Environment

Our planet's health shapes every aspect of human existence, from the food on our plates to the air we breathe and the countless species we share Earth with. These vital books explore the delicate balance of our natural world and offer practical wisdom for living more sustainably, whether through mindful eating, waste reduction, or understanding humanity's impact on our finite resources.

Environment Book Summaries

Net Positive

by Andrew S. Winston • 2021

What if the most profitable companies leave more than they take from the world?

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🤝 Corporate Responsibility 💼 Stakeholder Capitalism 📊 ESG Integration 🌱 Regenerative Business ✊ Corporate Activism

Net Positive

What if the most profitable companies leave more than they take from the world?

by Andrew S. Winston 2021 446 pages

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🤝 Corporate Responsibility 💼 Stakeholder Capitalism 📊 ESG Integration 🌱 Regenerative Business ✊ Corporate Activism

The Spirit Level

by Richard G. Wilkinson • 2009

Inequality sickens and divides. In rich countries, the gap matters more than the wealth itself.

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💸 Income Inequality 🏥 Public Health 🤝 Social Trust 😰 Status Anxiety 📊 Progressive Economics

The Spirit Level

Inequality sickens and divides. In rich countries, the gap matters more than the wealth itself.

by Richard G. Wilkinson 2009 402 pages

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💸 Income Inequality 🏥 Public Health 🤝 Social Trust 😰 Status Anxiety 📊 Progressive Economics

Growth

by Daniel Susskind • 2024

Growth is recent, reversible, and destructive. The choice isn't whether to grow but how.

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🧮 Economic Growth ⚙️ Technological Progress 🌱 Degrowth Debate 📊 Gdp Critique 🏭 Industrial Revolution

Growth

Growth is recent, reversible, and destructive. The choice isn't whether to grow but how.

by Daniel Susskind 2024

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🧮 Economic Growth ⚙️ Technological Progress 🌱 Degrowth Debate 📊 Gdp Critique 🏭 Industrial Revolution

The Climate Book

by Greta Thunberg • 2022

Since 1991, we've emitted more CO2 than in all prior history; cures exist, the politics don't.

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⚖️ Climate Justice ⚡ Energy Transition ✊ Climate Activism 🌿 Indigenous Knowledge 🚫 Climate Denialism

The Climate Book

Since 1991, we've emitted more CO2 than in all prior history; cures exist, the politics don't.

by Greta Thunberg 2022 464 pages

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⚖️ Climate Justice ⚡ Energy Transition ✊ Climate Activism 🌿 Indigenous Knowledge 🚫 Climate Denialism

Tom Brown's Science and Art of Tracking

by Tom Brown Jr. • 1999

Read an animal's hunger and fear from soil, then discover how tracking becomes a spiritual practice.

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🐾 Animal Tracking 🏕️ Wilderness Skills 👣 Track Interpretation 👁️ Nature Awareness 🪶 Indigenous Wisdom

Tom Brown's Science and Art of Tracking

Read an animal's hunger and fear from soil, then discover how tracking becomes a spiritual practice.

by Tom Brown Jr. 1999 240 pages

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🐾 Animal Tracking 🏕️ Wilderness Skills 👣 Track Interpretation 👁️ Nature Awareness 🪶 Indigenous Wisdom

Food for Life

by Tim Spector • 2022

Thirty plant foods a week: the gut-health rule that beats any supplement or superfood.

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🦠 Gut Microbiome 🌿 Plant Diversity 🏭 Ultra-Processed Foods 🫙 Fermented Foods 📊 Personalized Nutrition

Food for Life

Thirty plant foods a week: the gut-health rule that beats any supplement or superfood.

by Tim Spector 2022

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🦠 Gut Microbiome 🌿 Plant Diversity 🏭 Ultra-Processed Foods 🫙 Fermented Foods 📊 Personalized Nutrition

Soil Not Oil

by Vandana Shiva • 2008

Biofuels starve people, carbon markets fake progress, the real climate solution is under your feet.

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🏭 Industrial Agriculture ⚖️ Environmental Justice 🌾 Food Sovereignty 🌱 Organic Farming 🌿 Seed Saving

Soil Not Oil

Biofuels starve people, carbon markets fake progress, the real climate solution is under your feet.

by Vandana Shiva 2008 144 pages

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🏭 Industrial Agriculture ⚖️ Environmental Justice 🌾 Food Sovereignty 🌱 Organic Farming 🌿 Seed Saving

God Is Red

by Vine Deloria Jr. • 1972

Indigenous peoples root religion in land; Christians in time, and the planet pays the price.

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📖 Indigenous Theology 🏞️ Sacred Geography ✊ Decolonial Religion 🌍 Ecotheology 🌐 Worldview Clash

God Is Red

Indigenous peoples root religion in land; Christians in time, and the planet pays the price.

by Vine Deloria Jr. 1972 325 pages

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📖 Indigenous Theology 🏞️ Sacred Geography ✊ Decolonial Religion 🌍 Ecotheology 🌐 Worldview Clash

The AI Con

by Emily M. Bender • 2025

ChatGPT isn't thinking, the doom-sayers aren't helping, and the real AI harms are already here.

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🤖 Ai Criticism 🧮 Algorithmic Bias 🔍 Technology Criticism 👁️ Surveillance Capitalism 🔧 Labor And Automation

The AI Con

ChatGPT isn't thinking, the doom-sayers aren't helping, and the real AI harms are already here.

by Emily M. Bender 2025 288 pages

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1k+ ratings

🤖 Ai Criticism 🧮 Algorithmic Bias 🔍 Technology Criticism 👁️ Surveillance Capitalism 🔧 Labor And Automation

The New Map

by Daniel Yergin • 2020

Shale, batteries, and pipelines are redrawing global power faster than diplomats can react.

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🛢️ Energy Geopolitics 🏛️ Great Power Rivalry 🌍 Climate Geopolitics 🗺️ Maps And Geopolitics 💲 Energy Economics

The New Map

Shale, batteries, and pipelines are redrawing global power faster than diplomats can react.

by Daniel Yergin 2020 512 pages

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🛢️ Energy Geopolitics 🏛️ Great Power Rivalry 🌍 Climate Geopolitics 🗺️ Maps And Geopolitics 💲 Energy Economics

Animal Liberation Now

by Peter Singer • 2023

Suffering is suffering regardless of species. Everything else is bias we have learned not to see.

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🐾 Animal Ethics 📚 Moral Philosophy ✊ Animal Rights 🏭 Factory Farming ⚖️ Utilitarianism

Animal Liberation Now

Suffering is suffering regardless of species. Everything else is bias we have learned not to see.

by Peter Singer 2023 370 pages

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🐾 Animal Ethics 📚 Moral Philosophy ✊ Animal Rights 🏭 Factory Farming ⚖️ Utilitarianism

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

by Bill Gates • 2021

Five activities emit 51 billion tons a year; the cost gaps show where innovation must hit first.

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🌍 Net Zero Transition ⚡ Clean Energy Transition 🚀 Techno-Optimism 💰 Climate Economics 🌪️ Climate Adaptation

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

Five activities emit 51 billion tons a year; the cost gaps show where innovation must hit first.

by Bill Gates 2021 288 pages

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🌍 Net Zero Transition ⚡ Clean Energy Transition 🚀 Techno-Optimism 💰 Climate Economics 🌪️ Climate Adaptation

False Alarm

by Bjørn Lomborg • 2020

Two trillion a year for one-twentieth of a degree: the smarter investments our panic overlooks.

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🏛️ Climate Policy 📊 Environmental Economics ⚖️ Cost-Benefit Analysis 🔋 Green Energy Innovation 🛡️ Adaptation Strategies

False Alarm

Two trillion a year for one-twentieth of a degree: the smarter investments our panic overlooks.

by Bjørn Lomborg 2020 320 pages

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🏛️ Climate Policy 📊 Environmental Economics ⚖️ Cost-Benefit Analysis 🔋 Green Energy Innovation 🛡️ Adaptation Strategies

The Joyful Vegan

by Colleen Patrick-Goudreau • 2019

Stay vegan without the burnout: a guide to guilt, anger, and keeping your friends at dinner.

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📢 Vegan Advocacy 🌿 Plant-Based Transition 🐮 Animal Rights 💬 Vegan Communication 🛡️ Activist Self-Care

The Joyful Vegan

Stay vegan without the burnout: a guide to guilt, anger, and keeping your friends at dinner.

by Colleen Patrick-Goudreau 2019 304 pages

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500+ ratings

📢 Vegan Advocacy 🌿 Plant-Based Transition 🐮 Animal Rights 💬 Vegan Communication 🛡️ Activist Self-Care

Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches

by Marvin Harris • 1974

Cow worship, pork bans, witch hunts: each solved a practical problem no one admitted existed.

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🍖 Food Taboos 🌿 Cultural Ecology 💰 Economic Anthropology 🕯️ Ritual And Sacrifice ⚔️ Origins Of War

Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches

Cow worship, pork bans, witch hunts: each solved a practical problem no one admitted existed.

by Marvin Harris 1974 288 pages

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🍖 Food Taboos 🌿 Cultural Ecology 💰 Economic Anthropology 🕯️ Ritual And Sacrifice ⚔️ Origins Of War

The Great Displacement

by Jake Bittle • 2023

Climate disasters are displacing millions; housing markets and insurance can't keep up.

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🌍 Climate Migration ⚖️ Environmental Justice 🇺🇸 American Migration 💧 Water Crisis 🚒 Disaster Recovery

The Great Displacement

Climate disasters are displacing millions; housing markets and insurance can't keep up.

by Jake Bittle 2023 368 pages

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🌍 Climate Migration ⚖️ Environmental Justice 🇺🇸 American Migration 💧 Water Crisis 🚒 Disaster Recovery

Fully Automated Luxury Communism

by Aaron Bastani • 2018

Technology is ending scarcity. The real question is who gets to own the abundance.

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🏛️ Political Economy 🌅 Post-Capitalism 🪐 Post-Scarcity Economics ⚡ Left Accelerationism 🤖 Future Of Work

Fully Automated Luxury Communism

Technology is ending scarcity. The real question is who gets to own the abundance.

by Aaron Bastani 2018 278 pages

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🏛️ Political Economy 🌅 Post-Capitalism 🪐 Post-Scarcity Economics ⚡ Left Accelerationism 🤖 Future Of Work

Stone Age Economics

by Marshall Sahlins • 1974

Hunters and gatherers worked a few hours daily and wanted little. Scarcity is a modern invention.

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🏛️ Economic Anthropology 🎁 Gift Economies 🏹 Hunter-Gatherer Societies 🔗 Embedded Economies 🤝 Reciprocity

Stone Age Economics

Hunters and gatherers worked a few hours daily and wanted little. Scarcity is a modern invention.

by Marshall Sahlins 1974 362 pages

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🏛️ Economic Anthropology 🎁 Gift Economies 🏹 Hunter-Gatherer Societies 🔗 Embedded Economies 🤝 Reciprocity

The Back of the Turtle

by Thomas King • 2014

An Indigenous scientist returns to the reserve his work destroyed, meaning to die among its ghosts.

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🌊 Magical Realism 📖 Indigenous Storytelling 🏠 Prodigal Return 💼 Corporate Greed 🌿 Environmental Disaster

The Back of the Turtle

An Indigenous scientist returns to the reserve his work destroyed, meaning to die among its ghosts.

by Thomas King 2014 518 pages

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🌊 Magical Realism 📖 Indigenous Storytelling 🏠 Prodigal Return 💼 Corporate Greed 🌿 Environmental Disaster

A History of Bangladesh

by Willem van Schendel • 2009

A delta shaped by rivers and monsoons, not just by kings: the deep past of Bangladesh.

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🗺️ South Asian History 🌿 Environmental History ✂️ Partition Of India 🏛️ Colonial Legacies 📜 Longue DuréE History

A History of Bangladesh

A delta shaped by rivers and monsoons, not just by kings: the deep past of Bangladesh.

by Willem van Schendel 2009 374 pages

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🗺️ South Asian History 🌿 Environmental History ✂️ Partition Of India 🏛️ Colonial Legacies 📜 Longue DuréE History

Designing Regenerative Cultures

by Daniel Christian Wahl • 2016

Designing as separate from nature broke the planet. Regenerative cultures learn from living systems.

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🔄 Regenerative Design 🌍 Ecological Economics 🧠 Systems Thinking 🦎 Biomimicry 🌳 Deep Ecology

Designing Regenerative Cultures

Designing as separate from nature broke the planet. Regenerative cultures learn from living systems.

by Daniel Christian Wahl 2016 288 pages

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🔄 Regenerative Design 🌍 Ecological Economics 🧠 Systems Thinking 🦎 Biomimicry 🌳 Deep Ecology

Amazonia

by James Rollins • 2002

Four years lost, a soldier emerges from the jungle with a regrown arm and lethal plague.

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🏕️ Jungle Expedition 🌿 Eco Thriller 🧬 Biological Horror 🌀 Shamanic Wisdom 🗿 Ancient Tribe Secret

Amazonia

Four years lost, a soldier emerges from the jungle with a regrown arm and lethal plague.

by James Rollins 2002 510 pages

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🏕️ Jungle Expedition 🌿 Eco Thriller 🧬 Biological Horror 🌀 Shamanic Wisdom 🗿 Ancient Tribe Secret

The Uninhabitable Earth

by David Wallace-Wells • 2019

Climate change is not slow. Heat, hunger, drought, and mass displacement are already here.

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🧪 Climate Science ⚠️ Worst-Case Scenarios 🏃 Climate Migration 🌪️ Extreme Weather 🌽 Food And Water Security

The Uninhabitable Earth

Climate change is not slow. Heat, hunger, drought, and mass displacement are already here.

by David Wallace-Wells 2019 310 pages

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🧪 Climate Science ⚠️ Worst-Case Scenarios 🏃 Climate Migration 🌪️ Extreme Weather 🌽 Food And Water Security

The Good-Enough Life

by Avram Alpert • 2022

Greatness culture exhausts us, shreds communities, and devours the planet. Sufficiency is the exit.

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🧘 Sufficiency Philosophy 🔨 Anti-Perfectionism 🏛️ Critique Of Meritocracy 🌿 Degrowth Economics 🧬 Human Nature Debate

The Good-Enough Life

Greatness culture exhausts us, shreds communities, and devours the planet. Sufficiency is the exit.

by Avram Alpert 2022 327 pages

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390 ratings

🧘 Sufficiency Philosophy 🔨 Anti-Perfectionism 🏛️ Critique Of Meritocracy 🌿 Degrowth Economics 🧬 Human Nature Debate

What We Owe The Future

by William MacAskill • 2022

Most humans who will ever live aren't born yet. Their fate belongs to this century.

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🌍 Future Generations 👥 Population Ethics ⚠️ Existential Risk 🤖 Ai Safety 🦠 Biosecurity

What We Owe The Future

Most humans who will ever live aren't born yet. Their fate belongs to this century.

by William MacAskill 2022 494 pages

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🌍 Future Generations 👥 Population Ethics ⚠️ Existential Risk 🤖 Ai Safety 🦠 Biosecurity

Tim Cook

by Leander Kahney • 2019

They said Apple peaked with Jobs. Cook's bet on operations, ethics, and privacy tripled its value.

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🍎 Apple History 💻 Tech Leadership ❤️ Values-Driven Leadership ⚖️ Corporate Ethics 📦 Supply Chain Management

Tim Cook

They said Apple peaked with Jobs. Cook's bet on operations, ethics, and privacy tripled its value.

by Leander Kahney 2019 320 pages

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🍎 Apple History 💻 Tech Leadership ❤️ Values-Driven Leadership ⚖️ Corporate Ethics 📦 Supply Chain Management

Triumph of the City

by Edward L. Glaeser • 2011

Poverty flocks to cities because cities are the escape route. The economic case for density.

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🏙️ Urban Economics 🏗️ City Planning 🏘️ Urban Density 🧠 Human Capital 💡 Knowledge Spillovers

Triumph of the City

Poverty flocks to cities because cities are the escape route. The economic case for density.

by Edward L. Glaeser 2011 352 pages

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🏙️ Urban Economics 🏗️ City Planning 🏘️ Urban Density 🧠 Human Capital 💡 Knowledge Spillovers

Divided

by Tim Marshall • 2018

We were promised a borderless world. There are more walls now than during the Cold War.

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🌍 Geopolitics 🧱 Border Barriers 🚩 Nationalism 🏛️ Colonial Legacies 🛂 Immigration Politics

Divided

We were promised a borderless world. There are more walls now than during the Cold War.

by Tim Marshall 2018 316 pages

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🌍 Geopolitics 🧱 Border Barriers 🚩 Nationalism 🏛️ Colonial Legacies 🛂 Immigration Politics

Why Vegan?

by Peter Singer • 2020

Loving dogs while eating pigs is a prejudice, not a preference, with billions of victims.

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🐄 Animal Ethics 🏭 Factory Farming 🧠 Animal Sentience ⚖️ Utilitarianism 🍽️ Food Politics

Why Vegan?

Loving dogs while eating pigs is a prejudice, not a preference, with billions of victims.

by Peter Singer 2020 80 pages

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500+ ratings

🐄 Animal Ethics 🏭 Factory Farming 🧠 Animal Sentience ⚖️ Utilitarianism 🍽️ Food Politics

Life Lessons From the Amazon

by Pip Stewart • 2021

Paddling an uncharted Amazon river, she found the sharpest lessons had nothing to do with survival.

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🏕️ Expedition Memoirs 🌴 Rainforest Adventure 🧭 Female Explorers 🪓 Wilderness Survival 🌿 Nature And Wellbeing

Life Lessons From the Amazon

Paddling an uncharted Amazon river, she found the sharpest lessons had nothing to do with survival.

by Pip Stewart 2021 335 pages

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194 ratings

🏕️ Expedition Memoirs 🌴 Rainforest Adventure 🧭 Female Explorers 🪓 Wilderness Survival 🌿 Nature And Wellbeing

Small is Beautiful

by Ernst F. Schumacher • 1973

The case for an economics small enough to fit people, their work, and a finite planet.

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🌱 Ecological Economics 🔧 Human-Scale Technology 🛠️ Work And Meaning 📏 Limits To Growth ⚖️ Ethical Economics

Small is Beautiful

The case for an economics small enough to fit people, their work, and a finite planet.

by Ernst F. Schumacher 1973 305 pages

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7k+ ratings

🌱 Ecological Economics 🔧 Human-Scale Technology 🛠️ Work And Meaning 📏 Limits To Growth ⚖️ Ethical Economics

Feminism or Death

by Françoise d'Eaubonne • 1974

The planet is dying from male rule. A feminism content with equality won't save it.

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🌿 Ecofeminism ✊ Radical Feminism 🩺 Reproductive Justice 🏭 Patriarchy And Capitalism 💰 Anti-Capitalist Feminism

Feminism or Death

The planet is dying from male rule. A feminism content with equality won't save it.

by Françoise d'Eaubonne 1974 352 pages

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🌿 Ecofeminism ✊ Radical Feminism 🩺 Reproductive Justice 🏭 Patriarchy And Capitalism 💰 Anti-Capitalist Feminism

The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels

by Alex Epstein • 2014

Climate deaths fell 98% this century. Fossil fuels caused that, and their moral defense is overdue.

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⚡ Energy Policy 🌡️ Climate Debate 🔧 Techno-Optimism 🔍 Eco-Skepticism 🏛️ Objectivist Philosophy

The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels

Climate deaths fell 98% this century. Fossil fuels caused that, and their moral defense is overdue.

by Alex Epstein 2014 257 pages

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⚡ Energy Policy 🌡️ Climate Debate 🔧 Techno-Optimism 🔍 Eco-Skepticism 🏛️ Objectivist Philosophy

Food

by Mark Hyman • 2018

Two hostile diet tribes, one surprising overlap. A doctor's plan for eating without the dogma.

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🥗 Whole Foods Diet 🔬 Nutritional Science 🌿 Anti-Inflammatory Diet 🍬 Sugar Detox 🩺 Functional Medicine

Food

Two hostile diet tribes, one surprising overlap. A doctor's plan for eating without the dogma.

by Mark Hyman 2018 400 pages

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6k+ ratings

🥗 Whole Foods Diet 🔬 Nutritional Science 🌿 Anti-Inflammatory Diet 🍬 Sugar Detox 🩺 Functional Medicine

The Circular Economy Handbook

by Peter Lacy • 2019

We design products to become waste. A playbook for turning that waste into $4.5 trillion.

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♻️ Circular Economy 🏢 Corporate Sustainability 💡 Business Model Innovation ⚡ Resource Efficiency 🗑️ Waste Reduction

The Circular Economy Handbook

We design products to become waste. A playbook for turning that waste into $4.5 trillion.

by Peter Lacy 2019 504 pages

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49 ratings

♻️ Circular Economy 🏢 Corporate Sustainability 💡 Business Model Innovation ⚡ Resource Efficiency 🗑️ Waste Reduction

Mission Economy

by Mariana Mazzucato • 2020

State-led missions built the internet and GPS; now turn that force on climate and inequality.

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💡 Innovation Economics 🏛️ Public Sector Reform 🏭 Industrial Policy 🤝 Public-Private Partnerships ⏳ Patient Capital

Mission Economy

State-led missions built the internet and GPS; now turn that force on climate and inequality.

by Mariana Mazzucato 2020 272 pages

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💡 Innovation Economics 🏛️ Public Sector Reform 🏭 Industrial Policy 🤝 Public-Private Partnerships ⏳ Patient Capital

Meet the Frugalwoods

by Elizabeth Willard Thames • 2018

An 82 percent savings rate: how two professionals quit their jobs and bought a Vermont homestead.

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🏦 Financial Independence 💰 Frugal Living 🔥 Fire Movement 🌱 Homesteading 🔨 Diy Lifestyle

Meet the Frugalwoods

An 82 percent savings rate: how two professionals quit their jobs and bought a Vermont homestead.

by Elizabeth Willard Thames 2018 256 pages

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🏦 Financial Independence 💰 Frugal Living 🔥 Fire Movement 🌱 Homesteading 🔨 Diy Lifestyle

City of the Beasts

by Isabel Allende • 2004

A grieving teen and his grandmother hunt a mythic Amazon beast and uncover a deadly conspiracy.

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🌿 Ecological Fantasy 🗺️ Mythic Quest 🐾 Animal Spirit Bond 👥 Found Family 🌌 Indigenous Spirituality

City of the Beasts

A grieving teen and his grandmother hunt a mythic Amazon beast and uncover a deadly conspiracy.

by Isabel Allende 2004 408 pages

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🌿 Ecological Fantasy 🗺️ Mythic Quest 🐾 Animal Spirit Bond 👥 Found Family 🌌 Indigenous Spirituality

In Praise of Slowness

by Carl Honoré • 2004

A Rome protest ignited a global movement to slow down food, work, cities, and parenting.

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🧘 Slow Living ⚖️ Work Life Balance ⏳ Time Poverty 🏙️ Urban Planning 🍽️ Slow Food Movement

In Praise of Slowness

A Rome protest ignited a global movement to slow down food, work, cities, and parenting.

by Carl Honoré 2004 321 pages

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🧘 Slow Living ⚖️ Work Life Balance ⏳ Time Poverty 🏙️ Urban Planning 🍽️ Slow Food Movement

Four Elements

by John O'Donohue • 2010

Four elements, one modern forgetting: a poet restores the conversation between landscape and soul.

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🕯️ Celtic Spirituality 🌍 The Four Elements 🤫 Silence And Solitude 🌿 Nature Mysticism ✝️ Christian Mysticism

Four Elements

Four elements, one modern forgetting: a poet restores the conversation between landscape and soul.

by John O'Donohue 2010 192 pages

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415 ratings

🕯️ Celtic Spirituality 🌍 The Four Elements 🤫 Silence And Solitude 🌿 Nature Mysticism ✝️ Christian Mysticism

Food Politics

by Robert Paarlberg • 2010

The hidden policy battles behind every bite, from farm subsidy wars to the GMO divide.

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🍽️ Food Politics 🌾 Agricultural Policy 🍞 Global Hunger 💵 Farm Subsidies 🚜 Industrial Agriculture

Food Politics

The hidden policy battles behind every bite, from farm subsidy wars to the GMO divide.

by Robert Paarlberg 2010 240 pages

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340 ratings

🍽️ Food Politics 🌾 Agricultural Policy 🍞 Global Hunger 💵 Farm Subsidies 🚜 Industrial Agriculture

A Monk's Guide to a Clean House and Mind

by Shoukei Matsumoto • 2011

A Zen monk's cleaning routine: why scrubbing a floor quiets your mind more than a cushion.

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🧘 Zen Practice 🧹 Cleaning As Meditation ☸️ Buddhist Living 🪴 Simple Living 🎋 Japanese Aesthetics

A Monk's Guide to a Clean House and Mind

A Zen monk's cleaning routine: why scrubbing a floor quiets your mind more than a cushion.

by Shoukei Matsumoto 2011

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🧘 Zen Practice 🧹 Cleaning As Meditation ☸️ Buddhist Living 🪴 Simple Living 🎋 Japanese Aesthetics

Food Matters

by Mark Bittman • 2008

Put plants at the center, meat on the side, and guilt off the table entirely.

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🏛️ Food Politics 🥬 Plant-Based Eating 🔬 Nutrition Science 🌍 Sustainable Eating 🍳 Home Cooking

Food Matters

Put plants at the center, meat on the side, and guilt off the table entirely.

by Mark Bittman 2008 336 pages

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11k+ ratings

🏛️ Food Politics 🥬 Plant-Based Eating 🔬 Nutrition Science 🌍 Sustainable Eating 🍳 Home Cooking

A Walk in the Woods

by Bill Bryson • 1998

A middle-aged writer and his out-of-shape friend set out to hike the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail.

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🥾 Travel Memoir 🍻 Buddy Comedy ⛰️ Appalachian Trail 🌳 Nature Writing 🛋️ Armchair Travel

A Walk in the Woods

A middle-aged writer and his out-of-shape friend set out to hike the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail.

by Bill Bryson 1998 397 pages

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🥾 Travel Memoir 🍻 Buddy Comedy ⛰️ Appalachian Trail 🌳 Nature Writing 🛋️ Armchair Travel

The Future We Choose

by Christiana Figueres • 2020

Halve emissions by 2030 or lose a livable planet: the Paris Agreement architect's ten moves.

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🌍 Climate Crisis ⚡ Climate Action 😢 Climate Grief ☀️ Renewable Energy ⚖️ Environmental Justice

The Future We Choose

Halve emissions by 2030 or lose a livable planet: the Paris Agreement architect's ten moves.

by Christiana Figueres 2020 210 pages

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🌍 Climate Crisis ⚡ Climate Action 😢 Climate Grief ☀️ Renewable Energy ⚖️ Environmental Justice

Green Swans

by John Elkington • 2020

Sustainability was about doing less harm. The next economy restores more than it takes.

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🌱 Regenerative Capitalism 🔄 Systems Thinking 🧩 Wicked Problems 📈 Exponential Technology 📊 Triple Bottom Line

Green Swans

Sustainability was about doing less harm. The next economy restores more than it takes.

by John Elkington 2020 323 pages

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349 ratings

🌱 Regenerative Capitalism 🔄 Systems Thinking 🧩 Wicked Problems 📈 Exponential Technology 📊 Triple Bottom Line

Corporate Social Responsibility

by Philip Kotler • 2004

The framework that turns corporate giving from a cost into a competitive lever.

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📊 Corporate Strategy 🌍 Social Impact 🏛️ Corporate Citizenship 📢 Cause Marketing 🤝 Stakeholder Capitalism

Corporate Social Responsibility

The framework that turns corporate giving from a cost into a competitive lever.

by Philip Kotler 2004 320 pages

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187 ratings

📊 Corporate Strategy 🌍 Social Impact 🏛️ Corporate Citizenship 📢 Cause Marketing 🤝 Stakeholder Capitalism

Laudato Si'

by Pope Francis • 2015

Environmental ruin and human suffering have one cause. The fix demands a spiritual revolution.

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Environmental ruin and human suffering have one cause. The fix demands a spiritual revolution.

by Pope Francis 2015 200 pages

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Less shopping saves the planet and wrecks the economy. The path through that trap.

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Less shopping saves the planet and wrecks the economy. The path through that trap.

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by Bill McKibben • 1989

Nature once stood apart from human affairs. We altered the atmosphere, and that separation fell.

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The End of Nature

Nature once stood apart from human affairs. We altered the atmosphere, and that separation fell.

by Bill McKibben 1989 241 pages

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