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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Ecotopia emerging
Callenbach, Ernest.
Paper Book
This prequel is a multi-stranded novel that dramatizes the rise and triumph of a powerful American movement to preserve the earth as a safe, habitable environment. People who also appear in ECOTOPIA first join the story in this epic vision of the birth of a new nation.
The great displacement : climate change and the next American migration
Bittle, Jake
Paper Book
Shortlisted for the 2024 Carnegie Medal for Excellence "The Great Displacement is closely observed, compassionate, and far-sighted." --Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Under a White Sky The untold story of climate migration in the United...
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 : the fraught and fascinating biology of climate change
Hanson, Thor
Paper Book
*A New York Times Editor's Choice pick *Shortlisted for the 2022 Pacific Northwest Book Awards A beloved natural historian explores how climate change is driving evolution   ...
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...
On a farther shore : the life and legacy of Rachel Carson
Souder, William
Paper Book
Published on the fiftieth anniversary of her seminal book, Silent Spring, here is an indelible new portrait of Rachel Carson, founder of the environmental movement She loved the ocean and wrote three books about its mysteries, including the international bestseller The Sea Around...
Termination shock : a novel
Stephenson, Neal
Paper Book
New York Times Bestseller From Neal Stephenson--who coined the term "metaverse" in his 1992 novel Snow Crash--comes a sweeping, prescient new near-future thriller that transports readers to a near-future world in which the greenhouse effect has inexorably resulted...
Under a white sky : the nature of the future
Kolbert, Elizabeth
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it? RECOMMENDED BY PRESIDENT OBAMA AND BILL...
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