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• How Bad Are Bananas?

  the Carbon Footprint of Everything

  Berners-Lee, Mike

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  Ever wonder the carbon footprint of something very specific? This is your book. It gives a great jumping-off point for estimating your carbon emissions.

• A Life Less Throwaway

  the Lost Art of Buying for Life

  Button, Tara

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  Explore the decline of quality in the products we use. Learn about planned obsolescence, how marketers are pushing us to re-buy, and how we can fight against a system of products meant to fail.

• Intervention Earth

  Life-saving Ideas From the World's Climate Engineers

  Dyer, Gwynne

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  Historian, journalist, and author of the prescient book Climate Wars Gwynne Dyer tracks down the world’s top climate engineers to try to answer the question: what can science do to mitigate the catastrophic and irreversible effects of climate change?

• Drawdown

  the Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming

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  A solution-driven narrative that makes you feel positive about fighting climate change. Hawken presents a change and then talks about its effects - an amazing way to engage with different individual and global solutions.

• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

  a Year of Food Life

  Kingsolver, Barbara

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  Serious about eating local? This is one of the zero waste books you need! This book talks frankly about the problems behind our modern food system and - better yet - shows an alternative route that is even more beautiful.

• This Changes Everything

  Capitalism Vs. the Climate

  Klein, Naomi

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  What can you ask for more than a book that not only wants to save our environment but destroy the capitalist system that got us here? Culture over profit. Humanity and a connection to the planet over mindless consumption.

• Under a White Sky

  the Nature of the Future

  Kolbert, Elizabeth

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  In Under a White Sky, Elizabeth Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. She examines how the very sorts of interventions that have imperilled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation.

• The Story of Stuff

  the Impact of Overconsumption on the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health-- and How We Can Make It Better

  Leonard, Annie

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  One of the classic zero waste books about our over-consumption and its effects on the planet. Follows items step-by-step through the production process so you can really understand all of the factors that play into the items we carelessly bring into…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Day the World Stops Shopping

  How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves

  MacKinnon, J. B.

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  MacKinnon weaves real-life statistics and stories through a thought experiment about what would actually happen over time if people simply… stopped shopping.

• The Upcycle

  Beyond Sustainability, Designing for Abundance

  McDonough, William

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  The questions of resource scarcity and sustainability are questions of design. They are practical-minded They envision beneficial designs of products, buildings, and business practices—and they show us these ideas being put to use around the world…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Treeline

  the Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth

  Rawlence, Ben

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  Blending reportage with the latest science, The Treeline is a story of what might soon be the last forest left and what that means for the future of all life on earth

• Doughnut Economics

  Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist

  Raworth, Kate

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  If you're frustrated by a world that cares about growth above all else, this book discusses ideas on how and why we need to build an economy that asks questions about sustainability, social justice, and more, rather than just growing for growth's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Losing Earth

  a Recent History

  Rich, Nathaniel

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  By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change--including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Not the End of the World

  How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet

  Ritchie, Hannah

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  We are constantly bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil won't be able to support crops, fish will vanish from our oceans, and that we should reconsider having children. Data scientist Hannah Ritchie argues that if we zoom out, a very…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Climate Justice

  Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future

  Robinson, Mary

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  Powerful and deeply humane, Climate Justice is a stirring manifesto on one of the most pressing humanitarian issues of our time, and a lucid, affirmative, and well-argued case for hope and sharing inspiring stories and offering vital lessons for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Uninhabitable Earth

  Life After Warming

  Wallace-Wells, David

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  The signs of climate change are unmistakable even today, but the real transformations have hardly begun. In The Uninhabitable Earth, David Wallace-Wells undertakes a new kind of storytelling and a new kind of social science to explore the era of…Read moreRead more of this annotation