Environment Book Summaries

Listening to Whales Summary
Listening to Whales
What the Orcas Have Taught Us
by Alexandra Morton 2002 336 pages
4.51
986 ratings
Animals
Science
Nature
Megafire Summary
Megafire
The Race to Extinguish a Deadly Epidemic of Flame
by Michael Kodas 2017 384 pages
4.01
247 ratings
Science
Nature
Climate Change
Pandora's Seed Summary
Pandora's Seed
The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization
by Spencer Wells 2010 256 pages
3.77
1.1K ratings
Science
History
Anthropology
Pipe Dreams Summary
Pipe Dreams
The Urgent Global Quest to Transform the Toilet
by Chelsea Wald 2021 304 pages
4.05
405 ratings
Science
History
Technology
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle Summary
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
A Year of Food Life
by Barbara Kingsolver 2007 370 pages
4.05
111.9K ratings
Food
Memoir
Book Club
Rewilding the Sea Summary
Rewilding the Sea
by Charles Clover 2022 261 pages
4.21
400 ratings
Nature
Science
Environment
Population 10 Billion Summary
Population 10 Billion
by Danny Dorling 2013 448 pages
3.42
180 ratings
Geography
Science
Politics
Shark Life Summary
Shark Life
True Stories About Sharks & the Sea
by Peter Benchley 2002 208 pages
4.01
815 ratings
Science
Animals
Nature
How to Talk About Climate Change in a Way That Makes a Difference Summary
How to Talk About Climate Change in a Way That Makes a Difference
by Rebecca Huntley 2020 304 pages
3.89
356 ratings
Climate Change
Environment
Sustainability
Net Zero Summary
Net Zero
How We Stop Causing Climate Change
by Dieter Helm 2020 329 pages
3.85
250 ratings
Climate Change
Environment
Science
No. More. Plastic. Summary
No. More. Plastic.
What you can do to make a difference
by Martin Dorey 2018 103 pages
4.00
1.9K ratings
Environment
Sustainability
Science
Eating to Extinction Summary
Eating to Extinction
The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
by Dan Saladino 2022 464 pages
4.30
2.4K ratings
Food
Science
History
Ishmael Summary
Ishmael
An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
by Daniel Quinn 1992 266 pages
4.01
101.8K ratings
Philosophy
Spirituality
Classics
Lifehouse Summary
Lifehouse
Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire
by Adam Greenfield 2024 272 pages
3.87
52 ratings
Politics
Social Justice
Self Help
Down to Earth Summary
Down to Earth
Politics in the New Climatic Regime
by Bruno Latour 2017 140 pages
3.76
1.6K ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Environment
Earth in Human Hands Summary
Earth in Human Hands
Shaping Our Planet's Future
by David Grinspoon 2016 544 pages
4.19
309 ratings
Science
Environment
Climate Change
Damnation Spring Summary
Damnation Spring
by Ash Davidson 2021 464 pages
3.90
13.3K ratings
Historical Fiction
Literary Fiction
Contemporary
A Brief History of Earth Summary
A Brief History of Earth
Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
by Andrew H. Knoll 2021 272 pages
3.94
4.1K ratings
Science
History
Geology
Private Empire Summary
Private Empire
ExxonMobil and American Power
by Steve Coll 2012 685 pages
3.99
4.1K ratings
Business
History
Politics
Moveable Feasts Summary
Moveable Feasts
From Ancient Rome to the 21st Century, the Incredible Journeys of the Food We Eat
by Sarah Murray 2007 272 pages
3.54
201 ratings
Food
History
Food History
Planet on Fire Summary
Planet on Fire
A Manifesto for the Age of Environmental Breakdown
by Mathew Lawrence 2021 289 pages
3.66
168 ratings
Environment
Politics
Climate Change
Animal, Vegetable, Junk Summary
Animal, Vegetable, Junk
A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal: A Food Science Nutrition History Book
by Mark Bittman 2021 384 pages
3.90
3.6K ratings
Food
History
Science
BOOM Summary
BOOM
Oil, Money, Cowboys, Strippers, and the Energy Rush That Could Change America Forever. A Long, Strange Journey Along the Keystone XL Pipeline
by Tony Horwitz 2014 116 pages
3.89
696 ratings
Travel
Politics
Environment
Sowing Seeds in the Desert Summary
Sowing Seeds in the Desert
Natural Farming, Global Restoration, and Ultimate Food Security
by Masanobu Fukuoka 2012 208 pages
4.34
709 ratings
Agriculture
Gardening
Food
How To Catch A Mole Summary
How To Catch A Mole
by Marc Hamer 2019 256 pages
4.16
1.8K ratings
Nature
Memoir
Animals
Taking on the Plastics Crisis Summary
Taking on the Plastics Crisis
by Hannah Testa 2020 64 pages
3.88
601 ratings
Science
Social Justice
Activism
The Green Collar Economy Summary
The Green Collar Economy
How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems
by Van Jones 2008 256 pages
3.70
864 ratings
Economics
Environment
Sustainability
The Secret Knowledge of Water Summary
The Secret Knowledge of Water
by Craig Childs 2000 304 pages
4.29
2.7K ratings
Nature
Science
Environment
Plastic Purge Summary
Plastic Purge
How to Use Less Plastic, Eat Better, Keep Toxins Out of Your Body, and Help Save the Sea Turtles!
by Michael SanClements 2014 256 pages
3.86
429 ratings
Environment
Science
Sustainability
Exposure Summary
Exposure
Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer's Twenty-Year Battle against DuPont
by Robert Bilott 2019 400 pages
4.50
2.1K ratings
Science
History
Environment
This Land Is Our Land Summary
This Land Is Our Land
How We Lost the Right to Roam and How to Take It Back
by Ken Ilgunas 2018 288 pages
4.00
315 ratings
Travel
Nature
History
Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them Summary
Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them
by Mark Jerome Walters 2003 224 pages
3.71
178 ratings
Health
Science
Medical
Getting to Green Summary
Getting to Green
Saving Nature: A Bipartisan Solution
by Frederic C. Rich 2016 368 pages
4.00
103 ratings
Politics
Environment
Science
The Unsettling of America Summary
The Unsettling of America
Culture and Agriculture
by Wendell Berry 1977 246 pages
4.34
6.4K ratings
Agriculture
Food
Nature
Political Ecology Summary
Political Ecology
A Critical Introduction
by Paul Robbins 2004 242 pages
3.92
205 ratings
Environment
Politics
Anthropology
Stuffocation Summary
Stuffocation
by James Wallman 2013 350 pages
3.48
3.5K ratings
Self Help
Psychology
Personal Development
Trespassing Across America Summary
Trespassing Across America
One Man's Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland
by Ken Ilgunas 2016 288 pages
3.81
2.2K ratings
Travel
Memoir
Adventure
Gorgeously Green Summary
Gorgeously Green
8 Simple Steps to an Earth-Friendly Life
by Sophie Uliano 2008 309 pages
3.80
964 ratings
Health
Reference
Green
Moby-Duck Summary
Moby-Duck
The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them
by Donovan Hohn 2011 416 pages
3.31
3.2K ratings
Science
Travel
Environment
2052 Summary
2052
A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years
by Jørgen Randers 2012 416 pages
3.93
351 ratings
Environment
Economics
Politics
Landfill Summary
Landfill
by Tim Dee 2018 239 pages
3.71
138 ratings
Nature
Birds
Environment
Your Brain On Nature Summary
Your Brain On Nature
The Science of Nature's Influence on Your Health, Happiness and Vitality
by Eva M. Selhub 2012 256 pages
3.96
421 ratings
Nature
Psychology
Science
Now or Never Summary
Now or Never
Why We Must Act Now to End Climate Change and Create a Sustainable Future
by Tim Flannery 2008 176 pages
3.48
189 ratings
Science
Environment
Politics
Coming Into the Country Summary
Coming Into the Country
by John McPhee 1977 438 pages
4.22
7.4K ratings
Travel
Nature
History
The Next Species Summary
The Next Species
The Future of Evolution in the Aftermath of Man
by Michael Tennesen 2015 336 pages
3.71
308 ratings
Science
Evolution
Biology
Sustainable Energy - without the hot air Summary
Sustainable Energy - without the hot air
by David J.C. MacKay 2008 384 pages
4.41
1.8K ratings
Science
Sustainability
Environment
A Pocket Guide to Sustainable Food Shopping Summary
A Pocket Guide to Sustainable Food Shopping
How to Navigate the Grocery Store, Read Labels, and Help Save the Planet
by Kate Bratskeir 2021 144 pages
4.15
117 ratings
Food
Sustainability
Self Help
Give a Sh*t Summary
Give a Sh*t
Do Good. Live Better. Save the Planet.
by Ashlee Piper 2018 304 pages
4.17
941 ratings
Sustainability
Environment
Self Help
Drawdown Summary
Drawdown
The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
by Paul Hawken 2017 240 pages
4.40
4.3K ratings
Science
Environment
Climate Change
Renewable Energy Summary
Renewable Energy
A Primer for the Twenty-First Century
by Bruce Usher 2019 224 pages
4.32
290 ratings
Science
Sustainability
Environment
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