Natural Resources, Scarcity, and Sustainability
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On Borrowed Time: Assessing the Threat of Mineral Depletion
by:
John Tilton
4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings 2. 
Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World
by:
Tom Zoellner
3.87 avg rating — 2,401 ratings 3. 
Saudi America: The Truth About Fracking and How It's Changing the World
by:
Bethany McLean
3.81 avg rating — 891 ratings 4. 
One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia
by:
Miranda Paul
4.35 avg rating — 2,045 ratings 4. 
Mountaintop Mining in Appalachia: Understanding Stakeholders and Change in Environmental Conflict
by:
Susan F. Hirsch
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings 6. 
Boom, Bust, Boom: A Story About Copper, the Metal that Runs the World
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Bill Carter
3.81 avg rating — 194 ratings 6. 
Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya
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Donna Jo Napoli
4.21 avg rating — 1,036 ratings 6. 
Planet Palm: How Palm Oil Ended Up in Everything — And Endangered the World 3.93 avg rating — 247 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by:
Jared Diamond
3.93 avg rating — 73,872 ratings 9. 
Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa
by:
Jeanette Winter
4.33 avg rating — 1,315 ratings 9. 
Money Logging: On the Trail of the Asian Timber Mafia
by:
Lukas Straumann
4.55 avg rating — 107 ratings 
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Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai
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Claire A. Nivola
4.23 avg rating — 789 ratings 12. 
The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Freshwater in the Twenty-First Century
by:
Alex Prud’homme
3.94 avg rating — 418 ratings 
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Wangari Maathai: The Woman Who Planted Millions of Trees
by:
Franck Prévot
4.27 avg rating — 700 ratings 15. 
Opportunity, Montana: Big Copper, Bad Water, and the Burial of an American Landscape
by:
Brad Tyer
3.83 avg rating — 121 ratings 18. 
Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River
by:
David Owen
3.93 avg rating — 3,217 ratings 
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Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It
by:
Elizabeth Royte
3.56 avg rating — 890 ratings 21. 
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
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Andrea Wulf
4.32 avg rating — 28,487 ratings 21. 
Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization
by:
Steven Solomon
3.87 avg rating — 651 ratings 21. 
Total Garbage: How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal Our World
by:
Edward Humes
4.24 avg rating — 340 ratings 24. 
How to Prepare for Climate Change: A Practical Guide to Surviving the Chaos
by:
David Pogue
4.13 avg rating — 626 ratings 24. 
Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water
by:
Maude Barlow
3.90 avg rating — 327 ratings 26. 
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
by:
Bill Bryson
4.07 avg rating — 436,118 ratings 
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The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed
by:
Robin Broad
4.06 avg rating — 109 ratings 29. 
Wheel of Fortune: The Battle for Oil and Power in Russia
by:
Thane Gustafson
4.25 avg rating — 71 ratings 29. 
Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks—A Cool History of a Hot Commodity
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Amy Brady
3.89 avg rating — 663 ratings 31. 
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Plantation Kingdom: The American South and Its Global Commodities (The Marcus Cunliffe Lecture Series) 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
33. 
Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World
by:
Aja Raden
4.09 avg rating — 3,434 ratings 33. 
The Tragedy of the Commodity: Oceans, Fisheries, and Aquaculture
by:
Stefano B. Longo
4.24 avg rating — 25 ratings 
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Kings of Their Own Ocean: Tuna, Obsession, and the Future of Our Seas
by:
Karen Pinchin
3.80 avg rating — 308 ratings 37. 
Limits: Why Malthus Was Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Care
by:
Giorgos Kallis
3.99 avg rating — 144 ratings 37. 
The Fish Market: Inside the Big-Money Battle for the Ocean and Your Dinner Plate
by:
Lee van der Voo
3.94 avg rating — 101 ratings 39. 
Extracted: How the Quest for Mineral Wealth Is Plundering the Planet
by:
Ugo Bardi
4.24 avg rating — 66 ratings 
42. 
Sustaining Russia's Arctic Cities: Resource Politics, Migration, and Climate Change (Studies in the Circumpolar North, 2) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
42. 
Cod and Herring: The Archaeology and History of Medieval Sea Fishing
by:
James H. Barrett
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 
46. 
Russian Oil Supply: Performance and Prospects
by:
John D. Grace
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 46. 
Night Fire: Big Oil, Poison Air, and Margie Richard's Fight to Save Her Town
by:
Ronnie Greene
4.11 avg rating — 27 ratings 48. 
The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World
by:
Russell Gold
3.78 avg rating — 779 ratings 48. 
Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power
by:
Bradley Hope
4.25 avg rating — 9,598 ratings 50. 
The New Wild West: Black Gold, Fracking, and Life in a North Dakota Boomtown
by:
Blaire Briody
3.91 avg rating — 213 ratings 50. 
Drugs, Oil & War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia & Indochina
by:
Peter Scott
4.02 avg rating — 106 ratings 52. 
The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters 4.01 avg rating — 2,785 ratings
52. 
Great American Outpost: Dreamers, Mavericks, and the Making of an Oil Frontier
by:
Maya Rao
3.62 avg rating — 130 ratings 54. 
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Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of an American City
by:
Steve Early
3.65 avg rating — 75 ratings 56. 
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Poison Tea: How Big Oil and Big Tobacco Invented the Tea Party and Captured the GOP
by:
Jeff Nesbit
3.71 avg rating — 51 ratings 58. 
Living the High Life in Minsk: Russian Energy Rents, Domestic Populism and Belarus' Impending Crisis 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
58. 
A Field Philosopher's Guide to Fracking: How One Texas Town Stood Up to Big Oil and Gas
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Adam Briggle
3.62 avg rating — 60 ratings 60. 
Belarus: Belarusneftagaz and National Control over the Transit Pipeline System it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Russian Energy Chains: The Remaking of Technopolitics from Siberia to Ukraine to the European Union really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
62. 
Law of the Jungle: The $19 Billion Legal Battle Over Oil in the Rain Forest and the Lawyer Who'd Stop at Nothing to Win
by:
Paul M. Barrett
3.74 avg rating — 281 ratings 
64. 
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
by:
Daniel Yergin
4.18 avg rating — 5,491 ratings 
66. 
The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
by:
Daniel Yergin
4.14 avg rating — 5,096 ratings 68. 
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Fighting King Coal: The Challenges to Micromobilization in Central Appalachia 4.46 avg rating — 24 ratings
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After Coal: Stories of Survival in Appalachia and Wales
by:
Tom Hansell
4.17 avg rating — 18 ratings 73. 
Coal Wars: The Future of Energy and the Fate of the Planet
by:
Richard Martin
3.69 avg rating — 90 ratings 74. 
Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland
by:
Jeff Biggers
3.93 avg rating — 55 ratings 75. 
Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future
by:
Jeff Goodell
3.99 avg rating — 451 ratings 
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Combating Mountaintop Removal: New Directions in the Fight against Big Coal
by:
Bryan T. McNeil
3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings 79. 
Thunder on the Mountain: Death at Massey and the Dirty Secrets Behind Big Coal 3.54 avg rating — 113 ratings
80. 
The Story of Upfront Carbon: How a Life of Just Enough Offers a Way Out of the Climate Crisis
by:
Lloyd Alter
4.30 avg rating — 23 ratings 81. 
The Ghost Forest: Racists, Radicals, and Real Estate in the California Redwoods
by:
Greg King
4.11 avg rating — 211 ratings 82. 
Blue Ridge Commons: Environmental Activism and Forest History in Western North Carolina
by:
Kathryn Newfont
3.62 avg rating — 21 ratings 83. 
Beyond the Mountains: Commodifying Appalachian Environments
by:
Drew A. Swanson
4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings 84. 
The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves
by:
J.B. MacKinnon
4.16 avg rating — 4,554 ratings 85. 
Environmental Debt: The Hidden Costs of a Changing Global Economy
by:
Amy Larkin
3.80 avg rating — 61 ratings 86. 
Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism
by:
Char Miller
3.72 avg rating — 39 ratings 87. 
There Goes the Neighborhood: Cartoons on the Environment
by:
Sidney Harris
3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings 88. 
Rare: The High-Stakes Race to Satisfy Our Need for the Scarcest Metals on Earth
by:
Keith Veronese
3.43 avg rating — 185 ratings 89. 
A Pocket Guide to Sustainable Food Shopping: How to Navigate the Grocery Store, Read Labels, and Help Save the Planet
by:
Kate Bratskeir
4.15 avg rating — 119 ratings 90. 
Renewable Energy: A Primer for the Twenty-First Century
by:
Bruce Usher
4.33 avg rating — 292 ratings 91. 
The Heart of Sustainability: Restoring Ecological Balance from the Inside Out 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
92. 
The Ecology of Commerce Revised Edition: A Declaration of Sustainability
by:
Paul Hawken
4.12 avg rating — 2,350 ratings 93. 
A Better World, Inc.: Corporate Governance for an Inclusive, Sustainable, and Prosperous Future
by:
Alice Korngold
4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings 94. 
Building the New American Economy: Smart, Fair, and Sustainable
by:
Jeffrey D. Sachs
3.90 avg rating — 418 ratings 95. 
The Burning Answer: The Solar Revolution: A Quest for Sustainable Power
by:
Keith Barnham
3.86 avg rating — 21 ratings 96. 
Sustainable Excellence: The Future of Business in a Fast-Changing World
by:
Aron Cramer
3.93 avg rating — 28 ratings 97. 
More from Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources―and What Happens Next
by:
Andrew McAfee
3.90 avg rating — 1,142 ratings 98. 
The Race for What's Left: The Global Scramble for the World's Last Resources
by:
Michael T. Klare
3.67 avg rating — 257 ratings 
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