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Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as social-good)
avg rating 4.17 — 30,111 ratings — published 2006
Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-good)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,121 ratings — published 2015
How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-good)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,187 ratings — published 2013
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-good)
avg rating 4.50 — 191,721 ratings — published 2013
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-good)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,496 ratings — published 1998
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-good)
avg rating 4.36 — 121,180 ratings — published 2019
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-good)
avg rating 4.43 — 48,915 ratings — published 2017
Lean Impact: How to Innovate for Radically Greater Social Good (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-good)
avg rating 4.00 — 377 ratings — published 2018
Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-good)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,504 ratings — published 2018
Systems Thinking For Social Change: A Practical Guide to Solving Complex Problems, Avoiding Unintended Consequences, and Achieving Lasting Results (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-good)
avg rating 3.78 — 888 ratings — published 2015
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-good)
avg rating 4.62 — 273,356 ratings — published 2014
Start Something That Matters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-good)
avg rating 4.02 — 11,346 ratings — published 2011
Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-good)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,235 ratings — published 1997
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-good)
avg rating 4.28 — 55,959 ratings — published 2008
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-good)
avg rating 3.66 — 359,621 ratings — published 2006
Conscious Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-good)
avg rating 3.78 — 4,369 ratings — published 2012
Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,307 ratings — published 2023
Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 3.94 — 7,766 ratings — published 2013
The Upstream Doctors (TED)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 4.01 — 187 ratings — published 2013
The Laramie Project (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 4.19 — 14,657 ratings — published 2001
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,996 ratings — published 2001
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 4.27 — 67,706 ratings — published 2023
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 3,109 ratings — published
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 4.47 — 118,874 ratings — published 2016
When We Walk By: Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,031 ratings — published 2023
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 3.93 — 403,360 ratings — published 2018
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,771 ratings — published 1988
The Celestine Prophecy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 3.74 — 125,975 ratings — published 1993
No One Is Talking About This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 3.55 — 58,397 ratings — published 2021
Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 3.44 — 6,831 ratings — published 2017
Design Futuring: Sustainability, Ethics and New Practice (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 3.71 — 42 ratings — published 2008
Speed & Scale: A Global Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,650 ratings — published 2021
The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,798 ratings — published 2020
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,581 ratings — published 2019
Dedicated: The Case for Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,639 ratings — published 2021
Freedom Is an Endless Meeting: Democracy in American Social Movements (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 3.95 — 63 ratings — published 2002
The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,308 ratings — published 2022
The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,388 ratings — published 1993
Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,487 ratings — published 2021
Interface Culture: How the Digital Medium--from Windows to the Web--Changes the way We Write, Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 3.73 — 303 ratings — published 1997
Who Owns the Future? (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 3,680 ratings — published 2013
Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 3.83 — 5,765 ratings — published 2010
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 3.89 — 33,955 ratings — published 2010
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 3.65 — 57,913 ratings — published 2019
Politics Is for Power: How to Move Beyond Political Hobbyism, Take Action, and Make Real Change (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,540 ratings — published 2020
Men, Women, and Worthiness: The Experience of Shame and the Power of Being Enough (Audio CD)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 4.46 — 3,884 ratings — published 2012
Zero Waste Living, The 80/20 Way: The Busy Person's Guide To A Lighter Footprint (Resetting Our Future) (Volume 4)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 3.92 — 50 ratings — published
How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,256 ratings — published 2019
No Shortcuts (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 1,498 ratings — published 2016
What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk about the Next American Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 3.92 — 311 ratings — published 2013
“I value individuals and societies. I care about those who are not born yet. That is the reason for my joys and blues.”
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“To possess a wise heart, one that understands the fundamentally impenetrable calculus of mortality, we must face the fact that we are dying. That we will die. And the time to do this is long before death is imminent.
Death’s reality shakes us awake like nothing else can, compelling us to seize the opportunities that arrive each day to live more intentionally and love more fully—not with a sense of panic but with a sense of sacred urgency. Not to obsess over our mortality, but to realize that while everything we do holds the potential for having an impact now, it also contains the promise of the only thing that can grant us anything close to immortality: our legacy.”
― Dare to Matter: Your Path to Making a Difference Now
Death’s reality shakes us awake like nothing else can, compelling us to seize the opportunities that arrive each day to live more intentionally and love more fully—not with a sense of panic but with a sense of sacred urgency. Not to obsess over our mortality, but to realize that while everything we do holds the potential for having an impact now, it also contains the promise of the only thing that can grant us anything close to immortality: our legacy.”
― Dare to Matter: Your Path to Making a Difference Now
