Earth Day for Adults

Inspirational and motivational non-fiction reads for Earth Day.

Updated April 15, 2023
Drag items up and down to your preferred order then select the "Save Order" button.
The climate book
Thunberg, Greta
Paper Book
We still have time to change the world. From Greta Thunberg, one of the world's leading climate activist, comes the essential handbook for making it happen. You might think it's an impossible task- secure a safe future for life on Earth, at a scale and speed never seen, against...
Fire and flood : a people's history of climate change, from 1979 to the present
Linden, Eugene
Paper Book
The definitive history of the modern climate change era, from an award-winning writer who has been at the centre of the fight for more than thirty years In 1979, President Jimmy Carter was presented with the findings of scientists who had been investigating whether human...
Under a white sky : the nature of the future
Kolbert, Elizabeth
Paper Book
The author of the international bestseller 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? 'Important, necessary, urgent and phenomenally interesting...
The uninhabitable earth : life after warming
Wallace-Wells, David
Paper Book
The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn't happening at all, and if your anxiety about it is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible, even within the lifetime of a teenager today...
Wasteland : the secret world of waste and the urgent search for a cleaner future
Franklin-Wallis, Oliver
Paper Book
A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK ONE OF THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023  INCLUDED IN THE GUARDIAN'S BEST IDEAS BOOKS OF 2023 'A gripping read that will anger as much as it fascinates' Hugh Fearnley...
Birdgirl : looking to the skies in search of a better future
Craig, Mya-Rose
Paper Book
Discover a powerful, evocative and urgent new young voice in nature writing *WINNER OF THE SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD 2023* 'Birdwatching has never felt like a hobby, or a pastime I can pick up and put down, but a thread running through the pattern of my life.'...

Library staff! You can create and contribute to lists. Contact your catalog administrator or log in here.