Monday, March 31, 2014

Hey guys! ESIC just ordered 39 new books, which will be arriving in the next few weeks. We're really excited! We ordered most (all but four) of the books from Mind Fair Books, a local Oberlin book store in Oberlin (inside Ben and Franklin).

Here's what we bought:


Green is the New Red: An Insider's Account of a Social Movement Under Siege by Will Poter

Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago by David Pellow

The Earth Knows My Name: Food, Culture, and Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic Americans by Patricia Klindienst 

Earth Repair: A Grassroots Guide to Healing Toxic and Damaged Landscapes by Leila Darwish 

Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet by Derrick Jensen

2013 New Farmer’s Almanac by Severine von Tscharner Fleming 

Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent by Andrew Nikiforuk   

Fields Of Resistance: The Struggle of Florida's Farmworkers for Justice Silvia Giagnoni 

Apartment Gardening: Plants, Projects, and Recipes for Growing Food in Your Urban Home by Amy Pennington 

Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water by Maude Barlow, Tony Clarke   

Twilight of the Machines by John Zerzan  

The Revolution will not be Microwaved: Inside America's Underground Food Movements by Sandor Ellix Katz  

Earth at Risk: Building a Resistance Movement to Save the Planet by Derrick Jensen 

The Green Zone: The Environmental Costs of Militarism by Barry Sanders   

Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples by Mark Dowie

Crude: The story of Oil by Sonia Shah   

Eating Fossil Fuels: Oil, Food and the Coming Crisis in Agriculture by Dale Allen Pfeiffer   

Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis by Vandana Shiva    

Thriving Beyond Sustainability: Pathways to a Resilient Society by Andres R. Edwards

One Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming by Fukoka  

Ecolanguage Reader by Brenda Iijima (ed) 

How to Live on the Planet Earth: Collected Poems by Nanao Sakaki 

Housing Reclaimed: Sustainable Homes for Next to Nothing by Jessica Kellner

One Less Car: Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility by Zack Furness   

Guerrilla Gardening by David Tracey 

Dharma Rain: Sources of Buddhist Environmentalism by Stephanie Kaza

Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States by Seth Holmes

Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability by Alison Hope Alkon and Julian Agyeman

From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement by Luke Cole   

Coal River by Michael Shnayerson

Tangled Roots: The Appalachian Trail and American Environmental Politics by Matt Soltys   

The Sustainable Building Bible by Tim Pullen 

Direct Action: An Ethnography by David Graeber

Permaculture Principles by David Holmgren 

Gaia's Garden by Toby Hemenway

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

New Perspectives on Environmental Justice: Gender, Sexuality, and Activism by Rachel Stein

Hot Flat and Crowded  by Thomas Friedman

Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire by Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands


Best,
ESIC staff 

Wednesday, November 6, 2013


Hey there! 
Welcome to the ESIC (Environmental Studies Information Center) Blog!
ESIC is a one-room library on the second floor of the AJLC
And we think that its a really underutilized resource at Oberlin.
Come stop by, check out a book,
read magazines, or study on our comfy couch!

We have lots of large, glossy coffee-table books for you to look through:

                                     
                                        Awesome periodicals and magazines, some on display:

                                                     
                                                       And many more on the shelves:


And last but not least, an huge comfy couch with a lovely view.