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Updated March 10, 2026
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How to give up plastic : a guide to saving the world, one plastic bottle at a time
McCallum, Will
Paper Book
As read by James Corden, Fearne Cotton, Jim Chapman and Dougie Poytner. 'We have a responsibility, every one of us' David Attenborough Around 12.7 million tonnes of plastic are entering the ocean every year, killing over 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals. ...
Simply sustainable : moving toward plastic-free, low-waste living
Cameron, Lily
Paper Book
Break your plastic habit with simple, actionable steps and jumpstart your journey toward a minimal, beautiful, low-waste home. "Simply Sustainable guides you through the why and how of zero-waste, while emphasizing the importance of finding the sweet spot between...
The Maui effect
Ackerman, Sara
Paper Book
A dazzling romance by USA TODAY bestselling author Sara Ackerman.  They say opposites attract, but are they meant to last? 'Iwa Young's life is high in the Maui rainforest. As a field biologist, she's happiest in the company of...
Slow death by rubber duck
Smith, Rick
Paper Book
'Why don't we experiment on ourselves?' When leading environmentalists Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie decided to tell the story of pollution in our modern world by using their own bodies as laboratories, they could not have known what they were about to discover. They ingested and inhaled...
Attainable sustainable : the lost art of self-reliant living
Bordessa, Kris
Paper Book
Packed with delicious recipes, natural remedies, gardening know-how, homesteading advice, and more, this indispensable lifestyle reference makes earth-friendly, off-the-grid living approachable and fulfilling. Whether you live in a city, suburb, or the country, this essential...
The unworthy
Bazterrica, Agustina María
Paper Book
A fearsomely dark, incantatory new dystopia set in a post-apocalyptic convent from the author of viral sensation Tender is the Flesh
Arboreality
Campbell, Rebecca
Paper Book
A professor in pandemic isolation rescues books from the flooded and collapsing McPherson Library. A man plants fireweed on the hillside of his depopulated Vancouver Island suburb. An aspiring luthier poaches the last ancient Sitka spruce to make a violin for a child prodigy. Campbell's...
The high seas : greed, power and the battle for the unclaimed ocean
Heffernan, Olive
Paper Book
In this "essential guide to the half of our blue planet we call the high seas" (Will McCallum, author of How to Give Up Plastic), one of the world's leading voices on the issue tracks the race to exploit and protect our last frontier. Two thirds of the world's...
Is a river alive?
Macfarlane, Robert
Paper Book
Hailed in the New York Times as "a naturalist who can unfurl a sentence with the breathless ease of a master angler," Robert Macfarlane brings his glittering style to a profound work of travel writing, reportage, and natural history. Is a River Alive? is a joyful, mind-expanding exploration of an...
Albion
Hope, Anna
Paper Book
The Brooke family are gathering in their eighteenth-century ancestral home - twenty bedrooms of carved Sussex sandstone - to bury Philip- husband, father and the blinding sun around which they have all orbited for as long as they can remember. Frannie, inheritor of a thousand acres of...
The darkness manifesto : how light pollution threatens the ancient rhythms of life
Eklöf, Johan
Paper Book
How much light is too much light? Satellite pictures show our planet as a brightly glowing orb. In our era of 24/7 illumination, an excess of light is a pressing problem. Just about every creature on earth, humans included, operates according to the circadian rhythm. The world's flora and fauna have...
Nature of Our Cities
Galle, Nadina
Paper Book
In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Michael Pollan, The Nature of Our Cities is a stirring exploration of how innovators from around the world are combining urban nature with emerging technologies, protecting the planet's cities from the effects of climate change and...
Adventures in volcanoland : what volcanoes tell us about the world and ourselves
Mather, Tamsin A.
Paper Book
Adventures in Volcanoland charts journeys across deserts, through jungles and up ice caps, to some of the world's most important volcanoes, from Nicaragua to Hawaii, Santorini to Ethiopia, exploring Tamsin Mather's obsession with these momentous geological formations, the cultural and...
Runaway climate : what the geological past can tell us about the coming climate change catastrophe
Earle, Steven
Paper Book
With tipping points and extreme global warming looming, the key to understanding our climate future lies in our distant past "If you care at all about our future, you must read Runaway Climate." --Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow, Post Carbon Institute, With rising emissions, we are...
Nuclear is not the solution : the folly of atomic power in the age of climate change
Ramana, M. V.
Paper Book
NUCLEAR POWER WILL SLOW OUR RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE AND INCREASE THE RISK OF WEAPONS PROLIFERATION AND CATASTROPHE THE CLIMATE CRISIS has propelled nuclear energy back into fashion. Its proponents argue we already have the technology of the future and that it only needs...
Hum
Phillips, Helen
Paper Book
A Most Anticipated Book for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, Goodreads, LitHub, and Book Riot A Best Book of the Summer for Esquire, Electric Lit, and Town & Country A People Book of the...
What if we get it right? : visions of climate futures
Johnson, Ayana Elizabeth
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "With a thoughtfully curated series of essays, poetry, and conversations, the brilliant scientist and climate expert Ayana Elizabeth Johnson has assembled a group of dynamic people who are willing to imagine what seems impossible, and articulate those visions...
Even if everything ends
Liljestrand, Jens
Paper Book
Life goes on in the face of a climate crisis in this astonishing and unforgettable debut novel that follows four characters as they struggle to survive in a burning world. Even when the climate crisis escalates beyond our worst nightmares and people become refugees, the world...
Not the end of the world : surprising facts, dangerous myths and hopeful solutions for our future on planet Earth
Ritchie, Hannah
Paper Book
This book will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems - and show how together we can solve them. ** THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER ** 'Truly essential' MARGARET ATWOOD 'Inspiring' DAVID WALLACE-WELLS
Sand talk : how indigenous thinking can save the world
Yunkaporta, Tyson
Paper Book
This remarkable book is about everything from echidnas to evolution, cosmology to cooking, sex and science and spirits to Schrodinger's cat. Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from an Indigenous perspective. He asks how contemporary life diverges from the pattern of creation. How does this...
The future is now : solving the climate crisis with today's technologies
McDonald, Bob
Paper Book
In the absence of motorized boats and gondolas, Venice's waters have returned to a sparkling blue color. Deer have been spotted roaming cities in Italy, and mountain goats recently took over a small seaside town in Wales. Taking advantage of the decreased boat traffic, whales have returned to...
We speak through the mountain
Mohamed, Premee
Paper Book
Traveling alone through the climate-crisis-ravaged wilds of Alberta's Rocky Mountains, 19-year-old Reid Graham battles the elements and her lifelong chronic illness to reach the utopia of Howse University. But life in one of the storied 'domes' - the last remnants of pre-collapse society - isn't...
The self-sufficiency garden : feed your family and save money
Richards, Huw
Paper Book
Eat homegrown food all year round and save money on your weekly shop by following a simple plan for self-sufficiency. Huw Richards and Sam Cooper have spent the past two years planning and trialing their very own self-sufficiency garden in a 10x12.5m plot and now they've worked...
The end of the ocean
Lunde, Maja
Paper Book
From the author of the #1 international bestseller The History of Bees, a captivating new novel about the threat of a worldwide water shortage as seen through the eyes of a father and daughter. In 2019, seventy-year-old Signe sets out on a hazardous voyage to cross an...
1000 hours outside : activities to match screen time with green time
Yurich, Ginny
Paper Book
Join the global movement and challenge your family to match screen time with outdoor time-with hundreds of fun, fresh-air ideas. Did you know that the average child in the UK spends more than 1,000 hours a year in front of a screen? And that outside play can boost children...
Mud kitchen crafts : 60 awesome ideas for epic outdoor play
Pickles, Sophie
Paper Book
Entertain young children for hours with innovative and creative activities that all use one free, natural, kid-approved material - mud! Sophie Pickles, founder of the blog Sophie Pickles, is here to usher in a new era of playtime with mud kitchens: an outdoor area perfect for art projects, games,...
Nature play at home : creating outdoor spaces that connect children with the natural world
Striniste, Nancy
Paper Book
"A magnificent resource for transforming backyards into stimulating environments which enhance children's creativity, learning, and fun." --Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods, The Nature Principle, and Vitamin N ...
The MeatEater outdoor cookbook : wild game recipes for the grill, smoker, campstove, and campfire
Rinella, Steven
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . The eagerly anticipated new cookbook with 100+ recipes from the author of The MeatEater Fish and Game Cookbook In his previous books, outdoorsman and hunter Steven Rinella brought wild game into the kitchen, teaching readers how to...
Cook it wild : sensational prep-ahead meals for camping, cabins, and the great outdoors
Nuttall-Smith, Chris
Paper Book
In this game-changing camping cookbook, food writer and adventurer Chris Nuttall-Smith introduces an ingenious prep-ahead approach to eating outdoors, with 80 easy-to-make and wildly tasty recipes. "Cook It Wild showed me I can enjoy our incredible planet and still have...
The down and dirty guide to camping with kids : how to plan memorable family adventures & connect kids to nature
Olsson, Helen.
Paper Book
Plan your family camping adventure! Whether you're a first-time camper or a veteran backpacker befuddled by the challenges of carting a brood--and all the requisite gear--into the great outdoors, here you'll find all the tips and tools you need to plan the perfect nature adventure with...
The new wilderness : a novel
Cook, Diane
Paper Book
Bea's five-year-old daughter, Agnes, is wasting away, ravaged by the smog and pollution of the overdeveloped, overpopulated metropolis they call home. Bea knows she cannot stay in the city, but there is only one alternative- The Wilderness State. This vast expanse of unwelcoming, untamed land is...
One two three
Frankel, Laurie
Paper Book
From Laurie Frankel, the New York Times bestselling author of This Is How It Always Is, a Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine Book Pick, comes One Two Three, a timely, topical novel about love and family that will make you laugh and cry...and laugh again. ...
Inconspicuous consumption : the environmental impact you don't know you have
Schlossberg, Tatiana
Paper Book
*First Place Winner of the Society of Environmental Journalists' Rachel Carson Environment Book Award* "If you're looking for something to cling to in what often feels like a hopeless conversation, Schlossberg's darkly humorous, knowledge-is-power, eyes-wide-open approach may...
Last house : or The age of oil
Shattuck, Jessica
Paper Book
"A richly detailed, slow-burning family saga distinguished by incisive psychological insight and masterful research. . . Shattuck is such a good writer, giving us swaths of cultural and historical background as gracefully and intelligently as she parses the emotional depths of her characters....
Nature and the mind : the science of how nature improves cognitive, physical, and social well-being
Berman, Marc G.
Paper Book
From the acclaimed founder of environmental neuroscience, Dr. Marc Berman, comes a groundbreaking guide that reveals how interacting with nature can be the secret to improved mental and physical health. Dr. Marc Berman, the pioneering creator of the field of environmental...
Cold people
Smith, Tom Rob
Paper Book
'An ambitious, cinematic thriller' Observer 'A talented storyteller' The Times 'A cinematic epic' Daily Mail What if the only hope for survival becomes the greatest threat?
No new things : a radically simple 30-day guide to saving money, the planet, and your sanity
Piper, Ashlee
Paper Book
From award-winning sustainability expert Ashlee Piper, a witty, no-nonsense guide to regaining control over your time, consumerist impulses, and financial and mental wellness For nearly two years, Ashlee Piper challenged herself to buy nothing new. And in the process, she got...
Outdoor kids in an inside world : getting your family out of the house and radically engaged with nature
Rinella, Steven
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . "An imperative call to action" (Nick Offerman)to get children off their screens and into nature, with tips for bonding activities that teach the importance of outside timeand build tough, curious, competent kids-from thehost of the Netflix series and podcast...
Artificial wisdom
Weaver, Thomas R.
Paper Book
The most surprising thriller of the year. Who would you trust with the future? The year is 2050. In the teeth of a climate catastrophe, the world is left with a drastic solution- one global leader to steer it through the coming apocalypse. The final two...
Camp zero
Sterling, Michelle Min
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Today Show #ReadwithJenna Book Club Pick Libby Book Award Winner for Best Diverse Author In a near-future northern settlement, the fates of a young woman, a professor, and a mysterious...
When it all burns : fighting fire in a transformed world
Thomas, Jordan (Anthropologist)
Paper Book
2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FINALIST FOR THE LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE ONE OF PUBLISHERS WEEKLY'S TOP 10 BOOKS OF 2025 NAMED A BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS "Exceptional. . . . When It All Burns is one of...
Saturation point
Tchaikovsky, Adrian
Paper Book
A group of scientists and soldiers are hunted by mysterious enemies in a terrifying new climate thriller from the "Master of British SF" Doctor Jasmine Marks is going back into hell. The Hygrometric Dehabitation Region, or the "Zone," is a growing band of...
Adrift : a novel
Brideau, Lisa
Paper Book
Crime Writers of Canada Best First Novel Award Finalist Evergreen Award Nominee "Crackles with urgency and humanity...a book made to meet the moment. A must read." - Katie Lattari, author of Dark Things I Adore For fans of The Last Thing He Told Me<...

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