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The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,412 ratings — published 2018
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.31 — 54,501 ratings — published 2020
Salt: A World History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 3.75 — 78,706 ratings — published 2002
The New Geopolitics of Natural Gas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.09 — 34 ratings — published
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.44 — 13,064 ratings — published 1991
Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,534 ratings — published 2017
The Lorax (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.35 — 375,318 ratings — published 1971
Dear Children of the Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.42 — 263 ratings — published 1994
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.06 — 7,068 ratings — published 2010
Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 3.87 — 661 ratings — published 2009
Elixir: A History of Water and Humankind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 3.39 — 264 ratings — published 2011
The Mighty Red (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 3.80 — 35,366 ratings — published 2024
The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,502 ratings — published 2023
Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,656 ratings — published 2022
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.10 — 13,498 ratings — published 2021
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.01 — 37,312 ratings — published 2018
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.17 — 6,152 ratings — published 2020
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.14 — 18,797 ratings — published 2009
Water: A Biography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 3.66 — 548 ratings — published
The Seven Sisters: The great oil companies & the world they shaped (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.06 — 224 ratings — published 1975
The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.32 — 14,093 ratings — published 2021
We Are Water Protectors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.48 — 9,180 ratings — published 2020
The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,324 ratings — published 2018
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 3.92 — 25,943 ratings — published 1997
Oil (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 3.82 — 39 ratings — published 2012
Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet (Mit Press)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.07 — 506 ratings — published 2018
The Wages of Oil: Parliaments and Economic Development in Kuwait and the UAE (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.04 — 26 ratings — published 2014
The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,935 ratings — published 2015
The New Kings of Crude: China, India, and the Global Struggle for Oil in Sudan and South Sudan (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.00 — 43 ratings — published 2014
The Great Kapok Tree (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.25 — 6,066 ratings — published 1990
Recycle It: Once Is Not Enough (We Can Save the Earth)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 2.50 — 2 ratings — published 1990
Nature Recycles—How about You? (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.03 — 34 ratings — published 2013
Compost Stew: An A to Z Recipe for the Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.09 — 639 ratings — published 2010
Recycling (Green Kids)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 3.80 — 5 ratings — published 2008
Where Does the Garbage Go? (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 3.89 — 194 ratings — published 1974
Trash Trouble (Rookie Choices)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 3.50 — 8 ratings — published 2003
Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 3.60 — 176 ratings — published 2008
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,646 ratings — published 2007
One Wild Bird At A Time: Portraits of Individual Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as natural-resources)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,180 ratings — published 2016
Alberto Salas Plays Paka Paka con la Papa: Join the Quest with Peru's Famed Scientist and Potato Expert (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.27 — 380 ratings — published
One Little Fishing Boat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.00 — 5 ratings — published
Could Rainforests Save Planet Earth?: Discover the Science behind Tropical Biology (The Big Questions Answered)
by (shelved 1 time as natural-resources)
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published
Anna-Jane and the Endless Summer (Library Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.00 — 205 ratings — published 2026
Abundance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as natural-resources)
avg rating 3.89 — 53,244 ratings — published 2025
The Vanishing of Lake Peigneur: A Graphic Novel Based on a True Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.11 — 316 ratings — published 2025
Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.09 — 19,607 ratings — published 1993
Rwanda's 30-Year Assault on Congo: The Crimes, The Criminals and the Cover-up (TRACTION)
by (shelved 1 time as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.50 — 8 ratings — published
Once I Was a Tree (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.45 — 120 ratings — published
The Scientist Turned Spy: André Michaux, Thomas Jefferson, and the Conspiracy of 1793 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.04 — 24 ratings — published 2024
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as natural-resources)
avg rating 4.38 — 45,553 ratings — published 2022
“The animacy of the world is something we already know, but the language of animacy teeters on
extinction-not just for Native peoples, but for everyone. Our toddlers speak of plants and animals as if they were people, extending to them self and intention and compassion-until we teach them not to. We quickly retrain them and make them forget. When we tell them that the tree is not a who, but an it, we make that maple an object; we put a barrier between us, absolving ourselves of moral responsibility and opening the door to exploitation. Saying it makes a living land into "natural resources." If a maple is an it, we can take up the chain saw. If a maple is a her, we think twice.”
― Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
extinction-not just for Native peoples, but for everyone. Our toddlers speak of plants and animals as if they were people, extending to them self and intention and compassion-until we teach them not to. We quickly retrain them and make them forget. When we tell them that the tree is not a who, but an it, we make that maple an object; we put a barrier between us, absolving ourselves of moral responsibility and opening the door to exploitation. Saying it makes a living land into "natural resources." If a maple is an it, we can take up the chain saw. If a maple is a her, we think twice.”
― Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
“The wealth in this world are like green fruits hidden among green leaves. It stares everyone in the face, yet nobody sees it.”
― These Words Pour Like Rain
― These Words Pour Like Rain