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What are you Reading?

We asked Nicholas School alumni to recommend books or articles about the environment. Here are their suggestions for your summer reading list

“I really enjoyed reading Enchantment and Exploitation: The Life and Hard Times of a New Mexico Mountain Range, by William deBuys. It’s a clearly written book that pulls strongly from local history and ecology to discuss today’s social and environmental complexities in northern New Mexico. I personally got a lot out of this read.”
Mike Dechter, MEM’03
Natural Resource Specialist/Presidential Management Fellow,
USDA Forest Service

“An environmental classic worth reading over and over again is Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson. So many of today’s most pressing environmental issues, including global climate change and ocean ecosystem degradation, can be seen in Carson’s elegant analyses of the biggest conservation challenge of her day, and her calls to action remain inspiring almost 40 years later.
Erin Vos, MEM’03
Sound Project Manager,
U.S. Marine Mammal Commission

“I would recommend that anyone concerned with global climate change skip the rather predictable thriller State of Fear and go directly to Michael Crichton’s nonfiction inspiration, Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media, by Patrick J. Michaels (Cato Institute, 2004).
Peter C. Griffith, T’78,
Lead Scientist,
Science Systems & Applications Inc.

What was your most memorable field trip while at the Nicholas School?
Send your stories—including the funny ones—and we’ll post them online and publish selections in the Fall 2005 issue of Dukenvironment.
Respond online at www.nicholas.duke.edu/people/alumni/think.html

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