Environmental Classics
Environmental Classics
| Topics: |  Environmental History |
E-Books
- The Coal Question by William Stanley Jevons
- Earth as Modified by Human Action, The (historical e-book) by George P. Marsh
- On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
- Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Papers
- Disintegration of Uranium by Neutrons: a New Type of Nuclear Reaction by Lise Meitner and O.R. Frisch
- The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth by Kenneth Ewart Boulding
- Energy and economic myths by Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen
- Energy from Fossil Fuels by M. King Hubbert
- Limits to Exploitation of Nonrenewable Resources by Earl Cook
- Net Energy Analysis: Handbook for Combining Process and Input-Output Analysis by Clark W. Bullard, Peter S. Penner, and David A. Pilati
- Nuclear Energy and the Fossil Fuels by M. King Hubbert
- On the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat by James Prescott Joule
- Polar Bears and Three-Year-Olds on Thin Ice by Donella H. Meadows
- Production, Consumption, and Externalities by Robert U. Ayres and Allen V. Kneese
- Resources, Population, Environment: an Oversupply Of False Bad News by Julian L. Simon
- Stratospheric Ozone Depletion by Chlorofluorocarbons (Nobel Lecture) by F. Sherwood Rowland
- Theory of the Earth by James Hutton
- Tragedy of the Commons by Garrett James Hardin
- Undersea by Rachel Carson
Speeches
- Farewell speech to the World Bank by Herman E. Daly
- From a Failed Growth Economy to a Steady-State Economy by Herman E. Daly
- Jimmy Carter's "malaise speech"
- Mother Jones Speaks to Striking Coal Miners
- Wangari Maathai's Nobel Lecture
Citation
Ida Kubiszewski (Lead Author);Ida Kubiszewski (Topic Editor) "Environmental Classics". In: Encyclopedia of Earth. Eds. Cutler J. Cleveland (Washington, D.C.: Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment). [First published in the Encyclopedia of Earth June 7, 2009; Last revised Date June 7, 2009; Retrieved February 8, 2012 <http://www.eoearth.org/article/Environmental_Classics>
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Dr. Ida Kubiszewski is a co-founder and former-Managing Editor the Encyclopedia of Earth. She is currently working as the Managing Editor for a new magazine/journal hybrid called Solutions. Solutions is an outlet for discussions focusing on solutions to the complex problems we are now facing in the context of whole systems design for a sustainable and desirable future. Dr. Kubiszewski is also the managing editor of Ecological E ... (Full Bio)
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Posted by Jacob Sprinkle on October 28, 2010 8:52 am
I don't understand this list. It is short, and I have never heard anyone reference most of these environmental "classics".