Community Focus
Green Living - Sustainability
Web Sites
- Sustainable Tucson
- An up-to-date center for all things sustainable in Tucson.
- Sustainable Arizona
- A resource, education and action organization dedicated to improving the quality of life in Arizona and the Southwest.
Books
- Simon, Christopher A. Alternative energy: political, economic, and social feasibility.
- 333.794 Si534a 2007
- Pahl, Greg. The citizen-powered energy handbook: community solutions to a global crisis.
- 333.79 P151c 2007
- Grosvenor, Michael. Sustainable Living for Dummies
- 333.72 G9149s 2007
- Petrini, Carlo. Slow food nation: why our food should be good, clean, and fair.
- 644 P4484s 2007
- Smith, Alisa. Plenty: one man, one woman, and a raucous year of eating locally.
- 641.56309 Sm515p 2007
- Kingsolver, Barbara. Animal, vegetable, miracle: a year of food life.
- 641.0973 K617a 2007
- Henderson, Hazel. Ethical markets: growing the green economy.
- 338.927 H3834e 2006
- Korten, David C. The great turning: from empire to Earth community.
- 302.14 K8453g 2006
- Steffen, Alex. [Editors]. Worldchanging: a user's guide for the 21st century.
- 333.7 W89388 2006
- Laszlo, Ervin, Seidel, Peter [Editors]. Global survival: the challenge and its implications for thinking and acting.
- 338.927 G5107 2006
- Dagget, Dan. Gardeners of Eden: rediscovering our importance to nature.
- 333.74153 D132g 2005
- Schor, Juliet. Sustainable planet: solutions for the twenty-first century.
- 306 Su828 2002
- Nabhan, Gary Paul . Coming home to eat: the pleasures and politics of local foods.
- 641.013 N112c 2001
Databases on the Environment
- Alternative Energy
- Issues surrounding both current energy sources and alternative energy options
- EBSCOHost MasterFile Premier
- Index and abstracts to almost 3000 magazines covering a broad range of topics. Many are available in full-text, dating as far back as 1990.
- Environment Complete
- Covers ecology, energy, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environment, public policy, urban planning, and more. Includes full text articles from 400 journals.
- Expanded Academic Index
- Scholarly journals, news magazines and newspapers, including Ecology, Futurist, World Watch, and Earth Island Journal. Covers all academic disciplines.
- InfoTrac
- Contains more than 6,000 full-text titles, including Mother Earth News, Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, and Journal of the Southwest, with coverage from 1980 to present.
- Pollution A to Z
- Pollution issues including sources, disposal, remediation, legal & ethical issues, careers, and more
- Science Resource Center
- An in-depth science database that provides a one-stop resource for all science-related research needs.