Key:
New to the whole sustainability scene?
Get caught up to speed with these classic titles:
- Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization by Lester Brown
- Environmentalism: A Global History by Ramachandra Guha
- Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert
- All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life by Winona LaDuke
- The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
- Sustainable Planet: Solutions for the 21st Century edited by Juliet Schor and Betsy Taylor
- The Bridge at the End of the World: Capitalism, the Environment and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability by James Gustave Speth
Already got the basics down?
Here’s a collection of reading to take you to the next level.
- Green Development: Environment and Sustainability in a Developing World by W.M. Adams
- The Shadows of Consumption: Consequences for the Global Environment by Peter Dauvergne
- The Politics of the Earth: Environmental Discourses by John S. Dryzek
- The Vulnerable Planet: A Short Economic History of the Environment by John Bellamy Foster
- Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough and Michael Braungart
- Defending Mother Earth: Native American Perspectives on Environmental Justice edited by Jace Weaver
So, you think you really know your stuff?
Challenge your mind with these deeper explorations of nature and society.
- Environmentalism Unbound: Exploring New Pathways for Change by Robert Gottlieb
- Making Threats: Biofears and Environmental Anxieties by Betsy Hartmann, Banu Subramaniam, Charles Zerner
- Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason by Val Plumwood
- The Economy of the Earth: Philosophy, Law, and the Environment by Mark Sagoff
- Precautionary Politics: Principle and Practice in Confronting Environmental Risk by Kerry Whiteside