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 1937–2022 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 1929–2012 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 1932–2026 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 1950–2025 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 1946–2022 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 1878–1942 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 1936–2018 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 1938–2023 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 1935–2021 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 1919–2013 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 1960–2026 Energy The Hype about Hydrogen: Fact