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