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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Category: Deep Dives
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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Half-Earth by Edward O. Wilson
Wilson argues that we must “increase the area of inviolable natural reserves to half the surface of the Earth” to avoid the sixth extinction.
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The Ideal City, Edited by Gestalten
The Ideal City is a collection of global projects striving to create progressive cities that meet our needs while valuing Earth’s resources.
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Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Braiding Sweetgrass is a unique and endearing “braid” of stories about our reciprocal relationship with the planet.
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The Golden Thread by Kassia St. Clair
The Golden Thread offers a fascinating journey through the evolution of textiles and their profound influence on human civilization.
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