The Climate-Conscious Writers Handbook | ed. Wren James
June 25, 2025/by Liz JensenIt’s Not That Radical: Climate Action To Transform Our World | Mikaela Loach
The environmental crisis is deeply entangled with colonialism…
August 31, 2023/by sandywThe Shetland Way: Community and climate crisis on my father’s islands | Marianne Brown
How do we balance our needs with the needs of the…
Dirt | Laura Baggaley
In the near future, global food supply chains have…
Hope In Hell: A decade to confront the climate emergency | Jonathon Porritt
The message in this book is one of hope. Porritt,…
The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet | Leah Thomas
The Intersectional Environmentalist bridges the gap…
Future on Fire: Capitalism and the Politics of Climate Change | David Camfield
Climate change is already affecting millions of people.…
Hot Air: The Inside Story of the Battle Against Climate Change Denial | Peter Stot
Ours is the age of global warming. Rising sea levels, extreme…
June 2, 2025/by sandywPyromania: Fire and Geopolitics in a Climate-disrupted World | Simon Dalby
We are the only species that uses fire. It has determined…
The Long Heat | Andreas Malm and Will Carton
In a blistering follow-up to their best-selling…
Overshoot | Andreas Malm and Wim Carton
As the fossil fuel industry continues to make its…
Crude Britannia: How Big Oil Shaped A Nation | James Marriott and Terry Macalister
This is the story of Britain's oil-soaked past, present…
There is No Planet B | Mike Berners-Lee
"We belong to the earth; it does not belong to us…we need…
July 17, 2023/by IainCaFirmament: The Hidden Science of Weather, Climate Change and the Air That Surrounds Us | Simon Clark
A thin, invisible layer of air surrounds the Earth,…
THE CLIMATE MAJORITY PROJECT | Rupert Read, Liam Kavanagh, Rosie Bell
“The only realistic hope for a turnaround in our civilization’s…
April 1, 2024/by Liz JensenThis Changes Everything | Naomi Klein
“It is always easier to deny reality” writes Naomi Klein,…
June 8, 2023/by Anne Enith CooperPsychological Roots of Climate Change | Sally Weintrobe
Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis tells…
How to Save Our Planet | Mark Maslin
Professor Mark Maslin’s How to Save Our Planet is a handbook…
July 17, 2023/by IainCaThe Response | David Shukman
"This fascinating and gripping book has the power to open…
May 15, 2026/by Liz JensenWild Dark Shore | Charlotte McConaghy
Gripping, moving, and beautifully-wrought, McConagh’s…
Dream State | Eric Puchner
Puchner’s engrossing multi-generational portrait…
The Future We Choose | Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac
Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac know…
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…
Fight the Fire: Green New Deals and Global Climate Jobs | Jonathan Neale
Fight the Fire is a book that asks what would a green…
Our Final Warning | Mark Lynas
Mark Lynas’ 2008 book Six Degrees soon became a must-read…
August 23, 2023/by Liz JensenHere Comes the Sun | Bill McKibben
"We live on an earth where the cheapest way to produce power…
November 27, 2025/by Liz JensenHelm | Sarah Hall
Non-human protagonists are having quite a…
Feminism for a World on Fire | Natasha Walter
Clear-eyed, eloquent and cogent, Natasha Walters’s…
Love, Anger and Betrayal | Jonathon Porritt
In his powerful account of a year spent talking to young…
August 27, 2025/by Liz JensenYellow Pine | Claire Vaye Watkins
As Watkins’ celebrated Gold, Fame, Citrus showed,…
Climate, Psychology and Change | Steffi Bednarek
With so many immediate and intensifying crises unfolding…
August 27, 2025/by Liz JensenWild Seas, Wilder Cities. A collection of environmental fiction, poems and articles, | Helen Salsbury and Richard Salsbury (editors)
Taking its ethos as ‘local action wherever you…
LOSING EARTH: The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change | NATHANIEL RICH
“Nearly everything we understand about global warming…
The Climate Book | Greta Thunberg
In this collection of essays, interspersed with Greta Thunberg’s…
June 7, 2023/by Anne Enith CooperWhy Rebel | Jay Griffiths
Why rebel? Because our footprint on the Earth has never mattered…
May 16, 2023/by KatieThis Is Not A Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook
“We refuse to bequeath a dying planet to future generations…
July 17, 2023/by IainCaThe New Global Possible | Ani Dasgupta
Global environmental leader Ani Dasgupta takes an…
The Future of The Past: when cultural heritage meets climate change | Thijs Weststeijn
As the wooden piles under Amsterdam begin to rot,…
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