As Cobb’s watershed education provider, we strive to supply the resources our residents’ request.  We’ve compiled a collection of reliable and interesting materials to share with the community on a variety of environmental topics.  We hope you’ll find the water quality and pollution prevention resources you need.  If there is something you’re looking for that we don’t have listed, contact us and we’ll try to assist in locating the education materials you’re looking for. 

Use the links on the right to navigate through our publications, classroom activities available for checkout to Cobb teachers, and classroom lesson ideas.  Our image gallery contains photos from across the county.

WSP also has an ecological literacy library.  We review a book each quarter in our newsletter and purchase three copies for circulation within the community.  If you are interested in borrowing one of our books, contact us to arrange a check out. 

Recommended Readings:

• Water: A Natural History
  Author: Alice Outwater
  Description: This book takes you on the journey of water beginning 500 years ago in the king’s court of medieval Europe.  She lays out a compelling read of how the land and its inhabitants clean the water systems and the impact modern technology and culture

• Watersheds: A Practical Handbook for Healthy Water
  Author: Clive Dobson and Gregor Beck
  Description: An inexpensive book that gives great illustrations about how watersheds work and the systems that are in place in riparian habitats. Great teaching tool. 

• Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
  Author: Richard Louv
  Description:   Today's children are increasingly removed from nature, preferring to spend their time indoors watching television or surfing the internet.  Louv links children’s alienation from nature to attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, stress, depression and anxiety disorders, and childhood obesity. 

• Developing Ecological Consciousness: Paths To A Sustainable World
  Author: Christopher Uhl
  Description: An environmental studies professors’ step by step guide to facilitating an ecological consciousness in his students. An invaluable tool to use in exploring our own relationship with our world. 

• A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
  Author: Bill Bryson
  Description: The Appalachian Trail trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and covers some of the most breathtaking terrain in America–majestic mountains, silent forests, sparking lakes. This is a hilarious recount of a novice hiker's experiences on the trail.
  

• A Sand County Almanac
  Author: Aldo Leopold
  Description: One of the classics.  Rated the number 1 book to read by this country’s environmentalists. This book describes the beginnings of the conservation movement and offers a language of land ethics that continues to be unimproved.

• Bottlemania
  Author: Elizabeth Royte
  Description: As consumers guzzle high-priced designer water, Royte documents the environmental impact of discarded plastic bottles, the carbon footprint of water shipped long distances and health concerns around the leaching of plastic compounds from bottles.

• A Sense of Wonder
  Author: Rachel Carson
  Description: In these essays, Carson urges parents to take their children to wild places in order to introduce them to the astonishing variety of life that exists all around us: to study birds, listen to the winds, and observe the stars.

• If the World Were a Village
  Author: Aldo Leopold
  Description: To make the idea of a world of 6.2 billion people more understandable, Smith suggests that children imagine the population of the world as a village of just 100 people. That's one person representing 62 million people in the real world. Surprising, even shocking statistics follow.

• Backyard Carolina
  Author: Andy Wood
  Description: Andy Wood began reporting his observations on nature as a weekly commentator on a public radio station. Backyard Carolina includes Wood's most memorable commentaries and observations on nature from his own backyard to the larger backyard of various communities in North and South Carolina.
  

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