Lectures, presentations, movies, demonstrations and crafts will be featured all month, focusing on your ability to make our world more sustainable today and tomorrow.

Find SustainAbility events for each library or print a list of all SustainAbility Month programs (PDF, 2 pp.).

 

Selected environmental titles available at Sarasota County Libraries:
American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau, edited by Bill McKibben; foreword by Al Gore. An anthology featuring 100 pioneering, eco-minded writers. Find this book in our catalog.	Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honeybee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis, by Rowan Jacobsen. Traces the significant 2007 and 2008 reductions in honeybee populations, identifying the causes of Colony Collapse Disorder to explain the link between bee pollination and industrial agriculture and predict the dangerous reductions in food output. Find this book in our catalog.
Greasy Rider: Two Dudes, One Fry-Oil-Powered Car, and a Cross-Country Search for a Greener Future, by Greg Melville. A coast-to-coast roadtrip in a car running on French-fry oil. Find this book in our catalog.	Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America, by Thomas L. Friedman. Proposes an ambitious national strategy to address key issues in climate change and energy shortages, identifying the factors that have contributed to current circumstances while outlining an American-led revolution of clean technology solutions. Find this book in our catalog.
The Hudson: America's River, by Frances F. Dunwell. Dunwell writes a biography of the Hudson River and how its natural beauty was restored. Find this book in our catalog.	Nature's Second Chance: Restoring the Ecology of Stone Prairie Farm, by Steven I. Apfelbaum. The author founded Stone Prairie Farm on 80 acres in Wisconsin. This story covers his 30-year restoration of the farm to prairie. Find this book in our catalog.
Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land, by Amy Irvine. Irvine reflects on the Mormon's migration west and her personal history. Irvine revels in Utah's beauty and protests its destruction. Find this book in our catalog.	Why I Came West, by Rick Bass. A noted naturalist, novelist, and environmental activist chronicles his love affair with the mystique of the American West as he recalls his discovery of the Yaak Valley in Montana and the impact of the wild landscape on his writing career and activism. Find this book in our catalog.

 Background photo: "Fern" by Kaptain Kobold on Flickr, used under a Creative Commons license.