🐻 Cornell Environment & Sustainability unofficial reading list, fall 2026
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Sophomore level
The Art of Writing Field Observation ENVS 2150
- The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs: Use Outdoor Clues to Find Your Way, Predict the Weather, Locate Water, Track Animals & Other Forgotten Skills by Tristan Gooley
- A Sand County Almanac: With Other Essays on Conservation from Round River by Aldo Leopold
Senior level
Environmental Justice: Past, Present, Future ENVS 4262
- Discourse on Colonialism by Aimé Césaire
- The Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
- Toxic Bodies: Hormone Disruptors & the Legacy of DES by Nancy Langston
- As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock by Dina Gilio-Whitaker
- The Commons in History: Culture, Conflict & Ecology by Derek Wall
- The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water & the American Urban Tragedy by Anna Clark
- Climate Futures: Reimagining Global Climate Justice by Bhavnani et al.
Wildlife Corridor Conservation & Crossing Design ENVS 4800/5800
- Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet by Ben Goldfarb