Read the full post at Dot Earth.

Former Vice President Al Gore’s third book centering on global warming is out. Titled Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis, it centers on the same mantra at the core of his message for years now – that the only missing link holding back action is political will. The book is mainly a heavily illustrated guide to the technologies and policies that could, in Mr. Gore’s view, limit climate dangers. Nuclear is largely out, capturing and burying carbon dioxide is somewhat in. Gains in energy efficiency are a vital stepping stone, he says, along with vastly expanded deployment of renewable energy sources and improved storage and grid components to make sure the power is available where and when it’s needed.

Read the full story at NPR.

The future of our planet may be uncertain, but one thing is clear: David Owen is going to generate significant heat with Green Metropolis, his provocative manifesto that inverts many of our sacred assumptions about environmentalism. Building on the stunning article he wrote for The New Yorker in 2004 about how, contrary to being the ecological nightmare most people think it is, New York City is actually the greenest, most environmentally responsible community in America, his book mounts a passionate, fact-studded case for “the environmental advantages of Manhattan-style urban density.”

Read the full story about the financial troubles of Island Press in the New York Times.

A niche publisher aims to spread knowledge, and faces challenges.

Listen to the story and read an excerpt from the book at NPR.

When it’s time to fill up the gas tank, many fear the price of gas will return to the $4-a-gallon days of last summer.

But according to author Chris Steiner, our lives would be a lot happier and healthier if gas prices rose into the double digits.

Steiner explains himself, and the title of his book: $20 Per Gallon: How the Inevitable Rise in the Price of Gasoline Will Change Our Lives for the Better.

Read the full post from Chelsea Green Publishers.

Times are tough, and chances are your local public library has been feeling the pain.

Look, they were there for you in high school when you were broke and looking for the entire Michael Crichton backlist. They were there when you needed to get your hands on the latest Sue Grafton (but you kind of didn’t want it on your bookshelf). And do I even need to mention Harry Potter? Well, now’s your chance to give a little back.

In a first for book publishers, Chelsea Green is offering librarians a “Wish List” donation registry, allowing friends and patrons to donate new books to their library at a 40% discount with FREE shipping! All types of libraries are eligible to participate, including public, school, academic, and special libraries. And as a Thank You gift, when you order a book for your favorite library, we’ll even ship your personal book order for free. It’s a Win-Win.

If you’re a library and you’d like to apply now, click here.

In celebration of National Library Week, the Indiana Department of Environmental Management suggests that Hoosiers donate unwanted books to their local libraries, rather than throwing them away. I encourage everyone from every state to do the same.

I picked up four relatively new green business books at my local Barnes & Noble last week and decided to write mini-reviews of each.  I have skimmed through them all, but have not read them in depth yet. Each appears to have it’s own unique spin on the topic (which is why I bought all of them). The books are:

101 Ways to Turn Your Business Green : The Business Guide to Eco-Friendly Profits by Rich Mintzer (ISBN: 9781599182636)
For those who your advice in list form, this is a good one. It’s readable and easy to pick up and put down. Includes a section on social responsibility more generally, as well as a glossary.

Green Business Practices for Dummies by Lisa Swallow (ISBN: 9780470393390)
Written in the standard For Dummies format. Includes sustainability planning as a key component and addresses it before more specific actions. Also has good sections on involving stakeholders in sustainability and on measurement and reporting. The Complete Idiots Guide to Greening Your Business is due out in June. We’ll have to see how that compares.

Green Your Work: Boost Your Bottom Line While Reducing Your Carbon Footprint by Kim Carlson (ISBN: 9781598699050)
Covers all the bases including motivation to help you get started. Includes checklists and and surveys in the appendices. Appears very readable.

Greening Your Business: The Hands-On Guide to Creating a Successful and Sustainable Business by Daniel Sitarz (ISBN: 9781892949462)
Blurbed by Joel Makower of GreenBiz.com, which gives it a lot of credibility. Excellent worksheets and questionnaires to aid with decision making, which seems to be lacking in most green business books. Excellent resource guide at the end of the book.

Read the full review in the New York Times.

In Carl Hiaasen’s latest eco-mystery, students investigate the disappearance of a reviled biology teacher.

The title is Scat (ISBN: 9780375834868) and it’s available now from all major booksellers.

Read the full story in USA Today.

A children’s book author hopes that her new Christmas story will help kids realize that they can have an impact on global warming.

Santa Goes Green (Mackinac Island Press, $15.95) is the story of a boy, Finn, who writes Santa and asks him to help raise awareness about global warming. Finn is interested in the environmental issue because he has adopted a polar bear, and polar bears are losing habitat to global warming.

Read the full post at Grist.

If Christine Todd Whitman had waited four years to publish her political memoir, she might have had this winter’s timeliest bestseller.

The former Environmental Protection Agency administrator and New Jersey governor wrote It’s My Party Too: The Battle for the Heart of the GOP and the Future of America to urge moderate Republicans, environmentalists included, to reclaim the party from social ideologues and “extremists.” She warned that focusing on hot-button social issues might bring short-term political payoffs but would end up marginalizing the Republican Party in the long run.

The message sounds like simple common sense in the wake of the 2006 and 2008 elections, in which the GOP lost first Congress and then the White House. But Whitman published the book in January 2005, right as George W. Bush prepared for his second inauguration. Republican leaders were hardly in the mood for soul-searching and largely laughed her off.

Read the full post in the Freakonomics Blog.

I’ve never thought much about my toilet. (Though we’ve discussed toilets on this blog here, here, and here.)

It usually does its job; sometimes it needs a little help from the plunger.

Rose George’s new book The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters not only got me wildly interested in my toilet, but also in what happens after I use it.

In her book, she discusses why we should pay a lot of attention to an issue that affects everyone — several times a day — and why aversion to it (on a personal and global level) isn’t doing us any good.

George holds a master’s degree in international relations from the University of Pennsylvania. She has written for The Nation, Slate, Details, The New York Times, and many other publications.

She has agreed to answer our questions about her book. But first, she has a question for Freakonomics blog readers:

Do you ever wonder what happens after you flush the toilet? If you don’t, why not?

Read the full story in Grist.

In her new book Green Inc., Christine MacDonald argues that that large environmental NGOs have compromised their agendas in exchange for corporate cash. (See Mark Pawlosky’s recent review of Green Inc. for Grist.)

I haven’t read the entire book yet, but I did catch an excerpt published by Multinational Monitor. In it, MacDonald makes a pretty convincing case for Big Green lameness with regard to the ever-expanding agricultural frontier in Brazil.

She details collaborations between Conservation International and Bunge to “sustainably” expand soy production in Brazil’s vast savanna region; and between the Nature Conservancy and Cargill to promote “responsible” soy farming in the Amazon region.

According to a recent Reuters piece, Cargill and Bunge are the world’s largest and third-largest agribusiness companies, respectively, by revenue. Bunge concerns itself mostly with grain-trading and processing; Cargill maintains a global empire with interests in grain trading and processing, meat production, biofuels, fertilizer, livestock feed, and more.

Read the full story in USA Today.

America is deep into green: You can wear green fashion, carry a green bag and dab your face with green makeup. You can hire a green architect to design your green house, walk on green floors, decorate with green accessories and fabrics, sleep on green beds, sit on green chairs. Teens can be green, babies should be green, singles can join green dating clubs.

Green books are filling up bookstore shelves. You can even read them with green reading glasses — made of bamboo. A selection:…

Read the press release.

Keep America Beautiful, Inc. (KAB) is proud to announce its partnership with leading publisher Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing to promote Little Green Books, a new eco-friendly line of children’s novelty and storybooks aimed at parents and children looking to learn more about the environment.

Read the full story in the New York Times.

Four new books illuminate the confluence of science, art and ornithology.

Read the full review in the New York Times.

A behind-the-scenes memoir of London’s Natural History Museum — home to about 80 million specimens and a collection of extremely eccentric scholars.

Climate Progress plugs Thomas Friedman’s new book Hot, Flat, and Crowded. Friedman’s previous book, The World is Flat, was a New York Times bestseller. Friedman is a columnist for the New York Times.

Read the full story in Grinst Magazine.

Journalist Elizabeth Royte drinks tap water, but she spends a lot of time thinking about the bottled kind. In her new book, Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It, Royte investigates the causes and consequences of the bottled-water industry’s astounding growth.

Looking for something to read?

Grist Magazine has excellent suggestions for green beach and sustainable living books and green lifestyle magazines. They also had seven green leaders recommend their favorite eco-reads. They also do it with a sense of humor.

Read the press release.

From global warming to solar power, the changes in the Earth’s climate is under scrutiny.  Gale, part of Cengage Learning, announces the release of Climate Change in Context, a new reference book designed to explain the complexities of the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to younger students.

Here are 10 things you may not know about climate change:

1. Global warming is causing more snow to fall in the central parts of ice-covered Greenland and Antarctica, even as it speeds melting around the coastlines.
2. Forty percent of all carbon dioxide emitted thus far by human beings has been absorbed by the oceans, making oceans more acidic and challenging to marine life.
3. The greenhouse effect is a natural and needed phenomenon that is vital to life. In the absence of the greenhouse effect, Earth’s surface temperature would average about 0°F (-18°C), which is well below the freezing point of water. The challenge comes from the enhanced greenhouse effect caused by human activity.
4. About a tenth of global warming is caused by agricultural production.
5. The last 200 years of human activity have increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to its highest level in at least 800,000 years.
6. About 5 percent of human-released carbon dioxide is from the manufacture of cement.
7. Brown clouds of carbon from traditional fuels like wood and dung hanging over the Indian Ocean are absorbing enough solar energy to cause up to half of Asia’s recent warming.
8. Almost two thirds of the greenhouse effect is due to water vapor. However, water does not linger in the atmosphere, so other greenhouse gases set the pace of global climate change.
9. Venus’ surface is heated to above the melting point of lead by a runaway greenhouse effect. The climate histories of Mars and Venus may offer insights into Earth’s climate system.
10. All but a handful of climate scientists agree that global warming is real and that human actions fundamentally cause the extreme changes observed. The IPCC argues that climate change could be significantly lessened at little cost or even at a profit, and without slowing world economic growth.

A message from Macmillan Publishing:

With the No. 1 bestseller The World Is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman helped millions of readers see and understand globalization in a new way. Now you can have it for free.

From now until August 11th, you can download the audiobook version of The World Is Flat and receive an exclusive audio preview excerpt of Hot, Flat, and Crowded.

Sign up here for details.

Via NPR.

Weekend Edition Sunday, June 29, 2008 · Sci-fi writer Paolo Bacigalupi uses real environmental science as a starting point for his stories. His collection, called Pump Six, describes a near future where massive droughts create a black market for calories. Listen Now

Read the press release.

Ivanko, John; Kivirist, Lisa. ECOpreneuring: Putting Purpose and the Planet Before Profits. Gabriola Island, BC : New Society Publishers, 2008. (ISBN 0-86571-605-6 US/Can $17.95 or find it in a library)

Powerful social trends towards green living, relocalization and self-sufficiency have fanned the fires of would-be ecopreneurs in North America, driving a shift towards prioritizing purpose over profits, and building community over building market share. A nation of 9 to 5-ers is giving way to a spirited bunch of innovators, searching for ways to make a life instead of simply making a living.

This accessible and inspiring guide includes profiles of successful ecopreneurs and provides an in-depth exploration of:

• Eco-Business basics
• Purposeful management
• Marketing in the green economy
• Running a lifestyle business.

Read the full story in the Guardian.

Only 24 books are produced for every tree felled. But book-swapping websites could provide a solution for the eco-aware reader. Charlotte Northedge reports

Island Press, a longtime publisher of environmental and sustainability books, now provides podcast interviews with some of its authors in their Island Sounds podcast series.

Doug Fine, “adventure journalist” and NPR contributor, has written Farewell, My Subaru, a book about his year of trying to live a carbon-free life. Here’s the publisher’s excerpt:

In Farewell, My Subaru, Doug Fine vows to grow as much of his own food as he can, use only the sun to power his ‘Net surfing and sub-woofer, and consume little to no fossil fuel for an entire year — never mind that he’d never raised so much as a chicken or a bean. Or that he had no mechanical or electrician skills. Or that coyotes and mountain lions would like to treat his Funky Butte Ranch like a buffet line.

Beginning with a near-Biblical flood that makes Doug’s ranch in New Mexico resemble Noah’s Arc, and ending with a hilarious farewell to his beloved Subaru, Fine struggles at every turn with the contradictions and challenges of going green as his shopping list changes overnight from things like, “wasabi” and “pineapple juice” to “shotgun shells” and “goat syringes” (for the mischievous Pans he found on Craigslist).

Including practical resources for regular Americans who want to live greener and funny sidebars with facts you never imagined about the clean, local life, Farewell, My Subaru is both a hilarious romp and an inspiring call to action; it’s a book for the reluctant environmentalist, the armchair traveler, and anyone who has ever wondered: do I really need that four dollar frappuccino from Kenya?

You can find the book at your favorite bookseller or at your local library.

Read the press release.

Many scientists believe global warming and climate change are producing a wide variety of physical impacts on Earth’s atmosphere, land, and oceans. These changes include increases in global mean temperature, storm severity, droughts, sea levels, and glacial retreat. And there is solid evidence humans are continuing to alter the composition of the atmosphere at a rapid rate.

“This, surely, is a time for circumspection and caution,” concludes General Editor S. George Philander in the introduction to SAGE Reference’s new three-volume Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change, a new reference that explains the intricate processes that make ours the only planet known to be habitable.

Read the full story from the Environment Report.

The next time you curl up with your favorite book, you might think about where the paper in the book comes from. Mark Brush reports on a new trend for the pulp industry that isn’t fiction.

See also The Green Press Initiative,  the goal of which is to help those in the book and newspaper industries better understand the environmental impacts of their companies and develop solutions to reverse those impacts.

This post in the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Buildings & Grounds blog is the first installment of periodic reviews/summaries of books covering architecture, landscape, energy, sustainability, and related topics. The first two featured books are Biking to Work and Greening Your Office, both from Chelsea Green Publishing’s Green Guides series.

Read the full story in Book Business.

…like many paper-consuming industries in recent years, book publishers have found their environmental impacts coming under increasing scrutiny, and have been presented with, or have sought out, strategies for reducing them. What works best often depends on the size of a company, as well as specific manufacturing and supply chain considerations, making the equation of how best to be “green” without significant additional expense a complex one. The only thing certain is that, in an age when globalization equals a world of consumers concerned about the fate of the planet, dealing with the industry’s environmental footprint can no longer be put on the back burner.

Read the full story in the New York Times.

A group of book-scavenging homeless men are regulars at the Strand, helping the city’s best-known used-book store keep its shelves stocked.

Grinning Planet has compiled an annotated bibliography of books on global warming. It includes fiction, non-fiction, and children’s titles.

Read the full commentary in the Seattle Times.

Could it possibly be that Washington, D.C., for years bashed by politicians, its population shrinking and, at one point, almost bankrupt, has become a model of how the entire nation might smartly develop in the 21st century?

I never thought I’d see the day. But Christopher Leinberger, one of America’s top real-estate analysts and now a Brookings Institution fellow, makes a startling case for it in his just-published book, The Option of Urbanism (Island Press).

Read the full story in the Christian Science Monitor.

Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Thomas Friedman says environmentalism today suffers from being seen as “liberal,” “girly,” “unpatriotic,” and even “vaguely French.”

That doesn’t sound like the kind of movement that would appeal to any self-respecting political conservative.

But now Newt Gingrich, the fierce and incendiary conservative speaker of the US House of Representatives in the 1990s, has co-written a small book that aims to gently coax his fellow conservatives into the environmental camp. It’s OK to be green, argues Gingrich and his coauthor, Terry L. Maple, a former president and CEO of Zoo Atlanta and professor of conservation at Georgia Tech University.

The latest entry for Fred’s Footprint, the New Scientist environmental blog, deals with the environmental footprint of the publishing industry.

Read the full story in E: The Environmental Magazine.

The Worldwatch Institute last week released Vital Signs 2007-2008, its annual rundown on environmental trends shaping our future — and the news is not good. Only six of the 44 environmental trends the organization tracks were positive developments, with 28 categorized by Worldwatch as “pronouncedly bad.” Some of the more disturbing findings: meat production hit a record 304 million tons—or 95 pounds per person—in 2006; soybean plantations could displace 54 million acres of forest and savanna over the next two decades; humans ate three times as much seafood per person in 2004 than in 1950; and the world’s forests lost more wood in 2005 than ever before.

Via Resource Shelf. I tried searches on “climate” and “environment” in the Program Description field and found some pretty interesting stuff.

Every weekend C-SPAN2 airs interviews with authors of non-fiction books. They call it BookTV

This search engine makes it easy to find online video and text transcripts of the interviews.

The following fields are searchable:
+ Title
+ Authors Name (inverted)
+ Category
+ Book Title
+ Program Title
+ Date Program Last Aired (Enter range of dates)
+ Video Available (Yes or No)

++ Example: Garrison Keillor on His Life in Libraries
Recorded at the 2007 ALA Annual Conference in Washington, DC.

Also, one series of interviews, “After Words” is available as a podcast. Here’s the feed.

By using Phonecasting.com, we were able to easily take the feed and make it available via a simple phone call to: 1 (360) 526-6369 (free, nothing to download).

Finally, in addition to the database, BookTV.org provides this list of Book Fairs throughout the United States.

Source: C-SPAN

Read the press release.

March 20, 2007 – The Rainforest Alliance today commended the commitment by Scholastic Inc., the global children’s publishing, education and media company, to use paper certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) in printing the seventh and final book in the Harry Potter series, which is to be released in July.

For the initial printing of 12 million copies of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in the United States, Scholastic has committed to making sure 65 percent of the 16,700 tons of paper used is FSC-certified, which means the paper comes from forestlands that are managed in a socially and environmentally responsible way. Totaling nearly 22 million pounds, this is the largest purchase of FSC-certified paper to be used in a single book printing to date. Moreover, all the paper used in the printing will contain at least 30 percent post-consumer waste fiber, with much of that verified by FSC standards as well.

Rachel Carson is considered by many to be the mother of modern-day ecology. This year, to mark the 100th anniversary of Rachel Carson’s birth, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, working with the Friends of the National Conservation Training Center, will celebrate the achievements of its most notable employee by launching the Rachel Carson Online Book Club.

Beginning in March and continuing through November 2007, the online book club will focus on the life and work of Rachel Carson including her role as a female leader in science and government.  Through the study of her writing, the Book Club will provide an opportunity for dialogue and discussion of current environmental issues in light of Carson’s legacy
Several distinguished moderators will participate in the online discussions.   Author and Carson biographer, Linda Lear will launch the first session on March 1.  Among other moderators in the line-up are: marine biologist and Director of Duke Marine Laboratory, Cindy Van Dover; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service historian Mark Madison; Houghton Mifflin
Executive Editor Deanne Urmy;  author and professor of Environmental Studies at Middlebury College, John Elder.  (See complete list of moderators below.)

“This online discussion (or blog) will be such a fabulous way to engage and bring together people from many different communities to focus on the life and legacy of Rachel Carson”, said Anne Post Roy, NCTC conservation librarian. “The discussion should be incredibly interesting given the stature of some of our moderators and the depth of knowledge that they will bring to the online chat.”

Each month, a moderator will start the book discussion with an opening statement.  Then, in dialogue with book club participants, the moderator will provide weekly installments and add comments on the discussion throughout the month.  Discussions will encompass current environmental issues like global warming, and will extend to personal attitudes toward the natural world.

Titles in the schedule range from Carson’s first book, Under the Sea-Wind, in which she reveals her unique ability to present intricate scientific material in clear poetic language that captivates readers; to Courage for the Earth:  Writers, Scientists, and Activists Celebrate the Life and Writing of Rachel Carson, an anthology edited by Peter Matthiessen that will be released on April 22, 2007.

Silent Spring, Carson’s most well known book which alerted the public to the dangers of pesticides and sparked a firestorm of controversy in its wake, will be showcased as well as some of her lesser known texts on the sea, and the truly inspirational The Sense of Wonder.

The Rachel Carson Online Book Club is sponsored by the Friends of the National Conservation Training Center. Participation in the online book club is open to everyone.  For more information, please contact Anne Roy, National Conservation Training Center at:  Anne_Roy@fws.gov, or Nancy Pollot, Oregon Fish & Wildlife Office at: Nancy_Pollot@fws.gov.

The complete list of moderators includes:  Patricia DeMarco, Rachel Carson Homestead Executive Director; Thomas Dunlap, author and Professor of History; John Elder, author and professor of Environmental Studies at Middlebury College; Maril Hazlett, Independent Scholar; H. Patricia Hynes, author and Professor of Environmental Health; Jim Lynch, Northwest author; Mark Lytle, author; Mark Madison, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
historian; Tom Schaefer, educator and historian; Deanne Urmy, Houghton Mifflin Executive Editor; and Cindy Van Dover, marine biologist and Director of Duke Marine Laboratory.

For more information on how the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Rachel Carson, please visit our website at http://www.fws.gov/rachelcarson/

Top of the pops
What’s special about the best popular science books?
Jon Turney
10.1038/444819a
http://ealerts.nature.com/cgi-bin24/DM/y/ebgD0SpsfG0HjB0BHwZ0Es

Christmas Reading
A selection of books on the lighter side of science for the holiday period.
10.1038/444822a
http://ealerts.nature.com/cgi-bin24/DM/y/ebgD0SpsfG0HjB0BHwd0E3

Read the full post at Treehugger.

“One of the biggest flaws in the common conception of the future is that the future is something that hapens to us, not something we create.” –Michael Anissimov, Futurist, Science & Technology writer.

That quote is not in WorldChanging: A User’s Guide to the 21st Century, but it should be. The idea behind the book is an idea that we, at TreeHugger, share: We will have the future we make for ourselves; We have all the tools and technologies needed to make a “bright green future” (WorldChanging’s name for that future); What we don’t have is the luxury of time, so lets start now.

Read the full post at Treehugger.

Steven Cohen is the director of the Master of Public Administration Program in Environmental Science and Policy at the School for International and Public Affairs and the Earth Institute at Columbia University. If you can follow that last sentence then his new book, ‘Understanding Environmental Policy’ shouldn’t be a problem.

In the book Steven Cohen presents a framework for understanding the diverse aspects of environmental problems, and their possible solutions. The high level analysis of environmental problems clearly illustrates the challenges we need to overcome, and lends itself to a broad audience. Through increasingly complex examples, the book resembles an essay on how to think about the environment, and gives an insiders look into the machinations of government policy and the response to environmental issues.

Via Treehugger.

“No valuable books were harmed in the making of this product.” Artist Margi Laurin finds old library books on the way to the pulper, and creates journals out of them by keeping some of the more interesting pages and interspersing plain paper among them, probably about 80% journal and 20% old pictures. I just couldn’t pass up “Oil-the Buried Treasure” from 1975. Many are classic out-of-date science books from our childhood; others are Bobbsy Twin type novels. A clever idea, because the choices are fun and you really do know that they are junk repurposed. A new venture so nothing up on the website yet at ::Margi Laurin found at “>:: One of a Kind

Motley Fool review of The Business of Changing the World, a look at corporate sustainability by Marc Benioff, founder of Salesforce.com and former Oracle executive.

Read the full story in Nature.

Can an advertising executive write an accurate thriller about science? Britta Danger talks to a German author who thinks he has pulled it off.

Via Treehugger.

We thought it would be interesting to share with you what we’ve been reading lately. Many green books, though not all are related to tree-hugging (we rarely go off-topic, but with books, we can’t resist). Please share your reading lists with us in the comments.

What is your favourite book of 2006?

The Atmospheric Science Librarians International is seeking your nominations for the best book of 2006.  They are going to present ASLI’s Choice Award for the best book of 2006 in the fields of meteorology / climatology / atmospheric sciences in  San Antonio, Texas  during the AMS conference in January 2007.

The books will be judged on nine criteria: uniqueness, comprehensiveness, usefulness, quality, authoritativeness, organization, illustrations/diagrams, competition and references.  To qualify, the book has to have a 2006 copyright date and can be in any format and at any reading level:  college, research, general audience, children’s, reference.   Any language is accepted.

Readers are invited to nominate their choice and submit their nomination to the chair of the ASLI Awards Committee listed below, or to complete the form on the ASLI website:  www.lib.noaa.gov/asli/asli.html .  You may nominate as many works as you wish, but please complete a separate entry from for each work.   November 1, 2006 be the cut-off date for submissions.  The ASLI executive will have the difficult choice of doing the final selection from the titles pre-screened by the Awards Committee.

For more information please see BAMS, May 2006, p.  654

How do I submit my nomination?

Complete the form at:  www.lib.noaa.gov/asli/asli.html

Or email  maria.latyszewskyj@ec.gc.ca

or send to:
M. Latyszewskyj
Environment Canada Library, Downsview
4905 Dufferin Street
Toronto, ON
Canada M2N 3C7

What is the closing date?   Nov. 1, 2006

How do I know who has won? 
Winner will be posted to the ASLI listserv and to the ASLI website after the announcement in January 2007 in San Antonio, Texas.

Members of the ASLI Choice committee:

Maria A. Latyszewskyj – Chair
Environment Canada Library, Downsview
Maria.latyszewskyj@ec.gc.ca

Amy Butros
Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library
abutros@ucsd.edu

Doria Grimes
NOAA Central Library
Doria.grimes@noaa.gov

Judie Triplehorn
Geophysical Institute Library
gilibrary@gi.alaska.edu