Learning
Here I document the courses, books, and media on sustainability that I've consumed as part of my lifelong learning.
University Courses
UCSD Extension - Measuring Sustainable Impact (Jan - Mar 2022)
UCSD Extension - Strategic Planning and Innovation (Jan - Mar 2022)
UCSD Extension - Conservation Psychology (Oct - Dec 2021)
UCSD Extension - Economics and Life Cycle Cost (Oct - Dec 2021)
UCSD Extension - Intro to Sustainability (June - Aug 2021)
Books
Political, Economic, and Social Impact of Climate Change
The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet - Michael E. Mann
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life after Warming - David Wallace-Wells
Building the New American Economy: Smart, Fair, and Sustainable - Jeffrey Sachs
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution - and How It Can Renew America - Milton Friedman
The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis - Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming - Paul Hawken
Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet and How We Fight Back - Kate Aronoff
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate - Naomi Klein
The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move - Sonia Shah
Short Circuiting Policy: Interest Groups and the Battle Over Clean Energy and Climate Policy in the American States - Leah Cardamore Stokes
California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric and What It Means for America's Electric Grid - Katherine Blunt
Conversation and Climate Psychology
Agriculture
Kiss the Ground: How the Food You Eat Can Reverse Climate Change, Heal Your Body & Ultimately Save Our World - Josh Tickell
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants - Robin Wall Kimmerer
Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food from Sustainable to Suicidal - Mark Bittman
Lentil Underground: Renegade Farmers and the Future of Food in America - Liz Carlisle
Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer - Novella Carpenter
The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table - Tracie McMillan
Urban Design and Transportation
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town - Charles L. Marohn, Jr.
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity - Charles L. Marohn, Jr.
Green Metropolis: What the City Can Teach the Country About True Sustainability - David Owen
Sustainable Home Design
The Energy Wise Home: Practical Ideas for Saving Energy, Money, and the Planet - Jeff Dondero
Building a Sustainable Home: Practical Green Design Choices for Your Health, Wealth, and Soul - Melissa Rappaport Schifman
Manufacturing, Product Design, and Business
The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health - And a Vision for Change - Annie Leonard
Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes - Dana Thomas
The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability -- Designing for Abundance - William McDonough and Michael Braungart
Cradle to Cradle: Rethinking the Way We Make Things - William McDonough and Michael Braungart
Sustainable MBA - Giselle Weybrecht
Personal Consumption
Zero Waste Home: The Ultimate Guide to Simplifying Your Life by Reducing Your Waste - Bea Johnson
A Life Less Throwaway: The Lost Art of Buying for Life - Tara Button
Sustainable Badass: A Zero-Waste Lifestyle Guide - Gittemarie Johansen
Films & Documentaries
The True Cost
The Story of Stuff
Kiss the Ground
Forks Over Knives
Food, Inc.
YouTube Channels
Epic Gardening (Southern California specific urban gardening)
Unnatural Vegan (a science-focused channel on plant-based living and issues)
Shelbizlee (eco-minimalism)
Climate Town (Climate policy)
Not Just Bikes (Urban planning from a human and environmental perspective)
Our Changing Climate (environmental issues and activism)