SEA Recommends
When students are truly engaged in a subject, they seek out sources of outside knowledge to enhance their learning beyond the classroom. Here are a few of such sources, recommended over the years by past and present SEA members!
Books
- Collapse, by Jared Diamond
- In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, by Michael Pollan
- An Omnivore’s Dilemma, by Michael Pollan
- Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn
- Endgame, by Derrick Jensen
- Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America’s Energy Future, by Jeff Goodell
- Confessions of an Eco-Warrior, by Dave Foreman
- Flotsametrics and the Floating World, by Curtis Ebbesmeyer
- Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder, by Richard Louv
- Walden, by Henry David Thoreau
- A Sand County Almanac, by Aldo Leopold
- Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson
- Coal: A Human History, by Barbara Freese
Documentaries
- “Gasland” - 2012
- “Toxic Soup” - 2011
- “Waste Land” - 2010
- “The End of the Line” - 2010
- “Tapped” - 2010
- “The Age of Stupid” - 2009
- “The Yes Men Fix the World” - 2009
- “Coal Country” - 2009
- “Tapped” - 2009
- “Dirt! The Movie” - 2009
- “Crude” - 2009
- “Fuel,” - 2008
- “FOOD, Inc” - 2008
- “The Garden” - 2008
- “No Impact Man” - 2008
- “Flow” - 2008
- “The 11th Hour” - 2007
- “What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire” - 2007
- “King Corn” - 2007
- “An Inconvenient Truth” - 2006
- “Who Killed the Electric Car?” - 2006
- “March of the Penguins” - 2005
- “The Future of Food” - 2005
- “Walmart: The High Cost of Low Price” - 2005
- “The Corporation” - 2003
Environmentally-Related Feature Films
- “The Lorax” - 2012
- “Avatar” - 2009
- “Wall-E” - 2008
- “Fast Food Nation” - 2006
- “The Day After Tomorrow” - 2004
- “Erin Brockovich” - 2000
- “Free Willie” - 1993
- “Fern Gully” - 1992
