Environment Book Genre – What’s the best definition for the environment genre? Books in the environment nonfiction genre are about the habitat in which one lives and the structure and balance that keeps it healthy, alive, or strong. The books in the genre can be about anything from pollution, to global warming, to recycling – anything that impacts the world of nature (the habitat of us all). The environment genre embraces informational books about what’s going wrong and how it’s affecting our habitat to what we can do to bring about positive changes in our habitat and the world overall.
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Environment Book Genre – Examples
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1. A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
2. Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds by Joy Adamson
3. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water by Marc Reisner
4. Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky
5. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
6. Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough
7. Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
8. Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front by Joel Salatin
9. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
10. Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert
11. Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution–and How It Can Renew America by Thomas L. Friedman
12. In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
13. Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams
14. Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv
15. Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth / My First Summer in the Sierra / The Mountains of California / Stickeen / Essays by John Muir
16. Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat
17. Permaculture: A Designers’ Manual by Bill Mollison
18. Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place by Terry Tempest Williams
19. Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered by E.F. Schumacher
20. The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan
21. The Diversity of Life by Edward O. Wilson
22. The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
23. The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson
24. The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
25. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan
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