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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Consumed
Barber, Aja
Paper Book
Aja Barber wants change. In the 'learning' first half of the book, she will expose you to the endemic injustices in our consumer industries and the uncomfortable history of the textile industry; one which brokered slavery, racism and today's wealth inequality. And how these oppressive systems...
The deluge
Markley, Stephen
Paper Book
A New York Times Notable Book "This book is, simply put, a modern classic. If you read it, you'll never forget it. Prophetic, terrifying, uplifting." --Stephen King From the bestselling author of Ohio, a masterful American epic charting a near future...
The heat will kill you first : life and death on a scorched planet
Goodell, Jeff
Paper Book
An Instant New York Times Bestseller!   New York Times best-selling journalist Jeff Goodell presents an important examination of the impact that temperature rise will have on our lives and on our planet,...
Hurricane lizards and plastic squid : how the natural world is adapting to climate change
Hanson, Thor
Paper Book
Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid is the first major book by a biologist to focus on the fascinating story of how the natural world is adjusting, adapting, and sometimes measurably evolving in response to climate change. Lyrical and thought-provoking, this book broadens the climate focus...
Land of milk and honey
Zhang, C Pam
Paper Book
" The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory novel about a young chef whose discovery of pleasure alters her life and, indirectly, the world A smog has spread. Food crops are rapidly...
Life between the tides : in search of rockpools and other adventures along the shore
Nicolson, Adam
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2022 'A remarkable and powerful book, the rarest of things ... Nicolson is unique as a writer ... I loved it' EDMUND DE WAAL Few places are as familiar as the shore - and few as full of mystery and surprise. How do...
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
A renowned climate scientist shows how fossil-fuel companies have waged a thirty-year campaign to deflect blame and responsibility and to delay action on climate change, and offers a battle plan for how we can save the planet. Recycle. Fly less. Eat less meat. These are some of...
Not the end of the world : how we can be the first generation to build a sustainable planet
Ritchie, Hannah
Paper Book
** THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ** **A FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN, WAITROSE WEEKEND BEST SUMMER READ** 'A book for anyone who finds it difficult to believe in a better future' THE TIMES Feeling anxious, powerless, or confused...
Termination shock
Stephenson, Neal
Paper Book
A visionary new science fiction thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seveneves, Anathem. Reamde, and Cryptonomicon. Intricately imagined and richly plotted, Termination Shock is trademark Stephenson--a gripping and propulsive epic of the modern world that shows this...
Visible mending : repair, renew, reuse the clothes you love
Khounnoraj, Arounna
Paper Book
Covering 12 core techniques, 10 key stitches and 3 projects, explore why we should mend and how to mend a variety of different fabrics using this book. Demystifying the mending techniques through a directory of stitches and clear step-by-steps, from repairing to reusing and renewing...
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