Environmental Studies Books
The Climate Book
We still have time to change the world. From Greta Thunberg, the world's leading climate activist, comes the essential handbook for making it happen.
You might think it's an impossible task:... (more)
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
The history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation - of both human life and the natural environment - and the origin of our contemporary climate crisis. Tracing the threats to our future... (more)
Food Rules
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.
Food Rules, Michael Pollan's wise and witty critique of the western industrialised diet, distils the wisdom... (more)
A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us About the Destiny of the Human Species
Over the past century, our species has made unprecedented technological innovations with which we have sought to control nature. From river levees to enormous one-crop fields, we continue to try to... (more)
We Belong to Gaia
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.
James Lovelock's We Belong to Gaia draws on decades of wisdom to lay out the history of our remarkable... (more)
The Clan of One-Breasted Women
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.
With honesty, passion and heart, Terry Tempest Williams's essays explore the impact of nuclear testing, the... (more)
Environment and Citizenship
The book concludes with a general reflection on the present and future of environmental citizenship. The book contains a variety of illustrations, boxed case-studies, links to online resources and... (more)
Your Guide to Forest Bathing (Expanded Edition): Experience the Healing Power of Nature Includes 50 Practices Plus Space for Journal Entries and Reflections
The bestselling guide to forest bathing with a new section of hands-on forest bathing practices and space for journal entries and reflections. Simply being present in the natural world, with all of... (more)
The Environmentalist Dilemma: Promise and Peril in an Age of Climate Crisis
In The Environmentalist's Dilemma, award-winning journalist Arno Kopecky zeroes in on the core predicament of our times: the planet may be dying, but humanity's doing better than ever. To acknowledge... (more)
The Last Tree on Easter Island
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.
This is Jared Diamond's haunting account of visiting the mysterious stone statues of Easter Island, showing... (more)
Earth Spirit: Healthy Planet - Global meltdown or global healing
Healthy Planet offers a clear and concise overview of the global ecological crisis that humanity has brought upon itself, and what options we still have to save a benevolent climate, to restore... (more)
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate
Are trees social beings? How do trees live? Do they feel pain or have awareness of their surroundings?
In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben makes the case that the forest is a... (more)
How to Think about the Climate Crisis: A Philosophical Guide to Saner Ways of Living
Coping with the climate crisis is the greatest challenge we face as a species. We know the main task is to reduce our emissions as rapidly as possible to minimise the harm to the world's population... (more)
Footprints
A Times Book of the Year and A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year.
A profound meditation on climate change and the Anthropocene and an urgent search for the fossils - industrial, chemical,... (more)
Ecological and Climate-Conscious Coaching: A Companion Guide to Evolving Coaching Practice
This book takes you on a seven-day journey with your guides: 60 coaches and thought-leaders from around the world. Through storytelling, poetry and other creative approaches, readers can follow this... (more)
Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet
Can capitalism survive climate change? Can humanity? The environmental crisis under way is unique in human history. It is a true existential crisis. Those alive today will decide the fate of... (more)
An Idea Can Go Extinct
An Idea Can Go Extinct is Bill McKibben's impassioned, groundbreaking account of how, by changing the earth's entire atmosphere, the weather and the most basic forces around us, 'we are ending... (more)
Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis: Neoliberal Exceptionalism and the Culture of Uncare
Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis tells the story of a fundamental fight between a caring and an uncaring imagination. It helps us to recognise the uncaring imagination in politics, in... (more)
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
Harvard's acclaimed geologist charts Earth's history in accessible style (AP) A sublime chronicle of our planet. -Booklist, STARRED review How well do you know the ground beneath your feet? Odds... (more)
Wild Earth, Wild Soul: A Manual for an Ecstatic Culture
Humankind has the capacity and know-how to create Earth-honoring cultures in a new way for new times. Through tapping into ancestral memories, taking what's best from the human potential movement,... (more)
The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire
How devastating viruses, pandemics, and other natural catastrophes swept through the far-flung Roman Empire and helped to bring down one of the mightiest civilizations of the ancient world. Here is... (more)
What Can I Do to Help Heal the Environmental Crisis?
The culmination of over three decades of writing by environmental scientist and writer Haydn Washington, this book examines the global environmental crisis and its solutions.
Many of us know... (more)
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
How well do you know the ground beneath your feet? Odds are, where you're standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering sheet of ice, rocked by a nearby meteor strike,... (more)
The Pivotal Generation: Why We Have a Moral Responsibility to Slow Climate Change Right Now
An eminent philosopher explains why we owe it to future generations to take immediate action on global warming.
Climate change is the supreme challenge of our time. Yet despite growing... (more)
Climate: Soul of the Earth
In this original book, Dennis Klocek considers climate to be an expression of Gaia, and presents climate as the soul of Earth within which human beings live and develop. The cosmic destiny of Earth,... (more)
The Atlas of Climate Change: Mapping the World's Greatest Challenge
Since the first edition of this highly acclaimed Atlas was published in 2006, climate change has climbed even further up the global agenda. (more)
Environmental Ethics: From Theory to Practice
Environmental Ethics offers an up-to-date and balanced overview of environmental ethics, focusing on theory and practice. Written in clear and engaging prose, the book provides an historical... (more)
Nature and Selected Essays
Through his writing and his own personal philosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson unburdened his young country of Europe's traditional sense of history and showed Americans how to be creators of their own... (more)
Ecological Film Theory and Psychoanalysis: Surviving the Environmental Apocalypse in Cinema
This book applies ecolinguistics and psychoanalysis to explore how films fictionalising environmental disasters provide spectacular warnings against the dangers of environmental apocalypse, while... (more)