Eco


The Name of the Rose
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Foucault’s Pendulum
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
Silent Spring
The Overstory
Baudolino
The Island of the Day Before
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
The Prague Cemetery
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
Introductory Macro Economics for Class 12
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
Harvesting Hope by Kathleen KrullWhole Whale by Karen YinClick, Clack, Moo by Doreen CroninAnd Tango Makes Three by Justin RichardsonThe Beginner's Guide to Winning an Election by Michael R. French
Growing Future Activists
223 books — 145 voters

Cradle to Cradle by William McDonoughGrowing Vegetables in Straw Bales by Craig LehoullierOff Grid and Free by Ron MelchioreSolar Energy On A Shoestring Budget by Jay HamiltonA Song for the Earth by Shannon  Jade
Best Sustainability Reads
33 books — 5 voters
Imber by Deborah MistinaA Song for the Earth by Shannon  JadeFlight of the Goose by Lesley ThomasWe Are But A Moment by Ulrich BaerEndangered Edens by Marty Essen
Best Eco Literature
13 books — 10 voters

The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoFoucault’s Pendulum by Umberto EcoBaudolino by Umberto EcoThe Island of the Day Before by Umberto EcoThe Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco
18 books — 46 voters

Umberto Eco
Text is like a musical score. It is true that Anna Karenina commits suicide in the same sense that is true that Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is in C minor (and not in F major, like the Sixth) and begins with G,G,G,E-flat. ...more
Umberto Eco, On Literature

Wendell Berry
If you are already solving your problem with the equipment you have - a pencil, say- why solve it with something more expensive and more damaging? If you don't have a problem, why pay for a solution? If you love the freedom and elegance of simple toons, why encumber yourself with something complicated? And yet, if we are ever again going to have a world fit and pleasant for little children, we are surely going to have to draw the line where it is not easily drawn. We are going to have to learn ...more
Wendell Berry, Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer

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