Sustainability & Environmental Justice

A reading list of books relating to sustainability and environmentalism in creative arts, business and technologies. This list is not exhaustive but may provide a starting point for research, inspiration or interest in areas such as sustainability, environmentalism, climate change, anthropocene and ecology.

Updated January 9, 2024
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Art nature dialogues : interviews with environmental artists
Grande, John K.
Paper Book
Art Nature Dialogues offers interviews with artists working with, in, and around nature and the environment. The interviews explore art practices, ecological issues, and values as they pertain to the siting of works, the use of materials, and the ethics of artmaking. John K. Grande includes...
Circular fashion : making the fashion industry sustainable
Blum, Peggy
Ebook
Creating sustainable fashion has never been more important. Circular Fashion provides an accessible, practical, and holistic approach to this key topic for anyone studying fashion or who just loves clothes and wants to make better choices. This introductory text to sustainability...
Climate change and the new polar aesthetics : artists reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic
Bloom, Lisa E
Ebook
In Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics, Lisa E. Bloom considers the ways artists, filmmakers, and activists engaged with the Arctic and Antarctic to represent our current environmental crises and reconstruct public understandings of them. Bloom engages feminist, Black, Indigenous, and...
Cradle to cradle (de la cuna a la cuna) : rediseñando la forma en que hacemos las cosas
McDonough, William.
Ebook
Ecocinema Theory and Practice 2
Ebook
This second volume builds on the initial groundwork laid by Ecocinema Theory and Practice by examining the ways in which ecocritical cinema studies have matured and proliferated over the last decade, opening whole new areas of study and research. Featuring fourteen new essays...
Framing the world explorations in ecocriticism and film
Willoquet-Maricondi, Paula
Paper Book
The essays in this collection make a contribution to the greening of film studies and expand the scope of ecocriticism as a discipline traditionally rooted in literary studies. In addition to highlighting particular films as productive tools for raising awareness and educating us about...
Green documentary : environmental documentary in the Twenty-First Century
Hughes, Helen
Ebook
During the first decade of the twenty-first century, a stunning array of documentary films focusing on environmental issues, representing the world on the brink of ecological catastrophe, has been met with critical and popular acclaim. This cohesive and accessible volume is the first book-length...
Plant : exploring the botanical world
Clarke, Victoria
Paper Book
The ultimate gift for gardeners and art-lovers, featuring 300 of the most beautiful and pioneering botanical images ever Following in the footsteps of the international bestseller Map, Exploring the World, this fresh and visually stunning survey celebrates the extraordinary...
Rebel ideas : the power of diverse thinking
Syed, Matthew
Paper Book
Rebel Ideas will strengthen any kind of team, while including advice on how, as individuals, we can embrace the potential of an "outsider mind-set" as our greatest asset. Ideas are everywhere, but those with the greatest problem-solving, business-transforming, and life...
Regenerative fashion : a nature-based approach to fibres, livelihoods and leadership
Minney, Safia
Paper Book
As our climate, ecological and social crises converge, urgent action is needed to maximize our chances of survival. A new commercial approach is possible but it requires a systemic shift, with companies learning to operate as part of a wider 'ecosystem', allowing fashion to restore what it has taken...
Screening nature cinema beyond the human
Pick, Anat
Ebook
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The sustainable fashion handbook
Black, Sandy.
Paper Book
This book encompasses not only the environmental issues presented by a wasteful and fast-moving fashion cycle, but also the social impact of the global fashion industry, which employs up to 40 million people worldwide in manufacturing and agriculture. Positive in outlook, the book promotes an...
This changes everything Capitalism vs. The Climate
Klein, Naomi
Ebook

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