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 Abbey M 1927–1989 Various themes The Monkey Wrench Gang
Virginia Abernethy F 1934– Carrying capacity Population Politics: The Choices that Shape our Future
Terry L. Anderson M fl. 2000s Free-market environmentalism Free Market Environmentalism (co-authored)
Ron Arnold M 1937– Natural resources
Ed Ayres M b.1941 Various themes God's Last Offer: Negotiating for a Sustainable Future
Ronald Bailey M 1953– Global warming
Bruce Barcott M fl. 1990s-2000s Wildlife The Measure of a Mountain: Beauty and Terror on Mount Rainier
Peter Barnes M b.1940 Carbon emissions Climate Solutions: A Citizen's Guide
Albert Bates M 1947– Various themes Climate in Crisis
Art Bell M 1945–2018 Climate change The Coming Global Superstorm
Tom Bender M fl. 1970s-2000s Green architecture Environmental Design Primer
Wendell Berry M 1934– Sustainable agriculture, Agrarianism, Conservation The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
Henry Beston M 1888–1968 Natural history The Outermost House
Robert O. Binnewies M 1937– Environmental protection Palisades: 100,000 acres in 100 years
Brian Black M Various themes Petrolia: The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom
H. Emerson Blake M Ecology
Murray Bookchin M 1921–2006 Social ecology Our Synthetic Environment (pseudonymously)
Stewart Brand M 1938– Various themes Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto
Lester R. Brown M 1934– Various themes World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse
Marilyn A. Brown F Various themes Climate Change and Global Energy Security
Michael Brune M Various themes Coming Clean: Breaking America's Addiction to Oil and Coal
Robert Bryce M Various themes Power Hungry: The Myths of "Green" Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future
Ernest Callenbach M 1929– Simple living
David George Campbell M 1949– Tropical wildlife A Land of Ghosts
Archie Carr M 1909–1987 Sea turtle conservation A Naturalist in Florida
Donald Eaton Carr M 1903–1986 Air and water pollution Death of the Sweet Waters
Rachel Carson F 1907–1964 Environmental impact of pesticides Silent Spring
Steve Chase M Environmental justice
Ward Churchill M 1947– Indigenous land rights Struggle for the Land: Native North American Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide and Colonization
Theo Colborn M Endocrine disruptors Our Stolen Future : How We Are Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence and Survival (co-authored)
Melissa Coleman F 1969– Back-to-the-land movement This Life Is in Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family Undone
Barry Commoner M 1917–2012 Ecology Making Peace with the Planet
Philip Connors M Wilderness Fire Season: Field Notes From a Wilderness Lookout
Erik M. Conway M
Joseph Bharat Cornell M Outdoor education Sharing Nature with Children
Greg Craven M Climate change What's the Worst That Could Happen?: A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate
Heidi Cullen F Climate change The Weather of the Future: Heat Waves, Extreme Storms, and Other Scenes From a Climate-Changed Planet
E. Kyle Datta M Renewable energy Winning the Oil Endgame: Innovation for Profits, Jobs and Security (co-authored)
Laurie David M 1958– Climate change Stop Global Warming: The Solution Is You!
Osha Gray Davidson M 1954– Natural history The Enchanted Braid: Coming to Terms with Nature on the Coral Reef
Kenneth S. Deffeyes M Peak oil Hubbert's Peak
Mark Derr M Environment of Florida Some kind of paradise : a chronicle of man and the land in Florida
Nate Dickinson M 1932–2011 Wildlife management Common Sense Wildlife Management: Discourses on Personal Experiences
Marjory Stoneman Douglas F 1890–1998 Everglades The Everglades: River of Grass
Morgan Downey M Oil Oil 101
K. Eric Drexler M 1955– Molecular nanotechnology Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology (not the foreword)
Curtis Ebbesmeyer M 1943– Flotsam Flotsametrics and the Floating World: How One Man's Obsession with Runaway Sneakers and Rubber Ducks Revolutionized Ocean Science
Anne H. Ehrlich F 1933– Human overpopulation The Stork and The Plow: The Equity Answer to the Human Dilemma (co-authored)
Paul R. Ehrlich M 1932– Human overpopulation Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment (co-authored)
Daniel C. Esty M Environment of Connecticut Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage
Dan Fagin M 1963– Environmental health Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
Arthur Firstenberg M 1950– Microwave engineering Microwaving Our Planet: The Environmental Impact of the Wireless Revolution
Christopher Flavin M Natural resources Power Surge: Guide to the Coming Energy Revolution
Paul Fleischmann M 1952– Eyes Wide Open: Going Behind the Environmental Headlines
David Foreman M 1947– Wilderness Ecodefense: A Field Guide To Monkeywrenching (not the foreword)
Hilary French F Environmental analysis
Thomas Friedman M 1953– Various themes Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution—And How It Can Renew America
Howard Friel M Various themes Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming
Buckminster Fuller M 1895–1983 Approaching the Benign Environment (co-authored) Category:Books by Buckminster Fuller
Medard Gabel Various themes Environmental Design Science Primer
Ross Gelbspan M 1939–2024 Global warming The Heat Is On
Harold Gilliam M San Francisco Bay Area Between the Devil & the Deep Blue Bay: The Struggle to Save San Francisco Bay
Juan Gonzalez M 1947– Various themes Fallout: The Environmental Consequences of the World Trade Center Collapse
Jeff Goodell M Energy Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future
David Goodstein M 1939–2024 Fossil fuels Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil
Al Gore M 1948– Climate change An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It Category:Books by Al Gore
Dan Haifley M Oceanography
John D. Hamaker M 1914–1994 Various themes
Terri Crawford Hansen F 1953– Indigenous rights
Garrett Hardin M 1915–2003 Human overpopulation Living Within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos
Jonathan Harr M Water pollution A Civil Action
Jonathan Baxter Harrison M 1835–1907 Forests
Paul Hawken M 1946– Environmental justice Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming
Richard Heinberg M Oil depletion The Party's Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies
Lawrence Joseph Henderson M 1878– Environmental science The Fitness of the Environment
Julia Butterfly Hill F 1974– Clearcutting The Legacy of Luna
Erich Hoyt M 1950– Conservation: cetaceans Marine Protected Areas for Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises
Wes Jackson M 1936– Polyculture
Derrick Jensen M 1960– Civilization A Language Older Than Words
Van Jones M 1968– Environmental economics The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems
Lierre Keith F 1964– Various themes The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability
Kevin Kelly M 1952– Conservation movement Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. M 1954– Environmental law Crimes Against Nature : How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy
Bruce Kershner M 1950–2007 Old-growth forests Sierra Club Guide to Ancient Forests of the Northeast
Gilbert Klingel M 1908–1983 Chesapeake Bay The Bay
Elizabeth Kolbert F 1961– Various themes Field Notes from a Catastrophe
David Korten M 1937– Globalization When Corporations Rule the World
Joel Kovel M 1936– Eco-socialism The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?
Bernie Krause M 1938– Acoustic ecology The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places
James Howard Kunstler M 1948– Various themes The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
Joseph LaDou M 1938– Occupational and environmental medicine Current Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Winona LaDuke F 1959– Indigenous land rights All our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life
Richard Lamm M 1935– The Angry West: A Vulnerable Land and Its Future
Aldo Leopold M 1887–1948 Land ethic A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There
Amory Lovins M 1947– Energy policy Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era (co-authored) Category:Books by Amory Lovins
Benton MacKaye M 1879–1975 Conservation movement The New Exploration: A Philosophy of Regional Planning
Charles C. Mann M 1955– Science 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
Michael E. Mann M 1965– Climate change The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines
Richard Manning M 1951– American prairie Rewilding the West: Restoration in a Prairie Landscape
Emma Marris F 1979– Environmentalism Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World
George Perkins Marsh M 1801–1882 Conservationism The Earth as Modified by Human Action
Anne Matthews F Various themes Where the Buffalo Roam: Restoring America's Great Plains
Timothy R. McClanahan M Ecology: coral reefs Coral Reefs of the Indian Ocean: Their Ecology and Conservation
Michael J. McGuire M 1947– Drinking water quality standards
Stephen McIntyre M 1947– Temperature record of the past 1000 years
Bill McKibben M 1960– Global warming The End of Nature
Barbara McMartin F 1931–2005 Adirondack Park The Great Forest of the Adirondacks
Tom McNamee M 1947– Conservation biology Nature First: Keeping Our Wild Places and Wild Creatures Wild
John McPhee M 1931– Various themes The Control of Nature
Dennis Meadows M 1942– Environmental economics The Limits to Growth (co-authored)
Donella Meadows F 1941–2001 The Limits to Growth (co-authored)
George J. Mitchell M 1933– World on Fire: Saving an Endangered Earth
Chris Mooney M 1977– Various themes Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming
Ted Nace M 1956– Coal industry Climate Hope: On the Front Lines of the Fight Against Coal
Ralph Nader M 1934– Environmental economics Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile Category:Works by Ralph Nader
Richard B. Norgaard M 1943– Ecological economics An Introduction to Ecological Economics
Naomi Oreskes F Global warming Merchants of Doubt (co-authored)
Henry Fairfield Osborn, Jr. M 1887–1969 Conservation movement Our Plundered Planet
Riki Ott F Aquatic toxicology Sound Truth and Corporate Myth$: The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
David Naguib Pellow M 1969– Various themes Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago
Ron Pernick M Clean technology The Clean Tech Revolution (co-authored)
Frederik Pohl M 1919– Our Angry Earth: A Ticking Ecological Bomb (co-authored) Category:Books by Frederik Pohl
Michael Pollan M 1955– Food The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals Category:Books by Michael Pollan
Carl Pope M Various themes Strategic Ignorance: Why the Bush Administration Is Recklessly Destroying a Century of Environmental Progress (co-authored)
Richard Posner M 1939– Various themes Catastrophe: Risk and Response
Sandra Postel F Fresh water
Robert Michael Pyle M 1947– Forests Wintergreen
Stephen J. Pyne M Forests: wildfires Awful Splendour: A Fire History of Canada
Ray Raphael M 1943– Environment of California Edges: Human Ecology of the Backcountry
Paul Rauber M Strategic Ignorance: Why the Bush Administration Is Recklessly Destroying a Century of Environmental Progress
Andrew Revkin M Global warming The North Pole Was Here: Puzzles and Perils at the Top of the World
Jeremy Rifkin M 1945– Various themes The Green Lifestyle Handbook: 1001 Ways to Heal the Earth (edited by Rifkin)
Paul Roberts M Various themes The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World
Joseph J. Romm M 1960– Energy The Hype about Hydrogen: Fact and Fiction in the Race to Save the Climate
Jonathan F.P. Rose M 1952– Various themes The Well-Tempered City: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life
Donald K. Ross M
William Ruddiman M Paleoclimatology Plows, Plagues and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate
Kirkpatrick Sale M 1937– Various themes The Green Revolution: The American Environmental Movement
Jonathan Schell M 1943– Nuclear weapons The Gift of Time: The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons Now
Auden Schendler M Sustainability Getting Green Done
J. Michael Scott M 1941– Wildlife
Julian Simon M 1932–1998 Carrying capacity The Ultimate Resource
Fred Singer M 1924– Air pollution The Greenhouse Debate Continued
Alexander Skutch M 1904–2004 Natural history Helpers at Birds’ Nests: A Worldwide Survey of Cooperative Breeding and Related Behavior
Ted Smith M 1945– Electronic waste Challenging the Chip (co-authored)
Gary Snyder M 1930– Deep ecology
David A Sonnenfeld M Environmental social science Challenging the Chip (co-authored)
James Gustave Speth M 1942– Various themes Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment
Sandra Steingraber F 1959– Pollution Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment
Thomas H. Stoner, Jr. M 1960– Sustainable development Small Change Big Gains: Reflections of an Energy Entrepreneur
John Tallmadge M Nature Reading Under the Sign of Nature: New Essays in Ecocriticism (co-edited)
Sarah McFarland Taylor F Various themes Green Sisters: A Spiritual Ecology
Henry David Thoreau M 1817–1862 Various themes Category:Books by Henry David Thoreau
Karen J. Warren F 1947– Various themes
Arthur Waskow M 1933– Various themes Torah of the Earth: Exploring 4,000 Years of Ecology in Jewish Thought
Harvey Wasserman M 1945– Anti-nuclear movement in the United States Killing Our Own: The Disaster of America’s Experience with Atomic Radiation (co-authored)
Spencer R. Weart M 1942– Global warming The Discovery of Global Warming
Linda Weintraub F Various themes Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet
Alan Weisman M 1947– Human extinction The World Without Us
Adam Werbach M 1973–
Tom Wessels M Conservation biology The Myth of Progress: Toward a Sustainable Future
Rex Weyler M 1947– Various themes Greenpeace: The Inside Story
Clint Wilder M Clean technology The Clean Tech Revolution (co-authored)
E. O. Wilson M 1929– Biodiversity The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth
Bruce Yandle M Free-market environmentalism Taking the Environment Seriously
Daniel Yergin M 1947– Energy The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
Ozzie Zehner M Renewable energy and consumption Green Illusions: The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism

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