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 CooperGo Toxic Free: Easy and Sustainable Ways to Reduce Chemical Pollution | Anna Turns
Practical everyday tips and ideas to help make ourselves…
A Sky Full of Kites: A Rewilding Story | Tom Bowser
An inspirational account of one family’s journey…
The Man Who Planted Trees | Jim Robbins
“When is the best time to plant a tree? Twenty…
The Future We Choose | Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac
Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac know…
The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here | Hope Jahren
Degrowth 101 for young adults, The Story of More takes readers…
July 18, 2023/by Anne Enith CooperHow To Travel Guilt Free: Essential Tips for Ethical Travellers | Wanderlust
How can you indulge your love of exploring the world…
Doughnut Economics | Kate Raworth
Imagine two concentric circles, one inside the other: a social…
June 20, 2023/by Anne Enith CooperTHE 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 JensenSustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air | David JC MacKay
Addressing the sustainable energy crisis in an objective manner,…
May 16, 2023/by KatieFight the Fire: Green New Deals and Global Climate Jobs | Jonathan Neale
Fight the Fire is a book that asks what would a green…
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World | Tyson Yunkaporta
This remarkable book is about everything from echidnas to…
September 25, 2022/by KatieThe Future: A User’s Guide | Florence Gaub
If you are paralysed by fear whenever…
The Long Heat | Andreas Malm and Will Carton
In a blistering follow-up to their best-selling…
The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran | Charles Kurzman
If Skocpol gives us the structural take, Kurzman gives…
Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide | Vincent Liegey & Anitra Nelson
As politicians and corporations obsess over "growth" objectives,…
November 20, 2022/by KatieLove, Anger and Betrayal | Jonathon Porritt
In his powerful account of a year spent talking to young…
August 27, 2025/by Liz JensenWhat If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures | Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
Sometimes the bravest thing we can do while facing…
No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies | Julian Aguon
'A powerful, beautiful book. Its fierce love - of…
Liberation from Excess: The Road to a Post-Growth Economy | Niko Paech
In his counter model of a post-growth economy, sustainability…
November 20, 2022/by KatieIt’s Not That Radical: Climate Action To Transform Our World | Mikaela Loach
The environmental crisis is deeply entangled with colonialism…
August 31, 2023/by sandywSpinning Out | Charlie Herzog Young
This debut from a young researcher, writer and award-winning…
August 22, 2023/by Liz JensenThe World After GDP | Lorenzo Fioramonti
GDP has become the benchmark of success and a powerful ordering…
November 20, 2022/by KatieHow to Save Our Planet | Mark Maslin
Professor Mark Maslin’s How to Save Our Planet is a handbook…
July 17, 2023/by IainCaThe Shetland Way: Community and climate crisis on my father’s islands | Marianne Brown
How do we balance our needs with the needs of the…
How to Fall in Love with the Future | Rob Hopkins
Rob Hopkins' latest work is a profound exploration of the human…
June 2, 2025/by Liz JensenThe Climate Book | Greta Thunberg
In this collection of essays, interspersed with Greta Thunberg’s…
June 7, 2023/by Anne Enith CooperWild 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…
Fighting in a World on Fire: The Next Generation’s Guide to Protecting the Climate and Saving Our Future | Andreas Malm
Young people are inheriting a world of climate catastrophe.…
The Garden Awakening: Designs to nurture our land and ourselves | Mary Reynolds
In this beautifully written and illustrated book,…
The Future Is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism | Matthew Schmelzer, Andrea Vetter & Aaron Vansintjan
Offering a counter-history of how economic growth emerged…
November 20, 2022/by KatieDirt to Soil: One Family’s Journey into Regenerative Agriculture | Gabe Brown
Soil health pioneer Gabe Brown did not set out to…
The Response | David Shukman
"This fascinating and gripping book has the power to open…
May 15, 2026/by Liz JensenSilent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse | Dave Goulson
Dave Goulson is passionate about insects. One of his earliest…
November 15, 2023/by sandywNot 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…
No 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 IainCaHope: Visions for a Better Future | Create the Future
Too often, we focus on the kind of future we fear.…
From What Is to What If | Rob Hopkins
“As founder of the burgeoning Transitions Movement, Rob…
October 2, 2023/by Liz JensenHold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance | John Berger
From the War on Terror to resistance in Ramallah and traumatic…
September 25, 2022/by KatieStates and Social Revolutions | Theda Skocpol
This is the go-to academic take on how revolutions…
Suicide | Roger Hallam
A hybrid of memoir and political manifesto, Suicide…
Why Rebel | Jay Griffiths
Why rebel? Because our footprint on the Earth has never mattered…
May 16, 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 KatieFeminism for a World on Fire | Natasha Walter
Clear-eyed, eloquent and cogent, Natasha Walters’s…
What the Wild Sea Can Be | Helen Scales
Shortlisted for the 2025 Womens Prize for non-fiction,…
Soil, Soul, Society: A New Trinity for Our Time | Satish Kumar
Internationally-respected peace and environment activist…
Psychological Roots of Climate Change | Sally Weintrobe
Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis tells…
Tiny Gardens Everywhere | Kate Brown
A celebration of the power of small acts of care…
WILDING | ISABELLA TREE
“I recommend anyone prone to despair to read Wilding –…
October 11, 2023/by Liz JensenA Guide to Eco-Anxiety | Anouchka Grose
Anouchka Grose’s guide is not a self-help…
Not the End of the World | Geraldine McCaughrean
The story of Noah’s Ark gets a cli-fi reworking in this work…
July 13, 2023/by Anne Enith CooperThe Climate-Conscious Writers Handbook | ed. Wren James
June 25, 2025/by Liz JensenThe New Global Possible | Ani Dasgupta
Global environmental leader Ani Dasgupta takes an…
The Culture Code | Daniel Coyle
Let’s end with something practical. I read a bunch…
Overshoot | Andreas Malm
Malm’s central thesis is unflinching: that we have…
Hope In Hell: A decade to confront the climate emergency | Jonathon Porritt
The message in this book is one of hope. Porritt,…
The Good Ancestor | Roman Krznarnic
Jonas Salk, who developed the first polio vaccine and resisted…
July 17, 2023/by IainCaThe Wild Edge of Sorrow | Frances Weller
Solastalgia – the word used to describe…
Understanding Climate Anxiety | Professor Geoff Beattie
Understanding Climate Anxiety describes climate anxiety…
This is Vegan Propaganda! | Ed Winters
April 19, 2024/by Liz JensenThe Uninhabitable Earth | David Wallace-Wells
From its first line - “It is, worse, much worse, than you…
June 9, 2023/by Anne Enith CooperEarth Matters: How soil underlies civilization | Richard Bardgett
Richard Bardgett is a Professor of Ecology and has…
Hope 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 sandywAll Breaking Together | Jem Bendell
“This book provides…the basis for freeing ourselves from…
July 17, 2023/by IainCaLiving Together: Searching for Community in a Fractured World | Mim Skinner
Mim Skinner sets out to explore communities that…
Meat | Bruce Friedrich
A hopeful, research-driven exploration setting…
The Patterning Instinct | Jeremy Lent
Jeremy Lent’s iconic work, described by George…
Climate of Contempt | David B. Spence
In his wide-ranging analysis, Spence explores the…
The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet | Leah Thomas
The Intersectional Environmentalist bridges the gap…
Ecocivilization | Jeremy Lent
As climate chaos, inequality, and social fragmentation…
In 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 KatiePost-Growth Living For an Alternative Hedonism | Kate Soper
Climate change is inextricably linked with the consumerist,…
November 20, 2022/by KatieWhat We Think About…Global Warming | Per Espen Stoknes
As evidence of global warming continues to mount, resistance…
August 27, 2025/by Liz JensenHow Animals Heal Us | Jay Griffiths
"Animals don’t heal us by doing, but by being.…
What We Owe The Future | William MacAskill
In What We Owe The Future, philosopher William MacAskill…
We Are Eating The Earth: The race to fix our food system and save our climate | Michael Grunwald
Humanity has cleared a land mass the size of Asia…
The Most Important Comic Book on Earth | Rewriting Extinction
"Storytelling is our most ancient and powerful…
Climate, Psychology and Change | Steffi Bednarek
With so many immediate and intensifying crises unfolding…
August 27, 2025/by Liz JensenDegrowth | Giorgios Kallis
The term "degrowth" has emerged within ecological and other…
November 20, 2022/by KatieActive Hope | Joanna Macy
“Active hope is not wishful thinking….Active hope is…
June 7, 2023/by Anne Enith CooperThe Future of Life | E.O. Wilson
“We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless,”…
June 8, 2023/by Anne Enith CooperHere Comes the Sun | Bill McKibben
"We live on an earth where the cheapest way to produce power…
November 27, 2025/by Liz JensenRegenesis- Rewilding the World without Devouring the Planet | George Monbiot
With the human population increasing and food production…
July 17, 2023/by IainCaLooking for something you can’t find here? Contact our Librarian if you’re looking for something specific, or an educational book list to support teaching about climate change.
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