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Sustainability Committee (SE)

Learn more about sustainability initiatives at TCC Southeast Campus and resources to help you add sustainability to your life.

Gardening Books in the TCC Libraries - Click to Access with Your TCC Log In!

101 Organic Gardening Hacks book cover

101 Organic Gardening Hacks shares clever gardening tips, practical timesavers, and ways to upcycle everyday items in your garden.

Gardening Basics for Dummies book cover

Even if you've never sowed a seed nor pulled a weed, Gardening Basics For Dummies contains everything you need to know about flowers, beds, borders, trees, shrubs, and lawns to create your own private paradise.

Field Guide to Urban Gardening book cover

Field Guide to Urban Gardening helps you choose the best methods to match your unique small-space challenges and growing goals, and provides the nuts-and-bolts information you need to participate in any method you choose.

Gardening Complete book cover

Gardening Complete is an up-to-date guide to gardening for homeowners.

Texas Month-By-Month Gardening book cover

Texas Month-By-Month Gardening breaks down what to plant, when to plant, and how to take care of it to have a beautiful Texas garden all year round. 

Texas Getting Started Garden Guide book cover

The Texas Getting Started Garden Guide features region-specific advice on planting, growing, and caring for more than 150 Texas ornamental plants. 

Recycling Books

Can I Recycle This? A Guide to Better Recycling book cover

Can I Recycle This? A Guide to Better Recycling gives straightforward answers to whether dozens of common household objects can or cannot be recycled, as well as the information you need to make that decision for anything else you encounter.

Reduce, Reuse, Reimagine: Sorting out the Recycling System book cover

Many of us don't know what happens after recycled items leave our homes. We're confused by inconsistent rules of what we can and can't recycle. Reduce, Reuse, Reimagine: Sorting out the Recycling System reveals what steps we need to employ to be an active participant in strengthening our recycling system.

Reassembling Rubbish book cover

Reassembling Rubbish reframes the question of the "right" thing to do with e-waste, mapping the complex flows of electronic materials, including the waste that occurs at all stages of electronic materials' existence and the under-researched world of reuse and repair.

Sustainability Books

Plastic Soup book cover

Plastic Soup: An Atlas of Ocean Pollution is a beautifully illustrated survey of the plastics clogging our seas, their impacts on wildlife and people around the world, and inspirational initiatives designed to tackle the problem.

The Future We Choose book cover

Climate change: it is arguably the most urgent and consequential issue humankind has ever faced. The Future We Choose over the next thirty years will determine the kind of world we will live in and will bequeath to our children and to theirs.

War on the EPA book cover

Delving into the science, politics, and human dimension, The War on the EPA illustrates the challenges of regulation, how today's war on science is undermining the scientific foundation upon which the agency's legitimacy rests, and why a strong U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is more important than ever before.

Sustainability Made Simple book cover

Sustainability Made Simple is an introduction to sustainability and sustainable living that explores the relationship between everyday life and the intricate global environmental issues of today, including air and water pollution, deforestation, and climate change.

Sustainable Home book cover

Sustainable Home is an inspirational and practical guidebook to maintaining a more environmentally friendly household.

Sustainability book cover

A concise and accessible examination of Sustainability in a range of contemporary contexts, from economic development to government policy.