I'm making a summer reading list.
Any suggestions (environmental or otherwise)?

Here's some books I've read recently. They are tangentially related to environmental issues.

1. Sharing the Harvest: A Citizen's Guide to Community Supported Agriculture by Elizabeth Henderson and Robyn Van En. Explains Community Supported Agriculture and offers examples of successful (and unsuccessful) farms, essays by farmers, and tips on beginning ones own CSA.

2. Farms of Tomorrow Revisited by Trauger Groh and Steven McFadden.
Also about Community Supported Agriculture, this book provides several in depth examples of CSA farms and how they developed over time.

3.Mountain Sisters: From Convent to Community in Appalachia by Helen M. Lewis, Monica Appleby and Rosemary Radford Ruether.
Describes the transformation of the Glenmary order of nuns as many of the Sisters left the order and started a nonprofit dedicated to aiding Appalachian communities. This book does not directly have to do with the environment, however some of the issues the women tackled were environmental in nature.

4. Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health by Marion Nestle.
I haven't finished reading this one, but it discusses the influence of food companies on our food policies including the creation of the food pyramid, vending machines in schools, eduction, etc. I'm not sure how balanced it is since I do not know very much about the topic, but it makes for an interesting read.

5. Unbowed: A Memoir by Wangari Muta Maathai.
Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 for her work planting trees and encouraging democracy in Kenya, Maathai describes her life and the Greenbelt movement she founded in this fascinating memoir. I look forward to reading more of her works when I can get my hands on them.

Here are a couple of interesting books that relate to the theme of sustainability. Perhaps they will interest you.

1. Self-Sufficiency: The Science and Art of Producing and Preserving Your Own Food, by John and Sally Seymour.

The authors are a couple who had produced almost all of their own food for eighteen years prior to writing the book. The knowledge they have gleaned from their extensive experimentation in Britain is applicable in other temperate climates and partially applicable elsewhere. This book helped to inspire my interest in self-sufficiency and will be useful to anyone who wants to produce even a small portion of their own food.

2. The End of Poverty, by Jeffery D. Sachs.

Jeffery Sachs wrote the Millenium Development Goals for the U.N., which are eight goals that the U.N. would like to help accomplish to aid in economic, environmental and social development around the world. Some argue that these goals are so broad and non-specific as to be almost useless. However, others point to Sachs's successes in helping to revive the economies of several developing nations and how he put his lofty goals to use. Whether or not you agree with Sachs's ideas, this book is a "must read" for anyone who cares about international development and ending poverty in the twenty-first century.

A New Earth, by Echkart Tolle

"How spiritual you are has nothing to do with what you believe, but everything to do with your state of consciousness. Book about the Present Moment and the Now."

I am reading "A New Earth" right now! It is soooo good. I actually have been thinking about a lot of his points and how they relate to humans and the environment. He made a few interesting points on how the harder you fight certain things, the stronger they become. I think this is a great point-the harder we push against the natural process of the Earth, the stronger it will bite back.