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Living With Trees | Robin Walter
Trees and woods offer great potential for rebuilding our…
November 24, 2022/by KatieBIRD GIRL | MAYA-ROSE CRAIG
“In deciding to write a personal memoir at the…
Regenesis- Rewilding the World without Devouring the Planet | George Monbiot
With the human population increasing and food production…
July 17, 2023/by IainCaSpinning Out | Charlie Herzog Young
This debut from a young researcher, writer and award-winning…
August 22, 2023/by Liz JensenBeing Ecological | Timothy Morton
Don't care about ecology? This book is for you.
Why is…
May 16, 2023/by KatieWhy is…
The Nerves And Their Endings | Jessica Gaitan Johannesson
‘My attempts at making sense of the climate crisis have…
October 2, 2023/by Liz JensenThe language of trees | Katie Holten
THE IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER
‘A masterpiece’ Max…
July 19, 2023/by IainCa‘A masterpiece’ Max…
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 IainCaSand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World | Tyson Yunkaporta
This remarkable book is about everything from echidnas to…
September 25, 2022/by KatieSustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air | David JC MacKay
Addressing the sustainable energy crisis in an objective manner,…
May 16, 2023/by KatieSilent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse | Dave Goulson
Dave Goulson is passionate about insects. One of his earliest…
November 15, 2023/by sandywNews of the Earth | Homero Aridjis
News of the Earth chronicles poet Homero Aridjis’s relationship…
July 17, 2023/by IainCaThis Is Not A Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook
“We refuse to bequeath a dying planet to future generations…
July 17, 2023/by IainCaWILDING | ISABELLA TREE
“I recommend anyone prone to despair to read Wilding –…
October 11, 2023/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 Treeline | Ben Rawlence
The Arctic treeline is the frontline of climate change, where…
May 16, 2023/by KatieNOMAD CENTURY | GAIA VINCE
With every degree of temperature rise, a billion people will…
November 15, 2023/by Liz JensenIn Defense of Degrowth: Opinions and Minifestos | Giorgos Kallis (edited by Aaron Vansintjan)
Giorgios Kallis is one of the leading thinkers of the degrowth…
November 20, 2022/by KatieThe Future We Choose | Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac
This book is an inspiring manifesto from Global…
After Ithaca: Journeys in Deep Time | Charlotte Du Cann
What happens when the heroes disappear, when the battle for…
September 25, 2022/by KatieCli-Fi: A Companion | edited by Alex Goodbody & Adeline Johns-Putra
What is Cli-Fi? Climate change fiction is a new literary…
February 7, 2023/by KatieHold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance | John Berger
From the War on Terror to resistance in Ramallah and traumatic…
September 25, 2022/by KatieThe World After GDP | Lorenzo Fioramonti
GDP has become the benchmark of success and a powerful ordering…
November 20, 2022/by KatieNotes from Deep Time: A Journey Through Our Past and Future Worlds | Helen Gordon
The story of the Earth is written into our landscape: it's there…
November 24, 2022/by KatieThe Joyful Environmentalist | Isabel Losada
The Joyful Environmentalist is very much an XR book, with…
May 16, 2023/by KatieThe Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman | Davi Kopenawa & Bruce Albert
The Falling Sky is a remarkable first-person account of the…
November 24, 2022/by KatiePost-Growth Living For an Alternative Hedonism | Kate Soper
Climate change is inextricably linked with the consumerist,…
November 20, 2022/by KatieThe Two-Headed Whale | Sandy Winterbottom
In 2016, Sandy Winterbottom embarked on an epic tall-ship voyage…
November 15, 2023/by sandywIslands of Abandonment | Cal Flyn
Ghost towns, exclusion zones, no man’s lands and post-industrial…
July 17, 2023/by IainCaThe Nerves and Their Endings | Jessica Gaitán Johannesson
The body as a measuring tool for planetary harm. A nervous…
March 27, 2023/by KatieLess Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World | Jason Hickel
Our planet is in trouble. But how can we reverse the current…
September 25, 2022/by KatieUnderland | Robert Macfarlane
“To descend into the darkness is to descend into ourselves.…
July 17, 2023/by IainCaTiger Work | Ben Okri
Twenty thousand years after a catastrophe wiped out the human…
March 27, 2023/by KatieExploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide | Vincent Liegey & Anitra Nelson
As politicians and corporations obsess over "growth" objectives,…
November 20, 2022/by KatieThe Most Important Comic Book on Earth | Rewriting Extinction
"Storytelling is our most ancient and powerful…
Braiding Sweetgrass | Robin Wall Kimmerer
"The land knows you, even when you are lost." Hailed by many…
July 17, 2023/by IainCaFrom What Is to What If | Rob Hopkins
“As founder of the burgeoning Transitions Movement, Rob…
October 2, 2023/by Liz JensenThe Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis | Amitav Ghosh
‘Something between a history book and a fable about consumerism,…
September 25, 2022/by KatieNo One Is Too Small to Make a Difference | Greta Thunberg
“I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel…
July 17, 2023/by IainCaAll Breaking Together | Jem Bendell
“This book provides…the basis for freeing ourselves from…
July 17, 2023/by IainCaAvocado Anxiety: and Other Stories About Where Your Food Comes From | Louise Gray
In Avocado Anxiety, Louise Gray takes us on a deeply personal…
November 15, 2023/by sandywThe Good Ancestor | Roman Krznarnic
Jonas Salk, who developed the first polio vaccine and resisted…
July 17, 2023/by IainCaHow to Save Our Planet | Mark Maslin
Professor Mark Maslin’s How to Save Our Planet is a handbook…
July 17, 2023/by IainCaLetters to the Earth | introduced by Emma Thompson
How can we begin to talk about what is happening to the world?…
March 27, 2023/by KatieLast Chance to See | Douglas Adams
"I am quite certain that all species of We are not the only…
July 17, 2023/by IainCaHope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power | Rebecca Solnit
At a time when political, environmental and social gloom can…
August 1, 2023/by sandywWhy Rebel | Jay Griffiths
Why rebel? Because our footprint on the Earth has never mattered…
May 16, 2023/by KatieENTANGLED LIFE | MERLIN SHELDRAKE
Neither animal, plant or mineral, fungi are the mysterious…
November 15, 2023/by Liz Jensen