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Sustainability, Climate Change & Zero Waste - Adult
Series: Goblin ModeHow to Get Cozy, Embrace Imperfection, and Thrive in the MuckHardcover
McKayla Coyle9781683693536
$23.99SELF-HELP
Jun 27, 2023
Embrace your inner goblin! Learn to decorate, dress, craft, forage, and live according to the goblin principles of community, diversity, and joyful mess.Do you ever feel strange, gross, chaotic, underappreciated, or like you don’t quite fit in? Great news: you might be a goblin! That means your imperfections and idiosyncrasies are the most awesome things about you, and you can build a more harmonious life by accepting and honoring them—taking inspiration from the frogs, fungi, moss, rocks, and dirt that goblins love.Goblin Mode includes life ad... + Read More
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Series: Making WavesBoats, Floating Homes and Life on the WaterHardcover
Portland Mitchell9780500024218
$54.00ARCHITECTURE
Jun 20, 2023
The ultimate inspirational guide for anyone dreaming of living on a boat of their own, featuring practical tips on everything from clever storage solutions to finding moorings and living off-grid.Every boat has a story. For thousands of years, water vessels have provided livelihoods, catered to our spirit of adventure, and served as retreats from the pressures of modern life. It is little wonder that life on the water calls out to the creative and the curious—the mavericks, artists, architects, crafters, and designers who have made their homes ... + Read More
3.
Series: Perfectly Good FoodA Totally Achievable Zero Waste Approach to Home CookingPaperback
Irene Li9780393541076
$37.00COOKING
Jun 20, 2023
How to cook flexibly and fight food waste, with 80 recipes and 150 ideas to use up what you have.You’re standing in front of your refrigerator, a week after your last trip to the supermarket. You’ve got a bunch of random veggies, some wrinkly fruit, near-expired milk, and those pricey fresh herbs you bought for that one recipe and don’t know how to use up. For a split second you picture yourself opening a trash bag, throwing everything away, and ordering takeout. We’ve all been there.
But instead…you pick up this cookbook. In no time you’ve pre... + Read More
4.
Series: A Future We Can LoveHow We Can Reverse the Climate Crisis with the Power of Our Hearts and MindsHardcover
Susan Bauer-Wu9781645471400
$33.95SCIENCE
Jun 13, 2023
Discover wisdom and guidance to face the climate emergency from the most influential spiritual and environmental leaders of our time, including the Dalai Lama, Greta Thunberg, Joanna Macy, Vandana Shiva, Paul Hawken, Katharine Hayhoe, and Matthieu Ricard. When the Dalai Lama and Greta Thunberg spoke for the first time in January 2021, millions of people around the world took notice. “It is encouraging to see how you have opened the eyes of the world to the urgency to protect our planet, our only home,” the Dalai Lama wrote to Greta before their... + Read More
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Series: Good News, Planet EarthWhat’s Being Done to Save Our World, and What You Can Do Too!Paperback
Sam Bentley9780744081589
$24.00SCIENCE
Jun 13, 2023
Join sustainability enthusiast and climate activist Sam Bentley as he shares the hopeful developments combating climate change!Do you feel like climate change is just getting worse and there’s nothing you can do to stop it? Good news—there are tons of efforts already underway to save our planet, and we’d love for you to join the fight.Good News, Planet Earth! is your go-to guide to learn all about the amazing sustainable developments that are happening worldwide to combat global warming, pollution, deforestation, the use of wasteful products, a... + Read More
6.
Series: Message in a BottleOcean Dispatches from a Seabird BiologistHardcover
Holly Hogan9780385696265
$32.95NATURE
Jun 06, 2023
From the heart of the Labrador Current to the furthest reaches of our global oceans, Message in a Bottle conjures an exquisite diversity of marine life and warns of a central threat to its survival: ocean plastic.The dovekie is a stocky seabird the size of a child’s heart that spends its winters on the coast of Newfoundland, thriving in one of the toughest climates on Earth. The polar bear is an apex predator, designed to persevere in the Arctic’s extreme conditions. The North Atlantic right whale outweighs the humpback by more than twenty tons... + Read More
7.
Series: Living WildNew Beginnings in the Great OutdoorsHardcover
Joanna Maclennan9780500023501
$54.00NATURE
Jun 06, 2023
Explores the lifestyles of families and individuals around the world who have escaped the daily grind to create a new life in harmony with nature.More of us than ever are reevaluating how and where we live, eschewing disposable culture for a simpler life. Living Wild tells the stories of people around the world who have made the leap into the unknown, offering an intimate glimpse into what it means to live closer to nature. This will be inspirational reading for anyone who aspires to reset the batteries and live more sustainably.Â
The impact of... + Read More
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Series: What Your Food AteHow to Restore Our Land and Reclaim Our HealthPaperback
David R Montgomery9781324052104
$24.95SCIENCE
Jun 06, 2023
Series: Get Guerrilla GardeningA Handbook for Planting in Public PlacesHardcover
Ellen Miles9780744070804
$33.99GARDENING
Jul 18, 2023
An accessible guide to public planting with purpose, encouraging people to make urban communities greener, healthier, and happierDiscover why it’s worth greening your community in this engaging, step-by-step framework on how to guerrilla garden.Guerrilla gardening is the art and science of planting in a public place with a purpose. Whether you want to boost biodiversity, grow food, clean the air, or empower a community, you can join this new wave of a movement that combines grassroots direct action with flower power!How do you know which plants... + Read More
10.
Series: Fire WeatherThe Making of a BeastHardcover
John Vaillant9780735273160
$38.00NATURE
May 23, 2023
From the award-winning, bestselling author of The Golden Spruce and The Tiger comes a stunning account of a colossal wildfire, and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind.In May 2016, Fort McMurray, the hub of Canada’s petroleum industry and America’s biggest foreign supplier, was overrun by wildfire. The multi-billion-dollar disaster melted vehicles, turned entire neighborhoods into firebombs, and drove 88,000 people from their homes in a single afternoon. Through the lens of this apocalyptic con... + Read More
11.
Series: Outdoor Kids in an Inside WorldGetting Your Family Out of the House and Radically Engaged with NaturePaperback
Steven Rinella9780593129685
$24.95FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
May 23, 2023
The indispensable case for parenting tough, curious, and competent kids who feel at home in the outdoors, from the New York Times bestselling author and host of the TV series and podcast MeatEaterThe average American spends ninety percent of their time indoors, and children are no exception. Today, kids can spend up to seven hours per day looking at screens, a phenomenon that has real consequences for their physical and mental health. A lifetime spent indoors can diminish our children’s ability to understand and engage with anything beyond the ... + Read More
12.
Series: Land HealerHow Farming Can Save Britain's CountrysidePaperback
Jake Fiennes9781785947315
$22.99SCIENCE
Apr 25, 2023
’Jake Fiennes is changing the face of farming in Britain…a revolutionising force’ Isabella TreeOur relationship with our land is broken: we must heal it.Jake Fiennes is on a mission to change the face of the English countryside. As Conservation Manager at Holkham in Norfolk, one of the country’s largest historic country estates, his radical habitat restoration and agricultural work has nurtured its species and risen its crop yields - bringing back wetlands, hedgerows, birds and butterflies over 25,000 acres of land.But this isn’t rewilding - th... + Read More
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Series: RootedStories of Life, Land and a Farming RevolutionPaperback
Sarah Langford9780241991824
$22.99TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
Apr 25, 2023
A fascinating personal account of a revolution in British farmingSarah Langford had left her country roots behind to live and work in the city as a barrister. But when she found herself moving to the countryside, back to an agricultural life she had left behind, she saw farmers dealing with very different problems to those faced by her grandfather, who had fed a starving nation after war. Beleaguered with the challenges of climate change, Brexit and falling incomes, they faced accusations of ecological mismanagement from a hostile media and pub... + Read More
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Series: Leaves, Roots & FruitA Step-by-Step Guide to Planting an Organic Kitchen GardenHardcover
Nicole Johnsey Burke9781401969103
$40.00GARDENING
Apr 25, 2023
An Intuitive Gardening System Built for SuccessDo you dream of walking through your own kitchen garden with baskets full of delicious food you grew yourself? But are you waiting to begin because you think you don’t have enough space, sun, time, or experience?Then consider this: Plants want to grow. And when you match a plant’s needs to your own resources, you’re just one step away from success in the kitchen garden.Nicole Johnsey Burke—founder of Gardenary, Inc., and author of Kitchen Garden Revival—is your expert guide for growing your own fre... + Read More
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Series: The Earth TransformedAn Untold HistoryHardcover
Peter Frankopan9780525659167
$54.00SCIENCE
Apr 18, 2023
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR: A revolutionary new history that reveals how climate change has dramatically shaped the development—and demise—of civilizations across time*Detailing many years of extensive research, endnotes for this edition run to more than 200 pages. They are available online via a link contained in the book.*  Global warming is one of the greatest dangers mankind faces today. Even as temperatures increase, sea levels rise, and natural disasters escalate, our current environmental crisis feels difficult to predict and un... + Read More
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Series: Ebb and FlowHow to Connect with the Patterns and Power of WaterPaperback
Easkey Britton9781786786463
$25.95BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
Apr 11, 2023
An exploration of water’s power to heal us, inspire us and offer us spiritual meaning. This is a feminist reimagining of the meaning of power through the lens of water. Easkey offers a range of wellness practices to encourage the reader to connect with water as healer, restoring a relationship of care.Our strength lies in being soft like water. This book is about the power we gain by connecting to water. It’s about how we can restore our relationship with the world’s different bodies of water, and by doing so, restore both the water and ourselv... + Read More
17.
Series: A Handcrafted LifeCreating a Sustainable Cottage SanctuaryHardcover
Tiffany Francis-Baker9780847899272
$40.00HOUSE & HOME
Apr 11, 2023
Cultivating traditional skills and simple approaches to achieving a sustainable—and beautiful—life.This is the essential guide to living a more beautiful, purposeful, and fulfilling life inspired by the whimsical world of cottagecore, complete with flower pressing, foraging, needlework, spinning, crafting, and other fun and charming yet practical activities. From savoring the aroma of freshly baked bread and tending a beloved herb patch to enjoying sunlight filtering through hand-sewn curtains, cottagecore is a philosophy as well as an aestheti... + Read More
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Series: You Can Cook This!Turn the 30 Most Commonly Wasted Foods into 135 Delicious Plant-Based Meals: A Vegan CookbookPaperback
Max La Manna9780593578728
$34.00COOKING
Apr 11, 2023
135 super-simple plant-based recipes that celebrate your favorite vegetables and save time, money, and waste, from social media star chef Max La MannaDiscover brilliantly simple and flavor-packed recipes that embrace the power of plants—and help you fight food waste. For one year, Max La Manna asked his social media audience which foods they threw away the most, and using the tens of thousands of responses, he narrowed down a list of thirty of the most commonly wasted ingredients, which serve as the foundation of this cookbook. Using his innova... + Read More
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Series: Life on the RocksBuilding a Future for Coral ReefsPaperback
Juli Berwald9780593087312
$24.95NATURE
Apr 04, 2023
The story of the urgent fight to save the coral reefs, and why it matters to us allCoral reefs are a microcosm of our planet: extraordinarily diverse, deeply interconnected, and full of wonders. When they’re thriving, these fairy gardens hidden beneath the ocean’s surface burst with color and life. They sustain bountiful ecosystems and protect vulnerable coasts. Corals themselves are evolutionary marvels that build elaborate limestone formations from their collective skeletons, broker symbiotic relationships with algae, and manufacture their ow... + Read More
20.
Series: Your Space, Made SimpleInterior Design that's Approachable, Affordable, and SustainableHardcover
Ariel Magidson9781950968916
$39.95HOUSE & HOME
Apr 11, 2023
Create beautiful spaces in your home effortlessly using this book’s easy-to-follow interior design “recipes” for a perfect room.Your Space, Made Simple is an interior design guide for anyone who dreams of a well-designed home but doesn’t know where to begin. If you feel stuck when you go shopping for home decor, or confused about how to arrange furniture, this book will give you the inspiration and tools you need to curate a space that fits you and your family’s lifestyle and needs in no time. Whether you just moved into a new home or have want... + Read More
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Series: 365 Ways to Save the PlanetA Day-by-day Guide to Sustainable LivingPaperback
Georgina Wilson-Powell9780744077513
$24.99HOUSE & HOME
Apr 04, 2023
A 365-day guide to step-by-step sustainability, bursting with actionable ideas and measurable goals across the yearStep up your sustainability and unlock your full eco potential with 365 easy, trackable changes.What if sustainability didn’t have to be so complicated? 365 Ways to Save the Planet cuts through the noise and explains exactly how to live a “greener” lifestyle day by day. With its approachable ideas and achievable daily actions, anyone can up their sustainability score with this bible. Eco warrior Georgina Wilson-Powell breaks down t... + Read More
Through 140 drawings, thought experiments, recipes, activist instructions, gardening ideas, insurgences and personal revolutions, artists who spend their lives thinking outside the box guide you to a new worldview; where you and the planet are one.Everything here is new. We invite you to rip out pages, to hang them up at home, to draw and scribble, to cook, to meditate, to take the book to your nearest green space.Featuring Olafur Eliasson, Etel Adnan, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Jane Fonda & Swoon, Judy Chicago, Black Quantum Futurism Collective, Vi... + Read More
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Series: The Blue CommonsRescuing the Economy of the SeaHardcover
Guy Standing9780241475874
$45.95BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Mar 28, 2023
A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST ECONOMICS BOOK OF 2022 ’A landmark book…The Blue Commons is at once a brilliant synthesis, a searing analysis, and an inspiring call to action.’ - David Bollier’With remarkable erudition, passion and lyricism, Guy Standing commands the reader to wake up to the threat posed by rentier capitalism’s violent policies for extraction, exploitation and depletion of that which is both common to us all, but also vital to our survival: the sea and all within it.’ - Ann Pettifor ’Shines a bright light on the economy of the oceans, ... + Read More
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Series: The Nation of PlantsPaperback
Stefano Mancuso9781635421927
$23.99NATURE
Apr 18, 2023
In this playful yet informative manifesto, a leading plant neurobiologist presents the eight fundamental pillars on which the life of plants—and by extension, humans—rests.Even if they behave as though they were, humans are not the masters of the Earth, but only one of its most irksome residents. From the moment of their arrival, about three hundred thousand years ago—nothing when compared to the history of life on our planet—humans have succeeded in changing the conditions of the planet so drastically as to make it a dangerous place for their ... + Read More
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Series: Ever GreenSaving Big Forests to Save the PlanetPaperback
John W Reid9781324050377
$23.95NATURE
Mar 28, 2023
One of Kirkus Review’s Best Nonfiction Books of 2022
Clear, provocative, and persuasive, Ever Green is an inspiring call to action to conserve Earth’s irreplaceable wild woods, counteract climate change, and save the planet.
Five stunningly large forests remain on Earth: the Taiga, extending from the Pacific Ocean across all of Russia and far-northern Europe; the North American boreal, ranging from Alaska’s Bering seacoast to Canada’s Atlantic shore; the Amazon, covering almost the entirety of South America’s bulge; the Congo, occupying parts ... + Read More
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Series: The Climate Action HandbookA Visual Guide to 100 Climate Solutions for EveryonePaperback
Heidi Roop9781632174147
$24.95SCIENCE
Mar 21, 2023
“What can I do, personally, about the climate crisis? [Readers] often ask us a version of this question….[Roop] says that civic engagement is one of the most effective ways for individuals to make a difference and to avoid feeling overwhelmed by the climate crisis….Ask yourself, what are you passionate about? Using this passion may motivate you to help shape the future of your community.”—The New York Times Climate Forward newsletterThis must-have book shows us WHY we need to take action now to combat climate change and then, critically, HOW, t... + Read More
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Series: Wilder JourneysTrue Stories of Nature, Adventure and ConnectionHardcover
Laurie King9781786787422
$27.95NATURE
Mar 14, 2023
Environmental writer Laurie King and internationally bestselling author Miriam Lancewood present a collection of narrative non-fiction stories and poems on the human connection with nature.Follow the call of the wild with these incredible true stories from an international group of nature lovers, nomads and adventurers.In these pages, you are invited to share the wisdom they gained on their wild journeys. You will walk across the Australian desert with American explorer Angela Maxwell; live with Hamza Yassin and a family of eagles in Scotland; ... + Read More
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Series: Our Kindred HomeHerbal Recipes, Plant Wisdom, and Seasonal Rituals for Rekindling Connection with the EarthHardcover
Alyson Morgan9780593235980
$34.00HOUSE & HOME
Mar 14, 2023
Learn to reconnect with plants and nature for collective healing in a world beset by environmental crisis with this herbalism and eco-activist handbook.Alyson Morgan, a second-generation Haitian American, grew up feeling disconnected from her roots and suffering from the trauma of racism. To heal herself, she found a connection with the natural world around her: slowing down, respecting the seasons, and growing or foraging plants in her local area. To Alyson, connection with the earth means finding a sense of place and home in an era of stress ... + Read More
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Series: Who Cares WinsReasons for Optimism in a Changing WorldHardcover
Lily Cole9780789344090
$19.98NATURE
Mar 21, 2023
A rousing call to action, this book will leave you feeling hopeful that we can make a difference in the midst of an age of turmoil, destruction, and uncertainty.The climate crisis, mass extinctions, political polarization, extremeinequality—the world faces terrifying challenges that threaten to divide us, yet Lily Cole argues that it is up to us to actively choose optimism, collabo- rate, make changes, and define what is possible. Cole writes: “We are the ancestors of our future. The choices we make now and the actions we take today will define... + Read More
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Series: Sounds Wild and BrokenSonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory ExtinctionPaperback
David George Haskell9781984881564
$24.95NATURE
Mar 07, 2023
“[A] glorious guide to the miracle of life’s sound.” —The New York Times Book ReviewA lyrical exploration of the diverse sounds of our planet, the creative processes that produced these marvels, and the perils that sonic diversity now facesWe live on a planet alive with song, music, and speech. David Haskell explores how these wonders came to be. In rain forests shimmering with insect sound and swamps pulsing with frog calls we learn about evolution’s creative powers. From birds in the Rocky Mountains and on the streets of Paris, we discover ho... + Read More
From Jonathan Franzen, one of our preeminent writers and thinkers, comes a brilliant, searing essay collection that calls for us to take better care of our planet and one another in these troubled times.The End of the End of the Earth is a collection of Jonathan Franzen’s essays and speeches from the past five years, in which he grapples with the most important and heated ethical subjects of the day: environmentalism, capitalism, wealth inequality, race, technology and the role of art. He challenges us to ask difficult questions: What is our ci... + Read More
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Series: At Home with NatureA Guide to Sustainable, Natural LandscapingHardcover
John Gidding9781682687093
$42.50GARDENING
Feb 28, 2023
Go from manicured lawn to eco-conscious garden with this step-by-step guide from HGTV star John Gidding.Increased awareness of the environment and an ever-present interest in curb appeal means that homeowners are eager for more sustainable, natural landscaping. And why shouldn’t they be? In addition to supporting local flora and fauna, ditching grass for lush, native plants helps lower water bills and results in self-sustaining gardens long-term. In John Gidding’s At Home with Nature, American homeowners will find thorough blueprints to reap th... + Read More
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Series: Women and Climate ChangeExamining Discourses from the Global NorthPaperback
Nicole Detraz9780262542074
$54.00POLITICAL SCIENCE
Feb 14, 2023
How ideas of gender and climate change intersect with our path to a livable future.When you think “climate change,” who comes to mind? Who’s doing the science, the reporting, the protesting, the suffering? In Women and Climate Change, Nicole Detraz asks where women in the Global North figure in the picture, what that means, and why it matters. Her answers fill critical gaps in what we know about the politics of climate change and gender.Representations of climate change, like perceptions of gender, can make a profound difference in understandin... + Read More
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Series: How Did We Get Into This Mess?Politics, Equality, NaturePaperback
George Monbiot9781804290439
$25.95POLITICAL SCIENCE
Feb 14, 2023
“A primal account of an unstifled world.” —Bill McKibben “A dazzling command of science and relentless faith…” —Naomi Klein A wide-ranging collection of essays from leading environmental commentator on how politics and big business threaten our daily lives, our society, and the planetWithout countervailing voices, naming and challenging power, political freedom withers and dies. Without countervailing voices, a better world can never materialise. Without countervailing voices, wells will still be dug and bridges will still be built, but only ... + Read More
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Series: The Climate BookThe Facts and the SolutionsHardcover
Greta Thunberg9780593492307
$41.00SCIENCE
Feb 14, 2023
We still have time to change the world. From Greta Thunberg, the world’s leading climate activist, comes the essential handbook for making it happen.You might think it’s an impossible task: secure a safe future for life on Earth, at a scale and speed never seen, against all the odds. There is hope - but only if we listen to the science before it’s too late.In The Climate Book, Greta Thunberg has gathered the wisdom of over one hundred experts - geophysicists, oceanographers and meteorologists; engineers, economists and mathematicians; historian... + Read More
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Series: Radical LoveFrom Separation to Connection with the Earth, Each Other, and OurselvesPaperback
Satish Kumar9781952692352
$21.95BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
Feb 07, 2023
To see peace in our lifetimes, we have to practice love.This is the radical message of this inspirational book of pithy advice from environmental activist Satish Kumar, which helps us find ways to love ourselves, others, and all beings on planet Earth—even those we may find unlovable.Satish Kumar is well known for his epic walk for world peace in his youth in the 1960s from India to the nuclear capitals of Moscow, Paris, London, and Washington, DC. Wherever he traveled, he found that human beings were capable of a love that could overcome hatr... + Read More
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Series: The Golden SpruceA True Story of Myth, Madness and GreedPaperback
John Vaillant9780676976465
$23.00SCIENCE
Jan 03, 2006
The environmental true-crime story of a glorious natural wonder, the man who destroyed it, and the fascinating, troubling context in which this act took place. Featuring a new Afterword by the author.“Absolutely spellbinding.” —The New York TimesOn a winter night in 1997, a British Columbia timber scout named Grant Hadwin committed an act of shocking violence in the mythic Queen Charlotte Islands. His victim was legendary: a unique 300-year-old Sitka spruce tree, fifty metres tall and covered with luminous golden needles. In a bizarre environme... + Read More
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Series: Be More HumanHow to transform your lifestyle for optimum health, happiness and vitalityPaperback
Tony Riddle9780241509593
$35.99PSYCHOLOGY
Jan 31, 2023
’Tony Riddle’s mission is to present ways of living that are more in sync with our human biology, to help us thrive in this modern world’ Dr Rangan Chatterjee’This book is brilliant with such an important message’ The Happy Pear ___________________________The ultimate guide to boosting your mental and physical health by reconnecting with the way we, as humans, were supposed to live, eat, sleep, breathe and move.The bright lights, late nights and constant hustle of our modern world have detached us from the way we, as humans, were supposed to li... + Read More
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Series: ReclaimedNew Homes from Old MaterialsHardcover
Penny Craswell9781760763145
$60.00ARCHITECTURE
Jan 10, 2023
A celebration of sustainability, design, and creativity, this book presents beautiful homes created from recycled and repurposed materials.Bricks can be cleaned, timber hardens with age, and metal develops a pleasing patina without deteriorating, making them all perfect for reuse. Considering the many options for reusing building materials,this book offers a viable alternative to using those manufactured from virgin resources. This inspiring book is an antidote to the unsustainable use of materials, focusing on contemporary homes made with reus... + Read More
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Series: The Sustainable Mediterranean Diet CookbookMore Than 100 Easy, Healthy Recipes to Reduce Food Waste, Eat in Season, and Help the EarthPaperback
Serena Ball MS, RD9781637741542
$38.95COOKING
Dec 13, 2022
Mouthwatering, budget-friendly recipes that are good for you and good for the Earth, from the authors of The 30-Minute Mediterranean Diet CookbookFood-loving dietitians and culinary instructors Serena Ball and Deanna Segrave-Daly are back, serving up delicious climate cuisine with a Mediterranean spin. The science is clear: a Mediterranean-style diet is one of the healthiest and most sustainable in the world.The Sustainable Mediterranean Diet Cookbook is a comprehensive guide to getting the most from this incredible regimen, with 10 steps to a ... + Read More
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Series: Ecological by DesignA History from ScandinaviaHardcover
Kjetil Fallan9780262047135
$54.00ARCHITECTURE
Nov 22, 2022
How ecological design emerged in Scandinavia during the 1960s and 1970s, building on both Scandinavia’s design culture and its environmental movement.Scandinavia is famous for its design culture, and for its pioneering efforts toward a sustainable future. In Ecological by Design, Kjetil Fallan shows how these two forces came together in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when Scandinavian designers began to question the endless cycle in which designed objects are produced, consumed, discarded, and replaced in quick succession. The emergence of eco... + Read More
An inspirational sourcebook
of innovative and unexpected
green design solutions for our
homes in a rapidly
changing world. Nothing short of a design revolution is underway as architects, designers, engineers, self-builders, and artists confront climate change, polluting plastics, global migration, rapidly expanding cities, and an ageing population. Part handbook, part manifesto, Houses That Can Save the World shows how creative thinkers are embracing the new challenges we are all facing.
Featuring nineteen home-building and design strategies th... + Read More
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Series: DK BIG IDEASThe Ecology BookPaperback
DK9780744060867
$25.99NATURE
Nov 01, 2022
How do species interact with each other and their environment? How do ecosystems change? What is biodiversity and can we afford to damage it?Throughout history, humankind has tried to order the living world and understand how it works. As our influence on the planet grows, answering these profound questions is becoming more and more pressing. Written in plain English, The Ecology Book is packed with short, pithy explanations of more than 90 key ideas. Step-by-step diagrams untangle tricky theories, illuminating quotes make the ideas and discove... + Read More
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Series: The Future Is NowSolving the Climate Crisis with Today's TechnologiesHardcover
Bob McDonald9780735241947
$32.95SCIENCE
Sep 27, 2022
One of:CBC’s “27 Canadian books we can’t wait to read in September”CBC’s “60 works of Canadian nonfiction to watch for in fall 2022”Toronto Star’s “40-plus books we’re most looking forward to this season”Is a global pandemic what it took to show us that saving our planet is possible?In the absence of motorized boats and gondolas, Venice’s waters have returned to a sparkling blue color. Deer have been spotted roaming cities in Italy, and mountain goats recently took over a small seaside town in Wales. Taking advantage of the decreased boat tra... + Read More
45.
Series: Healthier HomesA Blueprint for Creating a Toxin-Free Living EnvironmentPaperback
Jen Stout9781628604450
$39.95HOUSE & HOME
Sep 27, 2022
Most of us spend 90 percent of our time indoors, but our indoor environments could be causing us significant harm. Everything from flooring to paints to insulation contains chemicals known to contribute to health problems such as cardiovascular disease and cancer. In this book, Jen and Rusty Stout, nationally recognized healthy home building innovators, teach you how to think like a builder so that you can construct a new home or upgrade an existing one to put wellness first. Making smart choices when it comes to building materials, moisture pr... + Read More
46.
Series: Homestead SurvivalAn Insider's Guide to Your Great EscapePaperback
Marty Raney9780593420683
$27.00HOUSE & HOME
Sep 13, 2022
A practical guide to self-sufficient and sustainable living from the star of Homestead Rescue.Do you wish for a more resilient, sustainable, and empowered way of providing for your family in uncertain times? Are you worried about unreliable power grids, uncertain water supplies, or overly complex food chains? Veteran homesteader and star Discovery’s Homestead Rescue Marty Raney shares a big-picture vision of how ordinary families can become radically resilient homesteaders: powering, feeding, and caring for themselves through their own efforts,... + Read More
47.
Series: Not on My WatchHow a renegade whale biologist took on governments and industry to save wild salmonPaperback
Alexandra Morton9780735279681
$22.00BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Sep 06, 2022
NATIONAL BESTSELLERAlexandra Morton has been called “the Jane Goodall of Canada” because of her passionate thirty-year fight to save British Columbia’s wild salmon. Her account of that fight is both inspiring in its own right and a roadmap of resistance.Alexandra Morton came north from California in the early 1980s, following her first love—the northern resident orca. Then, in 1989, industrial aquaculture moved into the region, chasing the whales away. Soon Alex had shifted her scientific focus to documenting the infectious diseases and parasit... + Read More
48.
Series: Sacred NatureRestoring our Ancient Bond with the Natural WorldHardcover
Karen Armstrong9780735282421
$32.95RELIGION
Sep 06, 2022
ONE OF THE NEW YORKER’S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR (SO FAR)A profound exploration of the spiritual power of nature—and an urgent call to reclaim that power in everyday life.Since the beginning of time, humankind has looked upon nature and seen the divine. In the writings of the great thinkers across religions, the natural world inspires everything from fear to awe to tranquil contemplation; God, or however one defined the sublime, was present in everything. Yet today, even as we admire a tree or take in a striking landscape, we rarely see nature as... + Read More
49.
Series: The Ethical Traveler100 Ways to Roam the World (Without Ruining It!)Hardcover
Imogen Lepere9781925811988
$22.95TRAVEL
Sep 06, 2022
Practical choices we can all make to travel the world more ethically. Travel can be a blast, but there are hidden costs to your trips that go deeper than your pockets. From potential impacts on the environment or the communities we visit to respecting others’ cultures, taking a moment to consider our choices can make a real impact on the planet and other people. Whether it’s doing the research to make sure the money we pay to see wild animals isn’t going into the pockets of those abusing them or forgoing the familiarity of Star... + Read More
50.
Series: Life in the City of Dirty WaterA Memoir of HealingPaperback
Clayton Thomas-Muller9780735240087
$19.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Aug 23, 2022
NATIONAL BESTSELLERA 2022 CANADA READS FINALISTAn electrifying memoir that braids together the urgent issues of Indigenous rights and environmental policy, from a nationally and internationally recognized activist and survivor.There have been many Clayton Thomas-Mullers: The child who played with toy planes as an escape from domestic and sexual abuse, enduring the intergenerational trauma of Canada’s residential school system; the angry youngster who defended himself with fists and sharp wit against racism and violence, at school and on the str... + Read More
Save money on home cleaning products with 201 natural cleaning solutions that use four simple, versatile, and inexpensive ingredients: salt, lemon, vinegar, baking soda, and olive oil. This is an essential reference for anyone interested in thrifty, natural, and sustainable living!Clean is the new inexpensive green! Sustainable. Organic. Economical. Natural. Now more than ever, people are looking to create a nontoxic home by using products that are effective, economical, and natural. This handy book focuses on living simpler, stepping away from... + Read More
52.
Series: How to Avoid a Climate DisasterThe Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We NeedPaperback
Bill Gates9780735280465
$22.00SCIENCE
Aug 23, 2022
#1 NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERIn this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical—and accessible—plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid an irreversibleclimate catastrophe.Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help and guidance of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science and finance, he has focused on what must be done in order to stop the planet’s slide to certain en... + Read More
53.
Series: LookoutLove, Solitude, and Searching for Wildfire in the Boreal ForestPaperback
Trina Moyles9780735279933
$21.00BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Jul 26, 2022
A page-turning memoir about a young woman’s grueling, revelatory summers working alone in a remote lookout tower and her eyewitness account of the increasingly unpredictable nature of wildfire in the Canadian north.While growing up in Peace River, Alberta, Trina Moyles heard many stories of Lookout Observers—strange, eccentric types who spent five-month summers alone, climbing 100-foot high towers and watching for signs of fire in the surrounding boreal forest. But Moyles never thought she could do that. Craving a deeper sense of purpose, she l... + Read More
54.
Series: This Is Your Mind on PlantsPaperback
Michael Pollan9780593296929
$24.00BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
Jul 19, 2022
From number one New York Times bestselling author Michael Pollan, a radical challenge to how we think about drugs, and an exploration into the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants—and the equally powerful taboosOf all the things humans rely on plants for, surely the most curious is our use of them to alter consciousness. Take caffeine: People around the world rely on it to sharpen their minds. But we don’t usually think of caffeine as a drug because its daily use is legal and socially acceptable. So, then, what is a “drug”? And why ... + Read More
55.
Series: The Carbon AlmanacIt's Not Too LatePaperback
The Carbon Almanac Network9780593542514
$28.00SCIENCE
Jul 12, 2022
When it comes to the climate, we don’t need more marketing or anxiety. We need established facts and a plan for collective action.The climate is the fundamental issue of our time, and now we face a critical decision. Whether to be optimistic or fatalistic, whether to profess skepticism or to take action. Yet it seems we can barely agree on what is really going on, let alone what needs to be done. We urgently need facts, not opinions. Insights, not statistics. And a shift from thinking about climate change as a “me” problem to a “we” problem. Th... + Read More
56.
Series: How to Reduce Your Carbon FootprintPractical Ways to Make a Real DifferencePaperback
Ellen Tout9781786786487
$16.95NATURE
Jul 12, 2022
The ultimate guide to minimizing your impact on the environment, with hundreds of practical ways to help combat the climate crisis.Turn over a green leaf in every aspect of your life with this comprehensive guide. Packed with a wealth of information and practical, professional and up-to-date advice about making achievable and sustainable changes, this book can show you how to take a responsible approach to all aspects of your lifestyle including shopping, eating, travel, home life and work habits.The book is organized into key topics so that it... + Read More
57.
Series: Finding the Mother TreeDiscovering the Wisdom of the ForestPaperback
Suzanne Simard9780735237773
$23.00SCIENCE
Jun 21, 2022
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER & NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA world-leading expert shares her amazing story of discovering the communication that exists between trees, and shares her own story of family and grief. Suzanne Simard is a pioneer on the frontier of plant communication and intelligence who has been compared to Rachel Carson, and whose work has influenced James Cameron and Richard Powers.In Finding the Mother Tree, Simard brings us into her world and shows us that trees are not simply the source of timber or pulp, but are a complicated... + Read More
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Series: Commanding HopeThe Power We Have to Renew a World in PerilPaperback
Thomas Homer-Dixon9780307363176
$24.00POLITICAL SCIENCE
Jun 14, 2022
Calling on history, cutting-edge research, complexity science and even The Lord of the Rings, renowned thought leader Thomas Homer-Dixon lays out the tools we can command to rescue a world on the brink.For three decades, Thomas Homer-Dixon, author of The Ingenuity Gap and The Upside of Down, has examined the threats to our future security—predicting a deteriorating global environment, extreme economic stresses, mass migrations, social instability and wide political violence if humankind continued on its current course. He was called The Doom Me... + Read More
An overview of ecologically
conscious contemporary art
that responds to today’s
environmental crisis, from
species extinction to
climate change.Art and Climate Change collects a wide range of artistic responses to our current ecological emergency. When the future of life on Earth is threatened, creative production for its own sake is not enough. Through contemporary artworks, artists are calling for an active, collective engagement with the planet in order to illuminate some of the structures that threaten biological survival.
Exploring the mee... + Read More
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Series: Grow, Cook, Dye, WearFrom Seed To Style The Sustainable WayPaperback
Bella Gonshorovitz9780241536445
$33.99CRAFTS & HOBBIES
May 24, 2022
A fully illustrated, practical guide that explains how to follow a sustainable approach to food and fashionLive sustainably with style – grow fruits and vegetables, cook them, create natural dyes, then make your own clothes with five full-size pattern sheets.Swap food waste and fast fashion for homegrown produce, delicious vegan dishes, and a contemporary capsule wardrobe with the help of fashion designer, dressmaker, and writer Bella Gonshorovitz. Focused around five crops (blackberry, nettle, onion, red cabbage and rhubarb) that can be forage... + Read More