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Argonaut The Inua Humpback by Clifford L. GionetHard Aground with Eddie Jones by Eddie JonesHard Aground . . . Again by Eddie JonesBournemouth Boys and Boscombe Girls by Danny WinterMy Dirty California by Jason Mosberg
At the Seashore
132 books — 36 voters
Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskeyThe Story About Ping by Marjorie FlackOwl Babies by Martin WaddellOwl Moon by Jane YolenAre You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman
Picture Books About Birds
234 books — 32 voters

State of Fear by Michael CrichtonNocturne, Opus 1 by Norene MoskalskiAhriman by Puja GuhaWet Desert by Gary HansenThe 40-Minute War by Janet E. Morris
Best Eco-Political Thrillers
17 books — 29 voters
The Burning God by R.F. KuangThe Emperor by Robert ReidPath of the Berserker by Rick ScottLiving Sunlight by Molly BangA Log's Life by Wendy Pfeffer
Picture Books About Ecosystems
114 books — 20 voters

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
The Snow Leopard by Peter MatthiessenThe African Leopard by Theodore N. BaileyWild Animal School by Jenny LynneWarrior of the Wind by Suyi Davies OkungbowaMan-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag by Jim Corbett
Books for Leopard Lovers
37 books — 15 voters

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererIwigara by Enrique SalmónGathering Moss by Robin Wall KimmererPlants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask by Mary Siisip GeniuszKnowing Home by Gloria Snively
Indigenous wisdom, knowledge, science and stories
21 books — 15 voters
Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas L. FriedmanNot Just a Pretty Face by Stacy MalkanLess Is More by Cecile AndrewsThe Sacred Balance by David SuzukiKeeping the Bees by Laurence Packer
David Suzuki Foundation Book Club
12 books — 9 voters

This Changes Everything by Naomi KleinIndian Country, God's Country by Philip BurnhamZapotec Science by Roberto J. GonzálezTending the Wild by M. Kat AndersonMoon in the Nautilus Shell by Daniel B. Botkin
Traditonal Ecological Management
15 books — 7 voters
The ABCs of California's Native Bees by Krystle HickmanWhen Mountain Lions Are Neighbors by Beth Pratt-BergstromGrowing California Native Plants by Marjorie G. SchmidtSecrets of the Oak Woodlands by Kate MarianchildThe California Native Landscape by Greg Rubin
California ecology
39 books — 6 voters

Deep Green Resistance by Derrick JensenDesign for Change by Angela Ferraro-FanningGreen Graphic Design by Brian DoughertyAdapt by Amina KhanCradle to Cradle by William McDonough
Sustainable graphic design
72 books — 5 voters
This Changes Everything by Naomi KleinSilent Spring by Rachel CarsonThe World Without Us by Alan WeismanNo One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta ThunbergCradle to Cradle by William McDonough
solarpunk - NonFiction
24 books — 4 voters

Energy and the Wealth of Nations by Charles A.S. HallThe Economic Growth Engine by Robert U. AyresThe New Economics by Steve KeenEnergy and Civilization by Vaclav SmilThe Economic Superorganism by Carey W. King
Biophysical Economics
12 books — 3 voters
The Great Penguin Rescue by Dyan deNapoliOut of the Channel by John KeebleThe Exxon Valdez Oil Spill by Peter BenoitAtomic Days by Joshua FrankunspOILed by Susan Cerulean
Oil Spills
50 books — 3 voters

Dark Emu by Bruce PascoeThis Changes Everything by Naomi KleinBorder Walls Gone Green by John HultgrenThe Price of Thirst by Karen PiperThe Closing Circle by Barry Commoner
Radical reads to understand capitalism's ecological disaster
47 books — 3 voters
The Oxford Handbook of Rationality by Alfred R. MeleObliquity by John KayUlysses and the Sirens by Jon ElsterRationality in Action by John Rogers SearleThe Limits of Rationality by Karen Schweers Cook
Rationality
100 books — 3 voters

A Serpent's Tooth by Robert SwindellsKing of Hope by Kim ConklinMonster in Our Midst by Peggy WoodfordFukushima Devil Fish by Susumu KatsumataThe Guilty Party by Joan Lingard
Anti-Atomic Energy, No Nukes - Fiction
75 books — 2 voters

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