the national senior conservation corps

Greening Your Home Assisted Living Facility- Resource

The Gray Is Green Handbook on Conservation for Retirement Communities (pdf)

Greening Your Home Links

National Geographic Green Guide

NRDC Green Living

Climate Change Science Links

Real Climate Blog on the science of climate change

Climate Change Policy Links

National Resource Defense Council (NRDC) Policy Page

Environmental Defense Climate Page

US EPA Climate Change Page

Pew Center on Global Climate Change Home Page

World Resources Institute Climate Energy and Transport

United Nations Environmental Programme Climate Change Page

Green Reading List

Use these books and reports to start a discussion group, to bring to those who are unable to read and to share with as many people as possible so we can work together to conserve the Earth's resources. Wherever possible we have provided links to these books to help you find them:

Climate Change

1. • The Bridge at the Edge of the World by James Gustave Speth
   

2. • Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution - And How it Can Renew America by Thomas L. Friedman
   

3. • Cool it - The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide To Global Warming by Bjørn Lomborg
   

4. • Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit by Al Gore,
   

5. • Earth: The Sequel The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming by Fred Krupp and Miriam Horn
   

6. • The Weather Makers by Tim Flannery
   

7. • Field Notes from a Catastrophe by Elizabeth Kolbert
   

Environment/Conservation Background Reading

1. • A Matter of Scale by Keith Farnish with an introduction by Robert Lane
   

2. • The Ecology Of Commerce by Paul Hawken
   

3. • The End of Nature by Bill Mckibben
   

4. • A Short History of Progress by Ronald Wright
   

5. • Song For The Blue Ocean by Carl Safina
   

6. • The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions by David Quammen
   

7. • Naturalist by Edward O. Wilson
   

8. • Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
   

Environmental Policy

1. • Pew Center Climate Change 101
   

2. • A Question of Balance: Weighing the Options on Global Warming Policies by William Nordhaus
   

3. • Global Warming: Looking Beyond Kyoto edited by Ernesto Zedillo
   

4. • Understanding and Responding to Climate Change from the National Academies
   

5. • Summary for Policymakers of the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report (pdf)
   

Green Films

1. • American Southwest: Are We Running Dry? 76 min. (2007). Sponsored by the Southwest water companies. The film shows the effects of climate change on Hopi reservations, irrigation systems, urban drinking water, and general quality of life.
   

2. •The End of Suburbia: The Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream  78 min. 2004. A dozen diverse experts explain when global oil production will peak and begin falling, and how this will change America. Includes discussion of the energy waste of the “American Dream” and the environmental value of urban density.
   

3. •The Eleventh Hour   97 min. (2007) Warner Brothers. Directed by Leonardo DiCaprio. Dramatic account of how global warming affects agriculture, creates droughts and floods, and threatens life and property throughout the U.S. and the rest of the world.
   

4. • Kilowatt Ours 56 minutes, 2008. Documents what you would find if you traced the wires from your light switch to its energy source.  Kilowatt Ours is the story of Jeff Barrie's 18 month journey across the southeast United States to document our energy related problems and present viable solutions.
   

5. •After the Storm. 22 minutes; DVD) Deals with storms in cities such as Santa Monica Bay and NYC, and how to protect against damage and pollution in lakes and streams.
   

6. •Sila Alangotok: Inuit Observations on Climate Change Documents native residents of the Arctic and their observations of climate change.
   

7. • An Inconvenient Truth  Al Gore's revolutionary presentation of climate change.
   

8. •Global Warming: The Signs and the Science   Narrated by singer Alanis Morisette this PBS film interviews  scientists, activists, and victims of climate change.
   

Green Tips and Greening Ideas- Links and Resources

Check out the Gray Is Green Newsletter for an article on simple ways to make your own footprint smaller.

Spring 09 Gray Is Green Newsletter.pdf

Reducing your emissions, tips from The Green Guide by National Geographic

Sibling Sites- Links

Green Granny

Green Seniors