Conservation

Our planet's forests, animals, and ecosystems have stories to tell — of hidden connections, fragile balances, and the urgent consequences of human choices. Books in this genre explore our relationship with the natural world, from the secret lives of trees and the emotional depths of animals to the sweeping forces of consumption, collapse, and the fight to build a more sustainable future.

Conservation Boksammendrag

The Secret Network of Nature

av Peter Wohlleben • 2017

The surprising lesson from Yellowstone: wolves don't just hunt. They move rivers.

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🕸️ Ecological Webs 🌲 Forest Ecology 🐺 Predator Ecology 🔄 Systems Ecology 🌿 Rewilding

The Secret Network of Nature

The surprising lesson from Yellowstone: wolves don't just hunt. They move rivers.

av Peter Wohlleben 2017

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🕸️ Ecological Webs 🌲 Forest Ecology 🐺 Predator Ecology 🔄 Systems Ecology 🌿 Rewilding

The Herbalist's Way

av Nancy Phillips • 2005

Become a community herbalist: befriend the plants, craft the medicine, and heal yourself first.

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🪴 Herbal Medicine 🌿 Plant Spirituality 🌀 Holistic Healing 🍄 Wildcrafting 🌍 Sustainable Living

The Herbalist's Way

Become a community herbalist: befriend the plants, craft the medicine, and heal yourself first.

av Nancy Phillips 2005 352 sider

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183 vurderinger

🪴 Herbal Medicine 🌿 Plant Spirituality 🌀 Holistic Healing 🍄 Wildcrafting 🌍 Sustainable Living

Gardening When It Counts

av Steve Solomon • 2006

Most gardening books assume cheap inputs and grocery stores. This one assumes the day both are gone.

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🔨 Subsistence Gardening 🌱 Organic Gardening 🧪 Soil Fertility 🌾 Seed Saving 💧 Water Conservation

Gardening When It Counts

Most gardening books assume cheap inputs and grocery stores. This one assumes the day both are gone.

av Steve Solomon 2006 360 sider

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🔨 Subsistence Gardening 🌱 Organic Gardening 🧪 Soil Fertility 🌾 Seed Saving 💧 Water Conservation

Where the Water Goes

av David Owen • 2017

The Colorado River keeps 36 million alive. Legal claims on its water outnumber the actual gallons.

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🏜️ American West 💧 Water Scarcity ⚖️ Water Rights 🚿 Irrigation 🌡️ Climate Adaptation

Where the Water Goes

The Colorado River keeps 36 million alive. Legal claims on its water outnumber the actual gallons.

av David Owen 2017 288 sider

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🏜️ American West 💧 Water Scarcity ⚖️ Water Rights 🚿 Irrigation 🌡️ Climate Adaptation

Listening to Whales

av 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.

av Alexandra Morton 2002 320 sider

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

Cows Save the Planet

av 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.

av Judith D. Schwartz 2013 240 sider

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423 vurderinger

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

No. More. Plastic.

av 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.

av Martin Dorey 2018 160 sider

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

Megafire

av 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.

av Michael Kodas 2017 384 sider

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254 vurderinger

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

The Good Bee

av 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.

av Alison Benjamin 2019 193 sider

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

The Zero-Waste Lifestyle

av 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.

av Amy Korst 2012 272 sider

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

On Animals

av Susan Orlean • 2021

Pigeon racing, taxidermy, lion hugging: Susan Orlean on the animal obsessions that fill our lives.

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🦁 Animal Essays 🐾 Human-Animal Bond 🌍 Wildlife Conservation ⚖️ Animal Ethics 📰 Literary Journalism

On Animals

Pigeon racing, taxidermy, lion hugging: Susan Orlean on the animal obsessions that fill our lives.

av Susan Orlean 2021 247 sider

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🦁 Animal Essays 🐾 Human-Animal Bond 🌍 Wildlife Conservation ⚖️ Animal Ethics 📰 Literary Journalism

Now or Never

av Tim Flannery • 2009

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

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

Now or Never

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

av Tim Flannery 2009 176 sider

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

The Green Budget Guide

av Nancy Birtwhistle • 2024

101 household swaps that shrink your bills and your waste, using what you already own.

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🌿 Eco-Friendly Living 🧼 Homemade Cleaning 🥕 Food Waste Reduction 💰 Thrifty Living 🔨 Household DIY

The Green Budget Guide

101 household swaps that shrink your bills and your waste, using what you already own.

av Nancy Birtwhistle 2024 336 sider

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274 vurderinger

🌿 Eco-Friendly Living 🧼 Homemade Cleaning 🥕 Food Waste Reduction 💰 Thrifty Living 🔨 Household DIY

Rewilding the Sea

av Charles Clover • 2022

Marine reserves bring rapid recovery, while trawling emits aviation-level carbon.

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🐠 Marine Conservation 🌊 Marine Ecology 🌱 Ecological Restoration 🐋 Rewilding 💠 Blue Carbon

Rewilding the Sea

Marine reserves bring rapid recovery, while trawling emits aviation-level carbon.

av Charles Clover 2022 261 sider

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🐠 Marine Conservation 🌊 Marine Ecology 🌱 Ecological Restoration 🐋 Rewilding 💠 Blue Carbon

Taking on the Plastics Crisis

av Hannah Testa • 2020

Less than ten percent of plastic gets recycled. One teenager's plan for what actually works.

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🛢️ Plastic Pollution ⚖️ Environmental Justice ♻️ Waste Reduction 🟢 Greenwashing 🛒 Consumer Activism

Taking on the Plastics Crisis

Less than ten percent of plastic gets recycled. One teenager's plan for what actually works.

av Hannah Testa 2020 64 sider

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🛢️ Plastic Pollution ⚖️ Environmental Justice ♻️ Waste Reduction 🟢 Greenwashing 🛒 Consumer Activism

Raising Hare

av Chloe Dalton • 2025

She rescued a palm-sized leveret. It rewilded her life and was never once tame.

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🏥 Wildlife Rescue 🐾 Human Animal Bond 🌳 English Countryside 🧠 Animal Intelligence 🌿 Rewilding

Raising Hare

She rescued a palm-sized leveret. It rewilded her life and was never once tame.

av Chloe Dalton 2025 285 sider

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🏥 Wildlife Rescue 🐾 Human Animal Bond 🌳 English Countryside 🧠 Animal Intelligence 🌿 Rewilding

Sowing Seeds in the Desert

av Masanobu Fukuoka • 2012

Our farms are making deserts. A hands-off method for restoring them with seeds and clay.

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🧑‍🌾 Regenerative Agriculture 🌳 Permaculture Philosophy 🌱 Ecological Restoration 🚜 Anti-Industrial Agriculture 🧘 Nature Spirituality

Sowing Seeds in the Desert

Our farms are making deserts. A hands-off method for restoring them with seeds and clay.

av Masanobu Fukuoka 2012 219 sider

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🧑‍🌾 Regenerative Agriculture 🌳 Permaculture Philosophy 🌱 Ecological Restoration 🚜 Anti-Industrial Agriculture 🧘 Nature Spirituality

Trespassing Across America

av Ken Ilgunas • 2016

He walked the Keystone XL pipeline illegally. The land and its people changed him.

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🛢️ Fossil Fuel Industry ✊ Environmental Activism 🚶 Walking Journeys 🤔 Existential Travel 🌾 Rural America

Trespassing Across America

He walked the Keystone XL pipeline illegally. The land and its people changed him.

av Ken Ilgunas 2016 288 sider

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🛢️ Fossil Fuel Industry ✊ Environmental Activism 🚶 Walking Journeys 🤔 Existential Travel 🌾 Rural America

The Next Species

av Michael Tennesen • 2015

Five mass extinctions cleared the board. The sixth is us, and evolution is picking the survivors.

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🦴 Mass Extinctions 🌍 Anthropocene 🦜 Biodiversity Loss 🧬 Human Evolution 🔮 Future Evolution

The Next Species

Five mass extinctions cleared the board. The sixth is us, and evolution is picking the survivors.

av Michael Tennesen 2015 336 sider

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🦴 Mass Extinctions 🌍 Anthropocene 🦜 Biodiversity Loss 🧬 Human Evolution 🔮 Future Evolution

A Pocket Guide to Sustainable Food Shopping

av Kate Bratskeir • 2021

Your grocery cart can fight climate change: one small change at a time, without the guilt.

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🥗 Sustainable Eating 🛒 Ethical Consumerism 🗑️ Food Waste Reduction 🟢 Greenwashing 🏷️ Label Literacy

A Pocket Guide to Sustainable Food Shopping

Your grocery cart can fight climate change: one small change at a time, without the guilt.

av Kate Bratskeir 2021 144 sider

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124 vurderinger

🥗 Sustainable Eating 🛒 Ethical Consumerism 🗑️ Food Waste Reduction 🟢 Greenwashing 🏷️ Label Literacy

Getting to Green

av Frederic C. Rich • 2016

No major environmental law has passed in 25 years. Here's why, and how to fix it.

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🌿 Environmental Policy 🇺🇸 American Conservation 🪓 Political Polarization 🌡️ Climate Change Politics 🛡️ Stewardship Ethics

Getting to Green

No major environmental law has passed in 25 years. Here's why, and how to fix it.

av Frederic C. Rich 2016 368 sider

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106 vurderinger

🌿 Environmental Policy 🇺🇸 American Conservation 🪓 Political Polarization 🌡️ Climate Change Politics 🛡️ Stewardship Ethics

Give a Sh*t

av Ashlee Piper • 2018

Eating more plants and buying less stuff: the planet-saving habits that also save you thousands.

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🌱 Sustainable Living 🛒 Conscious Consumption 🥬 Plant-Based Eating ♻️ Low-Waste Living 🌍 Climate Action

Give a Sh*t

Eating more plants and buying less stuff: the planet-saving habits that also save you thousands.

av Ashlee Piper 2018 304 sider

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🌱 Sustainable Living 🛒 Conscious Consumption 🥬 Plant-Based Eating ♻️ Low-Waste Living 🌍 Climate Action

The Third Plate

av Dan Barber • 2014

Forget farm-to-table. A chef's plan for a cuisine that restores the land it comes from.

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🚜 Food Systems 🌱 Regenerative Agriculture 🦠 Soil Biology 🐝 Biodiversity 👨‍🍳 Activist Chefs

The Third Plate

Forget farm-to-table. A chef's plan for a cuisine that restores the land it comes from.

av Dan Barber 2014 496 sider

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🚜 Food Systems 🌱 Regenerative Agriculture 🦠 Soil Biology 🐝 Biodiversity 👨‍🍳 Activist Chefs

Plastic Purge

av Michael SanClements • 2014

A scientist's practical guide to purging plastic from your body, your food, and the ocean.

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🚮 Plastic Pollution 🩺 Environmental Health ♻️ Waste Reduction 🛒 Consumer Guide 📈 Incremental Change

Plastic Purge

A scientist's practical guide to purging plastic from your body, your food, and the ocean.

av Michael SanClements 2014 256 sider

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436 vurderinger

🚮 Plastic Pollution 🩺 Environmental Health ♻️ Waste Reduction 🛒 Consumer Guide 📈 Incremental Change

Vanishing Treasures

av Katherine Rundell • 2024

Swifts that never land, sharks that outlive empires. What we're losing, and the hope we owe.

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🦏 Endangered Species 📖 Natural History 🧠 Animal Intelligence 🤝 Human-Animal Bond 🌍 Climate Crisis

Vanishing Treasures

Swifts that never land, sharks that outlive empires. What we're losing, and the hope we owe.

av Katherine Rundell 2024 224 sider

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🦏 Endangered Species 📖 Natural History 🧠 Animal Intelligence 🤝 Human-Animal Bond 🌍 Climate Crisis

The Sea Around Us

av Rachel Carson • 1951

Half the Earth is a sunless abyss holding mountains, phantom currents, and drifting life.

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🌊 Oceanography 🐟 Marine Biology 🦑 Deep Sea 🌡️ Climate Science 🍃 Nature Writing

The Sea Around Us

Half the Earth is a sunless abyss holding mountains, phantom currents, and drifting life.

av Rachel Carson 1951 288 sider

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🌊 Oceanography 🐟 Marine Biology 🦑 Deep Sea 🌡️ Climate Science 🍃 Nature Writing

Wild Chocolate

av Rowan Jacobsen • 2024

Two-thirds of chocolate comes from a monoculture disaster. The antidote grows wild in the Amazon.

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📜 Food History ✈️ Culinary Travel 🍫 Chocolate History 🫙 Fermentation 🌳 Agroforestry

Wild Chocolate

Two-thirds of chocolate comes from a monoculture disaster. The antidote grows wild in the Amazon.

av Rowan Jacobsen 2024 288 sider

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500+ vurderinger

📜 Food History ✈️ Culinary Travel 🍫 Chocolate History 🫙 Fermentation 🌳 Agroforestry

The Diversity of Life

av Edward O. Wilson • 1992

Earth holds 10 to 100 million species. We have named 1.4 million. The rest are vanishing now.

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🧬 Biodiversity Science 🌿 Conservation Biology 💀 Mass Extinction 🔑 Keystone Species 🪓 Habitat Destruction

The Diversity of Life

Earth holds 10 to 100 million species. We have named 1.4 million. The rest are vanishing now.

av Edward O. Wilson 1992 432 sider

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🧬 Biodiversity Science 🌿 Conservation Biology 💀 Mass Extinction 🔑 Keystone Species 🪓 Habitat Destruction

Designing Regenerative Food Systems

av Marina O'Connell • 2022

Farming doesn't have to destroy. Six systems that restore soil, store carbon, and feed the world.

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🌾 Sustainable Agriculture 🌱 Regenerative Farming 🏡 Permaculture 🌍 Agroecology 🌳 Agroforestry

Designing Regenerative Food Systems

Farming doesn't have to destroy. Six systems that restore soil, store carbon, and feed the world.

av Marina O'Connell 2022 228 sider

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4 vurderinger

🌾 Sustainable Agriculture 🌱 Regenerative Farming 🏡 Permaculture 🌍 Agroecology 🌳 Agroforestry

One Man's Wilderness

av Sam Keith • 1973

At fifty-one he walked into the Alaskan wilderness, built a cabin by hand, and began again.

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🏔️ Wilderness Memoir 🔨 Self-Reliance 🐻 Animal Encounters 🏕️ Alaskan Frontier 🪵 Homesteading Memoir

One Man's Wilderness

At fifty-one he walked into the Alaskan wilderness, built a cabin by hand, and began again.

av Sam Keith 1973 223 sider

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🏔️ Wilderness Memoir 🔨 Self-Reliance 🐻 Animal Encounters 🏕️ Alaskan Frontier 🪵 Homesteading Memoir

Here Comes the Sun

av Bill McKibben • 2025

The climate crisis has a solution: the sun, which quietly became the cheapest power on Earth.

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☀️ Renewable Energy ⚡ Electrification ✊ Climate Activism 💰 Energy Economics 🏘️ Decentralized Energy

Here Comes the Sun

The climate crisis has a solution: the sun, which quietly became the cheapest power on Earth.

av Bill McKibben 2025 224 sider

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☀️ Renewable Energy ⚡ Electrification ✊ Climate Activism 💰 Energy Economics 🏘️ Decentralized Energy

A Life on Our Planet

av 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.

av David Attenborough 2020 272 sider

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

The Story of Birds

av 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.

av Steve Brusatte 2026 448 sider

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

Systems Thinking for Sustainable Development

av Edward Saja Sanneh • 2018

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

4.00

🧠 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.

av Edward Saja Sanneh 2018 206 sider

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2 vurderinger

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

Solar Power for Sustainable Living

av Sustainable Stevie • 2012

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

3.75

☀️ 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.

av Sustainable Stevie 2012 40 sider

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4 vurderinger

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

Losing Eden

av 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.

av Lucy Jones 2020 256 sider

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

Wild Life

av 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.

av Rae Wynn-Grant 2024 269 sider

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

All Our Relations

av 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.

av Winona LaDuke 1999 243 sider

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

Solar Power

av 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.

av Mark Prentice 2016

2.50

2 vurderinger

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

Kingbird Highway

av Kenn Kaufman • 1997

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

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🐦 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.

av Kenn Kaufman 1997 320 sider

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

Around the Ocean in 80 Fish & Other Sea Life

av Helen Scales • 2023

Lanternfish trigger the planet's biggest migration; 79 more portraits from Earth's hidden biosphere.

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🐟 Marine Biology 📋 Species Profiles 🧠 Animal Intelligence 🛡️ Marine Conservation 🔬 Biomimicry

Around the Ocean in 80 Fish & Other Sea Life

Lanternfish trigger the planet's biggest migration; 79 more portraits from Earth's hidden biosphere.

av Helen Scales 2023 200 sider

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325 vurderinger

🐟 Marine Biology 📋 Species Profiles 🧠 Animal Intelligence 🛡️ Marine Conservation 🔬 Biomimicry

Around the World in 80 Trees

av Jonathan Drori • 2018

A botanical tour of 80 trees that built empires, inspired myths, and launched trade routes.

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🌿 Plant Adaptations 🌍 Cultural Botany 🌳 Tree Biology ✈️ Botanical Travelogue 🪵 Arboreal History

Around the World in 80 Trees

A botanical tour of 80 trees that built empires, inspired myths, and launched trade routes.

av Jonathan Drori 2018 240 sider

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🌿 Plant Adaptations 🌍 Cultural Botany 🌳 Tree Biology ✈️ Botanical Travelogue 🪵 Arboreal History

Flight Paths

av Rebecca Heisman • 2023

A spear-pierced stork, a thrush chase, and radar ghosts: how we finally solved bird migration.

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🐦 Bird Migration 🧭 Animal Navigation 🛰️ Animal Tracking 📡 Community Science 📜 History Of Science

Flight Paths

A spear-pierced stork, a thrush chase, and radar ghosts: how we finally solved bird migration.

av Rebecca Heisman 2023 288 sider

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🐦 Bird Migration 🧭 Animal Navigation 🛰️ Animal Tracking 📡 Community Science 📜 History Of Science

Managed Annihilation

av Dean L.Y. Bavington • 2010

The 1992 cod collapse that idled 30,000 workers was not nature's fault but management's.

3.29

📜 Environmental History 🌍 Political Ecology 🎣 Fisheries Management 🚢 Industrial Fishing 📋 Managerialism Critique

Managed Annihilation

The 1992 cod collapse that idled 30,000 workers was not nature's fault but management's.

av Dean L.Y. Bavington 2010 224 sider

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21 vurderinger

📜 Environmental History 🌍 Political Ecology 🎣 Fisheries Management 🚢 Industrial Fishing 📋 Managerialism Critique

Green Crime

av Julia Shaw • 2025

Climate collapse isn't inevitable tragedy; it's deliberate crime, and the motives are psychological.

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🌍 Environmental Crime 🧠 Criminal Psychology 🏢 Corporate Crime 🐘 Wildlife Crime 🌳 Eco Psychology

Green Crime

Climate collapse isn't inevitable tragedy; it's deliberate crime, and the motives are psychological.

av Julia Shaw 2025 352 sider

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132 vurderinger

🌍 Environmental Crime 🧠 Criminal Psychology 🏢 Corporate Crime 🐘 Wildlife Crime 🌳 Eco Psychology

Cattle Kingdom

av Christopher Knowlton • 2017

The Wild West was a speculative bubble fueled by British aristocrats and popped by a single winter.

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🤠 American West 🐄 Cattle Industry 📈 Economic History 💥 Boom And Bust 💰 Gilded Age

Cattle Kingdom

The Wild West was a speculative bubble fueled by British aristocrats and popped by a single winter.

av Christopher Knowlton 2017 426 sider

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🤠 American West 🐄 Cattle Industry 📈 Economic History 💥 Boom And Bust 💰 Gilded Age

The End of Night

av Paul Bogard • 2013

The night is vanishing. We forgot what darkness gives us: health, wildness, and the stars.

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💡 Light Pollution 🏮 Artificial Light 🕰️ Circadian Disruption 🌿 Nature Writing 🏥 Environmental Health

The End of Night

The night is vanishing. We forgot what darkness gives us: health, wildness, and the stars.

av Paul Bogard 2013 336 sider

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💡 Light Pollution 🏮 Artificial Light 🕰️ Circadian Disruption 🌿 Nature Writing 🏥 Environmental Health

Eleanor

av Alice Loxton • 2025

A dead queen, twelve stone crosses, a 200-mile walk to find the three that still stand.

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👑 Medieval Queens 🚶 Pilgrimage Narratives 🏛️ Architectural Heritage 🪦 Lost Monuments 👩 Forgotten Women

Eleanor

A dead queen, twelve stone crosses, a 200-mile walk to find the three that still stand.

av Alice Loxton 2025 335 sider

3.92

1 000+ vurderinger

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