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Pipe Dreams Summary
Pipe Dreams
The Urgent Global Quest to Transform the Toilet
by Chelsea Wald 2021 295 pages
4.04
427 ratings
Science
History
Technology
Ravenous Summary
Ravenous
How to get ourselves and our planet into shape
by Henry Dimbleby 2023 332 pages
4.35
1k+ ratings
Food
Health
Science
Cloudburst Summary
Cloudburst
by Wilbur Smith 2020 320 pages
3.67
1k+ ratings
Adventure
Young Adult
Middle Grade
The Secret Network of Nature Summary
The Secret Network of Nature
The Delicate Balance of All Living Things
by Peter Wohlleben 2017
4.05
7k+ ratings
Nature
Science
Environment
Where the Water Goes Summary
Where the Water Goes
Life and Death Along the Colorado River
by David Owen 2017 288 pages
3.93
3k+ ratings
Science
Environment
Nature
Last Harvest Summary
Last Harvest
The Fight to Save the World’s Most Endangered Foods
by Dan Saladino 2021
4.31
2k+ ratings
Food
Science
History
Oil and Honey Summary
Oil and Honey
The Education of an Unlikely Activist
by Bill McKibben 2013 272 pages
3.90
1k+ ratings
Environment
Memoir
Politics
The Ministry for the Future Summary
The Ministry for the Future
by Kim Stanley Robinson 2020 563 pages
3.86
43k+ ratings
Science Fiction
Climate Change
Environment
Wild Comfort Summary
Wild Comfort
The Solace of Nature
by Kathleen Dean Moore 2010 208 pages
4.12
500+ ratings
Nature
Memoir
Essays
Population 10 Billion Summary
Population 10 Billion
by Danny Dorling 2013 448 pages
3.40
186 ratings
Geography
Science
Politics
Shark Life Summary
Shark Life
True Stories About Sharks & the Sea
by Peter Benchley 2002 208 pages
4.01
500+ ratings
Animals
Science
Nature
Listening to Whales Summary
Listening to Whales
What the Orcas Have Taught Us
by Alexandra Morton 2002 320 pages
4.51
1k+ ratings
Animals
Science
Nature
An Inconvenient Apocalypse Summary
An Inconvenient Apocalypse
Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity
by Wes Jackson 2022 184 pages
3.56
198 ratings
Environment
Climate Change
Science
The Permaculture Garden Summary
The Permaculture Garden
by Graham Bell 1994 174 pages
3.88
103 ratings
Gardening
Environment
How To
Energy and Civilization Summary
Energy and Civilization
A History
by Vaclav Smil 2017 552 pages
4.09
4k+ ratings
History
Science
Economics
Sustainable Energy - without the hot air Summary
Sustainable Energy - without the hot air
by David J.C. MacKay 2008 384 pages
4.41
1k+ ratings
Science
Sustainability
Environment
Pandora's Seed Summary
Pandora's Seed
The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization
by Spencer Wells 2010 256 pages
3.76
1k+ ratings
Science
History
Anthropology
Net Zero Summary
Net Zero
How We Stop Causing Climate Change
by Dieter Helm 2020 329 pages
3.84
270 ratings
Climate Change
Environment
Sustainability
Cows Save the Planet Summary
Cows Save the Planet
And Other Improbable Ways of Restoring Soil to Heal the Earth
by Judith D. Schwartz 2013 240 pages
4.09
423 ratings
Environment
Science
Sustainability
Junkyard Planet Summary
Junkyard Planet
Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade
by Adam Minter 2013 304 pages
3.91
1k+ ratings
Environment
Business
Economics
No. More. Plastic. Summary
No. More. Plastic.
What you can do to make a different
by Martin Dorey 2018 160 pages
3.99
1k+ ratings
Environment
Sustainability
Science
The Economics of Enough Summary
The Economics of Enough
How to Run the Economy as If the Future Matters
by Diane Coyle 2011 336 pages
3.43
116 ratings
Economics
Politics
Environment
The Waste-Free World Summary
The Waste-Free World
How the Circular Economy Will Take Less, Make More, and Save the Planet
by Ron Gonen 2021 288 pages
4.11
174 ratings
Sustainability
Environment
Economics
The Big Burn Summary
The Big Burn
Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
by Timothy Egan 2009 349 pages
4.14
18k+ ratings
History
American History
Nature
The Zero-Waste Lifestyle Summary
The Zero-Waste Lifestyle
Live Well by Throwing Away Less
by Amy Korst 2012 272 pages
3.61
500+ ratings
Environment
Sustainability
Self Help
This Land Is Our Land Summary
This Land Is Our Land
How We Lost the Right to Roam and How to Take It Back
by Ken Ilgunas 2018 288 pages
4.01
330 ratings
Nature
Travel
History
How to Talk About Climate Change in a Way That Makes a Difference Summary
How to Talk About Climate Change in a Way That Makes a Difference
by Rebecca Huntley 2020 227 pages
3.89
368 ratings
Climate Change
Environment
Sustainability
Grass, Soil, Hope Summary
Grass, Soil, Hope
A Journey through Carbon Country
by Courtney White 2014 244 pages
4.04
168 ratings
Food
Environment
Gardening
Megafire Summary
Megafire
The Race to Extinguish a Deadly Epidemic of Flame
by Michael Kodas 2017 384 pages
4.01
254 ratings
Science
Nature
Climate Change
The End of Oil Summary
The End of Oil
On the Edge of a Perilous New World
by Paul Roberts 2004 368 pages
3.74
1k+ ratings
Politics
Science
Environment
The Good Bee Summary
The Good Bee
A Celebration of Bees – And How to Save Them
by Alison Benjamin 2019 193 pages
4.17
323 ratings
Science
Nature
Natural History
The Green Budget Guide Summary
The Green Budget Guide
101 Planet and Money Saving Tips, Ideas and Recipes
by Nancy Birtwhistle 2024 336 pages
4.25
265 ratings
Reference
Finance
Environment
The Chemical Age Summary
The Chemical Age
How Chemists Fought Famine and Disease, Killed Millions, and Changed Our Relationship with the Earth
by Frank von Hippel 2020 368 pages
4.17
184 ratings
Science
History
Environment
Rethinking Capitalism Summary
Rethinking Capitalism
Economics and Policy for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth
by Michael Jacobs 2016 224 pages
4.01
121 ratings
Economics
Politics
Business
Rewilding the Sea Summary
Rewilding the Sea
by Charles Clover 2022 261 pages
4.23
492 ratings
Nature
Science
Environment
The Green Collar Economy Summary
The Green Collar Economy
How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems
by Van Jones 2008 256 pages
3.70
500+ ratings
Economics
Environment
Sustainability
Earth in Human Hands Summary
Earth in Human Hands
Shaping Our Planet's Future
by David Grinspoon 2016 545 pages
4.19
311 ratings
Science
Environment
Climate Change
A Life in Nature Summary
A Life in Nature
Or How to Catch a Mole
by Marc Hamer 2019 243 pages
4.16
1k+ ratings
Nature
Memoir
Animals
Moby-Duck Summary
Moby-Duck
The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them
by Donovan Hohn 2011 416 pages
3.31
3k+ ratings
Science
Travel
Environment
Confronting Collapse Summary
Confronting Collapse
The Crisis of Energy and Money in a Post Peak Oil World
by Michael C. Ruppert 2009 264 pages
3.83
313 ratings
Economics
Politics
Peak Oil
Trespassing Across America Summary
Trespassing Across America
One Man's Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland
by Ken Ilgunas 2016 288 pages
3.82
2k+ ratings
Travel
Memoir
Adventure
Sowing Seeds in the Desert Summary
Sowing Seeds in the Desert
Natural Farming, Global Restoration, and Ultimate Food Security
by Masanobu Fukuoka 2012 219 pages
4.34
500+ ratings
Gardening
Agriculture
Food
Now or Never Summary
Now or Never
Why We Must Act Now to End Climate Change and Create a Sustainable Future
by Tim Flannery 2008 176 pages
3.48
192 ratings
Science
Environment
Politics
BOOM Summary
BOOM
Oil, Money, Cowboys, Strippers, and the Energy Rush That Could Change America Forever. A Long, Strange Journey Along the Keystone XL Pipeline
by Tony Horwitz 2014 116 pages
3.89
500+ ratings
Travel
Environment
Politics
The Serviceberry Summary
The Serviceberry
Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
by Robin Wall Kimmerer 2024 112 pages
4.27
63k+ ratings
Nature
Science
Indigenous
Landfill Summary
Landfill
by Tim Dee 2018 239 pages
3.67
152 ratings
Birds
Nature
Environment
The Next Species Summary
The Next Species
The Future of Evolution in the Aftermath of Man
by Michael Tennesen 2015 336 pages
3.71
310 ratings
Science
Evolution
Biology
Planet on Fire Summary
Planet on Fire
A Manifesto for the Age of Environmental Breakdown
by Mathew Lawrence 2021 289 pages
3.68
173 ratings
Environment
Politics
Climate Change
Give a Sh*t Summary
Give a Sh*t
Do Good. Live Better. Save the Planet.
by Ashlee Piper 2018 304 pages
4.15
500+ ratings
Sustainability
Environment
Self Help
Getting to Green Summary
Getting to Green
Saving Nature: A Bipartisan Solution
by Frederic C. Rich 2016 368 pages
4.02
106 ratings
Politics
Environment
Science
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