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

Strangers in Their Own Land

od Arlie Russell Hochschild • 2016

Conservative voters do not lack facts. They hold a different story about who cuts the line.

4.12

18 000+

Sociologie

Politika

Americké

Strangers in Their Own Land

Conservative voters do not lack facts. They hold a different story about who cuts the line.

od Arlie Russell Hochschild 2016 242 stran

4.12

18 000+ hodnocení

Sociologie

Politika

Americké

The Climate Book

od Greta Thunberg • 2022

Since 1991, we've emitted more CO2 than in all prior history; cures exist, the politics don't.

4.41

3 000+

Změna klimatu

Věda

Životní prostředí

The Climate Book

Since 1991, we've emitted more CO2 than in all prior history; cures exist, the politics don't.

od Greta Thunberg 2022 464 stran

4.41

3 000+ hodnocení

Změna klimatu

Věda

Životní prostředí

God Is Red

od Vine Deloria Jr. • 1972

Indigenous peoples root religion in land; Christians in time, and the planet pays the price.

4.16

2 000+

Indiánské

Náboženství

Domorodé

God Is Red

Indigenous peoples root religion in land; Christians in time, and the planet pays the price.

od Vine Deloria Jr. 1972 325 stran

4.16

2 000+ hodnocení

Indiánské

Náboženství

Domorodé

The Spirit Level

od Richard G. Wilkinson • 2009

Inequality sickens and divides. In rich countries, the gap matters more than the wealth itself.

4.13

7 000+

Sociologie

Ekonomie

Politika

The Spirit Level

Inequality sickens and divides. In rich countries, the gap matters more than the wealth itself.

od Richard G. Wilkinson 2009 402 stran

4.13

7 000+ hodnocení

Sociologie

Ekonomie

Politika

Growth

od Daniel Susskind • 2024

Growth is recent, reversible, and destructive. The choice isn't whether to grow but how.

3.75

500+

Ekonomie

Historie

Politika

Growth

Growth is recent, reversible, and destructive. The choice isn't whether to grow but how.

od Daniel Susskind 2024

3.75

500+ hodnocení

Ekonomie

Historie

Politika

Food for Life

od Tim Spector • 2022

Thirty plant foods a week: the gut-health rule that beats any supplement or superfood.

4.23

4 000+

Zdraví

Jídlo

Výživa

Food for Life

Thirty plant foods a week: the gut-health rule that beats any supplement or superfood.

od Tim Spector 2022

4.23

4 000+ hodnocení

Zdraví

Jídlo

Výživa

Animal Liberation Now

od Peter Singer • 2023

Suffering is suffering regardless of species. Everything else is bias we have learned not to see.

4.53

1 000+

Filozofie

Zvířata

Veganské

Animal Liberation Now

Suffering is suffering regardless of species. Everything else is bias we have learned not to see.

od Peter Singer 2023 370 stran

4.53

1 000+ hodnocení

Filozofie

Zvířata

Veganské

Tom Brown's Science and Art of Tracking

od Tom Brown Jr. • 1999

Read an animal's hunger and fear from soil, then discover how tracking becomes a spiritual practice.

4.10

335

Příroda

Outdoors

Přežití

Tom Brown's Science and Art of Tracking

Read an animal's hunger and fear from soil, then discover how tracking becomes a spiritual practice.

od Tom Brown Jr. 1999 240 stran

4.10

335 hodnocení

Příroda

Outdoors

Přežití

Soil Not Oil

od Vandana Shiva • 2008

Biofuels starve people, carbon markets fake progress, the real climate solution is under your feet.

4.08

500+

Životní prostředí

Ekologie

Politika

Soil Not Oil

Biofuels starve people, carbon markets fake progress, the real climate solution is under your feet.

od Vandana Shiva 2008 144 stran

4.08

500+ hodnocení

Životní prostředí

Ekologie

Politika

The New Map

od Daniel Yergin • 2020

Shale, batteries, and pipelines are redrawing global power faster than diplomats can react.

4.17

5 000+

Politika

Historie

Ekonomie

The New Map

Shale, batteries, and pipelines are redrawing global power faster than diplomats can react.

od Daniel Yergin 2020 512 stran

4.17

5 000+ hodnocení

Politika

Historie

Ekonomie

The AI Con

od Emily M. Bender • 2025

ChatGPT isn't thinking, the doom-sayers aren't helping, and the real AI harms are already here.

3.69

1 000+

Technologie

Věda

Politika

The AI Con

ChatGPT isn't thinking, the doom-sayers aren't helping, and the real AI harms are already here.

od Emily M. Bender 2025 288 stran

3.69

1 000+ hodnocení

Technologie

Věda

Politika

The Great Displacement

od Jake Bittle • 2023

Climate disasters are displacing millions; housing markets and insurance can't keep up.

4.28

3 000+

Změna klimatu

Životní prostředí

Věda

The Great Displacement

Climate disasters are displacing millions; housing markets and insurance can't keep up.

od Jake Bittle 2023 368 stran

4.28

3 000+ hodnocení

Změna klimatu

Životní prostředí

Věda

Fully Automated Luxury Communism

od Aaron Bastani • 2018

Technology is ending scarcity. The real question is who gets to own the abundance.

3.68

2 000+

Politika

Ekonomie

Technologie

Fully Automated Luxury Communism

Technology is ending scarcity. The real question is who gets to own the abundance.

od Aaron Bastani 2018 278 stran

3.68

2 000+ hodnocení

Politika

Ekonomie

Technologie

The Back of the Turtle

od Thomas King • 2014

An Indigenous scientist returns to the reserve his work destroyed, meaning to die among its ghosts.

4.06

3 000+

Domorodé

Literární fikce

Kanada

The Back of the Turtle

An Indigenous scientist returns to the reserve his work destroyed, meaning to die among its ghosts.

od Thomas King 2014 518 stran

4.06

3 000+ hodnocení

Domorodé

Literární fikce

Kanada

Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches

od Marvin Harris • 1974

Cow worship, pork bans, witch hunts: each solved a practical problem no one admitted existed.

3.92

5 000+

Sociologie

Historie

Věda

Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches

Cow worship, pork bans, witch hunts: each solved a practical problem no one admitted existed.

od Marvin Harris 1974 288 stran

3.92

5 000+ hodnocení

Sociologie

Historie

Věda

A History of Bangladesh

od Willem van Schendel • 2009

A delta shaped by rivers and monsoons, not just by kings: the deep past of Bangladesh.

4.20

250

Historie

Indie

Asie

A History of Bangladesh

A delta shaped by rivers and monsoons, not just by kings: the deep past of Bangladesh.

od Willem van Schendel 2009 374 stran

4.20

250 hodnocení

Historie

Indie

Asie

Designing Regenerative Cultures

od Daniel Christian Wahl • 2016

Designing as separate from nature broke the planet. Regenerative cultures learn from living systems.

4.24

223

Udržitelnost

Ekologie

Životní prostředí

Designing Regenerative Cultures

Designing as separate from nature broke the planet. Regenerative cultures learn from living systems.

od Daniel Christian Wahl 2016 288 stran

4.24

223 hodnocení

Udržitelnost

Ekologie

Životní prostředí

False Alarm

od Bjørn Lomborg • 2020

Two trillion a year for one-twentieth of a degree: the smarter investments our panic overlooks.

4.16

2 000+

Věda

Ekonomie

Politika

False Alarm

Two trillion a year for one-twentieth of a degree: the smarter investments our panic overlooks.

od Bjørn Lomborg 2020 320 stran

4.16

2 000+ hodnocení

Věda

Ekonomie

Politika

Tim Cook

od Leander Kahney • 2019

They said Apple peaked with Jobs. Cook's bet on operations, ethics, and privacy tripled its value.

3.70

3 000+

Biografie

Podnikání

Technologie

Tim Cook

They said Apple peaked with Jobs. Cook's bet on operations, ethics, and privacy tripled its value.

od Leander Kahney 2019 320 stran

3.70

3 000+ hodnocení

Biografie

Podnikání

Technologie

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

od Bill Gates • 2021

Five activities emit 51 billion tons a year; the cost gaps show where innovation must hit first.

4.11

51 000+

Věda

Životní prostředí

Udržitelnost

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

Five activities emit 51 billion tons a year; the cost gaps show where innovation must hit first.

od Bill Gates 2021 288 stran

4.11

51 000+ hodnocení

Věda

Životní prostředí

Udržitelnost

The Joyful Vegan

od Colleen Patrick-Goudreau • 2019

Stay vegan without the burnout: a guide to guilt, anger, and keeping your friends at dinner.

4.29

500+

Veganské

Osobní rozvoj

Zvířata

The Joyful Vegan

Stay vegan without the burnout: a guide to guilt, anger, and keeping your friends at dinner.

od Colleen Patrick-Goudreau 2019 304 stran

4.29

500+ hodnocení

Veganské

Osobní rozvoj

Zvířata

The Uninhabitable Earth

od David Wallace-Wells • 2019

Climate change is not slow. Heat, hunger, drought, and mass displacement are already here.

3.99

30 000+

Věda

Změna klimatu

Životní prostředí

The Uninhabitable Earth

Climate change is not slow. Heat, hunger, drought, and mass displacement are already here.

od David Wallace-Wells 2019 310 stran

3.99

30 000+ hodnocení

Věda

Změna klimatu

Životní prostředí

Stone Age Economics

od Marshall Sahlins • 1974

Hunters and gatherers worked a few hours daily and wanted little. Scarcity is a modern invention.

3.92

500+

Antropologie

Ekonomie

Sociologie

Stone Age Economics

Hunters and gatherers worked a few hours daily and wanted little. Scarcity is a modern invention.

od Marshall Sahlins 1974 362 stran

3.92

500+ hodnocení

Antropologie

Ekonomie

Sociologie

Amazonia

od James Rollins • 2002

Four years lost, a soldier emerges from the jungle with a regrown arm and lethal plague.

4.15

35 000+

Thriller

Dobrodružství

Science fiction

Amazonia

Four years lost, a soldier emerges from the jungle with a regrown arm and lethal plague.

od James Rollins 2002 510 stran

4.15

35 000+ hodnocení

Thriller

Dobrodružství

Science fiction

Feminism or Death

od Françoise d'Eaubonne • 1974

The planet is dying from male rule. A feminism content with equality won't save it.

3.55

187

Feminismus

Životní prostředí

Ekologie

Feminism or Death

The planet is dying from male rule. A feminism content with equality won't save it.

od Françoise d'Eaubonne 1974 352 stran

3.55

187 hodnocení

Feminismus

Životní prostředí

Ekologie

Triumph of the City

od Edward L. Glaeser • 2011

Poverty flocks to cities because cities are the escape route. The economic case for density.

3.91

6 000+

Ekonomie

Sociologie

Městské

Triumph of the City

Poverty flocks to cities because cities are the escape route. The economic case for density.

od Edward L. Glaeser 2011 352 stran

3.91

6 000+ hodnocení

Ekonomie

Sociologie

Městské

Why Vegan?

od Peter Singer • 2020

Loving dogs while eating pigs is a prejudice, not a preference, with billions of victims.

4.02

500+

Filozofie

Zvířata

Jídlo

Why Vegan?

Loving dogs while eating pigs is a prejudice, not a preference, with billions of victims.

od Peter Singer 2020 80 stran

4.02

500+ hodnocení

Filozofie

Zvířata

Jídlo

The Good-Enough Life

od Avram Alpert • 2022

Greatness culture exhausts us, shreds communities, and devours the planet. Sufficiency is the exit.

3.39

390

Filozofie

Osobní rozvoj

Psychologie

The Good-Enough Life

Greatness culture exhausts us, shreds communities, and devours the planet. Sufficiency is the exit.

od Avram Alpert 2022 327 stran

3.39

390 hodnocení

Filozofie

Osobní rozvoj

Psychologie

What We Owe The Future

od William MacAskill • 2022

Most humans who will ever live aren't born yet. Their fate belongs to this century.

3.81

6 000+

Filozofie

Ethics

Věda

What We Owe The Future

Most humans who will ever live aren't born yet. Their fate belongs to this century.

od William MacAskill 2022 494 stran

3.81

6 000+ hodnocení

Filozofie

Ethics

Věda

Divided

od Tim Marshall • 2018

We were promised a borderless world. There are more walls now than during the Cold War.

4.01

6 000+

Politika

Historie

Sociologie

Divided

We were promised a borderless world. There are more walls now than during the Cold War.

od Tim Marshall 2018 316 stran

4.01

6 000+ hodnocení

Politika

Historie

Sociologie

Small is Beautiful

od Ernst F. Schumacher • 1973

The case for an economics small enough to fit people, their work, and a finite planet.

4.09

7 000+

Ekonomie

Filozofie

Politika

Small is Beautiful

The case for an economics small enough to fit people, their work, and a finite planet.

od Ernst F. Schumacher 1973 305 stran

4.09

7 000+ hodnocení

Ekonomie

Filozofie

Politika

Food Politics

od Robert Paarlberg • 2010

The hidden policy battles behind every bite, from farm subsidy wars to the GMO divide.

3.49

340

Jídlo

Politika

Zemědělství

Food Politics

The hidden policy battles behind every bite, from farm subsidy wars to the GMO divide.

od Robert Paarlberg 2010 240 stran

3.49

340 hodnocení

Jídlo

Politika

Zemědělství

Food

od Mark Hyman • 2018

Two hostile diet tribes, one surprising overlap. A doctor's plan for eating without the dogma.

3.99

6 000+

Zdraví

Výživa

Jídlo

Food

Two hostile diet tribes, one surprising overlap. A doctor's plan for eating without the dogma.

od Mark Hyman 2018 400 stran

3.99

6 000+ hodnocení

Zdraví

Výživa

Jídlo

Four Elements

od John O'Donohue • 2010

Four elements, one modern forgetting: a poet restores the conversation between landscape and soul.

4.25

415

Spiritualita

Filozofie

Příroda

Four Elements

Four elements, one modern forgetting: a poet restores the conversation between landscape and soul.

od John O'Donohue 2010 192 stran

4.25

415 hodnocení

Spiritualita

Filozofie

Příroda

The Circular Economy Handbook

od Peter Lacy • 2019

We design products to become waste. A playbook for turning that waste into $4.5 trillion.

3.55

Podnikání

Ekonomie

Životní prostředí

The Circular Economy Handbook

We design products to become waste. A playbook for turning that waste into $4.5 trillion.

od Peter Lacy 2019 504 stran

3.55

49 hodnocení

Podnikání

Ekonomie

Životní prostředí

In Praise of Slowness

od Carl Honoré • 2004

A Rome protest ignited a global movement to slow down food, work, cities, and parenting.

3.65

6 000+

Osobní rozvoj

Filozofie

Psychologie

In Praise of Slowness

A Rome protest ignited a global movement to slow down food, work, cities, and parenting.

od Carl Honoré 2004 321 stran

3.65

6 000+ hodnocení

Osobní rozvoj

Filozofie

Psychologie

Laudato Si'

od Pope Francis • 2015

Environmental ruin and human suffering have one cause. The fix demands a spiritual revolution.

4.25

3 000+

Náboženství

Katolické

Teologie

Laudato Si'

Environmental ruin and human suffering have one cause. The fix demands a spiritual revolution.

od Pope Francis 2015 200 stran

4.25

3 000+ hodnocení

Náboženství

Katolické

Teologie

The Future We Choose

od Christiana Figueres • 2020

Halve emissions by 2030 or lose a livable planet: the Paris Agreement architect's ten moves.

4.05

6 000+

Věda

Životní prostředí

Udržitelnost

The Future We Choose

Halve emissions by 2030 or lose a livable planet: the Paris Agreement architect's ten moves.

od Christiana Figueres 2020 210 stran

4.05

6 000+ hodnocení

Věda

Životní prostředí

Udržitelnost

Food Matters

od Mark Bittman • 2008

Put plants at the center, meat on the side, and guilt off the table entirely.

3.97

11 000+

Jídlo

Kuchařky

Zdraví

Food Matters

Put plants at the center, meat on the side, and guilt off the table entirely.

od Mark Bittman 2008 336 stran

3.97

11 000+ hodnocení

Jídlo

Kuchařky

Zdraví

The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels

od Alex Epstein • 2014

Climate deaths fell 98% this century. Fossil fuels caused that, and their moral defense is overdue.

4.07

2 000+

Politika

Věda

Ekonomie

The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels

Climate deaths fell 98% this century. Fossil fuels caused that, and their moral defense is overdue.

od Alex Epstein 2014 257 stran

4.07

2 000+ hodnocení

Politika

Věda

Ekonomie

Mission Economy

od Mariana Mazzucato • 2020

State-led missions built the internet and GPS; now turn that force on climate and inequality.

3.85

2 000+

Ekonomie

Politika

Podnikání

Mission Economy

State-led missions built the internet and GPS; now turn that force on climate and inequality.

od Mariana Mazzucato 2020 272 stran

3.85

2 000+ hodnocení

Ekonomie

Politika

Podnikání

Green Swans

od John Elkington • 2020

Sustainability was about doing less harm. The next economy restores more than it takes.

3.78

349

Podnikání

Udržitelnost

Ekonomie

Green Swans

Sustainability was about doing less harm. The next economy restores more than it takes.

od John Elkington 2020 323 stran

3.78

349 hodnocení

Podnikání

Udržitelnost

Ekonomie

City of the Beasts

od Isabel Allende • 2004

A grieving teen and his grandmother hunt a mythic Amazon beast and uncover a deadly conspiracy.

3.74

46 000+

Fantasy

Pro mladé dospělé

Dobrodružství

City of the Beasts

A grieving teen and his grandmother hunt a mythic Amazon beast and uncover a deadly conspiracy.

od Isabel Allende 2004 408 stran

3.74

46 000+ hodnocení

Fantasy

Pro mladé dospělé

Dobrodružství

Life Lessons From the Amazon

od Pip Stewart • 2021

Paddling an uncharted Amazon river, she found the sharpest lessons had nothing to do with survival.

4.08

194

Cestování

Dobrodružství

Příroda

Life Lessons From the Amazon

Paddling an uncharted Amazon river, she found the sharpest lessons had nothing to do with survival.

od Pip Stewart 2021 335 stran

4.08

194 hodnocení

Cestování

Dobrodružství

Příroda

Corporate Social Responsibility

od Philip Kotler • 2004

The framework that turns corporate giving from a cost into a competitive lever.

3.90

187

Podnikání

Ekonomie

Management

Corporate Social Responsibility

The framework that turns corporate giving from a cost into a competitive lever.

od Philip Kotler 2004 320 stran

3.90

187 hodnocení

Podnikání

Ekonomie

Management

The Day the World Stops Shopping

od J.B. MacKinnon • 2021

Less shopping saves the planet and wrecks the economy. The path through that trap.

4.13

5 000+

Životní prostředí

Ekonomie

Věda

The Day the World Stops Shopping

Less shopping saves the planet and wrecks the economy. The path through that trap.

od J.B. MacKinnon 2021 336 stran

4.13

5 000+ hodnocení

Životní prostředí

Ekonomie

Věda

A Monk's Guide to a Clean House and Mind

od Shoukei Matsumoto • 2011

A Zen monk's cleaning routine: why scrubbing a floor quiets your mind more than a cushion.

3.58

6 000+

Osobní rozvoj

Spiritualita

Filozofie

A Monk's Guide to a Clean House and Mind

A Zen monk's cleaning routine: why scrubbing a floor quiets your mind more than a cushion.

od Shoukei Matsumoto 2011

3.58

6 000+ hodnocení

Osobní rozvoj

Spiritualita

Filozofie

The End of Nature

od Bill McKibben • 1989

Nature once stood apart from human affairs. We altered the atmosphere, and that separation fell.

3.94

3 000+

Životní prostředí

Příroda

Věda

The End of Nature

Nature once stood apart from human affairs. We altered the atmosphere, and that separation fell.

od Bill McKibben 1989 241 stran

3.94

3 000+ hodnocení

Životní prostředí

Příroda

Věda

The Miracle of Water

od Masaru Emoto • 2007

A kind word froze into a perfect crystal. An insult shattered it. Your body is 70% water.

4.19

500+

New Age

Spiritualita

New Thought

The Miracle of Water

A kind word froze into a perfect crystal. An insult shattered it. Your body is 70% water.

od Masaru Emoto 2007 160 stran

4.19

500+ hodnocení

New Age

Spiritualita

New Thought

Meet the Frugalwoods

od Elizabeth Willard Thames • 2018

An 82 percent savings rate: how two professionals quit their jobs and bought a Vermont homestead.

3.74

7 000+

Finance

Memoáry

Peníze

Meet the Frugalwoods

An 82 percent savings rate: how two professionals quit their jobs and bought a Vermont homestead.

od Elizabeth Willard Thames 2018 256 stran

3.74

7 000+ hodnocení

Finance

Memoáry

Peníze

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