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Food Matters Summary
Food Matters
A Guide to Conscious Eating with More Than 75 Recipes
by Mark Bittman 2008 336 pages
3.97
11k+ ratings
Food
Cookbooks
Health
The Omnivore's Dilemma Summary
The Omnivore's Dilemma
The Secrets Behind What You Eat, Young Readers Edition
by Michael Pollan 2009 352 pages
4.03
3k+ ratings
Food
Health
Science
The Food Revolution Summary
The Food Revolution
How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World
by John Robbins 2010 453 pages
4.28
3k+ ratings
Health
Food
Nutrition
The Zero-Waste Lifestyle Summary
The Zero-Waste Lifestyle
Live Well by Throwing Away Less
by Amy Korst 2012 272 pages
3.61
500+ ratings
Environment
Sustainability
Self Help
The Future of Life Summary
The Future of Life
by Edward O. Wilson 2003 256 pages
4.15
3k+ ratings
Science
Biology
Environment
Population 10 Billion Summary
Population 10 Billion
by Dr Danny Dorling 2013 448 pages
3.42
100+ ratings
Geography
Science
Economics
Last Chance To See Summary
Last Chance To See
by Douglas Adams 1991 220 pages
4.32
24k+ ratings
Science
Travel
Nature
Should We Eat Meat? Summary
Should We Eat Meat?
Evolution and Consequences of Modern Carnivory
by Vaclav Smil 2013 280 pages
3.53
500+ ratings
Science
Food
Health
Diet for a New America Summary
Diet for a New America
How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness and the Future of Life on Earth Second Edition
by John Robbins 2012 464 pages
4.18
3k+ ratings
Health
Food
Vegan
The Omnivores Dilemma Summary
The Omnivores Dilemma
by Michael Pollan 2007 710 pages
4.18
200k+ ratings
Food
Science
Health
Environmental Economics Summary
Environmental Economics
A Very Short Introduction
by Stephen Smith 2011 136 pages
3.62
100+ ratings
Economics
Environment
Science
The Upcycle Summary
The Upcycle
Beyond Sustainability — Designing for Abundance
by William McDonough 2013 257 pages
4.03
1k+ ratings
Sustainability
Environment
Design
The Great Transition Summary
The Great Transition
Shifting from Fossil Fuels to Solar and Wind Energy
by Lester R. Brown 2015 194 pages
3.69
100+ ratings
Science
Climate Change
Environment
Climate Change Summary
Climate Change
What Everyone Needs to Know®
by Joseph Romm 2015 328 pages
4.23
500+ ratings
Science
Climate Change
Environment
A World of Three Zeros Summary
A World of Three Zeros
The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions
by Muhammad Yunus 2017 304 pages
3.68
1k+ ratings
Economics
Business
Politics
Biomimicry Summary
Biomimicry
Innovation Inspired by Nature
by Janine M Benyus 2002 308 pages
4.01
2k+ ratings
Science
Design
Sustainability
Doughnut Economics Summary
Doughnut Economics
Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
by Kate Raworth 2017 320 pages
4.19
13k+ ratings
Economics
Business
Politics
Designing Regenerative Cultures Summary
Designing Regenerative Cultures
by Daniel Christian Wahl 2016 288 pages
4.27
100+ ratings
Sustainability
Environment
Nature
Our Angry Earth Summary
Our Angry Earth
by Isaac Asimov 2018 465 pages
3.74
100+ ratings
Science
Politics
Ecology
The End of Animal Farming Summary
The End of Animal Farming
How Scientists, Entrepreneurs, and Activists Are Building an Animal-Free Food System
by Jacy Reese 2018 240 pages
4.07
100+ ratings
Animals
Vegan
Science
Darwin Comes to Town Summary
Darwin Comes to Town
How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution
by Menno Schilthuizen 2018 304 pages
4.09
1k+ ratings
Science
Nature
Biology
The Secret Wisdom of Nature Summary
The Secret Wisdom of Nature
Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things -― Stories from Science and Observation (The Mysteries of Nature, 3)
by Peter Wohlleben 2019 272 pages
4.06
6k+ ratings
Nature
Science
Animals
How to Create a Vegan World Summary
How to Create a Vegan World
A Pragmatic Approach
by Tobias Leenaert 2017 214 pages
4.37
1k+ ratings
Vegan
Philosophy
Food
We Are the Weather Summary
We Are the Weather
Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
by Jonathan Safran Foer 2019 234 pages
3.69
16k+ ratings
Science
Environment
Climate Change
Small is Beautiful Summary
Small is Beautiful
Economics as if People Mattered
by E.F. Schumacher 1973 305 pages
4.1
6k+ ratings
Economics
Philosophy
Politics
Silent Spring Summary
Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson 2002 153 pages
4.04
49k+ ratings
Science
Environment
Nature
A Planet to Win Summary
A Planet to Win
Why We Need a Green New Deal (Jacobin)
by Kate Aronoff 2019 208 pages
4.08
500+ ratings
Politics
Environment
Climate Change
The Future We Choose Summary
The Future We Choose
Surviving the Climate Crisis
by Christiana Figueres 2020 240 pages
4.07
6k+ ratings
Science
Climate Change
Environment
Marine Biology Summary
Marine Biology
A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
by Philip V. Mladenov 2020 224 pages
4.18
100+ ratings
Science
Biology
Nature
Climate Justice Summary
Climate Justice
Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future
by Mary Robinson 2018 176 pages
4.07
2k+ ratings
Environment
Climate Change
Science
Food Fix Summary
Food Fix
How to Save Our Health, Our Economy, Our Communities, and Our Planet — One Bite at a Time
by Mark Hyman M.D. 2020 342 pages
4.10
2k+ ratings
Health
Food
Nutrition
How Everything Can Collapse Summary
How Everything Can Collapse
A Manual for our Times
by Pablo Servigne 2020 250 pages
4.19
1k+ ratings
Science
Climate Change
Ecology
Green Swans Summary
Green Swans
The Coming Boom In Regenerative Capitalism
by John Elkington 2020 296 pages
3.8
100+ ratings
Sustainability
Economics
Business
Aftershocks of Disaster Summary
Aftershocks of Disaster
Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm
by Yarimar Bonilla 2019 441 pages
4.3
100+ ratings
History
Politics
Social Justice
How to Think Seriously About the Planet Summary
How to Think Seriously About the Planet
The Case for an Environmental Conservatism
by Roger Scruton 2012 464 pages
3.88
100+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Environment
Earth in Human Hands Summary
Earth in Human Hands
by David Grinspoon 2016 258 pages
4.19
100+ ratings
Science
Climate Change
Environment
The Grid Summary
The Grid
The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
by Gretchen Bakke 2016 384 pages
3.87
4k+ ratings
Science
History
Technology
Merchants of Doubt Summary
Merchants of Doubt
by Naomi Oreskes,Erik M Conway 2012 355 pages
4.17
7k+ ratings
Science
Politics
History
Plan B 3.0 Summary
Plan B 3.0
Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised)
by Lester R. Brown 2008 416 pages
3.92
500+ ratings
Environment
Science
Economics
No Is Not Enough Summary
No Is Not Enough
by Naomi Klein 2017 288 pages
4.11
9k+ ratings
Politics
History
Economics
Voluntary Simplicity Second Revised Edition Summary
Voluntary Simplicity Second Revised Edition
Toward a Way of Life That Is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich
by Duane Elgin 2009 242 pages
3.62
1k+ ratings
Self Help
Philosophy
Sustainability
The Big Thirst Summary
The Big Thirst
The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water
by Charles Fishman 2011 400 pages
3.95
1k+ ratings
Science
Environment
Nature
Braiding Sweetgrass Summary
Braiding Sweetgrass
by Robin Wall Kimmerer 2013 320 pages
4.54
100k+ ratings
Science
Nature
Memoir
Entangled Life Summary
Entangled Life
How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
by Merlin Sheldrake 2020 380 pages
4.35
38k+ ratings
Science
Nature
Biology
Cradle To Cradle Summary
Cradle To Cradle
by William McDonough 2009 208 pages
4.09
12k+ ratings
Sustainability
Environment
Design
The Hidden Life of Trees Summary
The Hidden Life of Trees
What They Feel, How They Communicate―Discoveries from A Secret World (The Mysteries of Nature, 1)
by Peter Wohlleben 2016 288 pages
4.07
78k+ ratings
Science
Nature
Environment
Teaming with Nutrients Summary
Teaming with Nutrients
The Organic Gardener’s Guide to Optimizing Plant Nutrition
by Jeff Lowenfels 2013 250 pages
4.3
100+ ratings
Gardening
Science
Agriculture
Falter Summary
Falter
Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
by Bill McKibben 2019 304 pages
4.01
2k+ ratings
Science
Environment
Climate Change
The End of Nature Summary
The End of Nature
by Bill McKibben 2014 275 pages
3.94
3k+ ratings
Environment
Science
Nature
Listening to Whales Summary
Listening to Whales
What the Orcas Have Taught Us
by Alexandra Morton 2008 329 pages
4.50
500+ ratings
Animals
Science
Nature
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