Booklist: Pollution, Resource Depletion, Infrastructure, Transportation, Peak Minerals, Life after Fossil Fuels

Pollution

G Pitron. The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies
T Colborn. Our Stolen Future: Are we threatening our fertility, survival?
J McCormick. Acid Earth: The Global Threat of Acid Pollution.
J Watts. When a Billion Chinese Jump: How China will save mankind–Or Destroy It
J Shapiro. Mao’s War against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China
Thomas Hayden. Trashing the Oceans
W Rathje. Rubbish! The Archaeology of Garbage. What our garbage tells us about ourselves
D Fagin. Toxic Deception: How the Chemical Industry manipulates science, bends the law, and endangers your health

LF Konikow. 2013. Groundwater depletion in the United States (1900-2008)
I Urbina. The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
W Cronon. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
S Postel. Pillar of Sand, Can the Irrigation Miracle Last?
V Smil. Harvesting the Biosphere: What We Have Taken from Nature
R Glennon. Water Follies: groundwater pumping & the date of America’s fresh waters
J Opie. Ogallala: Water for a Dry Land
B Franklin. The Most Important Fish in the Sea: Menhaden and America
M Harris. Lament For An Ocean: The Collapse of the Atlantic Cod Fishery
R Ellis. The Empty Ocean: Plundering the World’s Marine Life
DR Montgomery. Dirt: The Erosion of Civilization
N Middleton. World Atlas of Desertification
R Weiss. Ocean species depleted by fishing: Worldwide numbers down 90% percent since the 1950s May 15, 2003 Washington.Post
T Radford. Two-thirds of world’s resources ‘used up’
C Bright. Life out of Bounds: BioInvasion in a Borderless World
D Egan. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

R Courland. 2011. Concrete Planet
S Winchester. The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
M Soderstrom. Concrete: From Ancient Origins to a Problematic Future
V Beiser. The world in a grain: the story of sand and how it transformed civilization
ASCE 2017 American Society of Civil Engineers Report Card for America’s Infrastructure
GAO 2014Energy infrastructure risks and adaptation efforts
DOE 2013 U.S. Energy sector vulnerabilities to climate change & extreme weather.
B Hayes. Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape.
K Ascher. The Works: Anatomy of a City.
EPA 2002 The Clean Water and Drinking Water Infrastructure Gap Analysis.
R George. The big necessity. The unmentionable world of human waste and why it matters
J Rees. Refrigeration Nation: A History of Ice, Appliances, and Enterprise in America

A Friedemann. 2021. Life After Fossil Fuels
T Thwaites. The toaster project: Build a simple electric appliance from scratch
J. Stratton. 1981. Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier
Greene. 2008. Horses at Work: Harnessing Power in Industrial America
R. Winston. Life in the Middle Ages.
Jean Gimpel. Medieval Machine: The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages.
G Huppert. After the Black Death: A Social History of Early Modern Europe
EA Wrigley. Energy and the English industrial revolution.
EA Wrigley. The path to sustained growth: England’s transition from an organic economy to an industrial society
R White. It’s your misfortune and none of my own. A new history of the American West.
S Ambrose. Undaunted Courage. Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the opening of the American West
R. Massie. Peter the Great: His Life and World
B Tuchman Distant Mirror: The calamitous fourteenth century.
M Holloway. Utopian Communities in America, 1680-1880
R Hine. California’s Utopian Colonies
DE Pitzer. America’s Communal Utopias
H. Norberg-Hodge. Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh
R Ekirch. At Day’s Close: Night in Times Past
D Cordingly. Under the Black Flag. The Romance & the reality of life among the Pirates
A Light. Common People: In Pursuit of My Ancestors