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Taking on the Plastics Crisis Summary
Taking on the Plastics Crisis
by Hannah Testa 2020 64 pages
3.88
500+ ratings
Science
Social Justice
Activism
The Good Bee Summary
The Good Bee
A Celebration of Bees – And How to Save Them
by Alison Benjamin 2019 193 pages
4.18
100+ ratings
Science
Nature
Natural History
Four Elements Summary
Four Elements
Reflections on Nature
by John O'Donohue 2010 192 pages
4.21
100+ ratings
Spirituality
Poetry
Philosophy
Rewilding the Sea Summary
Rewilding the Sea
by Charles Clover 2022 261 pages
4.21
100+ ratings
Nature
Science
Environment
The Devil Never Sleeps Summary
The Devil Never Sleeps
Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters
by Juliette Kayyem 2022 240 pages
3.88
100+ ratings
History
Politics
Business
The Songs of Trees Summary
The Songs of Trees
Stories from Nature's Great Connectors
by David George Haskell 2017 304 pages
4.07
1k+ ratings
Nature
Science
Environment
Fostering Sustainable Behavior Summary
Fostering Sustainable Behavior
An Introduction to Community-Based Social Marketing
by Doug McKenzie-Mohr 1999 176 pages
3.86
100+ ratings
Sustainability
Environment
Psychology
The Great Displacement Summary
The Great Displacement
Climate Change and the Next American Migration
by Jake Bittle 2023 368 pages
4.28
3k+ ratings
Science
Climate Change
Environment
Design for a Better World Summary
Design for a Better World
Meaningful, Sustainable, Humanity Centered
by Donald A. Norman 2023 376 pages
3.60
100+ ratings
Design
Sustainability
Environment
Planta Sapiens Summary
Planta Sapiens
The New Science of Plant Intelligence
by Paco Calvo 2022 304 pages
3.41
500+ ratings
Science
Nature
Biology
Feminism or Death Summary
Feminism or Death
by Françoise d'Eaubonne 1974 352 pages
3.58
100+ ratings
Feminism
Politics
France
The Day the World Stops Shopping Summary
The Day the World Stops Shopping
How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves
by J.B. MacKinnon 2021 336 pages
4.17
3k+ ratings
Environment
Economics
Science
Fatal Conveniences Summary
Fatal Conveniences
The Toxic Products and Harmful Habits That Are Making You Sick―and the Simple Changes That Will Save Your Health
by Darin Olien 2023 304 pages
3.75
1k+ ratings
Health
Science
Environment
Resilience Thinking Summary
Resilience Thinking
Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World
by Brian Walker 2006 192 pages
3.87
100+ ratings
Science
Environment
Sustainability
Ravenous Summary
Ravenous
How to get ourselves and our planet into shape
by Henry Dimbleby 2023 336 pages
4.38
1k+ ratings
Food
Health
Science
Small Wonder Summary
Small Wonder
by Barbara Kingsolver 2002 264 pages
4.03
11k+ ratings
Essays
Nature
Memoir
Not Just a Pretty Face Summary
Not Just a Pretty Face
The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry
by Stacy Malkan 2007 192 pages
3.96
100+ ratings
Health
Social Issues
Feminism
Sacred Nature Summary
Sacred Nature
Restoring Our Ancient Bond with the Natural World
by Karen Armstrong 2022 224 pages
3.68
1k+ ratings
Nature
Religion
Spirituality
Shark Life Summary
Shark Life
True Stories About Sharks & the Sea
by Peter Benchley 2002 208 pages
4.00
500+ ratings
Science
Animals
Nature
The Sacred Balance Summary
The Sacred Balance
Rediscovering Our Place in Nature
by David Suzuki 1997 272 pages
4.14
1k+ ratings
Nature
Science
Environment
Nomad Century Summary
Nomad Century
How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World
by Gaia Vince 2022 288 pages
3.84
1k+ ratings
Science
Environment
Climate Change
Where the Water Goes Summary
Where the Water Goes
Life and Death Along the Colorado River
by David Owen 2017 288 pages
3.92
3k+ ratings
Science
Environment
Nature
An Inconvenient Apocalypse Summary
An Inconvenient Apocalypse
Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity
by Wes Jackson 2022 184 pages
3.57
100+ ratings
Climate Change
Science
Environment
Not the End of the World Summary
Not the End of the World
How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
by Hannah Ritchie 2024 352 pages
4.26
4k+ ratings
Science
Environment
Climate Change
The Light Eaters Summary
The Light Eaters
How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
by Zoë Schlanger 2024 304 pages
4.32
3k+ ratings
Science
Nature
Biology
Best Things First Summary
Best Things First
by Bjørn Lomborg 2023 305 pages
3.91
100+ ratings
Economics
Politics
Science
The Secret Wisdom of Nature Summary
The Secret Wisdom of Nature
Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation
by Peter Wohlleben 2017 272 pages
4.06
6k+ ratings
Nature
Science
Environment
The Secret Wisdom of Nature Summary
The Secret Wisdom of Nature
Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation
by Peter Wohlleben 2017 272 pages
4.06
6k+ ratings
Nature
Science
Environment
The Good Ancestor Summary
The Good Ancestor
A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking
by Roman Krznaric 2020 336 pages
4.07
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
History
Less Is More Summary
Less Is More
How Degrowth Will Save the World
by Jason Hickel 2020 336 pages
4.51
7k+ ratings
Economics
Politics
Environment
Slow Down Summary
Slow Down
The Degrowth Manifesto
by Kōhei Saitō 2020 273 pages
3.92
1k+ ratings
Economics
Politics
Philosophy
The Climate Book Summary
The Climate Book
The Facts and the Solutions
by Greta Thunberg 2022 464 pages
4.40
2k+ ratings
Science
Environment
Climate Change
An Immense World Summary
An Immense World
How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
by Ed Yong 2022 464 pages
4.47
29k+ ratings
Science
Nature
Animals
Fibershed Summary
Fibershed
Growing a Movement of Farmers, Fashion Activists, and Makers for a New Textile Economy
by Rebecca Burgess 2019 288 pages
4.07
100+ ratings
Fashion
Environment
History
Confronting Collapse Summary
Confronting Collapse
The Crisis of Energy and Money in a Post Peak Oil World
by Michael C. Ruppert 2009 264 pages
3.84
100+ ratings
Politics
Economics
Peak Oil
The Sixth Extinction Summary
The Sixth Extinction
An Unnatural History
by Elizabeth Kolbert 2014 336 pages
4.16
75k+ ratings
Science
History
Environment
Our Choice Summary
Our Choice
A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis
by Al Gore 2008 416 pages
3.99
500+ ratings
Science
Environment
Climate Change
The Overstory Summary
The Overstory
by Richard Powers 2018 502 pages
4.12
100k+ ratings
Nature
Literary Fiction
Contemporary
False Alarm Summary
False Alarm
How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet
by Bjørn Lomborg 2020 320 pages
4.18
2k+ ratings
Science
Politics
Climate Change
Clean Meat Summary
Clean Meat
How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World
by Paul Shapiro 2018 272 pages
4.05
500+ ratings
Science
Food
Environment
The Green New Deal Summary
The Green New Deal
Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028, and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth
by Jeremy Rifkin 2019 304 pages
3.69
500+ ratings
Politics
Environment
Economics
Apocalypse Never Summary
Apocalypse Never
Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
by Michael Shellenberger 2020 272 pages
4.17
5k+ ratings
Science
Politics
Environment
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster Summary
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
by Bill Gates 2021 272 pages
4.13
49k+ ratings
Science
Climate Change
Environment
Revolutionary Power Summary
Revolutionary Power
An Activist's Guide to the Energy Transition
by Shalanda Baker 2021 224 pages
4.20
100+ ratings
Environment
Climate Change
Social Justice
The Waste-Free World Summary
The Waste-Free World
How the Circular Economy Will Take Less, Make More, and Save the Planet
by Ron Gonen 2021 288 pages
4.18
100+ ratings
Sustainability
Environment
Economics
Cheaper, Faster, Better Summary
Cheaper, Faster, Better
How We’ll Win the Climate War
by Tom Steyer 2024 280 pages
3.92
100+ ratings
Environment
Science
Economics
The Green Collar Economy Summary
The Green Collar Economy
How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems
by Van Jones 2008 256 pages
3.70
500+ ratings
Economics
Environment
Sustainability
Taming the Sun Summary
Taming the Sun
Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet
by Varun Sivaram 2018 371 pages
4.10
100+ ratings
Science
Environment
Technology
Dirt to Soil Summary
Dirt to Soil
One Family's Journey Into Regenerative Agriculture
by Gabe Brown 2018 240 pages
4.46
2k+ ratings
Agriculture
Gardening
Science
Tomatoland Summary
Tomatoland
How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
by Barry Estabrook 2011 240 pages
3.95
4k+ ratings
Food
Science
History
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