Best Environmental Books

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Harper Perrennial Modern Classics) by Annie Dillard

Essays by Annie Dillard. Dillard writes like a poe more...1 point

Essays by Annie Dillard. Dillard writes like a poet and has a true connection with the natural world. I love her writing.1 point

Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins

Most businesses still operate according to a world more...1 point

Most businesses still operate according to a world view that hasn't changed since the start of the Industrial Revolution. Then, natural resources were abundant and labor was the limiting factor of production. But now, there's a surplus of people, while natural capital natural resources and the ecological systems that provide vital life-support services is scarce and relatively expensive. In this groundbreaking blueprint for a new economy, three leading business visionaries explain how the world....1 point

Small Wonder: Essays by Barbara Kingsolver

In her new essay collection, the beloved author of more...1 point

In her new essay collection, the beloved author of High Tide in Tucson brings to us, out of one of history's darker moments, an extended love song to the world we still have.Whether she is contemplating the Grand Canyon, her vegetable garden, motherhood, genetic engineering, or the future of a nation founded on the best of all human impulses, these essays are grounded in the author's belief that our largest problems have grown from the earth's remotest corners as well as our own backyards, and t...1 point

The Land That Could Be: Environmentalism and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century (Urban and Industrial Environments) by William A. Shutkin

Lawyer William Shutkin describes a new kind of env more...0 points

Lawyer William Shutkin describes a new kind of environmental and social activism spreading across the nation, one that joins the pursuit of environmental quality with that of civic health and sustainable local economies.0 points

Intelligence in Nature by Jeremy Narby

Narby, a noted anthropologist ventures into both t more...0 points

Narby, a noted anthropologist ventures into both traditional cultures and the most up-to-date discoveries of contemporary science to determine nature's secret ways of knowing.0 points

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough, Michael Braungart

A manifesto for a radically different philosophy a more...0 points

A manifesto for a radically different philosophy and practice of manufacture and environmentalism. While most environmentalists urge doing more with less in order to minimize damage, William McDonough and Michael Braungart argue that this approach perpetuates a one-way, "cradle to grave" manufacturing model that dates to the Industrial Revolution and casts off as much as 90 percent of the materials it uses as waste.0 points

The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World by John Robbins

Here, the man who started the "food revolutio more...0 points

Here, the man who started the "food revolution" with the million-plus-selling Diet for a New America, boldly posits that, collectively, our personal diet can save ourselves and the world.0 points

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan

A national bestseller that has changed the way rea more...0 points

A national bestseller that has changed the way readers view the ecology of eating, this revolutionary book by award winner Michael Pollan asks the seemingly simple question: What should we have for dinner? Tracing from source to table each of the food chains that sustain us, whether industrial or organic, alternative or processed, he develops a portrait of the American way of eating.0 points

Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution by Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan

Microcosmos brings together the remarkable discove more...0 points

Microcosmos brings together the remarkable discoveries of microbiology of the past two decades and the pioneering research of Dr. Margulis to create a vivid new picture of the world that is crucial to our understanding of the future of the planet. Addressed to general readers, the book provides a beautifully written view of evolution as a process based on interdependency and the interconnectedness of all life on the planet.0 points

Hope, Human and Wild: True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth (The World As Home) by Bill McKibben

Divided into three sections, Hope, Human and Wild profiles more...0 points

Divided into three sections, Hope, Human and Wild profiles the efforts of three caring communities to preserve wilderness and reverse environmental devastation. They include the reforestation of McKibben's home territory, New York's Adirondack Mountains; solving traffic and pollution problems in the densely populated Curitiba, Brazil; and how the citizens of Kerala, India have demonstrated that quality of life doesn't depend on overconsumption of resources. This edition features a...0 points

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

First published by Houghton Mifflin in 1962, Silen more...0 points

First published by Houghton Mifflin in 1962, Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. "Silent Spring became a runaway bestseller, with international reverberations . . . [It is] well crafted, fearless and succinct . . . Even if she had not inspired a generation of activists, Carson would prevail as one of the greatest nature writers in American....0 points

A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold

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The Dream of the Earth by Thomas Berry

This landmark work, first published by Sierra Club more...0 points

This landmark work, first published by Sierra Club Books in 1988, has established itself as a foundational volume in the ecological canon. In it, noted cultural historian Thomas Berry provides nothing less than a new intellectual-ethical framework for the human community by positing planetary well-being as the measure of all human activity. Drawing on the wisdom of Western philosophy, Asian thought, and Native American traditions, as well as contemporary physics and evolutionary biology, Berry o...0 points

Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine M. Benyus

Biomimicry is a revolutionary new science that analyzes more...0 points

Biomimicry is a revolutionary new science that analyzes nature's best ideas -- spider silk and prairie grass, seashells and brain cells -- and adapts them for human use. Science writer and lecturer Janine Benyus takes us into the lab and out in the field with the maverick researchers who are applying nature's ingenious solutions to the problem of human survival: stirring vats of proteins to unleash their signaling power in computers; analyzing how spiders manufacture a waterproof fiber five time...0 points

Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered by E. F. Schumacher

The classic of common-sense economics. "Enormously more...0 points

The classic of common-sense economics. "Enormously broad in scope, pithily weaving together threads from Galbraith and Gandhi, capitalism and Buddhism, science and psychology."-- The New Republic0 points