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Supplemental Readings

Webpages

Online Audits	Ecological Footprint Calculator Electricity Calculator
Laws of Energy and Matter	Thermodynamics-- Encyclopedia Britannica Physics Applets-- University of Oregon
Biodiversity	The Biodiversity Center The EE Link Biodiversity--Encyclopedia Britannica Biodiversity-- World Resources Institute
Water	The Hydrologic Cycle-- U. of Illinois online Meteorology Global Water Supply-- World Resources Institute Portland Water Bureau
Energy	U.S. Department of Energy The Energy Foundation Ozone-- The Environmental Protection Agency Global Warming-- The Environmental Protection Agency Oregon Office of Energy
Urban Development	Portland Office of Sustainable Development Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development UN Commission on Sustainable Development
Economics	H. John Heinz Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment
Population	PSU Center for Population Research

Books

General Environmental Sustainability	The Closing Circle: Confronting the Environmental Crisis. By Barry Commoner. The State of the World Annual review of the world's environmental problems. by the Worldwatch Institute. The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering our place in nature By David Suzuki, Amanda Connell, and Amanda McConnell. Mountaineers Books 1999. Learning to Think Environmentally: While There Is Still Time By Lester Milbrath, Tom Toles, and David Suzuki. State University of New York Press, 1996. Time to Change: Essays by David Suzuki. Stoddart, 1994.
Consumerism	Stuff: The Secret Lives of Everday Things. By John Ryan, Alan Thein, Durning, Don Baker. Northwest Environmental Watch, 1997. How Much is Enough?: The Consumer Society and the Future of the Earth (The Worldwatch Environmental Alert Series) by Alan Durning. W.W. Norton and Co., 1992. The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices: Practical Advice from the Union of Concerned Scientists by Michael Brower and the Union of Concerned Scientists. Three Rivers Press, 1999.
The Evolution of Human Cultures	Wisdom of the Elders: Sacred Native Stories of Nature By David Suzuki and Peter Knudtson. Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishers, 1993. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies By Jared Diamond. W.W. Norton and Co., 1999. A Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations by Clive Ponting. Penguin Books, 1993.
Biodiversity, Evolution, and Extinction	The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction by David Quammen. Touchstone Books 1997. The Third Chimpanzee By Jared Diamond. Harper Perennial, 1993. Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin by Stephen J. Gould. Random House, 1997. The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner. Vintage Books, 1995.