 | An Inconvenient Truth
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $4.19 Al Gore explains it all. Well, a lot, anyway.
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 | The 11th Hour
Buy new: $4.99 / Used from: $3.25 Once you've watched both of these, you should be ready to do something.
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 | How to Save the World
Buy used from: $22.00 Now that you're motivated, here's a film about a guy who's making real changes in India. If he doesn't inspire you, nothing will. More than any other action you take, changing what you put into your mouth can have the biggest effect.
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 | One Man, One Cow, One Planet
Buy new: $25.00 / Used from: $21.95 This is a shorter version of How to Save the World -- in case you have a short attention span.
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 | Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.) by Barbara Kingsolver
Buy new: $10.29 / Used from: $6.99 Kingsolver explains the importance of starting in your own backyard.
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 | Gardening for Life - The Biodynamic Way: A Practical Introduction to a New Art of Gardening, Sowing, Planting, Harvesting by Maria Thun
Buy used from: $16.62 Now that you're inspired to plant something, here's a book on how to do it not just organically, but magically.
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 | The Biodynamic Sowing and Planting Calendar
Buy new: $13.95 / Used from: $2.36 Some specific info for you.
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 | The Future of Food
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $7.35 Now that you've done some planting, find out more about the big picture.
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 | Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean, And Fair by Carlo Petrini
Buy new: $15.30 / Used from: $13.39 Outlines why we need to change what we eat, where we get it, and how it's made.
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 | Plenty: Eating Locally on the 100-Mile Diet by Alisa Smith
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $7.96 Specific steps to make your diet more sustainable.
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 | In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
Buy new: $14.93 / Used from: $6.29 Pollan knows the deal and explains it well.
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 | The Sustainability Revolution: Portrait of a Paradigm Shift by Andres R. Edwards
Buy new: $11.84 / Used from: $7.12 The mechanics of the big picture.
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 | Getting Green Done: Hard Truths from the Front Lines of the Sustainability Revolution by Auden Schendler
Buy new: $17.79 / Used from: $4.65 This gem of a book outlines the nuts and bolts of change.
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 | Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century by Alex Steffen
Buy new: $7.75 / Used from: $3.26 Interesting info presented in an interesting way.
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 | Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming by Miriam Horn
Buy new: $16.17 / Used from: $0.69 Very interesting and inspiring
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 | Planet in Peril (2 DVD set)
Buy new: $19.98 / Used from: $14.98 Anderson Cooper reports from the front lines.
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 | National Geographic: Six Degrees Could Change the World
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $11.67 Fascinating to watch the incremental changes ahead of us -- and see the big changes that are caused by little differences.
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 | Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet by Mark Lynas
Buy new: $17.16 / Used from: $1.58 The book that inspired the film. Lynas takes us on a fascinating journey into the future.
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 | Planet Earth: As You've Never Seen It Before by Alastair Fothergill
Buy new: $26.37 / Used from: $7.74 A beautiful reminder of what we're all working for.
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 | NOVA - World in the Balance: The Population Paradox
Buy new: $14.49 / Used from: $10.05 A captivating look at the problem of overpopulation.
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 | Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough
Buy new: $18.15 / Used from: $10.98 Very, very inspiring. Shows a clear path to solutions.
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 | Capitalism at the Crossroads: Aligning Business, Earth, and Humanity (2nd Edition) by Stuart L. Hart
Buy new: $12.23 / Used from: $6.86 This lovely text shows the way from here to the future.
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 | Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage by Daniel Esty
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $11.45 How saving the environment is going to make us all rich.
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 | Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy by Jr., Robert F. Kennedy
Buy new: $11.96 / Used from: $0.01 This book is so depressing. It'll make you even happier that he's out of office.
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 | The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate Crisis & The Fate of Humanity by James Lovelock
Buy new: $12.44 / Used from: $4.72 This is why it's not nice to mess with Mother Nature.
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 | Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future by Bill McKibben
Buy new: $9.89 / Used from: $4.25 Fantastic, inspiring, hopeful.
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