Resources in the St. Luke Library

Earth Day and the Environment (PDF)

Read a book to celebrate Earth Day! Our library has books for all ages about the environment, climate change, and green living, and even worms and compost!

Check out is for three weeks. Please return the item to the black bin just inside the library door within that time frame so that others may use it.

Adults and Teens

  • Begley, Ed. Living Like Ed: Guide to Eco-Friendly Life

  • Brown, Lester. Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization

  • de Rothschild, David. Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook

  • Dorfman, Josh. Lazy Environmentalist: Your Guide to Stylish, Green Living

  • Earth Works Group. Fifty Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth

  • Fisher-McGarry, Julie. Be the Change You Want to See in the World: 356 Things

  • Goodall, Jane. Reason for Hope

  • Hayden, Tom. Lost Gospel of the Earth

  • Horn, Greg. Living Green: Practical Guide to Simple Sustainability

  • Jones, Ellis. Better World Handbook

    • Better World Shopping Guide

  • Jones, Van. The Green Collar Economy

  • Loux, Renee. Easy Green Living

  • Macy, Joanna. Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World

  • McDilda, Diane Gow. Everything Green Living Book

  • Mollison, Bill. Permaculture: A Designer’s Manual

  • Nunn, Michelle, ed. Be the Change: Change the World. Change Yourself

  • Rogers, Elizabeth. Green Book

  • Speth, James Gustave. The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability

  • Swimme, Brian. Hidden Heart of the Cosmos (and video)

DVDs

  • Stewards of the Earth

  • Story of Stuff

  • Zero Waste Systems

Videos

  • Cosmogenesis: Journey of a Silica Atom

  • Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing Self

  • Foundation for Global Community. 5 videos:

    • A Sense of Place; Children and Nature: Dr. Jane Goodall; Earth Literacy Toolkit (with guides); Living Land; Unfolding Story; Water: Sacred and Profaned

  • Free Willy, Free Willy ll

  • Swimme, Brian. Canticle Cosmos (set of 12 videos)

Children

  • Barker, David. Compost It

  • Caduto, Michael. Keepers of Earth: Native Am Stories & Environmental Activities

  • Cherry, Lynne. Great Kapok Tree

  • Clinton, Chelsea. Don’t Let Them Disappear: 12 Endangered Species Across the World

  • Durell, Ann. Big Book for Our Planet

  • Ehlert, Lois. Eating the Alphabet: Fruits & Vegetables From A to Z

    • Planting a Rainbow

    • Waiting for Wings (butterflies)

  • Gaines, Joanna. We are the Gardeners

  • Glaser, Linda and Kids. Wonderful Worms

  • Hoffman, Mary. Earth, Fire, Water, Air

  • Koontz, Robin. Composting: Nature’s Recyclers

  • Kurtz, Barbara. A Hummingbird’s Story: How I Came to Be

  • Locker, Thomas. Water Dance

    • Sky Tree

  • Madsen, Michaun. You Are Like a Seed

  • McAnulty, Stacy. Our Planet! There’s No Place Like Earth

  • Morgan, Jennifer. From Lava to Life

  • Pallotta, Jerry. Icky Bug Counting Book

    • Furry Alphabet Book

  • Parr, Todd. The Earth Book

  • Ross, Kathy. Every Day is Earth Day: Craft Book

  • Ryder, Joanne. Earthdance

  • Seuss, Dr. The Lorax

  • Shanks, Ann. About Garbage and Stuff

  • Siddals, Mary McKenna. Compost Stew: An A to Z recipe for the earth

  • Sidman, Joyce. Butterfly Eyes and Other Secrets of the Meadow

    • Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems

    • Hello Earth! Poems to our Planet

  • Strauss, Rochelle. One Well: The Story of Water on Earth

  • Swamp, Chief Jake. Giving Thanks! A Native American Good Morning Message

  • Thaler, Mike. Earth Mirth: Ecology Riddle Book

  • Waldman, Neil. The Snowflake: A Water Cycle Story

  • Wood, Douglas. Making the World