Eco-Literature Recommendations

 

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Happy World Book Day! To celebrate the wonderful world of eco-literature, we have gathered a list of books recommended by WNW volunteers. Some are emotional, some informative, and some operate as a guide. There’s something for everyone, and a lot of them are available in the library, so you won’t even need to make a purchase!


  • Wilding by Isabella Tree

  • No One is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg

  • Clean Clothes, Dirty Water by Jacqueline Carless

  • Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard

  • The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert

  • A Finer Future: creating an economy in service to life by L. Hunter Lovins

  • Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer

  • We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer

  • Melt by Jeff Murray

  • Let is Be Morning by Sayed Kashua

  • The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

  • The Uninhabitable Earth: a Story of the Future by David Wallace-Wells

  • Barkskins by Annie Proulx

  • The Overstory by Richard Powers

  • The New Wilderness by Dianne Cook

  • Save the World: There is no Planet B by Louise Bradford

  • Say No to Plastic: 101 Easy Ways to Use Less Plastic by Harriet Dyer

  • Low Cost Living by John Harrison

  • How to Be Green by John Button

Textbooks available in the library:

  • Greening the Media by Maxwell and Miller

  • Earth at Risk by Heney and Tubiana

  • Green Development: Environment and Sustainability in a Developing World by W.M. Adams

  • Sustainability, a History by Jeremy L. Caradonna

  • Sustainability Education by Jones, Selby and Sterling

  • Putting Sustainability into Practice by Kennedy, Cohen and Krogman

  • Affective Ecocriticism by Bladow and Ladino

  • The Rough Guide to Climate Change: the Symptoms, the Science, the Solutions by Robert Henson

  • There is No Planet B by Mike Berners-Lee

  • The Seasons Alter by Kitcher and Keller


Hopefully you’ve found some new books to investigate after reading this, but if we’ve missed something you think is an essential read for the planet, please do get in touch down in the comments and let us know!



Author: Holly




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