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The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as environmental-sustainability)
avg rating 3.99 — 30,683 ratings — published 2019
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-sustainability)
avg rating 4.49 — 193,415 ratings — published 2013
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-sustainability)
avg rating 4.07 — 57,718 ratings — published 1962
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-sustainability)
avg rating 4.15 — 82,962 ratings — published 2014
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as environmental-sustainability)
avg rating 4.20 — 18,501 ratings — published 2021
Zero Waste Home: The Ultimate Guide to Simplifying Your Life by Reducing Your Waste (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as environmental-sustainability)
avg rating 3.75 — 7,943 ratings — published 2013
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as environmental-sustainability)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,435 ratings — published 2017
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as environmental-sustainability)
avg rating 4.31 — 38,065 ratings — published 1949
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as environmental-sustainability)
avg rating 4.16 — 28,574 ratings — published 2014
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as environmental-sustainability)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,897 ratings — published 1972
What Your Food Ate: How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as environmental-sustainability)
avg rating 4.29 — 720 ratings — published
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as environmental-sustainability)
avg rating 4.31 — 56,389 ratings — published 2020
The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as environmental-sustainability)
avg rating 4.21 — 25,677 ratings — published 2021
This Is Not a Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as environmental-sustainability)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,164 ratings — published 2019
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as environmental-sustainability)
avg rating 3.69 — 17,763 ratings — published 2019
Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as environmental-sustainability)
avg rating 4.36 — 7,530 ratings — published 2019
The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability--Designing for Abundance (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as environmental-sustainability)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,239 ratings — published 2013
Give a Sh*t: Do Good. Live Better. Save the Planet. (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as environmental-sustainability)
avg rating 4.15 — 982 ratings — published 2018
Eating Animals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as environmental-sustainability)
avg rating 4.21 — 81,801 ratings — published 2009
The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as environmental-sustainability)
avg rating 4.28 — 7,501 ratings — published 2014
The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as environmental-sustainability)
avg rating 4.08 — 30,741 ratings — published 1975
Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as environmental-sustainability)
avg rating 4.17 — 30,238 ratings — published 2006
The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as environmental-sustainability)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,478 ratings — published 2014
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as environmental-sustainability)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,341,393 ratings — published 2011
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as environmental-sustainability)
avg rating 4.06 — 94,248 ratings — published 2015
Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as environmental-sustainability)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,833 ratings — published 2007
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as environmental-sustainability)
avg rating 4.16 — 16,721 ratings — published 2017
Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as environmental-sustainability)
avg rating 4.41 — 4,842 ratings — published 2015
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as environmental-sustainability)
avg rating 4.19 — 212,808 ratings — published 2006
The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as environmental-sustainability)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,177 ratings — published 2015
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as environmental-sustainability)
avg rating 4.06 — 60,749 ratings — published 2001
Second Nature: A Gardener's Education (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as environmental-sustainability)
avg rating 3.93 — 9,309 ratings — published 1991
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as environmental-sustainability)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,462 ratings — published 2010
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as environmental-sustainability)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,901 ratings — published 2015
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as environmental-sustainability)
avg rating 4.10 — 211,806 ratings — published 2018
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as environmental-sustainability)
avg rating 4.25 — 79,348 ratings — published 2024
Strata: Stories from Deep Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as environmental-sustainability)
avg rating 4.05 — 714 ratings — published 2025
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as environmental-sustainability)
avg rating 4.22 — 8,738 ratings — published 2024
The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as environmental-sustainability)
avg rating 3.99 — 661 ratings — published 2024
The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as environmental-sustainability)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,051 ratings — published 2023
They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as environmental-sustainability)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,399 ratings — published 2025
Enviromedics: The Impact of Climate Change on Human Health (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as environmental-sustainability)
avg rating 3.99 — 148 ratings — published
Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer's Twenty-Year Battle against DuPont (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as environmental-sustainability)
avg rating 4.49 — 2,596 ratings — published 2019
What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City (One World Essentials)
by (shelved 1 time as environmental-sustainability)
avg rating 4.33 — 9,450 ratings — published 2018
Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as environmental-sustainability)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,818 ratings — published 2021
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as environmental-sustainability)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,683 ratings — published 2022
Sicker, Fatter, Poorer: The Urgent Threat of Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals to Our Health and Future . . . and What We Can Do About It (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as environmental-sustainability)
avg rating 3.78 — 329 ratings — published
The Ecology of Imagination in Childhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as environmental-sustainability)
avg rating 4.12 — 32 ratings — published 1977
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as environmental-sustainability)
avg rating 3.94 — 76,093 ratings — published 2004
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as environmental-sustainability)
avg rating 4.33 — 31,640 ratings — published 2015
“The climate crisis has been long framed as an issue of either techno-utopian tinkering, entrusting a few billionaires to save the day, or of collective self-sacrifices - us versus us. Have fewer children. Buy organic. Drive less. Amid all the carbon shaming, it's worth recalling Occupy Wall Street's most enduring slogan: the 99 percent versus the 1 percent. If we didn't write ourselves subprime mortgages and we didn't on a whim decide to saddle ourselves with six figures worth of student debt, we certainly didn't wreck the planet. They did.”
― A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal
― A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal
“Through the way it values - or does not - the finite resources of our planet, double entry [accounting] now has the potential to make or break life on the earth. We can continue to ignore the free gifts of nature in the accounts of our nations and corporations, and thereby continue to ruin the planet. Or we can begin to account for nature and make it thrive again. If numbers and money are the only language spoken in the global capitalist economy, then this is the language we must use. Accountants, remodelled as eco-accountants, can plan a central role in this conversation - and it is for this reason that Jonathan Watts wrote in 2010 that they may be the one last hope for life on earth. As he also pointed out, done badly, eco-accounting will mean the natural world is further 'commodified, priced, sliced and sold to the highest bidder'. But done well, it could reframe our values and transform the capitalist world in ways we are yet to imagine.”
― Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Shaped the Modern World
― Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Shaped the Modern World
