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Green Swans Summary
Green Swans
The Coming Boom In Regenerative Capitalism
by John Elkington 2020 323 pages
3.78
100+ ratings
Sustainability
Economics
Business
Aftershocks of Disaster Summary
Aftershocks of Disaster
Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm
by Yarimar Bonilla 2019 384 pages
4.27
100+ ratings
Politics
History
Social Justice
How to Talk About Climate Change in a Way That Makes a Difference Summary
How to Talk About Climate Change in a Way That Makes a Difference
by Rebecca Huntley 2020 304 pages
3.89
100+ ratings
Climate Change
Environment
Sustainability
Green Philosophy Summary
Green Philosophy
How to Think Seriously About the Planet
by Roger Scruton 2011 464 pages
3.88
100+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Environment
Earth in Human Hands Summary
Earth in Human Hands
Shaping Our Planet's Future
by David Grinspoon 2016 544 pages
4.19
100+ ratings
Science
Environment
Climate Change
Merchants of Doubt Summary
Merchants of Doubt
How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
by Naomi Oreskes 2010 274 pages
4.17
7k+ ratings
Science
Politics
History
Plan B 3.0 Summary
Plan B 3.0
Mobilizing to Save Civilization
by Lester R. Brown 2008 416 pages
3.92
500+ ratings
Environment
Science
Economics
Cows Save the Planet Summary
Cows Save the Planet
And Other Improbable Ways of Restoring Soil to Heal the Earth
by Judith D. Schwartz 2013 240 pages
4.10
100+ ratings
Environment
Science
Agriculture
Voluntary Simplicity Summary
Voluntary Simplicity
Toward a Way of Life That is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich
by Duane Elgin 1981 240 pages
3.62
1k+ ratings
Self Help
Philosophy
Sustainability
The Big Thirst Summary
The Big Thirst
The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water
by Charles Fishman 2010 418 pages
3.94
1k+ ratings
Science
Environment
Nature
Braiding Sweetgrass Summary
Braiding Sweetgrass
Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
by Robin Wall Kimmerer 2013 408 pages
4.53
100k+ ratings
Science
Indigenous
Memoir
Entangled Life Summary
Entangled Life
How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
by Merlin Sheldrake 2020 352 pages
4.34
43k+ ratings
Science
Nature
Biology
Cradle to Cradle Summary
Cradle to Cradle
Remaking the Way We Make Things
by William McDonough 2002 193 pages
4.09
12k+ ratings
Sustainability
Environment
Design
The Hidden Life of Trees Summary
The Hidden Life of Trees
What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
by Peter Wohlleben 2015 272 pages
4.07
81k+ ratings
Science
Nature
Environment
Blessed Unrest Summary
Blessed Unrest
How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming
by Paul Hawken 2007 352 pages
3.94
1k+ ratings
Environment
Sustainability
Activism
Teaming with Nutrients Summary
Teaming with Nutrients
The Organic Gardenerโ€™s Guide to Optimizing Plant Nutrition
by Jeff Lowenfels 2013 250 pages
4.30
100+ ratings
Gardening
Science
Agriculture
Falter Summary
Falter
Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
by Bill McKibben 2019 291 pages
4.00
2k+ ratings
Science
Environment
Climate Change
The End of Nature Summary
The End of Nature
by Bill McKibben 1989 224 pages
3.94
3k+ ratings
Environment
Science
Nature
Listening to Whales Summary
Listening to Whales
What the Orcas Have Taught Us
by Alexandra Morton 2002 336 pages
4.51
500+ ratings
Animals
Science
Nature
The Soil Will Save Us Summary
The Soil Will Save Us
How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet
by Kristin Ohlson 2014 242 pages
4.14
1k+ ratings
Science
Environment
Food
Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them Summary
Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them
by Mark Jerome Walters 2003 224 pages
3.71
100+ ratings
Health
Science
Medical
Food Politics Summary
Food Politics
What Everyone Needs to Know
by Robert Paarlberg 2010 240 pages
3.48
100+ ratings
Food
Politics
Agriculture
The Omnivore's Dilemma Summary
The Omnivore's Dilemma
A Natural History of Four Meals
by Michael Pollan 2006 450 pages
4.19
200k+ ratings
Food
Science
Health
Grass, Soil, Hope Summary
Grass, Soil, Hope
A Journey through Carbon Country
by Courtney White 2014 244 pages
4.04
100+ ratings
Food
Environment
Science
Getting to Green Summary
Getting to Green
Saving Nature: A Bipartisan Solution
by Frederic C. Rich 2016 368 pages
4.01
100+ ratings
Politics
Environment
Science
END OF OIL Summary
END OF OIL
by Paul Roberts 2004 412 pages
3.74
1k+ ratings
Politics
Science
Environment
Who Really Feeds the World? The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology Summary
Who Really Feeds the World? The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology
by Vandana Shiva 2015 192 pages
3.95
100+ ratings
Food
Agriculture
Politics
Who Owns England? Summary
Who Owns England?
How We Lost Our Green and Pleasant Land, and How to Take It Back
by Guy Shrubsole 2019 385 pages
4.23
1k+ ratings
Politics
History
Environment
Pandora's Seed Summary
Pandora's Seed
The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization
by Spencer Wells 2010 256 pages
3.77
1k+ ratings
Science
History
Anthropology
The Vegetable Gardener's Guide to Permaculture Summary
The Vegetable Gardener's Guide to Permaculture
Creating an Edible Ecosystem
by Christopher Shein 2013 272 pages
3.83
100+ ratings
Gardening
Food
How To
The Legacy Summary
The Legacy
An Elder's Vision for Our Sustainable Future
by David Suzuki 2010 128 pages
4.19
100+ ratings
Environment
Science
Sustainability
Gorgeously Green Summary
Gorgeously Green
8 Simple Steps to an Earth-Friendly Life
by Sophie Uliano 2008 309 pages
3.80
500+ ratings
Health
Reference
Green
Why Vegan? Summary
Why Vegan?
by Peter Singer 2020 87 pages
4.04
500+ ratings
Philosophy
Vegan
Environment
365 Ways To Change the World Summary
365 Ways To Change the World
How to Make a Difference โ€” One Day at a Time
by Michael Norton 2005 400 pages
3.94
100+ ratings
Environment
Reference
Politics
The Uninhabitable Earth Summary
The Uninhabitable Earth
Life After Warming
by David Wallace-Wells 2019 310 pages
4.00
28k+ ratings
Science
Environment
Climate Change
How To Catch A Mole Summary
How To Catch A Mole
by Marc Hamer 2019 256 pages
4.16
1k+ ratings
Nature
Memoir
Animals
Pipe Dreams Summary
Pipe Dreams
The Urgent Global Quest to Transform the Toilet
by Chelsea Wald 2021 304 pages
4.05
100+ ratings
Science
History
Technology
Soil Not Oil Summary
Soil Not Oil
Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis
by Vandana Shiva 2008 144 pages
4.09
500+ ratings
Environment
Politics
Climate Change
Planet on Fire Summary
Planet on Fire
A Manifesto for the Age of Environmental Breakdown
by Mathew Lawrence 2021 289 pages
3.67
100+ ratings
Environment
Politics
Climate Change
Pastoral Song Summary
Pastoral Song
A Farmerโ€™s Journey
by James Rebanks 2020 304 pages
4.42
7k+ ratings
Nature
Memoir
Environment
The Necessary Revolution Summary
The Necessary Revolution
How individuals and organizations are working together to create a sustainable world.
by Peter M. Senge 2008 416 pages
3.85
500+ ratings
Sustainability
Business
Environment
Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet Summary
Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet
by Thich Nhat Hanh 2021 320 pages
4.37
1k+ ratings
Buddhism
Spirituality
Philosophy
Net Positive Summary
Net Positive
How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take
by Paul Polman 2021 256 pages
3.88
500+ ratings
Business
Sustainability
Environment
Eating to Extinction Summary
Eating to Extinction
The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
by Dan Saladino 2022 464 pages
4.30
2k+ ratings
Food
Science
History
Net Zero Summary
Net Zero
How We Stop Causing Climate Change
by Dieter Helm 2020 329 pages
3.85
100+ ratings
Climate Change
Environment
Sustainability
The Sustainable(ish) Living Guide Summary
The Sustainable(ish) Living Guide
Everything you need to know to make small changes that make a big difference
by Jen Gale 2020 304 pages
4.09
500+ ratings
Sustainability
Self Help
Environment
Moveable Feasts Summary
Moveable Feasts
From Ancient Rome to the 21st Century, the Incredible Journeys of the Food We Eat
by Sarah Murray 2007 272 pages
3.55
100+ ratings
Food
History
Food History
Generation Dread Summary
Generation Dread
Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis
by Britt Wray 2022 296 pages
3.95
500+ ratings
Climate Change
Environment
Psychology
The Permaculture Garden Summary
The Permaculture Garden
by Graham Bell 1994 174 pages
3.87
100+ ratings
Gardening
Environment
How To
Speed & Scale Summary
Speed & Scale
A Global Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now
by John Doerr 2021 442 pages
4.21
1k+ ratings
Sustainability
Climate Change
Science
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