Sustainability
Climate change, farming, clean energy and products made to be reused: this shelf covers how people live and work more lightly on the planet. Some books warn, others offer hopeful plans.
Sustainability Library
A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next
Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
Comfortably Unaware: What We Choose to Eat is Killing Us and Our Planet
Economics for the Common Good
Eating Animals
Earth for All: A Survival Guide for Humanity
Drinking Water: A History
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
Deep Future: Creating Technology That Matters
Decoding the World: A Roadmap for the Questioner
Feral: Rewilding the Land, Sea and Human Life
Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat
Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
Energy Myths and Realities: Bringing Science to the Energy Policy Debate
Energy: A Beginner's Guide
Food Fix: How to Save Our Health, Our Economy, Our Communities, and Our Planet – One Bite at a Time
How Bad Are Bananas?: The Carbon Footprint of Everything
Growth: A History and a Reckoning
Green Illusions: The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism
Grand Transitions: How the Modern World Was Made
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
How the World Eats: A Global Food Philosophy
Lagom: The Swedish Art of Balanced Living
Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization
Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World
Losing Earth: A Recent History
Let There Be Water: Israel’s Solution for a Water-Starved World
Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take
Mind Over Clutter: Cleaning Your Way to a Calm and Happy Home
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues From Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
Marketing 3.0: From Products to Customers to the Human Spirit
Peers Inc: How People and Platforms Are Inventing the Collaborative Economy and Reinventing Capitalism
Our Wild Calling: How Connecting with Animals Can Transform Our Lives—and Save Theirs
Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World
No Is Not Enough: Resisting the New Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History
Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire: How Business Can Save the World