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Nature in the City: Bengaluru in the Past, Present, and Future
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The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us
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Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
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This Book Was a Tree: Ideas, Adventures, and Inspiration for Rediscovering the Natural World
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Next Nature: Nature Changes Along with Us
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Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder
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Vitamin N: The Essential Guide to a Nature-Rich Life
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The Nature Principle: Human Restoration and the End of Nature-Deficit Disorder
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Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash
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The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet
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Water Stories: From Around the World
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How I Became a Tree
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Indica: A Deep Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent
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Secrets of the Soil: New Solutions for Restoring Our Planet
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Why Shrinkwrap a Cucumber?: The Complete Guide to Environmental Packaging
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How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics
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The Necessary Revolution: How individuals and organizations are working together to create a sustainable world.
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The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
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The Secret Life of Stuff: A Manual for a New Material World
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What Nature Does for Britain
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Kiss the Ground: How the Food You Eat Can Reverse Climate Change, Heal Your Body & Ultimately Save Our World
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Of Poverty and Plastic (OIP): Scavenging and Scrap Trading Entrepreneurs in India's Urban Informal Economy
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Where India Goes: Abandoned Toilets, Stunted Development and the Costs of Caste
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Rubbish!: The Archaeology of Garbage
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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
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Fantastic Fungi: How Mushrooms Can Heal, Shift Consciousness, and Save the Planet
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Paul Stamets (Editor)
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The Dirt Cure: Growing Healthy Kids with Food Straight from Soil
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Victor Papanek Design for the Real World
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Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change
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Urban Environmental Education
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Alex Russ (Editor)
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A Pedagogy of Place: Outdoor Education for a Changing World
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Thinking In Systems: A Primer
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Nature Anatomy: The Curious Parts & Pieces of the Natural World
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The Ecology of Imagination in Childhood
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Becoming Native to This Place
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Nature as Measure: The Selected Essays of Wes Jackson
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Consulting the Genius of the Place: An Ecological Approach to a New Agriculture
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The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
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Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food
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Future Wise: Educating Our Children for a Changing World
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Let Them Eat Dirt: Saving Our Children from an Oversanitized World
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Ecoliterate: How Educators Are Cultivating Emotional, Social, and Ecological Intelligence
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Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything
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The Service Innovation Handbook: Action-oriented Creative Thinking Toolkit for Service Organizations
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Designerly Ways of Knowing
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Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
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Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
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Beyond Ecophobia: Reclaiming the Heart in Nature Education
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Nature Preschools and Forest Kindergartens: The Handbook for Outdoor Learning
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Mapmaking with Children: Sense of Place Education for the Elementary Years
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Childhood and Nature: Design Principles for Educators
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Place-Based Education: Connecting Classrooms & Communities (New Patriotism Series, 4)
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The Systems Thinking Playbook: Exercises to Stretch and Build Learning and Systems Thinking Capabilities
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When a Butterfly Sneezes: A Guide for Helping Kids Explore Interconnections in Our World Through Favorite Stories (Systems Thinking for Kids, Big and Small, Vol 1)
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The Climate Change Playbook: 22 Systems Thinking Games for More Effective Communication about Climate Change
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The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs: Use Outdoor Clues to Find Your Way, Predict the Weather, Locate Water, Track Animals―and Other Forgotten Skills
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How to Read Nature: Awaken Your Senses to the Outdoors You’ve Never Noticed
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
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The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature
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The Ground Beneath Us: From the Oldest Cities to the Last Wilderness, What Dirt Tells Us About Who We Are
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Natural Capital: Valuing the Planet
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Cows Save the Planet: And Other Improbable Ways of Restoring Soil to Heal the Earth
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What Has Nature Ever Done for Us?: How Money Really Does Grow on Trees
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Recycling Reconsidered: The Present Failure and Future Promise of Environmental Action in the United States
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Plant Lives: Borderline Beings in Indian Traditions
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Regenerative Design for Sustainable Development
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
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I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
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Adapt: How Humans Are Tapping into Nature's Secrets to Design and Build a Better Future
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Birthright: People and Nature in the Modern World
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Designing Regenerative Cultures
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Farmacology: Total Health from the Ground Up
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Sustainable Plastics: Environmental Assessments of Biobased, Biodegradable, and Recycled Plastics
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How to Live a Low-Carbon Life
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The Vanishing: Chronicling India’s Wildlife Crisis
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Mycorrhizal Planet: How Symbiotic Fungi Work with Roots to Support Plant Health and Build Soil Fertility
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The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health
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Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life
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Deep Nature Play: A Guide to Wholeness, Aliveness, Creativity, and Inspired Learning
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Waste of a Nation: Garbage and Growth in India
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How To Read Water
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Cities and Canopies: Trees in Indian Cities
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Reforesting Landscapes: Linking Pattern and Process (Landscape Series)
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Trash!: On Ragpicker Children and Recycling
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Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash
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Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash
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Geographies of Trash
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