List of American non-fiction environmental writers

This is a list of American non-fiction environmental writers.

Author Sex Lifespan Theme(s) Selected book Category
Edward AbbeyM1927–1989Various themesThe Monkey Wrench Gang
Virginia AbernethyF1934–Carrying capacityPopulation Politics: The Choices that Shape our Future
Terry L. AndersonMfl. 2000sFree-market environmentalismFree Market Environmentalism (co-authored)
Ron ArnoldM1937–Natural resources
Ed AyresMb.1941Various themesGod's Last Offer: Negotiating for a Sustainable Future
Ronald BaileyM1953–Global warming
Bruce BarcottMfl. 1990s-2000sWildlifeThe Measure of a Mountain: Beauty and Terror on Mount Rainier
Peter BarnesMb.1940Carbon emissionsClimate Solutions: A Citizen's Guide
Albert BatesM1947–Various themesClimate in Crisis
Art BellM1945–2018Climate changeThe Coming Global Superstorm
Tom BenderMfl. 1970s-2000sGreen architectureEnvironmental Design Primer
Henry BestonM1888–1968Natural historyThe Outermost House
Robert O. BinnewiesM1937–Environmental protectionPalisades: 100,000 acres in 100 years
Brian BlackMVarious themesPetrolia: The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom
H. Emerson BlakeMEcology
Murray BookchinM1921–2006Social ecologyOur Synthetic Environment (pseudonymously)
Stewart BrandM1938–Various themesWhole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto
Lester R. BrownM1934–Various themesWorld on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse
Marilyn A. BrownFVarious themesClimate Change and Global Energy Security
Michael BruneMVarious themesComing Clean: Breaking America's Addiction to Oil and Coal
Robert BryceMVarious themesPower Hungry: The Myths of "Green" Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future
Ernest CallenbachM1929–Simple living
David George CampbellM1949–Tropical wildlifeA Land of Ghosts
Archie CarrM1909–1987Sea turtle conservationA Naturalist in Florida
Donald Eaton CarrM1903–1986Air and water pollutionDeath of the Sweet Waters
Rachel CarsonF1907–1964Environmental impact of pesticidesSilent Spring
Steve ChaseMEnvironmental justice
Ward ChurchillM1947–Indigenous land rightsStruggle for the Land: Native North American Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide and Colonization
Theo ColbornMEndocrine disruptorsOur Stolen Future : How We Are Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence and Survival (co-authored)
Melissa ColemanF1969–Back-to-the-land movementThis Life Is in Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family Undone
Barry CommonerM1917–2012EcologyMaking Peace with the Planet
Philip ConnorsMWildernessFire Season: Field Notes From a Wilderness Lookout
Erik M. ConwayM
Joseph Bharat CornellMOutdoor educationSharing Nature with Children
Greg CravenMClimate changeWhat's the Worst That Could Happen?: A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate
Heidi CullenFClimate changeThe Weather of the Future: Heat Waves, Extreme Storms, and Other Scenes From a Climate-Changed Planet
E. Kyle DattaMRenewable energyWinning the Oil Endgame: Innovation for Profits, Jobs and Security (co-authored)
Laurie DavidM1958–Climate changeStop Global Warming: The Solution Is You!
Osha Gray DavidsonM1954–Natural historyThe Enchanted Braid: Coming to Terms with Nature on the Coral Reef
Kenneth S. DeffeyesMPeak oilHubbert's Peak
Mark DerrMEnvironment of FloridaSome kind of paradise : a chronicle of man and the land in Florida
Nate DickinsonM1932–2011Wildlife managementCommon Sense Wildlife Management: Discourses on Personal Experiences
Marjory Stoneman DouglasF1890–1998EvergladesThe Everglades: River of Grass
Morgan DowneyMOilOil 101
K. Eric DrexlerM1955–Molecular nanotechnologyEngines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology (not the foreword)
Curtis EbbesmeyerM1943–FlotsamFlotsametrics and the Floating World: How One Man's Obsession with Runaway Sneakers and Rubber Ducks Revolutionized Ocean Science
Anne H. EhrlichF1933–Human overpopulationThe Stork and The Plow: The Equity Answer to the Human Dilemma (co-authored)
Paul R. EhrlichM1932–Human overpopulationEcoscience: Population, Resources, Environment (co-authored)
Daniel C. EstyMEnvironment of ConnecticutGreen to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage
Dan FaginM1963–Environmental healthToms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
Arthur FirstenbergM1950–Microwave engineeringMicrowaving Our Planet: The Environmental Impact of the Wireless Revolution
Christopher FlavinMNatural resourcesPower Surge: Guide to the Coming Energy Revolution
Paul FleischmannM1952–Eyes Wide Open: Going Behind the Environmental Headlines
David ForemanM1947–WildernessEcodefense: A Field Guide To Monkeywrenching (not the foreword)
Hilary FrenchFEnvironmental analysis
Thomas FriedmanM1953–Various themesHot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution—And How It Can Renew America
Howard FrielMVarious themesCool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming
Buckminster FullerM1895–1983Approaching the Benign Environment (co-authored)Category:Books by Buckminster Fuller
Medard GabelVarious themesEnvironmental Design Science Primer
Ross GelbspanMGlobal warmingThe Heat Is On
Harold GilliamMSan Francisco Bay AreaBetween the Devil & the Deep Blue Bay: The Struggle to Save San Francisco Bay
Juan GonzalezM1947–Various themesFallout: The Environmental Consequences of the World Trade Center Collapse
Jeff GoodellMEnergyBig Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future
David GoodsteinM1939–Fossil fuelsOut of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil
Al GoreM1948–Climate changeAn Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About ItCategory:Books by Al Gore
Dan HaifleyMOceanography
John D. HamakerM1914–1994Various themes
Terri Crawford HansenF1953–Indigenous rights
Garrett HardinM1915–2003Human overpopulationLiving Within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos
Jonathan HarrMWater pollutionA Civil Action
Jonathan Baxter HarrisonM1835–1907Forests
Paul HawkenM1946–Environmental justiceBlessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming
Richard HeinbergMOil depletionThe Party's Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies
Lawrence Joseph HendersonM1878–Environmental scienceThe Fitness of the Environment
Julia Butterfly HillF1974–ClearcuttingThe Legacy of Luna
Erich HoytM1950–Conservation: cetaceansMarine Protected Areas for Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises
Wes JacksonM1936–Polyculture
Derrick JensenM1960–CivilizationA Language Older Than Words
Van JonesM1968–Environmental economicsThe Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems
Lierre KeithF1964–Various themesThe Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability
Kevin KellyM1952–Conservation movementOut of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.M1954–Environmental lawCrimes Against Nature : How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy
Bruce KershnerM1950–2007Old-growth forestsSierra Club Guide to Ancient Forests of the Northeast
Gilbert KlingelM1908–1983Chesapeake BayThe Bay
Elizabeth KolbertF1961–Various themesField Notes from a Catastrophe
David KortenM1937–GlobalizationWhen Corporations Rule the World
Joel KovelM1936–Eco-socialismThe Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?
Bernie KrauseM1938–Acoustic ecologyThe Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places
James Howard KunstlerM1948–Various themesThe Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
Joseph LaDouM1938–Occupational and environmental medicineCurrent Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Winona LaDukeF1959–Indigenous land rightsAll our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life
Richard LammM1935–The Angry West: A Vulnerable Land and Its Future
Aldo LeopoldM1887–1948Land ethicA Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There
Amory LovinsM1947–Energy policyReinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era (co-authored)Category:Books by Amory Lovins
Benton MacKayeM1879–1975Conservation movementThe New Exploration: A Philosophy of Regional Planning
Charles C. MannM1955–Science1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
Michael E. MannM1965–Climate changeThe Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines
Richard ManningM1951–American prairieRewilding the West: Restoration in a Prairie Landscape
Emma MarrisF1979–EnvironmentalismRambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World
George Perkins MarshM1801–1882ConservationismThe Earth as Modified by Human Action
Anne MatthewsFVarious themesWhere the Buffalo Roam: Restoring America's Great Plains
Timothy R. McClanahanMEcology: coral reefsCoral Reefs of the Indian Ocean: Their Ecology and Conservation
Michael J. McGuireM1947–Drinking water quality standards
Stephen McIntyreM1947–Temperature record of the past 1000 years
Bill McKibbenM1960–Global warmingThe End of Nature
Barbara McMartinF1931–2005Adirondack ParkThe Great Forest of the Adirondacks
Tom McNameeM1947–Conservation biologyNature First: Keeping Our Wild Places and Wild Creatures Wild
John McPheeM1931–Various themesThe Control of Nature
Dennis MeadowsM1942–Environmental economicsThe Limits to Growth (co-authored)
Donella MeadowsF1941–2001The Limits to Growth (co-authored)
George J. MitchellM1933–World on Fire: Saving an Endangered Earth
Chris MooneyM1977–Various themesStorm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming
Ted NaceM1956–Coal industryClimate Hope: On the Front Lines of the Fight Against Coal
Ralph NaderM1934–Environmental economicsUnsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American AutomobileCategory:Works by Ralph Nader
Richard B. NorgaardM1943–Ecological economicsAn Introduction to Ecological Economics
Naomi OreskesFGlobal warmingMerchants of Doubt (co-authored)
Henry Fairfield Osborn, Jr.M1887–1969Conservation movementOur Plundered Planet
Riki OttFAquatic toxicologySound Truth and Corporate Myth$: The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
David Naguib PellowM1969–Various themesGarbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago
Ron PernickMClean technologyThe Clean Tech Revolution (co-authored)
Frederik PohlM1919–Our Angry Earth: A Ticking Ecological Bomb (co-authored)Category:Books by Frederik Pohl
Michael PollanM1955–FoodThe Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four MealsCategory:Books by Michael Pollan
Carl PopeMVarious themesStrategic Ignorance: Why the Bush Administration Is Recklessly Destroying a Century of Environmental Progress (co-authored)
Richard PosnerM1939–Various themesCatastrophe: Risk and Response
Sandra PostelFFresh water
Robert Michael PyleM1947–ForestsWintergreen
Stephen J. PyneMForests: wildfiresAwful Splendour: A Fire History of Canada
Ray RaphaelM1943–Environment of CaliforniaEdges: Human Ecology of the Backcountry
Paul RauberMStrategic Ignorance: Why the Bush Administration Is Recklessly Destroying a Century of Environmental Progress
Andrew RevkinMGlobal warmingThe North Pole Was Here: Puzzles and Perils at the Top of the World
Jeremy RifkinM1945–Various themesThe Green Lifestyle Handbook: 1001 Ways to Heal the Earth (edited by Rifkin)
Paul RobertsMVarious themesThe End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World
Joseph J. RommM1960–EnergyThe Hype about Hydrogen: Fact and Fiction in the Race to Save the Climate
Jonathan F.P. RoseM1952–Various themesThe Well-Tempered City: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life
Donald K. RossM
William RuddimanMPaleoclimatologyPlows, Plagues and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate
Kirkpatrick SaleM1937–Various themesThe Green Revolution: The American Environmental Movement
Jonathan SchellM1943–Nuclear weaponsThe Gift of Time: The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons Now
Auden SchendlerMSustainabilityGetting Green Done
J. Michael ScottM1941–Wildlife
Julian SimonM1932–1998Carrying capacityThe Ultimate Resource
Fred SingerM1924–Air pollutionThe Greenhouse Debate Continued
Alexander SkutchM1904–2004Natural historyHelpers at Birds’ Nests: A Worldwide Survey of Cooperative Breeding and Related Behavior
Ted SmithM1945–Electronic wasteChallenging the Chip (co-authored)
Gary SnyderM1930–Deep ecology
David A SonnenfeldMEnvironmental social scienceChallenging the Chip (co-authored)
James Gustave SpethM1942–Various themesRed Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment
Sandra SteingraberF1959–PollutionLiving Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment
Thomas H. Stoner, Jr.M1960–Sustainable developmentSmall Change Big Gains: Reflections of an Energy Entrepreneur
John TallmadgeMNatureReading Under the Sign of Nature: New Essays in Ecocriticism (co-edited)
Sarah McFarland TaylorFVarious themesGreen Sisters: A Spiritual Ecology
Henry David ThoreauM1817–1862Various themesCategory:Books by Henry David Thoreau
Karen J. WarrenF1947–Various themes
Arthur WaskowM1933–Various themesTorah of the Earth: Exploring 4,000 Years of Ecology in Jewish Thought
Harvey WassermanM1945–Anti-nuclear movement in the United StatesKilling Our Own: The Disaster of America’s Experience with Atomic Radiation (co-authored)
Spencer R. WeartM1942–Global warmingThe Discovery of Global Warming
Linda WeintraubFVarious themesEco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet
Alan WeismanM1947–Human extinctionThe World Without Us
Adam WerbachM1973–
Tom WesselsMConservation biologyThe Myth of Progress: Toward a Sustainable Future
Rex WeylerM1947–Various themesGreenpeace: The Inside Story
Clint WilderMClean technologyThe Clean Tech Revolution (co-authored)
E. O. WilsonM1929–BiodiversityThe Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth'
Bruce YandleMFree-market environmentalismTaking the Environment Seriously
Daniel YerginM1947–EnergyThe Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
Ozzie ZehnerMRenewable energy and consumptionGreen Illusions: The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism

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