Textbook

Candace Savage Prairie: A Natural History

 

Required Reading

Try and read all these books, you'll want to anyhow.

    if you can't we'll provide certain required parts in PDF format (to come) 

Wendel Berry’s The Unsettling of America: 1960’s forward looking observations of the impact of industrial agriculture on America’s culture.

Michael Pollan’s Omnivore’s Dilemma: audiobook Where does our food come from?

Bruce Babbitt’s Cities in the Wilderness: Former secretary of the interior under Clinton talks about federal land conservation.

 

Classics Texts (recommended)

Rachael Carson’s Silent Spring: the book that started the modern environmental movement

Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle: audiobook Chicago’s history of Industrial exploitation of human capitol

 

Natural Capitalism P Hawken, LH Lovins, AB Lovins - 1999

Nature’s Metropolis

Paul Hawken's new book, Blessed Unrest (the movement of movements)

A Natural History of the Chicago Regions (Joel Greenbery)

 

Chicago Wilderness (i'll subscripe for you as a donation)

    UChicago is trying to become a formal member. We'll join Chicago Wilderness on a restortion day. Take a look at a recent issue and make a suggestion

Orion Magazine (see this article Prairie Dreaming)