Životní prostředí

Zdraví naší planety ovlivňuje každý aspekt lidské existence, od jídla na našich talířích až po vzduch, který dýcháme, a nespočet druhů, se kterými sdílíme Zemi. Tyto důležité knihy zkoumají křehkou rovnováhu našeho přírodního světa a nabízejí praktickou moudrost pro udržitelnější život, ať už prostřednictvím vědomého stravování, snižování odpadu nebo pochopení dopadu lidstva na naše omezené zdroje.

Životní prostředí Shrnutí knih

Public Citizens

od Paul Sabin • 2024

How liberal crusaders against big government paved the road for Reagan’s anti-government revolution.

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⚖️ Public Interest Law 📜 Regulatory Reform 🌿 Environmental Activism 🤔 Distrust Of Government 🔒 Political Gridlock

Public Citizens

How liberal crusaders against big government paved the road for Reagan’s anti-government revolution.

od Paul Sabin 2024 272 stran

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199 hodnocení

⚖️ Public Interest Law 📜 Regulatory Reform 🌿 Environmental Activism 🤔 Distrust Of Government 🔒 Political Gridlock

Social Intrapreneurism and All That Jazz

od David Grayson • 2014

Playbook for corporate changemakers: recruit sponsors, build teams, scale pilot to global operation.

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🏢 Intrapreneurship 🌱 Corporate Sustainability 💡 Social Innovation ✊ Employee Activism 🧭 Purpose-Driven Work

Social Intrapreneurism and All That Jazz

Playbook for corporate changemakers: recruit sponsors, build teams, scale pilot to global operation.

od David Grayson 2014 254 stran

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4 hodnocení

🏢 Intrapreneurship 🌱 Corporate Sustainability 💡 Social Innovation ✊ Employee Activism 🧭 Purpose-Driven Work

Meat

od Bruce Friedrich • 2025

Nine calories of grain yield one of chicken. The technology that can break that math.

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🌾 Future Of Food 🍔 Alternative Protein 🔬 Cellular Agriculture 🛡️ Food Security 🌍 Climate Mitigation

Meat

Nine calories of grain yield one of chicken. The technology that can break that math.

od Bruce Friedrich 2025 320 stran

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97 hodnocení

🌾 Future Of Food 🍔 Alternative Protein 🔬 Cellular Agriculture 🛡️ Food Security 🌍 Climate Mitigation

The Breath of the Gods

od Simon Winchester • 2025

Polynesian canoes, the Spanish Armada, and Japan's salvation all turned on wind. Its full biography.

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🧱 Microhistories 🌬️ Atmospheric Science 🌍 Climate And Civilization 🌪️ Forces Of Nature 📖 Popular Science

The Breath of the Gods

Polynesian canoes, the Spanish Armada, and Japan's salvation all turned on wind. Its full biography.

od Simon Winchester 2025 386 stran

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🧱 Microhistories 🌬️ Atmospheric Science 🌍 Climate And Civilization 🌪️ Forces Of Nature 📖 Popular Science

Earth Democracy

od Vandana Shiva • 2005

The enclosure of common land never ended. It just moved to seeds, water, and biodiversity.

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🍽️ Food Politics 🌍 Anti-Globalization ⚖️ Environmental Justice 🏞️ The Commons 🏢 Corporate Power

Earth Democracy

The enclosure of common land never ended. It just moved to seeds, water, and biodiversity.

od Vandana Shiva 2005 205 stran

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🍽️ Food Politics 🌍 Anti-Globalization ⚖️ Environmental Justice 🏞️ The Commons 🏢 Corporate Power

Underland

od Robert Macfarlane • 2019

Fungal networks, catacombs, nuclear tombs: the vast underground that shapes our fate and our future.

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🕳️ Underground Exploration ⏳ Geological Time 🍄 Subterranean Networks ☢️ Nuclear Legacy ❄️ Ice And Glaciers

Underland

Fungal networks, catacombs, nuclear tombs: the vast underground that shapes our fate and our future.

od Robert Macfarlane 2019 496 stran

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21 000+ hodnocení

🕳️ Underground Exploration ⏳ Geological Time 🍄 Subterranean Networks ☢️ Nuclear Legacy ❄️ Ice And Glaciers

Social Determinants of Health

od Alan Davidson • 2014

Why some countries are healthier than others: the answer lies in politics, not medicine.

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🩺 Public Health 🔬 Social Epidemiology ⚖️ Health Inequities 👶 Life-Course Health 💰 Political Economy

Social Determinants of Health

Why some countries are healthier than others: the answer lies in politics, not medicine.

od Alan Davidson 2014 296 stran

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26 hodnocení

🩺 Public Health 🔬 Social Epidemiology ⚖️ Health Inequities 👶 Life-Course Health 💰 Political Economy

At Loggerheads

od Kristen Ness • 2023

A marine biologist returns to her Southern island to find her mentor murdered and turtles poached.

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🌊 Coastal Mystery 🐢 Environmental Crime 🏘️ Small Town Secrets 💕 Rekindled Love 🏠 Homecoming

At Loggerheads

A marine biologist returns to her Southern island to find her mentor murdered and turtles poached.

od Kristen Ness 2023 358 stran

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500+ hodnocení

🌊 Coastal Mystery 🐢 Environmental Crime 🏘️ Small Town Secrets 💕 Rekindled Love 🏠 Homecoming

Animal Architecture

od Karl von Frisch • 1974

Termites air-condition, beavers dam, spiders weave: animal engineering that never needed a plan.

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🐾 Animal Behavior 🏗️ Natural Architecture 🔬 Ethology 📖 Natural History 🧠 Instinct And Learning

Animal Architecture

Termites air-condition, beavers dam, spiders weave: animal engineering that never needed a plan.

od Karl von Frisch 1974 306 stran

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🐾 Animal Behavior 🏗️ Natural Architecture 🔬 Ethology 📖 Natural History 🧠 Instinct And Learning

Altruism

od Matthieu Ricard • 2013

Selfishness is a myth. Altruism is a trainable skill, and the evidence says it's the missing lever.

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🤝 Altruism Research ☸️ Buddhist Psychology 🕊️ Engaged Buddhism 🧬 Evolutionary Cooperation 🧘 Mind Training

Altruism

Selfishness is a myth. Altruism is a trainable skill, and the evidence says it's the missing lever.

od Matthieu Ricard 2013 864 stran

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🤝 Altruism Research ☸️ Buddhist Psychology 🕊️ Engaged Buddhism 🧬 Evolutionary Cooperation 🧘 Mind Training

Around the World in 80 Plants

od Jonathan Drori • 2021

How a cactus, a purple dye, and a lethal bean rewrote history: 80 plants, 80 stories.

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🌿 Ethnobotany 👽 Plant Curiosities 🌍 Global Journey ⛵ Plants And Empire 💊 Medicinal Plants

Around the World in 80 Plants

How a cactus, a purple dye, and a lethal bean rewrote history: 80 plants, 80 stories.

od Jonathan Drori 2021 216 stran

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🌿 Ethnobotany 👽 Plant Curiosities 🌍 Global Journey ⛵ Plants And Empire 💊 Medicinal Plants

Dark Emu

od Bruce Pascoe • 2014

Early reports found Aboriginal farms and dams; the hunter-gatherer label was a colonial lie.

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🌱 Indigenous Agriculture 🏞️ Pre-Colonial Australia 🔥 Fire Ecology 📜 Colonial Erasure ⚔️ Australian Frontier History

Dark Emu

Early reports found Aboriginal farms and dams; the hunter-gatherer label was a colonial lie.

od Bruce Pascoe 2014 176 stran

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🌱 Indigenous Agriculture 🏞️ Pre-Colonial Australia 🔥 Fire Ecology 📜 Colonial Erasure ⚔️ Australian Frontier History

The Great Plant-Based Con

od Jayne Buxton • 2022

The data against meat is mostly weak associations. The fortune behind the plant-based push is not.

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🥩 Nutrition Myths 🗳️ Food Politics 🌿 Regenerative Agriculture 🦴 Ancestral Diets 🏢 Food Industry Critique

The Great Plant-Based Con

The data against meat is mostly weak associations. The fortune behind the plant-based push is not.

od Jayne Buxton 2022 529 stran

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343 hodnocení

🥩 Nutrition Myths 🗳️ Food Politics 🌿 Regenerative Agriculture 🦴 Ancestral Diets 🏢 Food Industry Critique

A Life on Our Planet

od David Attenborough • 2020

Half of all wild animals vanished in one lifetime. The way back requires more than cutting carbon.

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🍃 Environmental Memoir 🦜 Biodiversity Loss 🌍 Planetary Boundaries 🌿 Rewilding 📊 Ecological Economics

A Life on Our Planet

Half of all wild animals vanished in one lifetime. The way back requires more than cutting carbon.

od David Attenborough 2020 272 stran

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🍃 Environmental Memoir 🦜 Biodiversity Loss 🌍 Planetary Boundaries 🌿 Rewilding 📊 Ecological Economics

¡Es la microbiota, idiota!

od Sari Arponen • 2021

It weighs 200 grams, controls your cravings and mood, and modern life is killing it.

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🦠 Gut Health 🔬 Microbiome Science 🏃 Lifestyle Medicine 🛡️ Chronic Disease Prevention ⏳ Intermittent Fasting

¡Es la microbiota, idiota!

It weighs 200 grams, controls your cravings and mood, and modern life is killing it.

od Sari Arponen 2021 368 stran

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🦠 Gut Health 🔬 Microbiome Science 🏃 Lifestyle Medicine 🛡️ Chronic Disease Prevention ⏳ Intermittent Fasting

The Story of Birds

od Steve Brusatte • 2026

How feathers, beaks, and song evolved from the dinosaurs that survived Earth's worst day.

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🐦 Bird Evolution 🦴 Paleontology 🪶 Origin Of Flight ☄️ Mass Extinctions

The Story of Birds

How feathers, beaks, and song evolved from the dinosaurs that survived Earth's worst day.

od Steve Brusatte 2026 448 stran

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🐦 Bird Evolution 🦴 Paleontology 🪶 Origin Of Flight ☄️ Mass Extinctions

Folks, This Ain't Normal

od Joel Salatin • 2011

Food that travels 1,500 miles, animals that never graze, costs hidden: a farmer's case for normal.

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🌱 Sustainable Agriculture 🏘️ Local Food Systems 🌍 Soil Regeneration 🗳️ Food Politics 🐄 Pasture-Based Farming

Folks, This Ain't Normal

Food that travels 1,500 miles, animals that never graze, costs hidden: a farmer's case for normal.

od Joel Salatin 2011 384 stran

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4 000+ hodnocení

🌱 Sustainable Agriculture 🏘️ Local Food Systems 🌍 Soil Regeneration 🗳️ Food Politics 🐄 Pasture-Based Farming

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs

od Steve Brusatte • 2018

Dinosaurs were underdogs for 30 million years. Then two mass extinctions handed them the planet.

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🦴 Paleontology 🧬 Evolutionary Biology ☄️ Mass Extinctions 🦕 Prehistoric Life 🐦 Avian Evolution

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs were underdogs for 30 million years. Then two mass extinctions handed them the planet.

od Steve Brusatte 2018 404 stran

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41 000+ hodnocení

🦴 Paleontology 🧬 Evolutionary Biology ☄️ Mass Extinctions 🦕 Prehistoric Life 🐦 Avian Evolution

The God of the Garden

od Andrew Peterson • 2021

He told God he hated him. A silent monastery and an olive grove held the reply.

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🍃 Nature Writing 🙏 Spiritual Memoir 🌲 Trees And Forests 🌱 Gardening As Healing 🕯️ Depression And Faith

The God of the Garden

He told God he hated him. A silent monastery and an olive grove held the reply.

od Andrew Peterson 2021 224 stran

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🍃 Nature Writing 🙏 Spiritual Memoir 🌲 Trees And Forests 🌱 Gardening As Healing 🕯️ Depression And Faith

Very Bad People

od Patrick Alley • 2022

How three friends followed war-zone timber to European ports and brought down a dictator.

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🛡️ Anti-Corruption 💎 Conflict Resources 📰 Investigative Journalism ⚖️ Corporate Accountability 💰 Money Laundering

Very Bad People

How three friends followed war-zone timber to European ports and brought down a dictator.

od Patrick Alley 2022 316 stran

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500+ hodnocení

🛡️ Anti-Corruption 💎 Conflict Resources 📰 Investigative Journalism ⚖️ Corporate Accountability 💰 Money Laundering

The First Jewish Environmentalist

od Yuval Jobani • 2023

Called Zionism back to the land, literally: labor as prayer, veganism as sacred duty.

🧠 Jewish Philosophy 🌱 Environmental Philosophy ✡️ Zionist Thought 📜 Secular Theology 🧤 Labor And Spirituality

The First Jewish Environmentalist

Called Zionism back to the land, literally: labor as prayer, veganism as sacred duty.

od Yuval Jobani 2023 208 stran

🧠 Jewish Philosophy 🌱 Environmental Philosophy ✡️ Zionist Thought 📜 Secular Theology 🧤 Labor And Spirituality

Under a Flaming Sky

od Daniel James Brown • 2006

When a firestorm struck Hinckley in 1894, survival hinged on two trains racing through flame.

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📖 Narrative Nonfiction 🔥 Wildfire History 🤝 Community Resilience 🛤️ Immigrant Frontier 🚒 Rescue Heroes

Under a Flaming Sky

When a firestorm struck Hinckley in 1894, survival hinged on two trains racing through flame.

od Daniel James Brown 2006 288 stran

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📖 Narrative Nonfiction 🔥 Wildfire History 🤝 Community Resilience 🛤️ Immigrant Frontier 🚒 Rescue Heroes

The Book of Nature

od Barbara Mahany • 2023

Nature, God's first testament, written in birds and seasons. No translation needed, only attention.

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🌿 Nature Spirituality ✝️ Christian Mysticism 🧘 Contemplative Practice 🌍 Panentheism 💔 Ecological Grief

The Book of Nature

Nature, God's first testament, written in birds and seasons. No translation needed, only attention.

od Barbara Mahany 2023 191 stran

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🌿 Nature Spirituality ✝️ Christian Mysticism 🧘 Contemplative Practice 🌍 Panentheism 💔 Ecological Grief

Systems Thinking for Sustainable Development

od Edward Saja Sanneh • 2018

Energy, water, health, and waste are one system. Solve them separately and each solution unravels.

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🧠 Systems Thinking 🌍 Sustainable Development 📋 Environmental Policy ⚡ Renewable Energy 💧 Water Security

Systems Thinking for Sustainable Development

Energy, water, health, and waste are one system. Solve them separately and each solution unravels.

od Edward Saja Sanneh 2018 206 stran

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2 hodnocení

🧠 Systems Thinking 🌍 Sustainable Development 📋 Environmental Policy ⚡ Renewable Energy 💧 Water Security

Solar Power for Sustainable Living

od Sustainable Stevie • 2012

The DIY solar reality check: what your bills, roof, and local code demand before you start.

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☀️ Solar Energy ♻️ Renewable Energy 🔨 Home Improvement 🌱 Sustainable Living ⚡ Energy Independence

Solar Power for Sustainable Living

The DIY solar reality check: what your bills, roof, and local code demand before you start.

od Sustainable Stevie 2012 40 stran

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4 hodnocení

☀️ Solar Energy ♻️ Renewable Energy 🔨 Home Improvement 🌱 Sustainable Living ⚡ Energy Independence

The Ocean's Menagerie

od Drew Harvell • 2025

Ocean invertebrates spent eons perfecting adaptations that now inspire new drugs and materials.

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🐠 Marine Biology 🐙 Invertebrates 🌿 Biomimicry 💊 Drug Discovery 🌊 Ocean Conservation

The Ocean's Menagerie

Ocean invertebrates spent eons perfecting adaptations that now inspire new drugs and materials.

od Drew Harvell 2025 280 stran

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254 hodnocení

🐠 Marine Biology 🐙 Invertebrates 🌿 Biomimicry 💊 Drug Discovery 🌊 Ocean Conservation

Everything for Sale

od Robert Kuttner • 1997

Every real market depends on rules it cannot create, and a democracy it can easily consume.

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🏛️ Political Economy ⚠️ Market Failures 🌐 Public Goods 🗳️ Social Democracy 📐 Institutional Economics

Everything for Sale

Every real market depends on rules it cannot create, and a democracy it can easily consume.

od Robert Kuttner 1997 410 stran

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🏛️ Political Economy ⚠️ Market Failures 🌐 Public Goods 🗳️ Social Democracy 📐 Institutional Economics

How to Read a Tree

od Tristan Gooley • 2023

Bark cracks, bent trunks, and stubby roots are not flaws but notes in a tree's autobiography.

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🧭 Natural Navigation 🌳 Tree Identification 🗺️ Landscape Reading 👀 Nature Observation 🌲 Woodland Ecology

How to Read a Tree

Bark cracks, bent trunks, and stubby roots are not flaws but notes in a tree's autobiography.

od Tristan Gooley 2023 384 stran

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1 000+ hodnocení

🧭 Natural Navigation 🌳 Tree Identification 🗺️ Landscape Reading 👀 Nature Observation 🌲 Woodland Ecology

Capitalism and Its Critics

od John Cassidy • 2025

The critics capitalism tried to ignore, and the 200-year history that proves they were right.

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🔬 Intellectual History 🏭 Economic History ⚡ Critiques Of Capitalism ⛓️ Colonial Capitalism 📉 Crisis Cycles

Capitalism and Its Critics

The critics capitalism tried to ignore, and the 200-year history that proves they were right.

od John Cassidy 2025 624 stran

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🔬 Intellectual History 🏭 Economic History ⚡ Critiques Of Capitalism ⛓️ Colonial Capitalism 📉 Crisis Cycles

Losing Eden

od Lucy Jones • 2020

Soil contains a natural antidepressant. What disconnection from nature does to the mind.

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🔗 Nature Connection 🧠 Ecopsychology 🌱 Nature Therapy 🏞️ Environmental Psychology 🌿 Biophilia

Losing Eden

Soil contains a natural antidepressant. What disconnection from nature does to the mind.

od Lucy Jones 2020 256 stran

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2 000+ hodnocení

🔗 Nature Connection 🧠 Ecopsychology 🌱 Nature Therapy 🏞️ Environmental Psychology 🌿 Biophilia

Brazil Is the New America

od James Dale Davidson • 2012

The math of debt, energy, and demography says the American era ends and Brazil's begins.

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📉 National Decline 🌍 Emerging Markets 🛢️ Peak Oil 👥 Demographic Shift 💧 Water Scarcity

Brazil Is the New America

The math of debt, energy, and demography says the American era ends and Brazil's begins.

od James Dale Davidson 2012 352 stran

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36 hodnocení

📉 National Decline 🌍 Emerging Markets 🛢️ Peak Oil 👥 Demographic Shift 💧 Water Scarcity

Into the Clear Blue Sky

od Rob Jackson • 2024

We could clean the atmosphere within a generation. The fastest lever most people overlook: methane.

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🛠️ Climate Solutions 🧹 Carbon Removal ⚖️ Climate Justice ⚡ Energy Transition 🌾 Food Systems

Into the Clear Blue Sky

We could clean the atmosphere within a generation. The fastest lever most people overlook: methane.

od Rob Jackson 2024 304 stran

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131 hodnocení

🛠️ Climate Solutions 🧹 Carbon Removal ⚖️ Climate Justice ⚡ Energy Transition 🌾 Food Systems

Your Guide to Forest Bathing

od M. Amos Clifford • 2018

Step into the woods and do nothing. The trees, it turns out, take care of the rest.

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🌲 Forest Bathing 🌿 Nature Therapy 🧘 Sensory Awareness 🤲 Reciprocity With Nature 🧠 Nervous System Regulation

Your Guide to Forest Bathing

Step into the woods and do nothing. The trees, it turns out, take care of the rest.

od M. Amos Clifford 2018 1 stran

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🌲 Forest Bathing 🌿 Nature Therapy 🧘 Sensory Awareness 🤲 Reciprocity With Nature 🧠 Nervous System Regulation

Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal

od Joel Salatin • 2007

Government says raw milk and teenage farmhands are crimes. One sustainable farmer's legal war.

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🧑‍🌾 Sustainable Agriculture 🏘️ Local Food Systems 🏭 Factory Farming Critique 🌾 Agrarianism 🚜 Farming Memoirs

Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal

Government says raw milk and teenage farmhands are crimes. One sustainable farmer's legal war.

od Joel Salatin 2007 358 stran

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2 000+ hodnocení

🧑‍🌾 Sustainable Agriculture 🏘️ Local Food Systems 🏭 Factory Farming Critique 🌾 Agrarianism 🚜 Farming Memoirs

Wild Life

od Rae Wynn-Grant • 2024

She grew up watching white men host nature shows. Then she became the scientist tracking lions.

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🦁 Wildlife Biology 📖 Conservation Memoir 👩‍🔬 Women In Science 🏛️ Institutional Racism 🐾 Human-Wildlife Conflict

Wild Life

She grew up watching white men host nature shows. Then she became the scientist tracking lions.

od Rae Wynn-Grant 2024 269 stran

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1 000+ hodnocení

🦁 Wildlife Biology 📖 Conservation Memoir 👩‍🔬 Women In Science 🏛️ Institutional Racism 🐾 Human-Wildlife Conflict

Nowhere to Live

od James S. Burling • 2024

Why can't Americans afford homes? A century of rules made building them illegal.

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🏠 Housing Policy 🏛️ Property Rights 🏗️ Zoning Reform ⚖️ Eminent Domain 📜 Government Overreach

Nowhere to Live

Why can't Americans afford homes? A century of rules made building them illegal.

od James S. Burling 2024 408 stran

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12 hodnocení

🏠 Housing Policy 🏛️ Property Rights 🏗️ Zoning Reform ⚖️ Eminent Domain 📜 Government Overreach

What to Eat Now

od Marion Nestle • 2025

Every supermarket aisle is engineered by an industry that profits from your confusion.

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🗳️ Food Politics 🔬 Nutrition Science 🏭 Ultra-Processed Foods 🛒 Supermarket Psychology 📢 Food Marketing

What to Eat Now

Every supermarket aisle is engineered by an industry that profits from your confusion.

od Marion Nestle 2025 681 stran

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292 hodnocení

🗳️ Food Politics 🔬 Nutrition Science 🏭 Ultra-Processed Foods 🛒 Supermarket Psychology 📢 Food Marketing

A Planet of Viruses

od Carl Zimmer • 2011

Viruses aren't just enemies. They built our DNA, rule the oceans, and may have sparked life.

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🦠 Virology 🌊 Microbial Ecology ⚠️ Emerging Diseases 🌍 Pandemics 🌿 Natural History

A Planet of Viruses

Viruses aren't just enemies. They built our DNA, rule the oceans, and may have sparked life.

od Carl Zimmer 2011 109 stran

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5 000+ hodnocení

🦠 Virology 🌊 Microbial Ecology ⚠️ Emerging Diseases 🌍 Pandemics 🌿 Natural History

Health-Defense

od Bill Gottlieb • 2015

From lotion to lettuce, toxins hide everywhere. A guide to cutting your daily chemical exposure.

🧪 Environmental Health 🧹 Detoxification 🌿 Clean Living 🛡️ Preventive Health 🏠 Healthy Home

Health-Defense

From lotion to lettuce, toxins hide everywhere. A guide to cutting your daily chemical exposure.

od Bill Gottlieb 2015 421 stran

🧪 Environmental Health 🧹 Detoxification 🌿 Clean Living 🛡️ Preventive Health 🏠 Healthy Home

The Wisdom of Plagues

od Donald G. Mcneil Jr. • 2024

Pandemics are human-made disasters. COVID proved it, and 25 years of reporting shows exactly how.

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🦠 Infectious Disease 🦇 Zoonotic Spillover 🛡️ Pandemic Preparedness 🩺 Medical Misinformation 💉 Vaccine Debates

The Wisdom of Plagues

Pandemics are human-made disasters. COVID proved it, and 25 years of reporting shows exactly how.

od Donald G. Mcneil Jr. 2024 368 stran

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343 hodnocení

🦠 Infectious Disease 🦇 Zoonotic Spillover 🛡️ Pandemic Preparedness 🩺 Medical Misinformation 💉 Vaccine Debates

All Our Relations

od Winona LaDuke • 1999

How Native lands became a dumping ground for 16 nuclear waste sites, and the fight back.

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🌿 Indigenous Rights 🌍 Environmental Justice 🏞️ Land Rights ✊ Grassroots Activism 🪔 Cultural Preservation

All Our Relations

How Native lands became a dumping ground for 16 nuclear waste sites, and the fight back.

od Winona LaDuke 1999 243 stran

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🌿 Indigenous Rights 🌍 Environmental Justice 🏞️ Land Rights ✊ Grassroots Activism 🪔 Cultural Preservation

Church of the Wild

od Victoria Loorz • 2021

A pastor trades the church for the forest and discovers the sacred was never inside.

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🌿 Eco Theology ☘️ Celtic Christianity 🦌 Interspecies Kinship 🌧️ Ecological Grief 🏚️ Faith Deconstruction

Church of the Wild

A pastor trades the church for the forest and discovers the sacred was never inside.

od Victoria Loorz 2021 245 stran

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🌿 Eco Theology ☘️ Celtic Christianity 🦌 Interspecies Kinship 🌧️ Ecological Grief 🏚️ Faith Deconstruction

Empire's Crossroads

od Carrie Gibson • 2014

Five centuries of sugar, slavery, and empire: how a handful of islands made the modern world.

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🏝️ Caribbean History ⛓️ Atlantic Slavery ✊ Haitian Revolution 🍬 Sugar And Empire 🏃 Slave Resistance

Empire's Crossroads

Five centuries of sugar, slavery, and empire: how a handful of islands made the modern world.

od Carrie Gibson 2014 448 stran

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🏝️ Caribbean History ⛓️ Atlantic Slavery ✊ Haitian Revolution 🍬 Sugar And Empire 🏃 Slave Resistance

The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth

od Benjamin M. Friedman • 2005

Why tolerance and democracy depend on a growing economy, and why stagnation turns societies inward.

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📜 Economic History ⚖️ Moral Economy 🏛️ Political Economy 🕊️ Prosperity And Tolerance 📉 Stagnation And Decline

The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth

Why tolerance and democracy depend on a growing economy, and why stagnation turns societies inward.

od Benjamin M. Friedman 2005 592 stran

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📜 Economic History ⚖️ Moral Economy 🏛️ Political Economy 🕊️ Prosperity And Tolerance 📉 Stagnation And Decline

Einstein's Fridge

od Paul Sen • 2021

The science of heat built the modern world and governs time's arrow, life, and black holes.

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📜 History Of Physics 🔥 Thermodynamics 🔬 History Of Science ⚡ Energy 🔀 Entropy

Einstein's Fridge

The science of heat built the modern world and governs time's arrow, life, and black holes.

od Paul Sen 2021 320 stran

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📜 History Of Physics 🔥 Thermodynamics 🔬 History Of Science ⚡ Energy 🔀 Entropy

Solar Power

od Mark Prentice • 2016

Install your own solar panels, slash your bill, and sell the surplus to the utility.

2.50

☀️ Solar Energy ♻️ Renewable Energy 🏡 Off-Grid Living 🔧 Diy Solar ⚡ Energy Independence

Solar Power

Install your own solar panels, slash your bill, and sell the surplus to the utility.

od Mark Prentice 2016

2.50

2 hodnocení

☀️ Solar Energy ♻️ Renewable Energy 🏡 Off-Grid Living 🔧 Diy Solar ⚡ Energy Independence

Kingbird Highway

od Kenn Kaufman • 1997

A sixteen-year-old dropout hitchhikes America for a year to chase a birding record.

4.30

2 000+

🐦 Birding Memoir 🏆 Competitive Birding 🌱 Coming Of Age 👥 Found Family 🛣️ Hitchhiking Adventure

Kingbird Highway

A sixteen-year-old dropout hitchhikes America for a year to chase a birding record.

od Kenn Kaufman 1997 320 stran

4.30

2 000+ hodnocení

🐦 Birding Memoir 🏆 Competitive Birding 🌱 Coming Of Age 👥 Found Family 🛣️ Hitchhiking Adventure

The Economist Guide to Commodities

od Caroline Bain • 2013

What moves commodity prices isn't just supply and demand: it's China, speculation, and geopolitics.

3.67

🏭 Commodity Markets 📊 Price Volatility 🚩 Resource Nationalism 💰 Financialization 📈 Emerging Market Demand

The Economist Guide to Commodities

What moves commodity prices isn't just supply and demand: it's China, speculation, and geopolitics.

od Caroline Bain 2013 320 stran

3.67

57 hodnocení

🏭 Commodity Markets 📊 Price Volatility 🚩 Resource Nationalism 💰 Financialization 📈 Emerging Market Demand

Harvest the Vote

od Jane Kleeb • 2020

Democrats lost rural America by walking away. A Nebraska organizer shows how to win it back.

3.82

214

🏘️ Rural Politics ✊ Grassroots Organizing 🏢 Corporate Power 🏡 Property Rights 🏥 Healthcare Access

Harvest the Vote

Democrats lost rural America by walking away. A Nebraska organizer shows how to win it back.

od Jane Kleeb 2020 224 stran

3.82

214 hodnocení

🏘️ Rural Politics ✊ Grassroots Organizing 🏢 Corporate Power 🏡 Property Rights 🏥 Healthcare Access

Search for the Golden Moon Bear

od Sy Montgomery • 2002

One golden bear, unknown to science. The search for the first new bear species in a century.

3.83

127

🐾 Wildlife Conservation 🔬 Field Biology 👣 Cryptozoology 🐻 Illegal Wildlife Trade 🌿 Indigenous Ecology

Search for the Golden Moon Bear

One golden bear, unknown to science. The search for the first new bear species in a century.

od Sy Montgomery 2002 336 stran

3.83

127 hodnocení

🐾 Wildlife Conservation 🔬 Field Biology 👣 Cryptozoology 🐻 Illegal Wildlife Trade 🌿 Indigenous Ecology

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