This is a list of American non-fiction environmental writers.
| Author | Sex | Lifespan | Theme(s) | Selected book | Category | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | 1927–1989 | Various themes | The Monkey Wrench Gang | |||
| F | 1934– | |||||
| M | fl. 2000s | Free Market Environmentalism (co-authored) | ||||
| M | 1937– | Natural resources | ||||
| M | b.1941 | Various themes | God's Last Offer: Negotiating for a Sustainable Future | |||
| M | 1953– | |||||
| M | fl. 1990s-2000s | The Measure of a Mountain: Beauty and Terror on Mount Rainier | ||||
| M | b.1940 | Climate Solutions: A Citizen's Guide | ||||
| M | 1947– | Various themes | Climate in Crisis | |||
| M | 1945–2018 | The Coming Global Superstorm | ||||
| M | fl. 1970s-2000s | Environmental Design Primer | ||||
| M | 1934– | |||||
| M | 1888–1968 | The Outermost House | ||||
| M | 1937– | |||||
| M | Various themes | Petrolia: The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom | ||||
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| M | 1921–2006 | Our Synthetic Environment (pseudonymously) | ||||
| M | 1938– | Various themes | Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto | |||
| M | 1934– | Various themes | ||||
| F | Various themes | Climate Change and Global Energy Security | ||||
| M | Various themes | Coming Clean: Breaking America's Addiction to Oil and Coal | ||||
| M | Various themes | Power Hungry: The Myths of "Green" Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future | ||||
| M | 1929– | |||||
| M | 1949– | Tropical wildlife | A Land of Ghosts | |||
| M | 1909–1987 | Sea turtle conservation | A Naturalist in Florida | |||
| M | 1903–1986 | Death of the Sweet Waters | ||||
| F | 1907–1964 | Silent Spring | ||||
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| M | 1947– | Struggle for the Land: Native North American Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide and Colonization | ||||
| M | Endocrine disruptors | Our Stolen Future : How We Are Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence and Survival (co-authored) | ||||
| F | 1969– | This Life Is in Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family Undone | ||||
| M | 1917–2012 | Making Peace with the Planet | ||||
| M | Fire Season: Field Notes From a Wilderness Lookout | |||||
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| M | Sharing Nature with Children | |||||
| M | What's the Worst That Could Happen?: A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate | |||||
| F | The Weather of the Future: Heat Waves, Extreme Storms, and Other Scenes From a Climate-Changed Planet | |||||
| M | Winning the Oil Endgame: Innovation for Profits, Jobs and Security (co-authored) | |||||
| M | 1958– | Stop Global Warming: The Solution Is You! | ||||
| M | 1954– | The Enchanted Braid: Coming to Terms with Nature on the Coral Reef | ||||
| M | Hubbert's Peak | |||||
| Mark Derr | M | Some kind of paradise : a chronicle of man and the land in Florida | ||||
| M | 1932–2011 | |||||
| F | 1890–1998 | |||||
| M | Oil | Oil 101 | ||||
| M | 1955– | Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology (not the foreword) | ||||
| M | 1943– | Flotsametrics and the Floating World: How One Man's Obsession with Runaway Sneakers and Rubber Ducks Revolutionized Ocean Science | ||||
| F | 1933– | The Stork and The Plow: The Equity Answer to the Human Dilemma (co-authored) | ||||
| M | 1932– | Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment (co-authored) | ||||
| M | Environment of Connecticut | Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage | ||||
| M | 1963– | |||||
| M | 1950– | Microwaving Our Planet: The Environmental Impact of the Wireless Revolution | ||||
| M | Power Surge: Guide to the Coming Energy Revolution | |||||
| M | 1952– | |||||
| M | 1947– | Ecodefense: A Field Guide To Monkeywrenching (not the foreword) | ||||
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| M | 1953– | Various themes | Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution—And How It Can Renew America | |||
| M | Various themes | |||||
| M | 1895–1983 | Approaching the Benign Environment (co-authored) | ||||
| Various themes | Environmental Design Science Primer | |||||
| M | 1939–2024 | The Heat Is On | ||||
| M | Between the Devil & the Deep Blue Bay: The Struggle to Save San Francisco Bay | |||||
| M | 1947– | Various themes | Fallout: The Environmental Consequences of the World Trade Center Collapse | |||
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| M | 1939–2024 | |||||
| M | 1948– | An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It | ||||
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| M | 1914–1994 | Various themes | ||||
| F | 1953– | |||||
| M | 1915–2003 | Living Within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos | ||||
| M | A Civil Action | |||||
| M | 1835–1907 | Forests | ||||
| M | 1946– | Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming | ||||
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| M | 1878– | The Fitness of the Environment | ||||
| F | 1974– | The Legacy of Luna | ||||
| M | 1950– | Conservation cetaceans | Marine Protected Areas for Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises | |||
| M | 1936– | |||||
| M | 1960– | A Language Older Than Words | ||||
| M | 1968– | The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems | ||||
| F | 1964– | Various themes | The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability | |||
| M | 1952– | |||||
| M | 1954– | Crimes Against Nature : How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy | ||||
| M | 1950–2007 | Old-growth forests | Sierra Club Guide to Ancient Forests of the Northeast | |||
| M | 1908–1983 | The Bay | ||||
| F | 1961– | Various themes | Field Notes from a Catastrophe | |||
| M | 1937– | When Corporations Rule the World | ||||
| M | 1936– | The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World? | ||||
| M | 1938– | |||||
| M | 1948– | Various themes | The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape | |||
| M | 1938– | Current Occupational and Environmental Medicine | ||||
| F | 1959– | All our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life | ||||
| M | 1935– | The Angry West: A Vulnerable Land and Its Future | ||||
| M | 1887–1948 | A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There | ||||
| M | 1947– | Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era (co-authored) | ||||
| M | 1879–1975 | The New Exploration: A Philosophy of Regional Planning | ||||
| M | 1955– | |||||
| M | 1965– | Climate change | The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines | |||
| M | 1951– | Rewilding the West: Restoration in a Prairie Landscape | ||||
| F | 1979– | |||||
| M | 1801–1882 | The Earth as Modified by Human Action | ||||
| F | Various themes | Where the Buffalo Roam: Restoring America's Great Plains | ||||
| M | Ecology coral reefs | |||||
| M | 1947– | |||||
| M | 1947– | |||||
| M | 1960– | The End of Nature | ||||
| F | 1931–2005 | The Great Forest of the Adirondacks | ||||
| M | 1947– | Nature First: Keeping Our Wild Places and Wild Creatures Wild | ||||
| M | 1931– | Various themes | The Control of Nature | |||
| M | 1942– | The Limits to Growth (co-authored) | ||||
| F | 1941–2001 | The Limits to Growth (co-authored) | ||||
| M | 1933– | World on Fire: Saving an Endangered Earth | ||||
| M | 1977– | Various themes | Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming | |||
| M | 1956– | Climate Hope: On the Front Lines of the Fight Against Coal | ||||
| M | 1934– | Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile | ||||
| M | 1943– | An Introduction to Ecological Economics | ||||
| F | Merchants of Doubt (co-authored) | |||||
| M | 1887–1969 | Our Plundered Planet | ||||
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| M | 1969– | Various themes | Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago | |||
| M | The Clean Tech Revolution (co-authored) | |||||
| M | 1919– | Our Angry Earth: A Ticking Ecological Bomb (co-authored) | ||||
| M | 1955– | The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals | ||||
| M | Various themes | Strategic Ignorance: Why the Bush Administration Is Recklessly Destroying a Century of Environmental Progress (co-authored) | ||||
| M | 1939– | Various themes | ||||
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| M | 1947– | Forests | Wintergreen | |||
| M | Forests | |||||
| M | 1943– | Edges: Human Ecology of the Backcountry | ||||
| M | Strategic Ignorance: Why the Bush Administration Is Recklessly Destroying a Century of Environmental Progress | |||||
| M | The North Pole Was Here: Puzzles and Perils at the Top of the World | |||||
| M | 1945– | Various themes | The Green Lifestyle Handbook: 1001 Ways to Heal the Earth (edited by Rifkin) | |||
| M | Various themes | The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World | ||||
| M | 1960– | The Hype about Hydrogen: Fact and Fiction in the Race to Save the Climate | ||||
| M | 1952– | Various themes | The Well-Tempered City: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life | |||
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| M | Plows, Plagues and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate | |||||
| M | 1937– | Various themes | The Green Revolution: The American Environmental Movement | |||
| M | 1943– | Nuclear weapons | ||||
| M | Getting Green Done | |||||
| M | 1941– | |||||
| M | 1932–1998 | The Ultimate Resource | ||||
| M | 1924– | The Greenhouse Debate Continued | ||||
| M | 1904–2004 | Helpers at Birds’ Nests: A Worldwide Survey of Cooperative Breeding and Related Behavior | ||||
| M | 1945– | Challenging the Chip (co-authored) | ||||
| M | 1930– | |||||
| M | Challenging the Chip (co-authored) | |||||
| M | 1942– | Various themes | Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment | |||
| F | 1959– | Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment | ||||
| M | 1960– | |||||
| M | Reading Under the Sign of Nature: New Essays in Ecocriticism (co-edited) | |||||
| F | Various themes | Green Sisters: A Spiritual Ecology | ||||
| M | 1817–1862 | Various themes | ||||
| F | 1947– | Various themes | ||||
| M | 1933– | Various themes | Torah of the Earth: Exploring 4,000 Years of Ecology in Jewish Thought | |||
| M | 1945– | Killing Our Own: The Disaster of America’s Experience with Atomic Radiation (co-authored) | ||||
| M | 1942– | Global warming | The Discovery of Global Warming | |||
| F | Various themes | Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet | ||||
| M | 1947– | The World Without Us | ||||
| M | 1973– | |||||
| M | The Myth of Progress: Toward a Sustainable Future | |||||
| M | 1947– | Various themes | Greenpeace: The Inside Story | |||
| M | The Clean Tech Revolution (co-authored) | |||||
| M | 1929– | The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth | ||||
| M | Taking the Environment Seriously | |||||
| M | 1947– | |||||
| M |