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Lura Sanborn – Reference Librarian
Nature and the Environment in 20th-Century American Life by Brian Black, Westport: Greenwood, 2006.
Find it in Ohrstrom at: REF 304.2 B56N20
Did recent Earth Day activities generate an interest in topics related to the environment? This new reference book is a great way to continue fueling the inspiration. Read about oil and the automobile, the evolution of the National Park Service and/or the Donora Smog of 1948. Dozens of additional topics are covered and discussed in this new source. Photos and primary texts are scattered throughout the volume.
Helpful for: Humanities IV, U.S. History Research, Environmental Research
Find it in Ohrstrom at: REF 509 L44R
Find it in Ohrstrom at: REF 529.3 B560
Over 4,000 terms are defined, including: nuclear winter, silviculture, and ethanol.
In honor of the upcoming Earth Day Celebration Ohrstrom Library would like to highlight two environmental magazines in the periodicals collection. First up is The Ecologist, a magazine that proclaims itself to be “The world’s leading environmental magazine”. The Ecologist is published in London, but it features articles that are universally relevant. In the April issue, “Sick as a pig” focuses on the rise in antibiotic resistance that is being transferred from farm animals to humans. Another article, “Possum or polar bear” cautions that polar bears are not the only species facing threats from global warming. In fact, there are many tropical species suffering from rising global temperatures. The Ecologist is published ten times a year, and an online version is available at 
This evening at 6:15 Schlesinger Visitor Jonah Lehrer will be giving a lecture in Hargate. Here is what he says about himself on 
