Briar Blog: Environmental Justice Information

Briar Bush educators Mark Fallon and Anne-Marie D'Onofrio participated in Gwynedd-Mercy College's Justice Fair on March 29. Below is a list of documentaries, TV shows and books to gain further insight into the many environmental justice topics:

Movies/TV Series

No Impact Man: The Documentary (2009)
Go Further (2004)
Food, Inc. (2008)
King Corn (2007)
The Beautiful Truth (2008)
Eco Trip Series – Sundance Channel (2009)
The Garden (2008)
The Lazy Environmentalist Series – Sundance Channel (2009)
The Future of Food (2004)
Fast Food Nation (2006)
Super Size Me (2004)
An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2006)

Non-fiction Books

Cradle to Cradle – William McDonough and Michael Braungart
Earth Odyssey: Around the World in Search of our Environmental Future – Mark Hertsgaard
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies – Jared Diamond
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed – Jared Diamond
Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment – James Gustav Speth
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals – Michael Pollan
In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto – Michael Pollan
Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser
Food Politics – Marion Nestle
Poisons on our Plates: The Real Food Safety Problem in the United States – Michele Morrone
Troubled Waters: Religion, Ethics and the Global Water Crisis – Dr. Gary L. Chamberlain
Boiling Point: How How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists Have Fueled a Climate Crisis--And What We Can Do to Avert Disaster – Ross Gelbspan
Diet for a New America – John Robbins
Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating – Jane Goodall
The Ten Trusts: What we must do to Care for the Animals we Love – Jane Goodall and Marc Bekoff
The Environmental Predicament: Four Issues for Critical Analysis – Carol F. Verburg
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver