The Secret Life of Groceries by Benjamin Lorr
Lorr explains the dark miracle of the supermarket and sheds light on what it really takes to bring a product to grocery shelves nationwide.
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Category: Deep Dives
Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
Take a salt world history tour: from ancient Egypt, to preserving salted cod, to the American salt and independence wars, and much more.
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Fashionopolis by Dana Thomas
Fashionopolis is an eye-opening tour of fast fashion: its history, its human price, and the dirty truth of its effects on our environment.
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We are the Weather by Jonathan Safran Foer
Personal and deeply compelling, We Are The Weather challenges that the climate crisis is one of belief. If we believe, we can then act.
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Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash by Edward Humes
Garbology details how the American lifestyle creates mountains of trash, explains what happens to it, and explores solutions to reduce waste.
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The Human Tide by Paul Morland
Morland shows through demography (the study of population) how periods of rapid population transition shaped the course of world history.
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Cod: A Biography of a Fish that Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky
A gripping tale of a 1,000 year fishing spree, Cod A Biography charts the rising demand for cod and how it led to its near-extinction.
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The Incredible Journey of Plants by Stefano Mancuso
Stefano Mancuso’s book reads like a fiction travel log but it is an incredibly true account of the incredible journey of plants.
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Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Silent Spring takes you on a journey of the impact of chemical pollution on towns, soil, rivers, water, and animal life.
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All We Can Save Edited by Katharine Wilkerson
All We Can Save is a collection of essays and poems by female thought leaders about our climate crisis and how we can alter our trajectory.
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Drawdown by Paul Hawken
This book proposes solutions to reverse global warming and reduce the amount of carbon in the atmosphere. We can build a climate-safe world!
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The Human Planet by George Steinmetz
Steinmetz’s aerial photos capture our natural places, harvesting of the biosphere, our dwellings, and other human changes to our planet.
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