CLASSICS

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The End of Nature | Bill McKibben

“The planet, for the first time, has been entirely reconfigured.…
June 9, 2023/by Anne Enith Cooper

Odds Against Tomorrow | Nathaniel Rich

New York City, the near future: Mitchell Zukor works on the…
February 7, 2023/by Katie

Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if people Mattered | E.F. Schumacher

When Schumacher’s original eco-bible was published in 1973,…
June 9, 2023/by Anne Enith Cooper

The Sea and Summer | George Turner

Francis Conway is Swill - one of the 90% in the year 2041…
February 7, 2023/by Katie

The Ministry for the Future | Kim Stanley Robinson

Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organisation…
February 7, 2023/by Katie

The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck

 



First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s powerful…
August 22, 2023/by Liz Jensen

Juice | Tim Winton

 

The acclaimed Australian novelist Tim Winton returns…
November 1, 2024/by Liz Jensen

Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility | Edited by Rebecca Solnit & Thelma Young Lutunatabua

 

Not Too Late brings together climate voices from…
December 12, 2023/by sandyw

Watership Down | Richard Adams

This adventure novel about a small band of rabbits in southern…
May 29, 2023/by Katie

The Sixth Extinction | Elizabeth Kolbert

 
In her ground-breaking and scientifically rigorous…
June 7, 2023/by Anne Enith Cooper

Ecocivilization | Jeremy Lent

 

As climate chaos, inequality, and social fragmentation…
June 16, 2026/by Liz Jensen

THE GREAT DERANGEMENT | AMITAV GHOSH

 
In this searing indictment — that’s also an empowering…
February 6, 2024/by Liz Jensen

Clade | James Bradley

Clade is the story of one family in a radically changing world,…
June 3, 2023/by Anne Enith Cooper

Active Hope | Joanna Macy

“Active hope is not wishful thinking….Active hope is…
June 7, 2023/by Anne Enith Cooper

The Deluge | Stephen Markley

In the first decades of the 21st century, the world is convulsing,…
March 27, 2023/by Katie

Flight Behaviour | Barbara Kingsolver

"The flames now appeared to lift from individual treetops…
February 7, 2023/by Katie

Out Of Time | edited by Kate Simpson

If you compressed the whole of Earth’s history into a single…
March 27, 2023/by Katie

Wild: An Elemental Journey | Jay Griffiths

Wildness, to the celebrated writer-activist Jay Griffiths,…
June 7, 2023/by Anne Enith Cooper

Jeff VanderMeer | Area X

 

Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach series, beginning with the iconic trilogy—Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptanceand extending to the fourth volume, Absolution,…
March 16, 2026/by Liz Jensen

Bewilderment | Richard Powers

“Life is something we need to stop correcting…Every one…
June 3, 2023/by Anne Enith Cooper

Doughnut Economics | Kate Raworth

Imagine two concentric circles, one inside the other: a social…
June 20, 2023/by Anne Enith Cooper

This Changes Everything | Naomi Klein

“It is always easier to deny reality” writes Naomi Klein,…
June 8, 2023/by Anne Enith Cooper

How to Save Our Planet | Mark Maslin

Professor Mark Maslin’s How to Save Our Planet is a handbook…
July 17, 2023/by IainCa

Silent Spring | Rachel Carson

 

In this seminal text published in 1962 Carson exposed…
July 2, 2024/by sandyw

Things We Didn’t See Coming | Steven Amsterdam

Opening on the eve of the millennium, when the world as we…
February 7, 2023/by Katie

Our Final Warning | Mark Lynas

Mark Lynas’ 2008 book Six Degrees soon became a must-read…
August 23, 2023/by Liz Jensen

The Uninhabitable Earth | David Wallace-Wells

From its first line - “It is, worse, much worse, than you…
June 9, 2023/by Anne Enith Cooper

WALDEN | HENRY THOREAU

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,…
February 6, 2024/by Liz Jensen

The Windup Girl | Paolo Bacigalupi

The Windup Girl is the ground-breaking and visionary modern…
February 7, 2023/by Katie

The Patterning Instinct | Jeremy Lent

 
Jeremy Lent’s iconic work, described by George…
June 9, 2023/by Anne Enith Cooper

Arctic Dreams | Barry Lopez

"In the Arctic, the land begins to dream itself. Barry Lopez…
June 7, 2023/by Anne Enith Cooper

The Lorax | Dr. Seuss

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing…
June 3, 2023/by Anne Enith Cooper

The Future of Life | E.O. Wilson

“We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless,”…
June 8, 2023/by Anne Enith Cooper

The Long Heat | Andreas Malm and Will Carton

 

 

In a blistering follow-up to their best-selling…
November 27, 2025/by Liz Jensen

The Climate Book | Greta Thunberg

In this collection of essays, interspersed with Greta Thunberg’s…
June 7, 2023/by Anne Enith Cooper

Far North | Marcel Theroux

 

Marcel Theroux’s prophetic 2010 novel offers…
February 11, 2025/by Liz Jensen

The Drowned World | JG Ballard

When London is lost beneath the rising tides, unconscious…
February 7, 2023/by Katie

Oryx and Crake | Margaret Atwood

Oryx and Crake is the first book in Margaret Atwood’s dystopian…
March 27, 2023/by Katie