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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 334 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.09 — 12,488 ratings — published 2002
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 233 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.16 — 27,635 ratings — published 2014
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 172 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.06 — 54,609 ratings — published 1962
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 157 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.51 — 169,962 ratings — published 2013
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,351 ratings — published 2017
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need (Hardcover)
by (shelved 146 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.12 — 50,783 ratings — published 2021
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 141 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.19 — 210,053 ratings — published 2006
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.17 — 15,553 ratings — published 2017
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 137 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.99 — 29,733 ratings — published 2019
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 120 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.05 — 112,990 ratings — published 2007
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.15 — 78,939 ratings — published 2014
The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability--Designing for Abundance (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 108 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,220 ratings — published 2013
The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,362 ratings — published 1993
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,999 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 97 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,404 ratings — published 2010
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.07 — 119,315 ratings — published 2008
Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.18 — 28,424 ratings — published 2006
The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,746 ratings — published 2020
Zero Waste Home: The Ultimate Guide to Simplifying Your Life by Reducing Your Waste (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.75 — 7,915 ratings — published 2013
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,878 ratings — published 1999
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.94 — 74,518 ratings — published 2004
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,569 ratings — published 1997
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.50 — 8,954 ratings — published 2020
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.42 — 6,462 ratings — published 2020
Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.19 — 21,969 ratings — published 2008
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.23 — 6,697 ratings — published 2024
Eating Animals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.21 — 80,598 ratings — published 2009
How Bad Are Bananas?: The Carbon Footprint of Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,952 ratings — published 2010
Sustainable Energy - without the hot air (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,822 ratings — published 2008
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,798 ratings — published 1972
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 4.07 — 88,275 ratings — published 2015
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,290 ratings — published 2007
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 — 7,258 ratings — published 2020
Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,006 ratings — published 2007
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – and How It Can Renew America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.71 — 13,932 ratings — published 2008
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 — 2,537 ratings — published 2008
Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,035 ratings — published 2009
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 — 34,131 ratings — published 2020
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.85 — 27,715 ratings — published 2019
Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.82 — 6,813 ratings — published 2012
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.69 — 17,265 ratings — published 2019
Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 45 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,707 ratings — published 2021
The Ministry for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.86 — 41,907 ratings — published 2020
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.41 — 4,924 ratings — published 2001
Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,582 ratings — published 2009
Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.84 — 890 ratings — published
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 — 1,283 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 — 8,010 ratings — published 2010
The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.28 — 7,285 ratings — published 2014
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.77 — 203,583 ratings — published 1854
“To reverse the effects of civilization would destroy the dreams of a lot of people. There's no way around it. We can talk all we want about sustainability, but there's a sense in which it doesn't matter that these people's dreams are based on, embedded in, intertwined with, and formed by an inherently destructive economic and social system. Their dreams are still their dreams. What right do I -- or does anyone else -- have to destroy them.
At the same time, what right do they have to destroy the world?”
― Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization
At the same time, what right do they have to destroy the world?”
― Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization
“The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.”
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