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See all articles →Nearly 60% of young people say they feel worried about climate change. Here are four books that take that feeling seriously — and help you do something with it.
A former forest monk spent 17 years in the Thai jungle learning to sit with suffering. Here is what he — and three essential books — can teach the rest of us.
You've been doing the right thing for decades. Rinsing bottles. Sorting paper. Flattening boxes. Here's what actually happens next — and why the system was never designed to work.
World Rewilding Day falls on March 20. Here's what the movement is really about ,and four books that go far deeper than the headlines.
Atomic Habits has sold 25 million copies teaching people how to change. But it never asks the most important question: change toward what? Four books that give the 'how' a destination.
Biodiversity and fungi share one thing: most of what matters is invisible to us. Two scientists show us what we're missing — and why it's disappearing.
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151 books — see all →What happens to your donated clothes, appliances, and furniture? Minter follows the global secondhand trade from American donation bins to markets in Ghana, Japan, and Mexico.
The definitive intellectual framework for the circular economy — rigorous, readable, and more radical than the corporate sustainability language it is often wrapped in.
A journalist who grew up in the scrap trade takes you inside the global recycling industry — and forces a reckoning with what 'recycling' actually means.
The sequel to Cradle to Cradle — moving from the theory of circular design to its practical implementation, and arguing that sustainability is not the ceiling but the floor.
A celebration of the repair movement — the community repair cafés, right-to-repair advocates, and skilled fixers building an alternative to throwaway culture.
The book companion to Cowspiracy — making the case that animal agriculture is the leading driver of environmental destruction.
A Stanford-trained biologist makes the case that baby animals aren't just cute — they are the hidden engine of every ecosystem on Earth.
A gentle, room-by-room guide to decluttering and simplifying — less intense than KonMari, more practical than most minimalism manifestos.
A Swedish economist gave up everything to spend 17 years as a forest monk in Thailand. This is what he learned — and it may be the most useful book you read this year.