Environment or Sustainability

Explore the intersection of humans and nature. Reduce, reuse, repair, recycle. Live lightly. Save the planet. Get back to nature. There are many ways to show you care about the earth! Try one of these titles about sustainability and the environment. Plant a seed, read!

Updated May 11, 2026
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Environment or Sustainability

Explore the intersection of humans and nature. Reduce, reuse, repair, recycle. Live lightly. Save the planet. Get back to nature. There are many ways to show you care about the earth! Try one of these titles about sustainability and the environment. Plant a seed, read!

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Life between the tides
Nicolson, Adam
Paper Book
Adam Nicolson explores the marine life inhabiting seashore rockpools with a scientist''s curiosity and a poet''s wonder in this beautifully illustrated book. The sea is not made of water. Creatures are its genes. Look down as you crouch over the shallows and...
The lost cause
Doctorow, Cory
Paper Book
It's thirty years from now. We're making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely. But what about all the angry old people who can't let go? For young Americans a generation from now, climate change isn't controversial. It's just an overwhelming fact of life. And so are...
The ministry for the future
Robinson, Kim Stanley
Paper Book
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR "The best science-fiction nonfiction novel I've ever read." --Jonathan Lethem   "If I could get policymakers, and citizens, everywhere to read just one book this year...
The new climate war : the fight to take back our planet
Mann, Michael E.
Paper Book
Shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year award A renowned climate scientist shows how fossil fuel companies have waged a thirty-year campaign to deflect blame and responsibility and delay action on climate change, and offers a battle plan for how we can...
Not the end of the world : how we can be the first generation to build a sustainable planet
Ritchie, Hannah
Paper Book
This "eye-opening and essential" book (Bill Gates) will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems--and explains how we can solve them. It's become common to tell kids that they're going to die from climate change. We are constantly bombarded by doomsday headlines...
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