Ympäristö

Planeettamme terveys muokkaa ihmisen olemassaolon jokaista osa-aluetta, lautasillamme olevasta ruoasta hengittämäänsä ilmaan ja lukuisiin lajeihin, joiden kanssa jaamme Maan. Nämä tärkeät kirjat tutkivat luonnon maailman herkkää tasapainoa ja tarjoavat käytännön viisautta kestävämpään elämään, olipa kyse tietoisesta syömisestä, jätteiden vähentämisestä tai ihmiskunnan vaikutuksen ymmärtämisestä rajallisiin resursseihimme.

Ympäristö Kirjayhteenvedot

Glimpses of Utopia

kirjoittanut Jess Scully • 2020

A fair society is not theoretical. Its pieces are already running in cities across the world.

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🗳️ Participatory Democracy 💡 Alternative Economics 🌳 Commons Stewardship 🤲 Care Economy 🏦 Financial Reform

Glimpses of Utopia

A fair society is not theoretical. Its pieces are already running in cities across the world.

kirjoittanut Jess Scully 2020 532 sivua

3.97

110 arvostelua

🗳️ Participatory Democracy 💡 Alternative Economics 🌳 Commons Stewardship 🤲 Care Economy 🏦 Financial Reform

Anti-Tech Revolution

kirjoittanut Theodore John Kaczynski • 2016

The technological world system is a self-driving machine no one steers and nothing stops.

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🏕️ Anarcho-Primitivism ✊ Revolutionary Theory 🔄 Systems Thinking 📉 Technological Collapse 🏛️ Civilization Critique

Anti-Tech Revolution

The technological world system is a self-driving machine no one steers and nothing stops.

kirjoittanut Theodore John Kaczynski 2016 280 sivua

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🏕️ Anarcho-Primitivism ✊ Revolutionary Theory 🔄 Systems Thinking 📉 Technological Collapse 🏛️ Civilization Critique

Streetfight

kirjoittanut Janette Sadik-Khan • 2016

Paint, data, and political nerve: beating the car-first status quo.

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🛣️ Street Design 🎨 Tactical Urbanism 🌳 Public Space 🚲 Bike Advocacy 🚌 Transit Equity

Streetfight

Paint, data, and political nerve: beating the car-first status quo.

kirjoittanut Janette Sadik-Khan 2016 368 sivua

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2 000+ arvostelua

🛣️ Street Design 🎨 Tactical Urbanism 🌳 Public Space 🚲 Bike Advocacy 🚌 Transit Equity

Falter

kirjoittanut Bill McKibben • 2019

Engineers want to redesign humans as the climate exit. The two crises share a cause.

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🤖 Tech Ethics ⚠️ Existential Risk 🛢️ Fossil Fuel Deception ☀️ Renewable Energy ✊ Nonviolent Resistance

Falter

Engineers want to redesign humans as the climate exit. The two crises share a cause.

kirjoittanut Bill McKibben 2019 291 sivua

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🤖 Tech Ethics ⚠️ Existential Risk 🛢️ Fossil Fuel Deception ☀️ Renewable Energy ✊ Nonviolent Resistance

Lagom

kirjoittanut Linnea Dunne • 2017

The Swedish secret to working less, consuming less, and being happier: balance as a daily practice.

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🏡 Scandinavian Lifestyle ⚖️ Work-Life Balance 🛍️ Mindful Consumption 🌿 Sustainable Living 🌲 Outdoor Wellness

Lagom

The Swedish secret to working less, consuming less, and being happier: balance as a daily practice.

kirjoittanut Linnea Dunne 2017 160 sivua

3.59

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🏡 Scandinavian Lifestyle ⚖️ Work-Life Balance 🛍️ Mindful Consumption 🌿 Sustainable Living 🌲 Outdoor Wellness

We Are the Weather

kirjoittanut Jonathan Safran Foer • 2019

Sixty percent of mammals are livestock. Two plant-based meals a day saves 1.3 metric tons of carbon.

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🚜 Food Systems 📢 Climate Advocacy ⚖️ Environmental Ethics 🥬 Plant-Based Eating 🐄 Animal Agriculture

We Are the Weather

Sixty percent of mammals are livestock. Two plant-based meals a day saves 1.3 metric tons of carbon.

kirjoittanut Jonathan Safran Foer 2019 288 sivua

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🚜 Food Systems 📢 Climate Advocacy ⚖️ Environmental Ethics 🥬 Plant-Based Eating 🐄 Animal Agriculture

Blessed Unrest

kirjoittanut Paul Hawken • 2007

A vast, leaderless movement is quietly restoring both the earth and human dignity.

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🌍 Environmental Activism ⚖️ Climate Justice 🌱 Grassroots Movements 🕸️ Decentralized Networks 🔄 Systems Thinking

Blessed Unrest

A vast, leaderless movement is quietly restoring both the earth and human dignity.

kirjoittanut Paul Hawken 2007 352 sivua

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1 000+ arvostelua

🌍 Environmental Activism ⚖️ Climate Justice 🌱 Grassroots Movements 🕸️ Decentralized Networks 🔄 Systems Thinking

The Great Transition

kirjoittanut Lester R. Brown • 2014

Wind and solar are now cheapest. The shift isn't a political choice; it's a price signal.

3.66

201

⚡ Energy Transition ☀️ Renewable Energy 📉 Energy Economics 🌍 Climate Policy 🚗 Electric Vehicles

The Great Transition

Wind and solar are now cheapest. The shift isn't a political choice; it's a price signal.

kirjoittanut Lester R. Brown 2014 194 sivua

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201 arvostelua

⚡ Energy Transition ☀️ Renewable Energy 📉 Energy Economics 🌍 Climate Policy 🚗 Electric Vehicles

Fostering Sustainable Behavior

kirjoittanut Doug McKenzie-Mohr • 1999

Posters and pamphlets don't change behavior. Six tools that do, and how to combine them.

3.86

188

🧠 Social Psychology 📢 Social Marketing 📋 Behavior Change Programs 🎨 Behavioral Design 🤝 Community Engagement

Fostering Sustainable Behavior

Posters and pamphlets don't change behavior. Six tools that do, and how to combine them.

kirjoittanut Doug McKenzie-Mohr 1999 192 sivua

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🧠 Social Psychology 📢 Social Marketing 📋 Behavior Change Programs 🎨 Behavioral Design 🤝 Community Engagement

Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution

kirjoittanut Bernie Sanders • 2017

The top 0.1% owns as much as the bottom 90%. A progressive senator's guide for changing that.

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💸 Economic Inequality 🏥 Universal Healthcare 🎓 College Affordability ✊ Workers Rights 🌍 Climate Action

Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution

The top 0.1% owns as much as the bottom 90%. A progressive senator's guide for changing that.

kirjoittanut Bernie Sanders 2017 226 sivua

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💸 Economic Inequality 🏥 Universal Healthcare 🎓 College Affordability ✊ Workers Rights 🌍 Climate Action

The Collapse of Complex Societies

kirjoittanut Joseph A. Tainter • 1988

Society's greatest threat isn't invasion; it's the rising cost of keeping itself organized.

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🏚️ Societal Collapse 🕸️ Complex Systems 📉 Diminishing Returns ⚡ Energy And Society 🔄 Civilization Cycles

The Collapse of Complex Societies

Society's greatest threat isn't invasion; it's the rising cost of keeping itself organized.

kirjoittanut Joseph A. Tainter 1988 264 sivua

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1 000+ arvostelua

🏚️ Societal Collapse 🕸️ Complex Systems 📉 Diminishing Returns ⚡ Energy And Society 🔄 Civilization Cycles

Planta Sapiens

kirjoittanut Paco Calvo • 2022

A brainless intelligence: how plants learn, decide, and plan their futures.

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🌱 Plant Cognition ⚖️ Environmental Ethics 💬 Plant Communication 🕸️ Distributed Intelligence 🎯 Ecological Psychology

Planta Sapiens

A brainless intelligence: how plants learn, decide, and plan their futures.

kirjoittanut Paco Calvo 2022 304 sivua

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🌱 Plant Cognition ⚖️ Environmental Ethics 💬 Plant Communication 🕸️ Distributed Intelligence 🎯 Ecological Psychology

The End of Animal Farming

kirjoittanut Jacy Reese Anthis • 2018

Ending factory farming depends less on your diet than on what happens in labs and boardrooms.

4.07

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🧪 Food Technology 🐄 Animal Agriculture 💡 Effective Altruism 🔵 Moral Circle Expansion 🐾 Animal Consciousness

The End of Animal Farming

Ending factory farming depends less on your diet than on what happens in labs and boardrooms.

kirjoittanut Jacy Reese Anthis 2018 232 sivua

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500+ arvostelua

🧪 Food Technology 🐄 Animal Agriculture 💡 Effective Altruism 🔵 Moral Circle Expansion 🐾 Animal Consciousness

Traditional Foods Are Your Best Medicine

kirjoittanut Ronald F. Schmid N.D. • 1987

Ten times the vitamins, zero chronic disease. The traditional food wisdom modern diets abandoned.

4.20

119

🥘 Traditional Diets 🦴 Nutritional Anthropology 🔬 Weston A Price 💊 Food As Medicine 🥬 Raw Foods

Traditional Foods Are Your Best Medicine

Ten times the vitamins, zero chronic disease. The traditional food wisdom modern diets abandoned.

kirjoittanut Ronald F. Schmid N.D. 1987 288 sivua

4.20

119 arvostelua

🥘 Traditional Diets 🦴 Nutritional Anthropology 🔬 Weston A Price 💊 Food As Medicine 🥬 Raw Foods

Dirty Electricity

kirjoittanut Samuel Milham • 2010

Cancer and diabetes followed the power lines, not the processed food.

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210

🧲 Electromagnetic Health 🌿 Environmental Health ⚡ Bioelectromagnetics 📊 Cancer Epidemiology 🏭 Occupational Disease

Dirty Electricity

Cancer and diabetes followed the power lines, not the processed food.

kirjoittanut Samuel Milham 2010 128 sivua

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210 arvostelua

🧲 Electromagnetic Health 🌿 Environmental Health ⚡ Bioelectromagnetics 📊 Cancer Epidemiology 🏭 Occupational Disease

The Lost City of the Monkey God

kirjoittanut Douglas Preston • 2017

Cartels, vipers, disease. A filmmaker searched for a lost city. A laser found it first.

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🗺️ Lost City Legends ⛏️ Archaeological Adventure 🌴 Jungle Expeditions 🛰️ Aerial Archaeology 🏛️ Pre-Columbian Civilizations

The Lost City of the Monkey God

Cartels, vipers, disease. A filmmaker searched for a lost city. A laser found it first.

kirjoittanut Douglas Preston 2017 326 sivua

3.93

63 000+ arvostelua

🗺️ Lost City Legends ⛏️ Archaeological Adventure 🌴 Jungle Expeditions 🛰️ Aerial Archaeology 🏛️ Pre-Columbian Civilizations

Marine Biology

kirjoittanut Philip V. Mladenov • 2013

71% of the planet is salt water; it provides half our oxygen, and its life support is failing.

4.21

462

🐟 Marine Biology 🌊 Ocean Ecosystems 🛡️ Marine Conservation 🪸 Coral Reefs 🧊 Polar Oceans

Marine Biology

71% of the planet is salt water; it provides half our oxygen, and its life support is failing.

kirjoittanut Philip V. Mladenov 2013 224 sivua

4.21

462 arvostelua

🐟 Marine Biology 🌊 Ocean Ecosystems 🛡️ Marine Conservation 🪸 Coral Reefs 🧊 Polar Oceans

The Voyage of the Beagle

kirjoittanut Charles Darwin • 1839

The five-year voyage that found patterns in nature no theory of the time could explain.

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🍃 Natural History 🔬 Scientific Expeditions 👁️ Field Observation 🏝️ Island Biogeography 🎩 Victorian Naturalism

The Voyage of the Beagle

The five-year voyage that found patterns in nature no theory of the time could explain.

kirjoittanut Charles Darwin 1839 480 sivua

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8 000+ arvostelua

🍃 Natural History 🔬 Scientific Expeditions 👁️ Field Observation 🏝️ Island Biogeography 🎩 Victorian Naturalism

Longpath

kirjoittanut Ari Wallach • 2022

Your brain was built for the next five minutes. Civilization needs you to think in centuries.

3.74

323

🧭 Futures Thinking 🌍 Intergenerational Ethics 🔄 Systems Thinking 🤝 Prosocial Behavior ⚖️ Effective Altruism

Longpath

Your brain was built for the next five minutes. Civilization needs you to think in centuries.

kirjoittanut Ari Wallach 2022 212 sivua

3.74

323 arvostelua

🧭 Futures Thinking 🌍 Intergenerational Ethics 🔄 Systems Thinking 🤝 Prosocial Behavior ⚖️ Effective Altruism

The Way of the Hermit

kirjoittanut Ken Smith • 2023

One man, a remote Scottish loch, a hand-built cabin, and forty years of solitude and storms.

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2 000+

🏚️ Off-Grid Living 🏕️ Wilderness Survival 🍄 Foraging 🪓 Self-Sufficiency 🌿 Nature Writing

The Way of the Hermit

One man, a remote Scottish loch, a hand-built cabin, and forty years of solitude and storms.

kirjoittanut Ken Smith 2023 298 sivua

4.21

2 000+ arvostelua

🏚️ Off-Grid Living 🏕️ Wilderness Survival 🍄 Foraging 🪓 Self-Sufficiency 🌿 Nature Writing

The Secret Knowledge of Water

kirjoittanut Craig Childs • 2000

To understand water, go to the land without it. A quest for hidden pools, caves, and desert floods.

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🏜️ Desert Ecology 💧 Desert Hydrology ✍️ Lyrical Nature Writing 🕳️ Hidden Worlds ⛰️ Sacred Landscapes

The Secret Knowledge of Water

To understand water, go to the land without it. A quest for hidden pools, caves, and desert floods.

kirjoittanut Craig Childs 2000 304 sivua

4.29

2 000+ arvostelua

🏜️ Desert Ecology 💧 Desert Hydrology ✍️ Lyrical Nature Writing 🕳️ Hidden Worlds ⛰️ Sacred Landscapes

Animal, Vegetable, Junk

kirjoittanut Mark Bittman • 2021

Farming gave us civilization, slavery, famine, and junk food. A provocative history of what we eat.

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📜 Food Systems History 🌍 Global Agriculture 🏭 Industrial Agriculture 🍔 Junk Food Engineering 🏥 Public Health Crisis

Animal, Vegetable, Junk

Farming gave us civilization, slavery, famine, and junk food. A provocative history of what we eat.

kirjoittanut Mark Bittman 2021 384 sivua

3.90

3 000+ arvostelua

📜 Food Systems History 🌍 Global Agriculture 🏭 Industrial Agriculture 🍔 Junk Food Engineering 🏥 Public Health Crisis

The Blue Zones Solution

kirjoittanut Dan Buettner • 2014

Five places where people routinely reach 100. The foods, habits, and relationships behind it.

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🧬 Longevity Research 🥬 Plant-Based Nutrition ⏳ Healthy Aging 🚶 Everyday Movement 🍽️ Mindful Eating

The Blue Zones Solution

Five places where people routinely reach 100. The foods, habits, and relationships behind it.

kirjoittanut Dan Buettner 2014 320 sivua

3.98

4 000+ arvostelua

🧬 Longevity Research 🥬 Plant-Based Nutrition ⏳ Healthy Aging 🚶 Everyday Movement 🍽️ Mindful Eating

Arguing with Zombies

kirjoittanut Paul Krugman • 2020

Dead economic ideas still shape policy. A Nobel laureate on why they survive and what they cost.

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💰 Income Inequality 📊 Economic Policy 📝 Political Commentary 📈 Keynesian Economics 🌎 Climate Economics

Arguing with Zombies

Dead economic ideas still shape policy. A Nobel laureate on why they survive and what they cost.

kirjoittanut Paul Krugman 2020 464 sivua

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2 000+ arvostelua

💰 Income Inequality 📊 Economic Policy 📝 Political Commentary 📈 Keynesian Economics 🌎 Climate Economics

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

kirjoittanut Barbara Kingsolver • 2007

One family, one year, one rule: nothing to eat from beyond a hundred miles.

4.05

100 000+

🥕 Locavore Movement 🍂 Seasonal Cooking 📖 Food Memoirs 🌾 Sustainable Agriculture 🏡 Home Gardening

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

One family, one year, one rule: nothing to eat from beyond a hundred miles.

kirjoittanut Barbara Kingsolver 2007 400 sivua

4.05

100 000+ arvostelua

🥕 Locavore Movement 🍂 Seasonal Cooking 📖 Food Memoirs 🌾 Sustainable Agriculture 🏡 Home Gardening

The Republic for Which It Stands

kirjoittanut Richard White • 2017

America rebuilt itself after 1865 into something no one voted for. A history of broken promises.

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🏛️ Reconstruction Era 💰 Gilded Age 🔨 Labor History 🌳 Environmental History ⚖️ Jim Crow Origins

The Republic for Which It Stands

America rebuilt itself after 1865 into something no one voted for. A history of broken promises.

kirjoittanut Richard White 2017 962 sivua

4.16

1 000+ arvostelua

🏛️ Reconstruction Era 💰 Gilded Age 🔨 Labor History 🌳 Environmental History ⚖️ Jim Crow Origins

Necessary Revolution

kirjoittanut Peter M. Senge • 2008

The Industrial bubble is bursting. The organizations that last think in systems, not silos.

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🌍 Regenerative Business 🔄 Circular Economy 🧩 Systems Thinking 🤝 Cross-Sector Collaboration 🌱 Biomimicry

Necessary Revolution

The Industrial bubble is bursting. The organizations that last think in systems, not silos.

kirjoittanut Peter M. Senge 2008 432 sivua

3.83

500+ arvostelua

🌍 Regenerative Business 🔄 Circular Economy 🧩 Systems Thinking 🤝 Cross-Sector Collaboration 🌱 Biomimicry

A Planet to Win

kirjoittanut Kate Aronoff • 2019

What if fighting climate change meant universal housing, public power, and a four-day week?

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📗 Green New Deal 🌍 Climate Justice 🌱 Ecosocialism 🌹 Democratic Socialism ⚡ Energy Transition

A Planet to Win

What if fighting climate change meant universal housing, public power, and a four-day week?

kirjoittanut Kate Aronoff 2019 208 sivua

4.07

500+ arvostelua

📗 Green New Deal 🌍 Climate Justice 🌱 Ecosocialism 🌹 Democratic Socialism ⚡ Energy Transition

The New Organic Grower

kirjoittanut Eliot Coleman • 1989

How to make a living from five acres by farming with nature, not against it.

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🍃 Organic Farming 🥬 Market Gardening 🪱 Soil Health 🌡️ Season Extension 🚜 Small-Scale Farming

The New Organic Grower

How to make a living from five acres by farming with nature, not against it.

kirjoittanut Eliot Coleman 1989 340 sivua

4.41

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🍃 Organic Farming 🥬 Market Gardening 🪱 Soil Health 🌡️ Season Extension 🚜 Small-Scale Farming

Should We Eat Meat?

kirjoittanut Vaclav Smil • 2013

Meat grew our brains. Its modern scale now threatens the planet. A quantified middle path.

3.52

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🏭 Industrial Agriculture 🌡️ Meat And Climate 🧬 Evolution Of Diet 🍽️ Food Systems 🥬 Meat Alternatives

Should We Eat Meat?

Meat grew our brains. Its modern scale now threatens the planet. A quantified middle path.

kirjoittanut Vaclav Smil 2013 282 sivua

3.52

500+ arvostelua

🏭 Industrial Agriculture 🌡️ Meat And Climate 🧬 Evolution Of Diet 🍽️ Food Systems 🥬 Meat Alternatives

Fibershed

kirjoittanut Rebecca Burgess • 2019

Your closet is an emissions machine. A 150-mile wardrobe turns it into a carbon sink.

4.07

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🧵 Sustainable Fashion 🌱 Regenerative Agriculture 🏘️ Local Economies 🔗 Textile Supply Chains 🌍 Carbon Sequestration

Fibershed

Your closet is an emissions machine. A 150-mile wardrobe turns it into a carbon sink.

kirjoittanut Rebecca Burgess 2019 288 sivua

4.07

421 arvostelua

🧵 Sustainable Fashion 🌱 Regenerative Agriculture 🏘️ Local Economies 🔗 Textile Supply Chains 🌍 Carbon Sequestration

An Epidemic of Absence

kirjoittanut Moises Velasquez-Manoff • 2012

Parasites taught immune systems what to ignore. Without them, the body mistakes itself for a threat.

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🧬 Evolutionary Medicine 🩺 Autoimmune Disease 🧫 Microbiome Science 🧹 Hygiene Hypothesis ⚖️ Immune Regulation

An Epidemic of Absence

Parasites taught immune systems what to ignore. Without them, the body mistakes itself for a threat.

kirjoittanut Moises Velasquez-Manoff 2012 400 sivua

4.15

500+ arvostelua

🧬 Evolutionary Medicine 🩺 Autoimmune Disease 🧫 Microbiome Science 🧹 Hygiene Hypothesis ⚖️ Immune Regulation

Gathering Moss

kirjoittanut Robin Wall Kimmerer • 2003

They drink fog, build forests, bridge worlds. A scientist and Potawatomi woman on what mosses know.

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🌿 Botanical Writing 🧡 Indigenous Ecology 📝 Essay Collections 👁️ Attentive Observation 🔬 Microscopic Worlds

Gathering Moss

They drink fog, build forests, bridge worlds. A scientist and Potawatomi woman on what mosses know.

kirjoittanut Robin Wall Kimmerer 2003 168 sivua

4.38

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🌿 Botanical Writing 🧡 Indigenous Ecology 📝 Essay Collections 👁️ Attentive Observation 🔬 Microscopic Worlds

When the Sky Fell

kirjoittanut Rand Flem-Ath • 1995

Ancient maps reveal an ice-free Antarctica. The civilization that charted it may still be there.

3.92

278

⚱️ Lost Civilizations 📜 Alternative History 🌊 Catastrophism 📖 Myth As History 🗿 Ancient Anomalies

When the Sky Fell

Ancient maps reveal an ice-free Antarctica. The civilization that charted it may still be there.

kirjoittanut Rand Flem-Ath 1995 179 sivua

3.92

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⚱️ Lost Civilizations 📜 Alternative History 🌊 Catastrophism 📖 Myth As History 🗿 Ancient Anomalies

After Lockdown

kirjoittanut Bruno Latour • 2021

The lockdown ended. The fantasy of escaping Earth should end too.

3.50

311

🌍 Political Ecology 🚧 Planetary Boundaries 🧬 Posthumanism 🐾 More-Than-Human 🌱 Degrowth

After Lockdown

The lockdown ended. The fantasy of escaping Earth should end too.

kirjoittanut Bruno Latour 2021 180 sivua

3.50

311 arvostelua

🌍 Political Ecology 🚧 Planetary Boundaries 🧬 Posthumanism 🐾 More-Than-Human 🌱 Degrowth

Environmental Economics

kirjoittanut Stephen Smith • 2011

Why unregulated markets destroy the environment, and how the same market logic can save it.

3.61

239

🏛️ Environmental Economics 📊 Cost-Benefit Analysis 💨 Emissions Trading 💰 Carbon Pricing 🌳 Environmental Valuation

Environmental Economics

Why unregulated markets destroy the environment, and how the same market logic can save it.

kirjoittanut Stephen Smith 2011 136 sivua

3.61

239 arvostelua

🏛️ Environmental Economics 📊 Cost-Benefit Analysis 💨 Emissions Trading 💰 Carbon Pricing 🌳 Environmental Valuation

Blowout

kirjoittanut Rachel Maddow • 2019

Fracking, oligarchs, and a 50-kiloton bomb in Colorado: how the oil industry broke global democracy.

4.34

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🛢️ Oil And Gas Industry 🌏 Energy Geopolitics 💎 Resource Curse 🇷🇺 Russian Oligarchs 🏛️ Political Corruption

Blowout

Fracking, oligarchs, and a 50-kiloton bomb in Colorado: how the oil industry broke global democracy.

kirjoittanut Rachel Maddow 2019 400 sivua

4.34

15 000+ arvostelua

🛢️ Oil And Gas Industry 🌏 Energy Geopolitics 💎 Resource Curse 🇷🇺 Russian Oligarchs 🏛️ Political Corruption

Lifehouse

kirjoittanut Adam Greenfield • 2024

Votes and green tech won't stop climate collapse. The real plan: neighbors caring for each other.

3.84

🌱 Community Organizing 🤝 Mutual Aid Networks 🌍 Climate Adaptation 🗳️ Direct Democracy 🌿 Social Ecology

Lifehouse

Votes and green tech won't stop climate collapse. The real plan: neighbors caring for each other.

kirjoittanut Adam Greenfield 2024 272 sivua

3.84

86 arvostelua

🌱 Community Organizing 🤝 Mutual Aid Networks 🌍 Climate Adaptation 🗳️ Direct Democracy 🌿 Social Ecology

The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire

kirjoittanut Henry Gee • 2025

The human population will soon peak and shrink. The only way out of extinction leads through space.

3.65

470

🦴 Human Evolution 📉 Demographic Decline 🧬 Genetic Bottlenecks ⏳ Big History 🌍 Climate Crisis

The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire

The human population will soon peak and shrink. The only way out of extinction leads through space.

kirjoittanut Henry Gee 2025 288 sivua

3.65

470 arvostelua

🦴 Human Evolution 📉 Demographic Decline 🧬 Genetic Bottlenecks ⏳ Big History 🌍 Climate Crisis

2052

kirjoittanut Jørgen Randers • 2012

A Limits to Growth update: population shrinks, growth slows, yet 2°C warming still hits by 2052.

3.95

355

🧠 Systems Thinking 📉 Limits To Growth 🔮 Scenario Planning ⚡ Energy Transition 👶 Demographic Decline

2052

A Limits to Growth update: population shrinks, growth slows, yet 2°C warming still hits by 2052.

kirjoittanut Jørgen Randers 2012 416 sivua

3.95

355 arvostelua

🧠 Systems Thinking 📉 Limits To Growth 🔮 Scenario Planning ⚡ Energy Transition 👶 Demographic Decline

The Ends of the Earth

kirjoittanut Robert D. Kaplan • 1996

Rivers and soil shape nations more than constitutions. A journey to the frontiers where states fail.

4.11

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🗺️ Political Travelogue 🌍 Geopolitical Analysis 🌱 Environmental Determinism 🏚️ Fragile States 🏭 Modernization Critique

The Ends of the Earth

Rivers and soil shape nations more than constitutions. A journey to the frontiers where states fail.

kirjoittanut Robert D. Kaplan 1996 496 sivua

4.11

1 000+ arvostelua

🗺️ Political Travelogue 🌍 Geopolitical Analysis 🌱 Environmental Determinism 🏚️ Fragile States 🏭 Modernization Critique

Healthy Buildings

kirjoittanut Joseph G. Allen • 2020

You spend 72 years indoors. The air you breathe there has a balance sheet.

3.91

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🍃 Indoor Air Quality 🧱 Building Science 🏢 Workplace Design 🧠 Environmental Psychology ☣️ Environmental Toxins

Healthy Buildings

You spend 72 years indoors. The air you breathe there has a balance sheet.

kirjoittanut Joseph G. Allen 2020 304 sivua

3.91

170 arvostelua

🍃 Indoor Air Quality 🧱 Building Science 🏢 Workplace Design 🧠 Environmental Psychology ☣️ Environmental Toxins

The Coming China Wars

kirjoittanut Peter Navarro • 2006

Cheap goods, cheap debt: the two chains binding America to a rival that already writes rules.

3.32

222

🇨🇳 China Trade Policy 🇺🇸 Economic Nationalism 🏴‍☠️ Intellectual Property Theft 🛢️ Resource Diplomacy 🌊 Hydropolitics

The Coming China Wars

Cheap goods, cheap debt: the two chains binding America to a rival that already writes rules.

kirjoittanut Peter Navarro 2006 263 sivua

3.32

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🇨🇳 China Trade Policy 🇺🇸 Economic Nationalism 🏴‍☠️ Intellectual Property Theft 🛢️ Resource Diplomacy 🌊 Hydropolitics

What an Owl Knows

kirjoittanut Jennifer Ackerman • 2023

Silent flight, asymmetrical ears, and the minds that decode them. A new portrait of the owl.

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🦉 Ornithology 👂 Animal Senses 🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🦅 Predator Biology 🪺 Bird Behavior

What an Owl Knows

Silent flight, asymmetrical ears, and the minds that decode them. A new portrait of the owl.

kirjoittanut Jennifer Ackerman 2023 333 sivua

4.14

7 000+ arvostelua

🦉 Ornithology 👂 Animal Senses 🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🦅 Predator Biology 🪺 Bird Behavior

Wine to Water

kirjoittanut Doc Hendley • 2012

From pouring drinks to drilling wells in Darfur: a bartender's unlikely path into humanitarian work.

3.96

500+

🎗️ Humanitarian Memoir 💧 Global Water Crisis ⚠️ Conflict Zone Aid 👐 Everyday Activism 💪 Local Empowerment

Wine to Water

From pouring drinks to drilling wells in Darfur: a bartender's unlikely path into humanitarian work.

kirjoittanut Doc Hendley 2012 308 sivua

3.96

500+ arvostelua

🎗️ Humanitarian Memoir 💧 Global Water Crisis ⚠️ Conflict Zone Aid 👐 Everyday Activism 💪 Local Empowerment

The Essential Engineer

kirjoittanut Henry Petroski • 2010

Science explains; engineering creates. When we confuse the two, our biggest problems get harder.

3.37

270

🧠 Engineering Philosophy 🛡️ Engineering Ethics ⚖️ Risk Assessment 🔄 Systems Thinking ✏️ Design Thinking

The Essential Engineer

Science explains; engineering creates. When we confuse the two, our biggest problems get harder.

kirjoittanut Henry Petroski 2010 288 sivua

3.37

270 arvostelua

🧠 Engineering Philosophy 🛡️ Engineering Ethics ⚖️ Risk Assessment 🔄 Systems Thinking ✏️ Design Thinking

Saving Time

kirjoittanut Jenny Odell • 2023

Time as money was invented for factories and plantations. Your clock is a political tool.

3.60

4 000+

🏭 Political Economy Of Time ✋ Work Refusal 🔥 Burnout Culture 🌍 Deep Time 🌿 Leisure And Resistance

Saving Time

Time as money was invented for factories and plantations. Your clock is a political tool.

kirjoittanut Jenny Odell 2023 400 sivua

3.60

4 000+ arvostelua

🏭 Political Economy Of Time ✋ Work Refusal 🔥 Burnout Culture 🌍 Deep Time 🌿 Leisure And Resistance

Clean Mama's Guide to a Healthy Home

kirjoittanut Becky Rapinchuk • 2019

Four pantry ingredients replace every toxic cleaner. A room-by-room roadmap for the swap.

3.92

500+

🧹 Green Cleaning 🌿 Non-Toxic Living 🧪 DIY Cleaning Recipes 💨 Indoor Air Quality 🏠 Room-By-Room Detox

Clean Mama's Guide to a Healthy Home

Four pantry ingredients replace every toxic cleaner. A room-by-room roadmap for the swap.

kirjoittanut Becky Rapinchuk 2019 223 sivua

3.92

500+ arvostelua

🧹 Green Cleaning 🌿 Non-Toxic Living 🧪 DIY Cleaning Recipes 💨 Indoor Air Quality 🏠 Room-By-Room Detox

Taming the Sun

kirjoittanut Varun Sivaram • 2018

More solar means each panel is worth less. Three innovations can flip that equation.

4.07

500+

☀️ Solar Energy 🔄 Clean Energy Transition 🏛️ Energy Policy 🔮 Energy Futures ⚡ Grid Modernization

Taming the Sun

More solar means each panel is worth less. Three innovations can flip that equation.

kirjoittanut Varun Sivaram 2018 371 sivua

4.07

500+ arvostelua

☀️ Solar Energy 🔄 Clean Energy Transition 🏛️ Energy Policy 🔮 Energy Futures ⚡ Grid Modernization

Damnation Spring

kirjoittanut Ash Davidson • 2021

A secret land deal and a biologist's herbicide warning fracture a logging family haunted by loss.

3.90

13 000+

🌲 Logging Community ☣️ Environmental Contamination 🏔️ Pacific Northwest 📼 1970s America 💔 Pregnancy Loss

Damnation Spring

A secret land deal and a biologist's herbicide warning fracture a logging family haunted by loss.

kirjoittanut Ash Davidson 2021 464 sivua

3.90

13 000+ arvostelua

🌲 Logging Community ☣️ Environmental Contamination 🏔️ Pacific Northwest 📼 1970s America 💔 Pregnancy Loss

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