Taylor
- The Estrogen Effect: How Chemical Pollution Is Threatening Our Survival - Deborah Cadbury
- The Geography of Hope – Chris Turner
- The Omnivores Dilemma - Michael Pollan
- The Sacred Balance – David Suzuki
- The World Without Us - Alan Weisman
- Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit - Vandana Shiva
Leaders and Activists:
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David Attenborough – Biologist well known as the host and narrator of the series ‘Life’, produced by BBC Natural History.
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Maude Barlow – Canadian author and environmental activist, National Chairperson for the Council of Canadians, former President of the United Nations, and co-founder of the Blue Planet Project (fighting for the international right to water).
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David Brower – Founder of many environmental organizations such as The Sierra Club Foundation and Friends of the Earth.
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Rachel Carson – Marine biologist, naturalist, and writer, credited for having a large role in helping to initiate the environmental movement.
- John Francis – Known as the ‘Planetwalker’, he spent 22 years walking across the America’s (and spent 17 of those years in silence) to promote environmental activism, and as a UN Ambassador.
- Al Gore – Environmentalist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, writer of the Academy Award winning film ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, and former politician.
- Annie Leonard – Environmentalist, critic of consumer culture, and filmmaker.
- Wangari Maathai – Environmental activist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and founder of the Green Belt Movement.
- Bill McKibben – Environmental activist and writer on the topics of climate change and alternative energy.
- Rajendra K. Pachauri – Award-winning environmentalist and Chair for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
- Carl Sagan – Scientist, writer, and environmentalist, well known for his PBS series ‘Cosmos: A Personal Voyage’.
- David Suzuki – Canadian zoologist and environmental activist known for his numerous books, his television series The Nature of Things, and for his activism to fight climate change.
- E. O. Wilson – Biologist and multiple Pulitzer Prize winning author of works such as Naturalist, Biophilia, and The Ants.
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