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Gary Keller says success isn't about who does the most. It took me running everything into the ground to understand what that actually means.
Insects splattered on car windshields used to be a summer ritual. Now the glass stays clean. Scientists say that's one of the most alarming signs on Earth.
Before Patagonia gave away the company, there was a book. The most honest account of building a values-driven brand ever written.
A new blood test can now predict when Alzheimer's symptoms will start. The more important question it raises: what can we do in the decades before that?
Carl Jung argued that the modern mind is sick because it has lost contact with nature. Seventy years later, the science is catching up.
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.
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153 books — see all →A warm, honest case for staying put — and finding that your neighbourhood was always the right place to begin.
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.