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    The Lorax

    by Dr. Seuss

    Long before “going green” was mainstream, Dr. Seuss’s Lorax spoke for the trees and warned of the dangers of disrespecting the environment.
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    Arctic Dreams

    by Barry Lopez

    This groundbreaking exploration of the Far North is a classic of natural history, anthropology, and travel writing. Winner of the National Book Award.
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    Our Planet

    by Alastair Fothergill, Keith Scholey and Fred Pearce

    With a foreword by Sir David Attenborough, this is the striking photographic companion to the groundbreaking original documentary series, presenting never-before-seen visuals of nature’s most intriguing animals in action and the environmental change that has to be seen to be believed.
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    Green Enough

    by Leah Segedie

    From furniture to packaged food, Leah guides you through detoxifying your home, diet, and lifestyle, showing you how to make the best choices possible.
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    Isaac’s Storm

    by Erik Larson

    The bestselling true story of the deadliest hurricane in history from the author of The Devil in the White City.
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    The Reducetarian Solution

    by Brian Kateman

    Brian Kateman coined the term “Reducetarian”—a person who is deliberately reducing his or her consumption of meat—and a global movement was born.
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    Horizon

    by Barry Lopez

    From the National Book Award-winning author of the now-classic Arctic Dreams comes a vivid, poetic, capacious work that recollects the travels around the world and the encounters–human, animal, and natural–that have shaped an extraordinary life.
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    On Thin Ice

    by Richard Ellis

    Urgent and stirring, On Thin Ice is both a celebration and a rallying cry on behalf of one of earth’s greatest natural treasures.
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    How Cycling Can Save the World

    by Peter Walker

    Peter Walker—reporter at the Guardian and curator of its popular bike blog—shows how the future of humanity depends on the bicycle.
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    Here We Are

    by Oliver Jeffers

    Insightfully sweet, with a gentle humor and poignancy, here is Oliver Jeffers’ user’s guide to life on Earth.
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    The Day the Earth Caved In

    by Joan Quigley

    An unprecedented and riveting account of the nation’s worst mine fire. Journalist and bestselling author Kristin Ohlson makes an elegantly argued, passionate case for “our great green hope”—a way in which we can not only heal the land but also turn atmospheric carbon into beneficial soil carbon—and potentially reverse global warming.
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    The Soil Will Save Us

    by Kristin Ohlson

    Journalist and bestselling author Kristin Ohlson makes an elegantly argued, passionate case for “our great green hope”—a way in which we can not only heal the land but also turn atmospheric carbon into beneficial soil carbon—and potentially reverse global warming.
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    Drawdown

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    The 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the world
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    Garbology

    by Edward Humes

    A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist takes readers on a surprising tour of America’s biggest export, our most prodigious product, and our greatest legacy: our trash
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    The Invention of Nature

    by Andrea Wulf

    The bestselling account of the forgotten life of Alexander von Humboldt, the visionary German naturalist whose ideas changed the way we see the natural world.
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    An Inconvenient Truth

    by Al Gore

    A daring call to action, exposing the shocking reality of how humankind has aided in the destruction of our planet and the future we face if we do not take action to stop global warming
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    The Uninhabitable Earth

    by David Wallace-Wells

    A meditation on the devastation we have brought upon ourselves and an impassioned call to action
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    Don’t Let Them Disappear

    by Chelsea Clinton

    A beautiful book about the animals who share our planet–and what we can do to help them survive.
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    Kate, Who Tamed The Wind

    by Liz Garton Scanlon

    A young, rhythmic read-aloud about a girl who solves a windy problem with an environmentally sound solution: planting trees.
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    Thunder & Lightning

    by Lauren Redniss

    A dazzling fusion of storytelling, visual art, and reportage that grapples with weather in all its dimensions: its danger and its beauty, why it happens and what it means.
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    The New Good Life

    by John Robbins

    A philosophical and prescriptive path from conspicuous consumption to conscious consumption.
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    Green Earth

    by Kim Stanley Robinson

    The landmark trilogy of cutting-edge science, international politics, and the real-life ramifications of climate change—updated and abridged into a single novel.
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