Best Sustainability Nonfiction
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The Battle To Do Good: Inside McDonald’s Sustainability Journey
by:
Bob Langert
4.02 avg rating — 56 ratings 102. 
What Has Nature Ever Done for Us?: How Money Really Does Grow on Trees
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Tony Juniper
4.21 avg rating — 411 ratings 103. 
The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth's History
by:
David Beerling
4.05 avg rating — 636 ratings 104. 
Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change
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George Marshall
4.19 avg rating — 1,598 ratings 105. 
Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization
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Richard Manning
3.98 avg rating — 440 ratings 106. 
Hope Beneath Our Feet: Restoring Our Place in the Natural World (Io Series)
by:
Martin Keogh
3.95 avg rating — 175 ratings 107. 
Our Common Wealth: The Hidden Economy That Makes Everything Else Work
by:
Jonathan Rowe
4.22 avg rating — 59 ratings 
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by:
Jared Diamond
3.93 avg rating — 73,872 ratings 111. 
Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators 4.23 avg rating — 2,065 ratings
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Environmental Debt: The Hidden Costs of a Changing Global Economy
by:
Amy Larkin
3.80 avg rating — 61 ratings 
113. 
It's a Long Road to a Tomato: Tales of an Organic Farmer Who Quit the Big City for the (NotSo) Simple Life
by:
Keith Stewart
3.86 avg rating — 325 ratings 113. 
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Living the Good Life: How to Live Sanely in a Troubled World
by:
Helen Nearing
4.13 avg rating — 400 ratings 113. 
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Supply Shock: Economic Growth at the Crossroads and the Steady State Solution
by:
Brian Czech
3.96 avg rating — 68 ratings 113. 
Egg Production with Urban Chickens: How to Raise Chickens in Your Backyard
by:
Amber Richards
3.66 avg rating — 32 ratings 
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The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos
by:
Karen Piper
3.83 avg rating — 156 ratings 113. 
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Tomatomania!: A Fresh Approach to Celebrating Tomatoes in the Garden and in the Kitchen
by:
Scott Daigre
4.33 avg rating — 70 ratings 
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Discussion Course on Choices for Sustainable Living really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The New Wild: Why Invasive Species Will Be Nature's Salvation
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Fred Pearce
3.97 avg rating — 612 ratings 113. 
Planet Earth Demands: Energy, Economics, Employment and Our Inner and Outer Environments 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Clean and Green: The Complete Guide to Non-Toxic and Environmentally Safe Housekeeping really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Meathooked: The History and Science of Our 2.5-Million-Year Obsession with Meat
by:
Marta Zaraska
4.05 avg rating — 557 ratings 
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Vegetable Gardening: Beginner's Guide to Growing Organic Vegetables At Home
by:
Joanna Winters
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings 113. 
Global Sustainability: 21 Leading CEOs Show How to Do Well by Doing Good
by:
Mark Lefko
4.83 avg rating — 12 ratings 113. 
The Great Unconformity: Reflections on Hope in an Imperiled World
by:
Kate Troll
4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings 113. 
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Zero Waste Home: The Ultimate Guide to Simplifying Your Life by Reducing Your Waste
by:
Bea Johnson
3.76 avg rating — 7,898 ratings 113. 
The Winning of the Carbon War: Power and Politics on the Front Line of Climate and Clean Energy
by:
Jeremy Leggett
3.96 avg rating — 57 ratings 113. 
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Water Is...: The Indispensability Of Water In Society And Life
by:
Seth B. Darling
3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings 113. 
Lentil Underground: Renegade Farmers and the Future of Food in America
by:
Liz Carlisle
4.08 avg rating — 730 ratings 113. 
Dreaming in Turtle: A Journey Through the Passion, Profit, and Peril of Our Most Coveted Prehistoric Creatures
by:
Peter Laufer
3.79 avg rating — 182 ratings 113. 
Urban Forests: A Natural History of Trees and People in the American Cityscape
by:
Jill Jonnes
3.82 avg rating — 302 ratings 113. 
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Aquaponics for Beginners: How to Build your own Aquaponic Garden that will Grow Organic Vegetables
by:
Nick Brooke
4.28 avg rating — 86 ratings 113. 
The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Freshwater in the Twenty-First Century
by:
Alex Prud’homme
3.94 avg rating — 418 ratings 113. 
Liberate Your Behind: Save Big Money & Our Environment
by:
Trace Williams
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 113. 
Wasted World: How Our Consumption Challenges the Planet
by:
Rob Hengeveld
3.48 avg rating — 33 ratings 113. 
Eet gezond! Schijf van Vijf : Alles over gezond eten met de Schijf van Vijf
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Voedingscentrum
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
113. 
Growing Oregano: A Home Gardener’s Guide (Backyard Garden Herbs Book 6)
by:
albert swope
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 113. 
Straw Bale Gardens Complete: Breakthrough Vegetable Gardening Method
by:
Joel Karsten
4.28 avg rating — 453 ratings 
113. 
Trees in Trouble: Wildfires, Infestations, and Climate Change
by:
Daniel Mathews
4.11 avg rating — 132 ratings 113. 
Man of the Trees: Richard St. Barbe Baker, the First Global Conservationist
by:
Paul Hanley
3.87 avg rating — 23 ratings 113. 
The Great Pivot: Creating Meaningful Work to Build a Sustainable Future
by:
Justine Burt
4.58 avg rating — 19 ratings 
113. 
Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now
by:
Vincent Ialenti
3.60 avg rating — 63 ratings 113. 
In This Together: How Republicans, Democrats, Capitalists and Activists Are Uniting to Tackle Climate Change and More
by:
Trammell S. Crow
4.64 avg rating — 14 ratings 
113. 
Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity
by:
Lester R. Brown
3.98 avg rating — 390 ratings 113. 
Kompost für Ihre Pflanzen: Was Sie über Kompostieren wissen müssen
by:
David Brian
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings 
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Doomed, Unless: How Climate Change and Political Correctness will Destroy Modern Civilization
by:
Luc Gagnon
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 
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Progress: How One Idea Built Civilization and Now Threatens to Destroy It 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Cultures of Habitat: On Nature, Culture, and Story
by:
Gary Paul Nabhan
4.28 avg rating — 71 ratings 
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The Profitable Hobby Farm: How to Build a Sustainable Local Foods Business 3.72 avg rating — 156 ratings
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Overfished Ocean Strategy: Powering Up Innovation for a Resource-Deprived World 4.20 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Fixing Fashion: Rethinking the Way We Make, Market and Buy Our Clothes 3.46 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future
by:
Peter D. Ward
3.94 avg rating — 365 ratings 185. 
Herb Gardening: Beginner's Guide to Growing Organic Herbs At Home
by:
Joanna Winters
4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings 185. 
Nature Next Door: Cities and Trees in the American Northeast (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
by:
Ellen Stroud
4.03 avg rating — 29 ratings