[RowdysMom]

I would recommend "Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment" by James Speth. It is about 200 pages. If you can't find it in the library, you can get it used from Amazon.com for about 10.00.

Here is a very good review of the book:

Speth's book is one of the best books about the environment, and after a year of being out there should now be treated as a standard for the solutions it provides. The strongest point to this book, to my way of thinking, is the "eightfold way," the eight big trends we need to encourage for global environmental protection and sustainability. Few environmental books provide us with as wide a roadmap for the way forward as Red Sky at Morning. Speth's great virtue is that he does not engage in hand-wringing. He's very positive and very inclusive of all perspectives. He calls for widening environmentalism to include economic, political and social dimensions that are not usually thought of as belonging to its purview and for including business and private sector leadership. For those who have recently so loudly proclaimed the so-called "death" of environmentalism, Speth's eightfold way shows that it isn't dead, but at least potentially moving to a broader and more comprehensive phase which is much more difficult.