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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 279,354 ratings — published 2006
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.07 — 175,119 ratings — published 2007
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.95 — 69,455 ratings — published 1962
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.11 — 17,095 ratings — published 2002
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.17 — 44,035 ratings — published 2014
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.13 — 14,449 ratings — published 1973
The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,934 ratings — published 1993
Natural Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,589 ratings — published 1999
The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-sufficient Living in the Heart of the City (Process Self-Reliance Series)
by (shelved 45 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.97 — 6,106 ratings — published 2008
Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,404 ratings — published 2007
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.04 — 146,256 ratings — published 2007
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 38 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.01 — 7,299 ratings — published 2010
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.80 — 85,707 ratings — published 2007
The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability--Designing for Abundance (ebook)
by (shelved 35 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,903 ratings — published 2013
No Impact Man (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.75 — 6,634 ratings — published 2009
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – and How It Can Renew America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.68 — 23,363 ratings — published 2008
The Transition Handbook: From oil dependency to local resilience (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,604 ratings — published 2008
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-scale Permaculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.35 — 5,776 ratings — published 2001
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,838 ratings — published 1997
The Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,785 ratings — published 2004
Zero Waste Home: The Ultimate Guide to Simplifying Your Life by Reducing Your Waste (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.82 — 7,737 ratings — published 2013
Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.94 — 7,134 ratings — published 2010
The One-Straw Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.39 — 7,385 ratings — published 1975
Green Metropolis: What the City Can Teach the Country About True Sustainability (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,132 ratings — published 2009
Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came Into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,765 ratings — published 2007
Eating Animals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.18 — 105,237 ratings — published 2009
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.08 — 85,961 ratings — published 2014
The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.04 — 25,777 ratings — published 2010
Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.40 — 2,967 ratings — published 2008
Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.74 — 11,663 ratings — published 2007
The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,674 ratings — published 2014
Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.91 — 3,143 ratings — published 2009
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.00 — 377,076 ratings — published 1997
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.25 — 30,706 ratings — published 1949
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.76 — 10,610 ratings — published 2006
The Necessary Revolution: How Individuals And Organizations Are Working Together to Create a Sustainable World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 1,110 ratings — published 2008
Walden (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 238,466 ratings — published 1854
Thinking in Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.26 — 13,440 ratings — published 2008
Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.98 — 18,135 ratings — published 2009
Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 2,218 ratings — published 2005
Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.45 — 5,002 ratings — published 1988
The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It: The Complete Back-To-Basics Guide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.25 — 4,394 ratings — published 1973
Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 1,720 ratings — published 2006
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.73 — 290,510 ratings — published 2001
Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,007 ratings — published 2006
Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.16 — 7,232 ratings — published 2009
The Backyard Homestead: Produce All the Food You Need on Just a Quarter Acre! (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.10 — 9,967 ratings — published 2009
Made from Scratch: Discovering the Pleasures of a Handmade Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.63 — 5,180 ratings — published 2008
Toolbox for Sustainable City Living: A Do-It-Ourselves Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,990 ratings — published 2008
Permaculture: Principles & Pathways Beyond Sustainability (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,346 ratings — published 2002
“To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a husbandry also of the land, of the soil, of the domestic plants and animals - obviously because of the importance of these things to the household. And there have been times, one of which is now, when some people have tried to practice a proper human husbandry of the nondomestic creatures in recognition of the dependence of our households and domestic life upon the wild world. Husbandry is the name of all practices that sustain life by connecting us conservingly to our places and our world; it is the art of keeping tied all the strands in the living network that sustains us.
And so it appears that most and perhaps all of industrial agriculture's manifest failures are the result of an attempt to make the land produce without husbandry.”
― Wendell Berry, Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food
And so it appears that most and perhaps all of industrial agriculture's manifest failures are the result of an attempt to make the land produce without husbandry.”
― Wendell Berry, Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food
“Can we actually suppose that we are wasting, polluting, and making ugly this beautiful land for the sake of patriotism and the love of God? Perhaps some of us would like to think so, but in fact this destruction is taking place because we have allowed ourselves to believe, and to live, a mated pair of economic lies: that nothing has a value that is not assigned to it by the market; and that the economic life of our communities can safely be handed over to the great corporations. (from 'Compromise, Hell!' published in the November/December 2004 issue of ORION magazine)”
― Wendell Berry
― Wendell Berry
Farms & Foods of Ohio: From Garden Gate to Dinner Plate
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