Writing
Note: New content tends to be in gold font. See also Literature, Art and the Environment
Web Guides
Magazines
E Magazine has recent cover story on green colleges
High Country News covering environmental news and the communities of the American West, reporting on national parks, wildlife, endangered species etc.
One Earth NRDC magazine
Orion Excellent articles on nature and the environment
Books
Fiction
(For Science Fiction related to the Environment, see Ecological and Social Utopias)
Nick Hornsby A Long Way Down, (Penguin) is well-timed for the holiday season. The opening chapter, set on New Year’s Eve, portrays four very different individuals who find themselves, to their collective surprise, atop the same London rooftop with the same purpose in mind: jumping off and ending it all. Somehow, Hornsby manages to turn this into a brilliant, insightful, hilarious but never easy or sentimental meditation on what makes all of us tick, and how to keep going despite the despair that occasionally tempts each of us. Mark Hertsgaard recommends. Audio interviewwith author
Jim Houston
Prologue to Continental Drift
Cormac McCarthy The Road a very dark post-apocalyptic novel, winner of Pulitzer Prize by the author of No Country for Old Men review McH Stacks PS3563.A261 R63 2006
Non-Fiction
American Earth, an anthology of environmental writing, being published today and edited by Bill McKibben, puts "green" back into historical perspective.
Diane Ackerman The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds
Lester Brown's Plan B 3.0 an Environmental Call to Action (interview) Free download of book
Rachel Carson link to UCSC library book and video
Craig Childs The Secret Knowledge of Water : Discovering the Essence of the American Desert audio interview
Unnatural History of UCSC is a book written by students in Jeff Arnet's Writing 2 class (excerpts)
Edward Abbey Excerpt from Desert Solitaire
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution, by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins (Back Bay Books, 1999). Its simple message—we can save the planet and make money at the same time—laid the blueprint for the 21st-century sustainability movement. Download free chapters.
Mark Spragg Where Rivers Change Direction
Wallace Stegner The Wilderness Letter
Introduction to Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs
New book of letters edited by his son and Professor Emeritus of American Literature at UC Santa Cruz, Page Stegner.
Terry Tempest Williams "Clan of the One-Breasted Women"
Poetry
Matsuo Basho is widely regarded as the finest Japanese haiku poet and nature writer.
Jane Hirschfield sample poem with audio
Robinson Jeffers built a tower of stone just down the road in Carmel. His papers have recently been acquired by UCSC. As earth scientist.
Floyd Skloot interview and poetry reading
