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Energy and Civilization: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as energy-and-environment)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,276 ratings — published 2017
Sustainable Energy - without the hot air (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as energy-and-environment)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,842 ratings — published 2008
The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as energy-and-environment)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,286 ratings — published 2011
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as energy-and-environment)
avg rating 4.44 — 13,190 ratings — published 1991
Speed & Scale: A Global Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as energy-and-environment)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,644 ratings — published 2021
How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as energy-and-environment)
avg rating 3.94 — 14,783 ratings — published 2022
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as energy-and-environment)
avg rating 4.11 — 51,762 ratings — published 2021
Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as energy-and-environment)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,037 ratings — published
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – and How It Can Renew America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as energy-and-environment)
avg rating 3.71 — 13,976 ratings — published 2008
Energy Myths and Realities: Bringing Science to the Energy Policy Debate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as energy-and-environment)
avg rating 3.86 — 636 ratings — published 2010
The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as energy-and-environment)
avg rating 3.96 — 574 ratings — published 2013
Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as energy-and-environment)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,676 ratings — published 2014
Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as energy-and-environment)
avg rating 4.02 — 339 ratings — published 2011
Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as energy-and-environment)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,248 ratings — published 2009
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as energy-and-environment)
avg rating 4.28 — 12,222 ratings — published 1986
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as energy-and-environment)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,580 ratings — published 2004
The Human Footprint: A Global Environmental History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as energy-and-environment)
avg rating 3.13 — 23 ratings — published 2009
Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as energy-and-environment)
avg rating 4.11 — 548 ratings — published 2008
Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as energy-and-environment)
avg rating 3.57 — 74 ratings — published 2008
Sustainable & Responsible Investing 360°: Lessons Learned from World Class Investors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as energy-and-environment)
avg rating 4.27 — 743 ratings — published
Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as energy-and-environment)
avg rating 3.73 — 206 ratings — published 2025
The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as energy-and-environment)
avg rating 4.02 — 596 ratings — published 2022
Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds (New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century)
by (shelved 1 time as energy-and-environment)
avg rating 4.27 — 310 ratings — published
What's Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as energy-and-environment)
avg rating 3.88 — 197 ratings — published 2025
Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as energy-and-environment)
avg rating 4.48 — 10,291 ratings — published 2025
How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as energy-and-environment)
avg rating 4.32 — 439 ratings — published 2016
Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as energy-and-environment)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,838 ratings — published 2021
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as energy-and-environment)
avg rating 4.50 — 188,201 ratings — published 2013
Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as energy-and-environment)
avg rating 4.33 — 849 ratings — published 2015
The Future of the Factory: How Megatrends are Changing Industrialization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as energy-and-environment)
avg rating 3.55 — 20 ratings — published
The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as energy-and-environment)
avg rating 4.34 — 268 ratings — published 2024
Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as energy-and-environment)
avg rating 3.69 — 537 ratings — published 2018
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as energy-and-environment)
avg rating 4.09 — 13,556 ratings — published 2021
Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as energy-and-environment)
avg rating 3.78 — 130 ratings — published 2011
Pipe Dreams: The Urgent Global Quest to Transform the Toilet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as energy-and-environment)
avg rating 4.03 — 435 ratings — published
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as energy-and-environment)
avg rating 4.50 — 36,077 ratings — published 2020
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as energy-and-environment)
avg rating 4.16 — 28,131 ratings — published 2014
The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as energy-and-environment)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,405 ratings — published 2022
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as energy-and-environment)
avg rating 4.17 — 6,228 ratings — published 2020
The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as energy-and-environment)
avg rating 4.32 — 14,376 ratings — published 2021
A People’s Green New Deal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as energy-and-environment)
avg rating 4.36 — 276 ratings — published 2021
Energy: A Beginner's Guide (Beginner's Guides)
by (shelved 1 time as energy-and-environment)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,515 ratings — published 2006
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as energy-and-environment)
avg rating 4.50 — 9,936 ratings — published 2020
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as energy-and-environment)
avg rating 4.15 — 81,844 ratings — published 2014
Clean Energy Exploitations: Helping Citizens Understand the Environmental and Humanity Abuses That Support Clean Energy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as energy-and-environment)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as energy-and-environment)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,520 ratings — published 2011
Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as energy-and-environment)
avg rating 4.36 — 7,385 ratings — published 2019
Hothouse Earth: An Inhabitant's Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as energy-and-environment)
avg rating 4.29 — 764 ratings — published
Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as energy-and-environment)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,855 ratings — published 2021
The Hydrogen Revolution: a blueprint for the future of clean energy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as energy-and-environment)
avg rating 4.16 — 227 ratings — published