Biodiversity


The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Diversity of Life (Questions of Science)
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Many: The Diversity of Life on Earth (Our Natural World)
The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Wilding
Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard
Biodiversity and Climate Change: Transforming the Biosphere
Silent Spring
The Nature of Nature: Why We Need the Wild
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererWicked Plants by Amy  StewartIn the Shadow of Slavery by Judith A. CarneyGinseng Dreams by Kristin JohannsenPapyrus by John Gaudet
Ethnobotany
51 books — 13 voters
Never Home Alone by Rob DunnWeeds by Alexander C. MartinA Weed by Any Other Name by Nancy GiftThe Coming Plague by Laurie GarrettThis Is Your Brain on Parasites by Kathleen McAuliffe
Weeds, pests, invasives, and diseases
132 books — 5 voters

New Zealand Seaweeds by Wendy Nelson
New Zealand Nature guides
1 book — 1 voter
Uno's Garden by Graeme BaeWhere the Forest Meets the Sea by Jeannie BakerThe Umbrella by Jan BrettThe Great Kapok Tree by Lynne CherryTree of Life by Rochelle Strauss
Picture Books About Rainforests
60 books — 17 voters

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondCollapse by Jared DiamondTiny Victory Gardens by Acadia TuckerA Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldGrowing Perennial Foods by Acadia Tucker
Top Books from the Green Group
58 books — 27 voters
Journeys Through Eastern Old-Growth Forests by Jamie SimpsonThe Mill by Joan BaxterUntamed Atlantic Canada by Scott Leslie
Nova Scotia Environment
3 books — 1 voter

Preeti Simran Sethi
Ethiopia is the center of origin and diversity for the majority of coffee we drink. The commodification of coffee pushes farmers to grow as much as possible by whatever means possible. This has contributed to deforestation. The place where coffee was born - the area with the greatest biodiversity of coffee anywhere in the world - could disappear. No forest, no coffee. No coffee, no forest. What we lose isn't specific to Ethiopia; it impacts us all. ...more
Preeti Simran Sethi, Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love

Rachel G. Jordan
Humans were designed to be the choir directors of creation's praises to God... And the tremendous biodiversity of creation lends rich harmonies to this choir's praise of our Creator. The greater the ecological diversity, the greater potential to maximize praise. ...more
Rachel G. Jordan, If the Ocean Has a Soul: A Marine Biologist's Pursuit of Truth through Deep Waters of Faith and Science

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