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

The Right Chemistry

od Joe Schwarcz • 2012

Why soap cleans, what killed Napoleon, and 106 other chemical mysteries of daily life.

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🔬 Everyday Science 🍎 Food Chemistry 📚 Scientific Literacy 🕵️ Pseudoscience Debunking 📜 History Of Science

The Right Chemistry

Why soap cleans, what killed Napoleon, and 106 other chemical mysteries of daily life.

od Joe Schwarcz 2012 304 stran

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79 hodnocení

🔬 Everyday Science 🍎 Food Chemistry 📚 Scientific Literacy 🕵️ Pseudoscience Debunking 📜 History Of Science

Tide of War

od David R Petriello • 2018

Rain sank a fleet, mud trapped knights, fog saved an army. Weather is warfare's quietest general.

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🌦️ Weather And Warfare 🌫️ Battlefield Conditions 📊 Historical Climatology 🗺️ Military Geography 🌍 Environmental History

Tide of War

Rain sank a fleet, mud trapped knights, fog saved an army. Weather is warfare's quietest general.

od David R Petriello 2018 209 stran

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23 hodnocení

🌦️ Weather And Warfare 🌫️ Battlefield Conditions 📊 Historical Climatology 🗺️ Military Geography 🌍 Environmental History

The Future of Everything

od David Orrell • 2006

Weather, markets, pandemics: the science of why forecasts fail, and what to build instead.

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🔮 Forecasting 🕸️ Complexity Science ⚠️ Limits Of Prediction 🔗 Systems Thinking 📉 Economic Forecasting

The Future of Everything

Weather, markets, pandemics: the science of why forecasts fail, and what to build instead.

od David Orrell 2006 464 stran

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117 hodnocení

🔮 Forecasting 🕸️ Complexity Science ⚠️ Limits Of Prediction 🔗 Systems Thinking 📉 Economic Forecasting

The Web of Life

od Fritjof Capra • 1996

Life and mind are the same self-organizing process from the first cell to the living planet.

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🧩 Systems Thinking 🔄 Self-Organization 🔀 Complexity Science 🧬 Theoretical Biology 🌍 Gaia Hypothesis

The Web of Life

Life and mind are the same self-organizing process from the first cell to the living planet.

od Fritjof Capra 1996 347 stran

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🧩 Systems Thinking 🔄 Self-Organization 🔀 Complexity Science 🧬 Theoretical Biology 🌍 Gaia Hypothesis

Pandora's Seed

od Spencer Wells • 2010

Farming gave us civilization. It also gave us chronic disease, overstimulation, and fundamentalism.

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🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch 🌾 Agriculture's Costs 🧫 Recent Human Evolution 🫀 Diseases Of Civilization 🧪 Genetic Ethics

Pandora's Seed

Farming gave us civilization. It also gave us chronic disease, overstimulation, and fundamentalism.

od Spencer Wells 2010 256 stran

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🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch 🌾 Agriculture's Costs 🧫 Recent Human Evolution 🫀 Diseases Of Civilization 🧪 Genetic Ethics

Listening to Whales

od Alexandra Morton • 2002

A marine biologist lost her husband, then fought the salmon farms killing the orcas she studied.

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🐋 Marine Biology 🐆 Wildlife Conservation 🐋 Orca Societies ⛓️ Anti-Captivity ✊ Environmental Advocacy

Listening to Whales

A marine biologist lost her husband, then fought the salmon farms killing the orcas she studied.

od Alexandra Morton 2002 320 stran

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🐋 Marine Biology 🐆 Wildlife Conservation 🐋 Orca Societies ⛓️ Anti-Captivity ✊ Environmental Advocacy

Wild Comfort

od Kathleen Dean Moore • 2010

The natural world holds no cure for grief, only a rhythm vast enough to carry it.

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🖋️ Nature Writing 🌿 Environmental Essays 🍂 Grief And Nature 👁️ Mindful Observation 🔄 Cycles Of Life

Wild Comfort

The natural world holds no cure for grief, only a rhythm vast enough to carry it.

od Kathleen Dean Moore 2010 208 stran

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500+ hodnocení

🖋️ Nature Writing 🌿 Environmental Essays 🍂 Grief And Nature 👁️ Mindful Observation 🔄 Cycles Of Life

Shark Life

od Peter Benchley • 2002

Sharks kill fewer than 10 people a year. The author of Jaws explains why.

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🐠 Marine Biology 🌊 Ocean Conservation 🎲 Risk Perception 🦈 Apex Predators 🛟 Ocean Safety

Shark Life

Sharks kill fewer than 10 people a year. The author of Jaws explains why.

od Peter Benchley 2002 208 stran

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🐠 Marine Biology 🌊 Ocean Conservation 🎲 Risk Perception 🦈 Apex Predators 🛟 Ocean Safety

Cows Save the Planet

od Judith D. Schwartz • 2013

Cows aren't the climate villains you think: managed right, they're the restoration tool we need.

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🧱 Soil Health 🌱 Regenerative Agriculture 🌍 Carbon Sequestration 💧 Water Cycles 🦠 Soil Biodiversity

Cows Save the Planet

Cows aren't the climate villains you think: managed right, they're the restoration tool we need.

od Judith D. Schwartz 2013 240 stran

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423 hodnocení

🧱 Soil Health 🌱 Regenerative Agriculture 🌍 Carbon Sequestration 💧 Water Cycles 🦠 Soil Biodiversity

No. More. Plastic.

od Martin Dorey • 2018

Eight million tons hit the ocean each year. Here is what two minutes can do.

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🧴 Plastic Pollution ♻️ Zero Waste Living ✊ Everyday Activism 🛒 Ethical Consumerism 🥤 Plastic Free Lifestyle

No. More. Plastic.

Eight million tons hit the ocean each year. Here is what two minutes can do.

od Martin Dorey 2018 160 stran

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🧴 Plastic Pollution ♻️ Zero Waste Living ✊ Everyday Activism 🛒 Ethical Consumerism 🥤 Plastic Free Lifestyle

The Big Burn

od Timothy Egan • 2009

Congress tried to kill the Forest Service; a 3.2-million-acre fire saved it instead.

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🗳️ Progressive Era 🌲 Conservation Movement 🔥 Wildfire History 🏞️ Public Lands 🌿 Fire Ecology

The Big Burn

Congress tried to kill the Forest Service; a 3.2-million-acre fire saved it instead.

od Timothy Egan 2009 349 stran

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🗳️ Progressive Era 🌲 Conservation Movement 🔥 Wildfire History 🏞️ Public Lands 🌿 Fire Ecology

The Lion in the Living Room

od Abigail Tucker • 2016

Cats tamed themselves, charm us with baby-like features, kill billions, and now rule the Internet.

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🐱 Cat Evolution 🐄 Animal Domestication 🐍 Invasive Species 🧫 Parasite Manipulation 🏙️ Urban Ecology

The Lion in the Living Room

Cats tamed themselves, charm us with baby-like features, kill billions, and now rule the Internet.

od Abigail Tucker 2016 243 stran

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🐱 Cat Evolution 🐄 Animal Domestication 🐍 Invasive Species 🧫 Parasite Manipulation 🏙️ Urban Ecology

Goliath's Curse

od Luke Kemp • 2025

Hierarchy was a 12,000-year mistake. Its final collapse could take our species with it.

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💥 Societal Collapse ☢️ Existential Risk 📜 Big History 👑 Dominance Hierarchies ⛏️ Extractive Institutions

Goliath's Curse

Hierarchy was a 12,000-year mistake. Its final collapse could take our species with it.

od Luke Kemp 2025 592 stran

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💥 Societal Collapse ☢️ Existential Risk 📜 Big History 👑 Dominance Hierarchies ⛏️ Extractive Institutions

The Social Determinants of Health

od Kathryn Strother Ratcliff • 2017

What if America's worst health problems can't be cured in a hospital?

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🏥 Public Health 🏗️ Structural Inequality 🏢 Corporate Power 🌎 Environmental Health ⚖️ Health Disparities

The Social Determinants of Health

What if America's worst health problems can't be cured in a hospital?

od Kathryn Strother Ratcliff 2017 256 stran

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37 hodnocení

🏥 Public Health 🏗️ Structural Inequality 🏢 Corporate Power 🌎 Environmental Health ⚖️ Health Disparities

Back to Earth

od Nicole Stott • 2021

From orbit, Earth has no borders. An astronaut's argument for upgrading from passenger to crew.

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🚀 Astronaut Memoirs 🌿 Ecological Memoir 🌎 The Overview Effect 🛡️ Environmental Stewardship ⚡ Climate Action

Back to Earth

From orbit, Earth has no borders. An astronaut's argument for upgrading from passenger to crew.

od Nicole Stott 2021 304 stran

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219 hodnocení

🚀 Astronaut Memoirs 🌿 Ecological Memoir 🌎 The Overview Effect 🛡️ Environmental Stewardship ⚡ Climate Action

Twilight of American Sanity

od Allen Frances • 2016

Trump is just a symptom. The real disorder is a Stone Age mind steering a technological superpower.

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🧠 Political Psychology 🔍 Cognitive Biases 🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch 🌍 Climate Denial 🌱 Sustainability

Twilight of American Sanity

Trump is just a symptom. The real disorder is a Stone Age mind steering a technological superpower.

od Allen Frances 2016 336 stran

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287 hodnocení

🧠 Political Psychology 🔍 Cognitive Biases 🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch 🌍 Climate Denial 🌱 Sustainability

In a Sunburned Country

od Bill Bryson • 2000

24 rabbits became 300 million. Bill Bryson crosses Australia, dodging lethal seashells.

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🇦🇺 Australian Travel 😂 Humor Travel 🐍 Deadly Wildlife 🐇 Invasive Species ⛓️ Convict Legacy

In a Sunburned Country

24 rabbits became 300 million. Bill Bryson crosses Australia, dodging lethal seashells.

od Bill Bryson 2000 335 stran

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100 000+ hodnocení

🇦🇺 Australian Travel 😂 Humor Travel 🐍 Deadly Wildlife 🐇 Invasive Species ⛓️ Convict Legacy

Mosquito

od Andrew Spielman • 2001

Smaller than a fingernail, deadlier than all wars combined: the insect that decided empires.

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436

🦠 Infectious Disease 🌍 Disease Ecology 🪲 Insect Science 🌿 Natural History 🏛️ Public Health History

Mosquito

Smaller than a fingernail, deadlier than all wars combined: the insect that decided empires.

od Andrew Spielman 2001 256 stran

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436 hodnocení

🦠 Infectious Disease 🌍 Disease Ecology 🪲 Insect Science 🌿 Natural History 🏛️ Public Health History

The Waste-Free World

od Ron Gonen • 2021

Your taxes subsidize garbage. The circular economy claims the $4.5 trillion we're throwing away.

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🔄 Circular Economy ♻️ Sustainable Business 🎭 Greenwashing 🕰️ Planned Obsolescence 🔧 Right To Repair

The Waste-Free World

Your taxes subsidize garbage. The circular economy claims the $4.5 trillion we're throwing away.

od Ron Gonen 2021 288 stran

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174 hodnocení

🔄 Circular Economy ♻️ Sustainable Business 🎭 Greenwashing 🕰️ Planned Obsolescence 🔧 Right To Repair

An Inconvenient Apocalypse

od Wes Jackson • 2022

Civilization's biological drive for energy makes collapse inevitable. No green tech can stop it.

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📉 Limits To Growth 🛠️ Techno-Skepticism 💰 Ecological Economics 🌿 Deep Ecology 💥 Collapsology

An Inconvenient Apocalypse

Civilization's biological drive for energy makes collapse inevitable. No green tech can stop it.

od Wes Jackson 2022 184 stran

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198 hodnocení

📉 Limits To Growth 🛠️ Techno-Skepticism 💰 Ecological Economics 🌿 Deep Ecology 💥 Collapsology

The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces

od William H. Whyte • 1980

A decade of time-lapse footage on New York plazas upended every assumption about what draws a crowd.

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🏙️ Public Space 🚶 Street Life 🏘️ Human-Scale Urbanism ✨ Placemaking 🌍 Urban Anthropology

The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces

A decade of time-lapse footage on New York plazas upended every assumption about what draws a crowd.

od William H. Whyte 1980 125 stran

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500+ hodnocení

🏙️ Public Space 🚶 Street Life 🏘️ Human-Scale Urbanism ✨ Placemaking 🌍 Urban Anthropology

Junkyard Planet

od Adam Minter • 2013

What happens to your recycling after the truck leaves, and how it reshapes global economies.

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♻️ Waste Management 🚢 Global Waste Trade 🔄 Circular Economy 📊 Commodity Markets 🔗 Global Supply Chains

Junkyard Planet

What happens to your recycling after the truck leaves, and how it reshapes global economies.

od Adam Minter 2013 304 stran

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1 000+ hodnocení

♻️ Waste Management 🚢 Global Waste Trade 🔄 Circular Economy 📊 Commodity Markets 🔗 Global Supply Chains

Eating for Beginners

od Melanie Rehak • 2010

A food writer butchered a lamb and worked a fishing boat. Her toddler still refused broccoli.

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🌱 Farm To Table 🔪 Restaurant Kitchens 🌍 Sustainable Eating 🧀 Artisanal Food 🧒 Picky Eating

Eating for Beginners

A food writer butchered a lamb and worked a fishing boat. Her toddler still refused broccoli.

od Melanie Rehak 2010 275 stran

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285 hodnocení

🌱 Farm To Table 🔪 Restaurant Kitchens 🌍 Sustainable Eating 🧀 Artisanal Food 🧒 Picky Eating

Who Rules the World?

od Noam Chomsky • 2014

A superpower that tortures, invades, and sabotages democracy while the world calls it humanitarian.

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🏛️ American Empire 🕊️ Israel-Palestine 📢 Propaganda Analysis 🔫 State Violence ☢️ Nuclear Threat

Who Rules the World?

A superpower that tortures, invades, and sabotages democracy while the world calls it humanitarian.

od Noam Chomsky 2014 320 stran

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12 000+ hodnocení

🏛️ American Empire 🕊️ Israel-Palestine 📢 Propaganda Analysis 🔫 State Violence ☢️ Nuclear Threat

Net Zero

od Dieter Helm • 2020

Why UN climate talks can't cut emissions, and how taxing carbon consumption can.

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270

🏷️ Carbon Pricing 📈 Market-Based Environmentalism 📦 Consumption Emissions 🌳 Natural Sequestration ⚡ Electricity Market Reform

Net Zero

Why UN climate talks can't cut emissions, and how taxing carbon consumption can.

od Dieter Helm 2020 329 stran

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270 hodnocení

🏷️ Carbon Pricing 📈 Market-Based Environmentalism 📦 Consumption Emissions 🌳 Natural Sequestration ⚡ Electricity Market Reform

Soil and Sacrament

od Fred Bahnson • 2013

What if the holiest ground you'll ever touch is in a garden?

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🛐 Faith And Farming 🌻 Community Gardens 🙏 Agrarian Spirituality 🤝 Interfaith Ecology 🌍 Creation Care

Soil and Sacrament

What if the holiest ground you'll ever touch is in a garden?

od Fred Bahnson 2013 288 stran

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264 hodnocení

🛐 Faith And Farming 🌻 Community Gardens 🙏 Agrarian Spirituality 🤝 Interfaith Ecology 🌍 Creation Care

Sustainable Energy - without the hot air

od David J.C. MacKay • 2008

Most energy plans don't add up. A physicist's arithmetic reveals what would.

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🏛️ Energy Policy ⚡ Energy Systems 🌬️ Renewable Energy 🔢 Quantitative Reasoning 🌍 Decarbonization

Sustainable Energy - without the hot air

Most energy plans don't add up. A physicist's arithmetic reveals what would.

od David J.C. MacKay 2008 384 stran

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🏛️ Energy Policy ⚡ Energy Systems 🌬️ Renewable Energy 🔢 Quantitative Reasoning 🌍 Decarbonization

There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness

od Carlo Rovelli • 2018

A physicist finds echoes of black holes in Dante, free will, and the future of our planet.

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🔬 Philosophy Of Science 📝 Essay Collections 🌌 Cosmology 🕳️ Black Holes 🧠 Free Will Debate

There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness

A physicist finds echoes of black holes in Dante, free will, and the future of our planet.

od Carlo Rovelli 2018

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3 000+ hodnocení

🔬 Philosophy Of Science 📝 Essay Collections 🌌 Cosmology 🕳️ Black Holes 🧠 Free Will Debate

Decline and Fall

od John Michael Greer • 2014

Empires are wealth pumps. America's runs on oil, nearly dry. The collapse cycle is inevitable.

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156

🏛️ American Empire 📉 Imperial Decline 🔄 Cyclical History ⛽ Peak Oil 📊 Limits To Growth

Decline and Fall

Empires are wealth pumps. America's runs on oil, nearly dry. The collapse cycle is inevitable.

od John Michael Greer 2014 304 stran

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156 hodnocení

🏛️ American Empire 📉 Imperial Decline 🔄 Cyclical History ⛽ Peak Oil 📊 Limits To Growth

Civil Engineering

od David Muir Wood • 2012

Why bridges stand and dams hold: a compact tour of civil engineering, from soil to steel.

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🏗️ Civil Infrastructure 🧱 Construction Materials ⚙️ Engineering Basics 🏛️ Structural Design 💧 Water Infrastructure

Civil Engineering

Why bridges stand and dams hold: a compact tour of civil engineering, from soil to steel.

od David Muir Wood 2012 143 stran

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137 hodnocení

🏗️ Civil Infrastructure 🧱 Construction Materials ⚙️ Engineering Basics 🏛️ Structural Design 💧 Water Infrastructure

International Relations

od Joshua S. Goldstein • 1993

War, trade, climate: one puzzle runs through them all. How nations cooperate when selfishness pays.

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🌐 International Relations 🏛️ Political Realism 🕊️ Liberal Internationalism 🧱 Constructivism 🤝 Collective Action

International Relations

War, trade, climate: one puzzle runs through them all. How nations cooperate when selfishness pays.

od Joshua S. Goldstein 1993 624 stran

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441 hodnocení

🌐 International Relations 🏛️ Political Realism 🕊️ Liberal Internationalism 🧱 Constructivism 🤝 Collective Action

Grass, Soil, Hope

od Courtney White • 2014

Carbon is not the enemy: the ranchers and farmers burying it to save the climate.

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168

🌱 Regenerative Agriculture 🪱 Soil Restoration 🌬️ Carbon Sequestration 🏙️ Urban Agriculture 🐂 Holistic Management

Grass, Soil, Hope

Carbon is not the enemy: the ranchers and farmers burying it to save the climate.

od Courtney White 2014 244 stran

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168 hodnocení

🌱 Regenerative Agriculture 🪱 Soil Restoration 🌬️ Carbon Sequestration 🏙️ Urban Agriculture 🐂 Holistic Management

Anticancer

od David Servan-Schreiber • 2007

Genes don't decide cancer's fate: your daily choices build an internal environment that does.

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🎗️ Cancer Prevention 🩺 Lifestyle Medicine 🥦 Anticancer Diet 🧠 Mind-Body Connection 🧘 Stress Reduction

Anticancer

Genes don't decide cancer's fate: your daily choices build an internal environment that does.

od David Servan-Schreiber 2007

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🎗️ Cancer Prevention 🩺 Lifestyle Medicine 🥦 Anticancer Diet 🧠 Mind-Body Connection 🧘 Stress Reduction

Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party

od Edward Dolnick • 2024

Before Darwin, bizarre fossils had already cracked the God-ordained universe wide open.

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🎩 Victorian Science 📜 History Of Science ⛏️ Fossil Hunting 💀 Extinction ⏳ Deep Time

Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party

Before Darwin, bizarre fossils had already cracked the God-ordained universe wide open.

od Edward Dolnick 2024 338 stran

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🎩 Victorian Science 📜 History Of Science ⛏️ Fossil Hunting 💀 Extinction ⏳ Deep Time

How to Talk About Climate Change in a Way That Makes a Difference

od Rebecca Huntley • 2020

Facts alone won't move anyone on climate. Here is what actually works, emotion by emotion.

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📢 Climate Communication 🧠 Environmental Psychology 🧩 Cognitive Biases 😰 Eco-Anxiety 🔄 Behavior Change

How to Talk About Climate Change in a Way That Makes a Difference

Facts alone won't move anyone on climate. Here is what actually works, emotion by emotion.

od Rebecca Huntley 2020 227 stran

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📢 Climate Communication 🧠 Environmental Psychology 🧩 Cognitive Biases 😰 Eco-Anxiety 🔄 Behavior Change

Megafire

od Michael Kodas • 2017

A century of putting out every fire made the forests a tinderbox. Now climate change is the match.

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🔥 Wildfire 🏕️ Forest Ecology 🌪️ Climate Disasters 📋 Environmental Policy 🌲 Land Management

Megafire

A century of putting out every fire made the forests a tinderbox. Now climate change is the match.

od Michael Kodas 2017 384 stran

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254 hodnocení

🔥 Wildfire 🏕️ Forest Ecology 🌪️ Climate Disasters 📋 Environmental Policy 🌲 Land Management

The Good Bee

od Alison Benjamin • 2019

25,000 bee species exist, most solitary and stingless, and every third bite of food requires them.

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🐝 Pollinator Ecology 🦋 Insect Conservation 🏙️ Urban Ecology 🔬 Citizen Science ⚠️ Colony Collapse

The Good Bee

25,000 bee species exist, most solitary and stingless, and every third bite of food requires them.

od Alison Benjamin 2019 193 stran

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🐝 Pollinator Ecology 🦋 Insect Conservation 🏙️ Urban Ecology 🔬 Citizen Science ⚠️ Colony Collapse

Green Mars

od Kim Stanley Robinson • 1993

When Earth's ice caps drown civilization, Mars' hidden generation seizes its chance at freedom.

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🌱 Terraforming 🕯️ Hidden Resistance 🫂 Found Family 🔄 Generational Conflict 🏘️ Communal Living

Green Mars

When Earth's ice caps drown civilization, Mars' hidden generation seizes its chance at freedom.

od Kim Stanley Robinson 1993 624 stran

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🌱 Terraforming 🕯️ Hidden Resistance 🫂 Found Family 🔄 Generational Conflict 🏘️ Communal Living

The Minimalist Vegan

od Michael Ofei • 2017

Decluttering your home and diet: why the same principles work for both, and where to start.

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🥬 Plant-Based Living 🏠 Simple Living 🐾 Animal Ethics 🧹 Decluttering 🛒 Consumerism Critique

The Minimalist Vegan

Decluttering your home and diet: why the same principles work for both, and where to start.

od Michael Ofei 2017 89 stran

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🥬 Plant-Based Living 🏠 Simple Living 🐾 Animal Ethics 🧹 Decluttering 🛒 Consumerism Critique

The Economics of Enough

od Diane Coyle • 2011

Modern economies steal from the future, and GDP hides the theft. A blueprint for fixing both.

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🏛️ Political Economy 🌿 Environmental Economics 📈 Sustainable Growth 📊 Beyond Gdp ⚖️ Economic Inequality

The Economics of Enough

Modern economies steal from the future, and GDP hides the theft. A blueprint for fixing both.

od Diane Coyle 2011 336 stran

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🏛️ Political Economy 🌿 Environmental Economics 📈 Sustainable Growth 📊 Beyond Gdp ⚖️ Economic Inequality

The Zero-Waste Lifestyle

od Amy Korst • 2012

How to throw away less: study your trash, then change one room at a time.

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🏠 Low-Waste Living 🔄 Sustainable Swaps 🛒 Conscious Consumerism 🌿 Voluntary Simplicity 🧹 Green Cleaning

The Zero-Waste Lifestyle

How to throw away less: study your trash, then change one room at a time.

od Amy Korst 2012 272 stran

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🏠 Low-Waste Living 🔄 Sustainable Swaps 🛒 Conscious Consumerism 🌿 Voluntary Simplicity 🧹 Green Cleaning

Vital Little Plans

od Jane Jacobs • 2016

Top-down planning kills cities. The sidewalk sees what the drafting table never will.

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🏙️ Urban Vitality 🚶 Walkable Cities 🏪 Mixed-Use Development 🌱 Bottom-Up Urbanism 🏗️ Urban Renewal Critique

Vital Little Plans

Top-down planning kills cities. The sidewalk sees what the drafting table never will.

od Jane Jacobs 2016 544 stran

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🏙️ Urban Vitality 🚶 Walkable Cities 🏪 Mixed-Use Development 🌱 Bottom-Up Urbanism 🏗️ Urban Renewal Critique

The End of Oil

od Paul Roberts • 2004

Peak oil, climate collapse, energy poverty: three crises converging, and no unified plan exists.

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🔄 Energy Transition 🛢️ Oil Geopolitics ⛽ Fossil Fuel Dependence 🌡️ Climate Security 🔐 Global Energy Security

The End of Oil

Peak oil, climate collapse, energy poverty: three crises converging, and no unified plan exists.

od Paul Roberts 2004 368 stran

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🔄 Energy Transition 🛢️ Oil Geopolitics ⛽ Fossil Fuel Dependence 🌡️ Climate Security 🔐 Global Energy Security

Lost on Planet China

od J. Maarten Troost • 2008

No Mandarin. One backpack. A country where one city adds 150,000 cars a year.

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🧳 Travel Memoirs 🇨🇳 China Travel 😏 Wry Humor 👁️ Cultural Observation 🏗️ Rapid Urbanization

Lost on Planet China

No Mandarin. One backpack. A country where one city adds 150,000 cars a year.

od J. Maarten Troost 2008 304 stran

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🧳 Travel Memoirs 🇨🇳 China Travel 😏 Wry Humor 👁️ Cultural Observation 🏗️ Rapid Urbanization

This Land Is Our Land

od Ken Ilgunas • 2018

America once roamed freely across private land. Europe has the rules that could bring that back.

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🚶‍♂️ Right To Roam 🏡 Land Ownership 🏞 Public Lands 🥾 Walking 🌍 Commons

This Land Is Our Land

America once roamed freely across private land. Europe has the rules that could bring that back.

od Ken Ilgunas 2018 288 stran

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330 hodnocení

🚶‍♂️ Right To Roam 🏡 Land Ownership 🏞 Public Lands 🥾 Walking 🌍 Commons

Dr. Seuss and Philosophy

od Jacob M. Held • 2011

Philosophy hid on your childhood shelf. Horton on knowledge, the Lorax on ethics, Yertle on power.

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441

🧠 Pop Philosophy 📚 Children's Literature ⚖️ Moral Dilemmas 🌍 Environmental Ethics 🏛️ Social Contract

Dr. Seuss and Philosophy

Philosophy hid on your childhood shelf. Horton on knowledge, the Lorax on ethics, Yertle on power.

od Jacob M. Held 2011 304 stran

4.14

441 hodnocení

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Job gone, marriage over: one woman, $40 a week, a year of eating what grew nearby.

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The Feast Nearby

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Climate change is outrunning every worst-case model. The solutions work; the timeline doesn't.

3.49

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od Tim Flannery 2009 176 stran

3.49

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🌍 Planetary Boundaries 🌎 Gaia Theory 🏭 Anthropocene 🌱 Carbon Sequestration 🌊 Ocean Acidification

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Science called animal minds unknowable. Elephants, wolves, and whales are proving otherwise.

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🧠 Animal Consciousness 💔 Animal Emotion 🐘 Animal Societies 🗣️ Animal Communication 🔬 Cognitive Ethology

Beyond Words

Science called animal minds unknowable. Elephants, wolves, and whales are proving otherwise.

od Carl Safina 2015 461 stran

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od Frank von Hippel • 2020

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🧪 Environmental Chemistry 📜 Chemical History 🦟 Pesticide History ☣️ Chemical Warfare 🏭 Industrial Disasters

The Chemical Age

Chemistry's greatest triumphs also produced Zyklon B, nerve agents, and the hole in the ozone layer.

od Frank von Hippel 2020 368 stran

4.17

184 hodnocení

🧪 Environmental Chemistry 📜 Chemical History 🦟 Pesticide History ☣️ Chemical Warfare 🏭 Industrial Disasters

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