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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 336 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.09 — 12,513 ratings — published 2002
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 231 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.16 — 27,749 ratings — published 2014
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 171 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.06 — 55,080 ratings — published 1962
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 157 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.51 — 174,089 ratings — published 2013
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need (Hardcover)
by (shelved 148 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.12 — 51,098 ratings — published 2021
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,361 ratings — published 2017
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.16 — 15,710 ratings — published 2017
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 140 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.19 — 210,541 ratings — published 2006
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 135 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.99 — 29,910 ratings — published 2019
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 119 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.05 — 113,234 ratings — published 2007
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.15 — 79,546 ratings — published 2014
The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability--Designing for Abundance (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 107 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,225 ratings — published 2013
The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,369 ratings — published 1993
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,045 ratings — published 1973
The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and our Health—and a Vision for Change (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,420 ratings — published 2010
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.07 — 119,555 ratings — published 2008
The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,777 ratings — published 2020
Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.18 — 28,783 ratings — published 2006
Zero Waste Home: The Ultimate Guide to Simplifying Your Life by Reducing Your Waste (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.75 — 7,910 ratings — published 2013
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.94 — 74,758 ratings — published 2004
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,877 ratings — published 1999
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,578 ratings — published 1997
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.50 — 9,187 ratings — published 2020
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.41 — 6,494 ratings — published 2020
Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.18 — 22,470 ratings — published 2008
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.23 — 6,964 ratings — published 2024
Eating Animals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.21 — 80,751 ratings — published 2009
How Bad Are Bananas?: The Carbon Footprint of Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,978 ratings — published 2010
Sustainable Energy - without the hot air (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,827 ratings — published 2008
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,819 ratings — published 1972
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.07 — 89,363 ratings — published 2015
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,418 ratings — published 2007
The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.14 — 7,320 ratings — published 2020
Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,006 ratings — published 2007
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – and How It Can Renew America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.71 — 13,943 ratings — published 2008
The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-sufficient Living in the Heart of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,535 ratings — published 2008
Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,048 ratings — published 2009
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.50 — 34,561 ratings — published 2020
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.85 — 27,824 ratings — published 2019
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.69 — 17,322 ratings — published 2019
Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.82 — 6,827 ratings — published 2012
Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 45 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,737 ratings — published 2021
The Ministry for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.86 — 42,573 ratings — published 2020
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.41 — 4,934 ratings — published 2001
Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.85 — 899 ratings — published
Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,588 ratings — published 2009
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,087 ratings — published 2010
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.77 — 204,569 ratings — published 1854
Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,285 ratings — published 2006
The One-Straw Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.33 — 9,187 ratings — published 1975
“Our entire system, in an economic sense, is based on restriction. Scarcity and inefficiency are the movers of money; the more there is of any resource the less you can charge for it. The more problems there are, the more opportunities there are to make money.
This reality is a social disease, for people can actually gain off the misery of others and the destruction of the environment. Efficiency, abundance and sustainability are enemies of our economic structure, for they are inverse to the mechanics required to perpetuate consumption.
This is profoundly critical to understand, for once you put this together you begin to see that the one billion people currently starving on this planet, the endless slums of the poor and all the horrors of a culture due to poverty and pravity are not natural phenomenon due to some natural human order or lack of earthly resources. They are products of the creation, perpetuation and preservation of artificial scarcity and inefficiency.”
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This reality is a social disease, for people can actually gain off the misery of others and the destruction of the environment. Efficiency, abundance and sustainability are enemies of our economic structure, for they are inverse to the mechanics required to perpetuate consumption.
This is profoundly critical to understand, for once you put this together you begin to see that the one billion people currently starving on this planet, the endless slums of the poor and all the horrors of a culture due to poverty and pravity are not natural phenomenon due to some natural human order or lack of earthly resources. They are products of the creation, perpetuation and preservation of artificial scarcity and inefficiency.”
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“Alas, our technology has marched ahead of our spiritual and social evolution, making us, frankly, a dangerous people.”
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