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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 335 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.09 — 12,588 ratings — published 2002
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 226 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.16 — 28,079 ratings — published 2014
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 172 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.06 — 56,848 ratings — published 1962
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 160 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.50 — 186,504 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 4.11 — 51,688 ratings — published 2021
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.16 — 16,174 ratings — published 2017
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,413 ratings — published 2017
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 141 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.19 — 211,996 ratings — published 2006
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 135 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.99 — 30,418 ratings — published 2019
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 119 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.05 — 114,186 ratings — published 2007
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.15 — 81,577 ratings — published 2014
The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability--Designing for Abundance (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 108 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,234 ratings — published 2013
The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,386 ratings — published 1993
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,169 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 94 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,454 ratings — published 2010
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.07 — 120,482 ratings — published 2008
Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.17 — 29,739 ratings — published 2006
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.50 — 9,836 ratings — published 2020
The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,870 ratings — published 2020
Zero Waste Home: The Ultimate Guide to Simplifying Your Life by Reducing Your Waste (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.75 — 7,928 ratings — published 2013
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,881 ratings — published 1999
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,498 ratings — published 2004
Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.18 — 24,203 ratings — published 2008
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,619 ratings — published 1997
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.41 — 6,653 ratings — published 2020
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.22 — 7,629 ratings — published 2024
How Bad Are Bananas?: The Carbon Footprint of Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.91 — 3,047 ratings — published 2010
Eating Animals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.21 — 81,415 ratings — published 2009
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,862 ratings — published 1972
Sustainable Energy - without the hot air (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,837 ratings — published 2008
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,836 ratings — published 2007
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.06 — 92,281 ratings — published 2015
The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.13 — 7,457 ratings — published 2020
Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,013 ratings — published 2007
Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,075 ratings — published 2009
The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-sufficient Living in the Heart of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,537 ratings — published 2008
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – and How It Can Renew America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.71 — 13,974 ratings — published 2008
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 — 35,898 ratings — published 2020
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.69 — 17,633 ratings — published 2019
The Ministry for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.86 — 44,916 ratings — published 2020
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.85 — 28,232 ratings — published 2019
Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.82 — 6,865 ratings — published 2012
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.41 — 4,964 ratings — published 2001
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 4.28 — 2,821 ratings — published 2021
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.26 — 72,828 ratings — published 2024
Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.83 — 938 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 3.73 — 1,598 ratings — published 2009
Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,287 ratings — published 2006
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as sustainability)
avg rating 3.77 — 207,705 ratings — published 1854
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as sustainability)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,324 ratings — published 2010
“Thomas Malthus (1766–1834) had a growth schema with only two factors of production—natural resources and labour—with no allowance for technical progress, capital formation, or gains from international specialization. In 1798, he portrayed the general situation of humanity as one where population pressure put such strains on the ability of natural resources to produce subsistence that equilibrium would be attained only by various catastrophes. His influence has been strong and persistent, largely because of his forceful rhetoric and primitive scaremongering…He would have been very surprised to discover that Britain in 2003 would have only 1.2 per cent of its working population in agriculture and a life expectation of 78 years.”
― Contours of the World Economy, 1-2030 AD: Essays in Macro-Economic History
― Contours of the World Economy, 1-2030 AD: Essays in Macro-Economic History
“Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.”
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