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Book List

Book list

This is a hub for you to find books related to sustainability, from food to ethical fashion and plastic. It's a great idea to check your library stock, charity shops or second hand book shops before buying new. Some books have review on our blog, click the link & enjoy.


General Books on Sustainable Living: Every Womans Guide to Saving the Planet: Natalie Issacs. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and The Teachings of Plants- Robin Wall Kimmerer. Does Living Green Make a Difference? (Where am I now?) Imperfect Environmentalist: A Practical guide to Clearing your home and saving the earth (Without losing  your mind)- Sara Gilbert Doughnut Economics- Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist: Kate Raworth. Slow: Simple Living for a Frantic World- Brooke McAlary. Tools for Slow Living: A Practical Guide to Mindfulness and Coziness- Collective. Women who run Run With the Wolves: Contacting the Power of The Wild Women- Clarissa Pinkola Estes. Rise and Resist: Clare Press Simple Matters: Living with Less and Ending up With More- Erin Boyle. The Human Planet: How We Create the Anthropocene- Simon Lewis, Mark A. Maslin The Life Changing Magic of Tidy- Marie Kondo Wellth: Jacob Wachob Slow, live life simply: Brooke McAlary Heat- George Monbiot  Living Green- Greg Horn Active Hope- How to Face The Mess We’re in without going crazy- Anna Macy & Chris Johnstone Weconomy- Craig, Holly Branson, Marc Kielburger 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos- Jordan B. Peterson Saving The Earth As A Career: Malcolm Hunter This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate- Naomi Klein Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less- Greg McKeown. Botanical Skin Care: Herbal Academy How To Save The World: Katie Patrick There Is No Planet B: Mike Berners-Lee 

Plastic/ Waste Free Living Guides: Low Tox Life: A handbook for a healthy you and happy planet- Alexx Stuart My Zero- Waste Kitchen: Easy Ways to Eat Waste Free- Kate Turner How To Live Plastic Free: A day in the life of plastic detox- Luca Bonaccorsi, Marine Conservation Society, How to Give Up Plastic- A Guide to Changing the world, one plastic bottle at a time. - Will McCallum. Turning the Tide on Plastic: How Humanity (And You) Can Make Our Globe Clean Again.- Lucy Siegle. No. More. Plastic. What you can do to make a difference- #2minutesolution- Martin Dorey, Chris Packham A Life Less Throwaway- Tara Button Plastic Ocean- Captain Charles Moore Silo: The Zero Waste Blueprint- Douglas McMaster Food Kiss The Ground: How the Food You Eat Can Reverse Climate Change, Heal Your Body & Ultimately Save Our World- Josh Tickell, Terry Tamminen  Cooked- A Natural History of Transformation- Michael Pollan The Omnivores Dilemma- Michael Pollan Food Rules: An Eaters Manual- Michael Pollan In Defence of Food: The Myth of Nutrition and the Pleasures of Eating- Michael Pollan.  Land & Sea: Secrets to simple sustainable sensational food: Alexandra Dudley  The Reducetarian Solution: How the Surprisingly Simple Act of Reducing the Amount of Meat in Your Diet Can Transform Your Health and Planet: Brian Katmen, Mark Bittman. Sustainable Food Systems: The Role of the City- Dr Robert Biel PhD. I Quit Sugar, Simplicious Flow- Sarah Wilson. Sustainable Diets: How Ecological Nutrition Can Transform Consumption and the Food System- Palema Laxon Tim Lang. Less Meat More Veg- Rachel de Thample Much More Veg: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Everyday Flexitarian- Recipes for Vegetarians and Meat Lovers Alike- Nettie Cronish. On Eating Meat- Matthew Evans.

Ethical Fashion: To Die For: Is Fashion Wearing Out The World? Lucy Siegle Wardrobe Crisis: How We Went From Sunday Best to Fast Fashion: Clare Press Clothing Poverty- Andrew Brooks


Conservation: The Extinction Market: Wildlife Trafficking and How to Counter It- Vanda Felbab Brown  Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking- Rachel Love Nuwer Humane Gardener: Nurturing a Backyard Habitat for WIldlife- Nancy Lawson  What has Nature Ever Done for Us? How Money Really really does grow on trees?- Tony Juniper. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History- Elizatbeth Kolbert. Seeds of Hope: Jane Goodall  A Sting in the Tale: Dave Goulson. Feral- George Monbiot The Reef- A Passionate History- Iain McCalman

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