Our Top 10 Books on Sustainability
1. How to save the planet, one object at a time!
Dr Tara Shine is an expert in the field of climate change and climate justice with a passion for communicating her science and her positive vision for the future. Her book gives you all the information and inspiration you need to make a difference - one object at a time!
2. Apocalypse. Never.
"Apocalypse Never is an extremely important book. Within its lively pages, Michael Shellenberger uses science and lived experience to rescue a subject drowning in misunderstanding and partisanship. His message is invigorating: if you have feared for the planet’s future, take heart." - Richard Rhodes, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Making of the Atomic Bomb
3. Sustainable Energy without the hot air
The main text of his book is readable (and witty) and its technical appendices bristle with equations. If the planet and its people are the patient, MacKay's book is the the lab results, temperature chart and electrocardiogram.
The New York Review of Books
4. Sustainability - what everyone needs to know
This book may surprise many readers by exploring sustainability from such diverse fields as business and scientific realms to social justice and the arts. Their lens of 'systems thinking' helps explain why sustainability and resilience increasingly dominates public and private sector agendas today. ― Christine Ervin, Former President and CEO, U.S. Green Building Council
5. The Sustainable(ish) Living Guide
How do you throw a sustainable party? How do you integrate sustainability into family life? In her practical guide, Gale answers these questions and so many more ― Red
6. Feeding Britain: our food problems & how to fix them
Feeding Britain is distinguished by the clarity and care with which it lays out urgent issues, most centrally that Britain does not produce enough food to feed itself. - Erica Wagner ― Financial Times
7. There is no planet B
It asks all the searching and systemic questions I want to ask as humanity peers over a precipice ... and has a bloody good go at answering them with data, experience and integrity.' - Pooran Desai, Bioregional and Oneplanet.com
8. Save our species
Focusing on thirty of our most loved and most ‘at risk’ inhabitants, this uplifting and hopeful book will give naturalists of any age the tools to respond to the SOS calls heard from their garden, local park and beyond.
9. How to break up with fast fashion
A guilt-free guide that will change the way you think about clothing for the better. It will inspire you to repair, recycle, and spruce up old items, as well as embrace more sustainable habits when it comes to shopping. - Independent
10. How to avoid a climate disaster
It is mostly concerned with solutions rather than problems. This already marks it out as something of an outlier within environmental literature... if you're after an approachable book about what needs to happen next, this is a great place to start -- Ed Conway ― The Times