Suggested Readings Related to Convocation

Selected articles by Elizabeth Kolbert:

“Testing the Climate,” by Elizabeth Kolbert.  New Yorker, December 2007.

The Ends of the Earth: An Anthology of the Finest Writing on the Arctic and Antarctic. 

“Human Nature,” by Elizabeth Kolbert.  New Yorker, June 2007.

“The Darkening Sea,” by Elizabeth Kolbert.  New Yorker, November 2006.

“Butterfly Lessons,” by Elizabeth Kolbert.  New Yorker, January 2006.

Selected articles recommended by Professors Troy Jesse, of the Biology Department, and Christopher Origer, of the English Department, for those interested in further study of environmental issues:

Toxic Inaction: Why Poisonous, Unregulated Chemicals End Up in Our Blood,  by Mark Schapiro.  Harper's, October 2007.

If Nature Had Rights: What Would We Need to Give Up?,  by Cormac Cullinan.  Orion, February 2008.

The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations, by Eugene Linden.

The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth, by Tim Flannery. 

An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It, by Al Gore.

Winning the Oil Endgame, by Amory Lovins, E. Kyle Datta, Odd-Even Bustnes, and Jonathan G. Koomey.

Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution, by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins.

The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future, by Richard Alley.

The Ice Chronicles: The Quest to Understand Global Climate Change, by Paul Andrew Mayewski and Frank White.

Abrupt Climate Change: Invevitable Surprises from the National Research Council