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Sustainability Books
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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 336 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.09 — 12,559 ratings — published 2002
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 230 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.16 — 27,941 ratings — published 2014
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 175 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.06 — 55,999 ratings — published 1962
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 160 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.50 — 180,849 ratings — published 2013
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need (Hardcover)
by (shelved 147 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.11 — 51,439 ratings — published 2021
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.40 — 4,393 ratings — published 2017
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.16 — 15,973 ratings — published 2017
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 141 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.19 — 211,347 ratings — published 2006
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 134 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.99 — 30,187 ratings — published 2019
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 119 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.05 — 113,717 ratings — published 2007
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.15 — 80,746 ratings — published 2014
The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability--Designing for Abundance (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 108 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,231 ratings — published 2013
The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,376 ratings — published 1993
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,112 ratings — published 1973
The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and our Health—and a Vision for Change (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,440 ratings — published 2010
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.07 — 120,058 ratings — published 2008
Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.17 — 29,344 ratings — published 2006
The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,830 ratings — published 2020
Zero Waste Home: The Ultimate Guide to Simplifying Your Life by Reducing Your Waste (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.75 — 7,918 ratings — published 2013
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,879 ratings — published 1999
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,234 ratings — published 2004
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.50 — 9,561 ratings — published 2020
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,594 ratings — published 1997
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.41 — 6,573 ratings — published 2020
Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.18 — 23,385 ratings — published 2008
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.23 — 7,312 ratings — published 2024
How Bad Are Bananas?: The Carbon Footprint of Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.91 — 3,018 ratings — published 2010
Eating Animals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.21 — 81,104 ratings — published 2009
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,844 ratings — published 1972
Sustainable Energy - without the hot air (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,832 ratings — published 2008
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,636 ratings — published 2007
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.06 — 90,673 ratings — published 2015
The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.14 — 7,398 ratings — published 2020
Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,010 ratings — published 2007
The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-sufficient Living in the Heart of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,535 ratings — published 2008
Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,066 ratings — published 2009
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – and How It Can Renew America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.71 — 13,956 ratings — published 2008
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.50 — 35,229 ratings — published 2020
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.85 — 28,056 ratings — published 2019
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.69 — 17,485 ratings — published 2019
Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.82 — 6,848 ratings — published 2012
The Ministry for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.86 — 43,743 ratings — published 2020
Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.84 — 918 ratings — published
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.41 — 4,944 ratings — published 2001
Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 44 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,785 ratings — published 2021
Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,594 ratings — published 2009
Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,285 ratings — published 2006
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,218 ratings — published 2010
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.27 — 66,924 ratings — published 2024
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.77 — 206,315 ratings — published 1854
“Manufacturers have long chosen plastic for their products on the basis of price and functionality., But creating a more sustainable relationship with plastics will require a new dexterity on our part. It will require us to think about the entire life cycle of the products we create and use.”
― Plastic: A Toxic Love Story – An Engaging Analysis of Cultural Dependency and the Resulting Environmental Crisis
― Plastic: A Toxic Love Story – An Engaging Analysis of Cultural Dependency and the Resulting Environmental Crisis
“People 'over-produce' pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it.”
― 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
― 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism












