To celebrate the first days of summer, here is a summer reading list, suggested by Sustainable Saratoga’s Board of Directors:
The Wild Trees, by Richard Preston
http://richardpreston.net/books/the-wild-trees/
Zero Waste Home, The Ultimate Guide to Simplifying your Life by Reducing your Waste, by Bea Johnson
http://www.zerowastehome.com/about/book/
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, by Barbara Kingsolver
http://animalvegetablemiracle.com/
Flight Behavior, by Barbara Kingsolver
http://www.kingsolver.com/books/flight-behavior.html
The Dirty Life, by Kristin Kimball
http://www.kristinkimball.com/the-dirty-life
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, by Yuval Harari
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapiens:_A_Brief_History_of_Humankind
The Green Boat: Reviving Ourselves in Our Capsized Culture, by Mary Pipher
http://www.marypipher.net/Books.html
Walden, by Henry David Thoreau
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16902.Walden
American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau, Bill McKibben, ed.
http://americanearth.loa.org/
The Soul of an Octopus, by Sy Montgomery
http://books.simonandschuster.com/The-Soul-of-an-Octopus/Sy-Montgomery/9781451697728
Heat & Light, by Jennifer Haigh
http://www.jennifer-haigh.com/heat-and-light/
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate, by Naomi Klein
http://thischangeseverything.org/
Creating Sustainable Communities: Lessons from the Hudson River Region, by Rik Scarce
http://www.sunypress.edu/p-6082-creating-sustainable-communitie.aspx
Radical Simplicity: Small Footprints on a Finite Earth, by Jim Merkel
http://www.radicalsimplicity.org/radical_simplicity.html