23 Top environment books like This Can't Be Happening (Green Ideas) by George Monbiot

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This Can't Be Happening (Green Ideas)

By: George Monbiot

4.31

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.In the galvani…

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1. Woman Much Missed

By: Thomas Hardy

3.59

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

'Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me...' After the death of his wife Emma, a grief… read more

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"Soon will be growing Green blades from her mound, And daisies be showing Like stars on the ground, Till she form part of them - Ay - the sweet heart of them, Loved beyond measure With a child's pleas…"

-Thomas Hardy, Woman Much Missed

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2. Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

By: Michael Pollan

4.04

Format: None pages, Paperback

A DEFINITIVE COMPENDIUM OF FOOD WISDOM Eating doesn't have to be so complicated. In this age of eve… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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3. The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

By: Amitav Ghosh

4.05

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well… read more

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  • nature
  • ecology
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
"[T]he great, irreplaceable potentiality of fiction is that it makes possible the imagining of possibilities."

-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

"[C]apitalist trade and industry cannot thrive without access to military and political power. State interventions have always been critical to its advancement."

-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

"Where it concerns human beings, it is almost always true that the more anxiously we look for purity the more likely we are to come upon admixture and interbreeding."

-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

"As an instrument of empowerment oil has been spectacularly effective in removing the levers of power from the reach of the populace. "No matter how many people take to the streets in massive marches,…"

-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

4. Of Street Piemen

By: Henry Mayhew

4.04

Format: 431 pages, Paperback

...a good bit of spice to give the critlings a flavour, and plenty of treacle to make the mince-mea… read more

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5. The Living Mountain

By: Robert Macfarlane , Nan Shepherd

4.50

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

This is an alternate Cover Edition for . The Living Mountain is a lyrical testament in praise of t… read more

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6. Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet

By: Hannah Ritchie

4.29

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

‘Truly essential’ MARGARET ATWOOD Feeling anxious, powerless or confused about the future of our p… read more

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  • nature
  • ecology
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
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7. No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

By: Greta Thunberg

3.86

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

The groundbreaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young climate activist who has become the voice … read more

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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
"The real power belongs to the people."

-Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

"...But it is the sufferings of the many which pay for the luxuries of a few."

-Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

"You say that you love your children above everything else. And yet you are stealing their future."

-Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

"Those of us who are still children can’t change what you do now once we’re old enough to do something about it."

-Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

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8. A Simpler Life

By: The School of Life

4.05

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

This book explores ideas around minimalism, simplicity and how to live comfortably with less. Th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
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9. The Lost Rainforests of Britain

By: Guy Shrubsole

4.30

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Who Owns England?, a mesmerising chronicle of our forgo… read more

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  • ecology
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"This was the very heart of Wales' rainforest zone, where the oceanic climate conspires to make conditions perfect for the rich profusion of plant life that we'd spent the past week exploring. Yet her…"

-Guy Shrubsole, The Lost Rainforests of Britain

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10. The Democracy of Species

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

4.49

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

In twenty short books, Penguin Classics brings you the ideas that have changed the way we think and… read more

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  • nature
  • ecology
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
"When we rely deeply on other lives, there is an urgency to protect them. Our ancestors, who had so few material possessions, devoted a great of attention to this question, while we are drowning in po…"

-Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Democracy of Species

"Taking coal buried deep in the earth, for which we must inflict irreparable damage, violates every precept of the code [of honorable harvest]. By no stretch of the imagination is coal 'given to us'. …"

-Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Democracy of Species

"Cautionary stories of the consequences of taking too much are ubiquitous in Native cultures, but it’s hard to recall a single one in English. Perhaps this helps to explain why we seem to be caught in…"

-Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Democracy of Species

"We need acts of restoration, not only for polluted waters and degraded lands, but also for our relationship to the world. We need to restore honor to the way we live, so that when we walk through the…"

-Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Democracy of Species

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11. All Art is Ecological

By: Timothy Morton

3.39

Format: 105 pages, Paperback

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.Provocative an… read more

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  • ecology
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • environment
  • nature
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12. On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal

By: Naomi Klein

4.18

Format: 11 pages, Audiobook

#1 New York Times and internationally bestselling author Naomi Klein makes the case for a Green New… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • essays
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
"We have been trained to see our issues in silos; they never belonged there."

-Naomi Klein, On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal

"It just so happens that we are all alive at the last possible moment when changing course can mean saving lives on a truly unimaginable scale."

-Naomi Klein, On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal

"Too often, when politicians introduce climate policies divorced from a broader agenda of economic justice, the policies they introduce are actively unjust."

-Naomi Klein, On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal

"A colonial economy by definition is a dependent economy; a centralized, lopsided, and distorted economy. And as we have seen, an intensely vulnerable economy."

-Naomi Klein, On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal

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13. Piers of the Homeless Night

By: Jack Kerouac

3.18

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

'See my hand up-tipped, learn the secret of my human heart...'Soaring, freewheeling snapshots of li… read more

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  • essays
"The hobo has two watches you can't buy at Tiffany's, on one wrist the sun, on the other wrist the moon, both bands are made of sky."

-Jack Kerouac, Piers of the Homeless Night

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14. The Dragonfly Will Be the Messiah

By: Masanobu Fukuoka

3.53

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.In The Dragonf… read more

Similar categories in Masanobu Fukuoka's The Dragonfly Will Be the Messiah book and George Monbiot's This Can't Be Happening (Green Ideas)

  • nature
  • ecology
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • green
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15. The Clan of One-Breasted Women

By: Terry Tempest Williams

3.84

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.With honesty, … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • essays
"The power of nature is life in association. Nothing stands alone."

-Terry Tempest Williams, The Clan of One-Breasted Women

"A life in association, not a life independent, is the democratic ideal."

-Terry Tempest Williams, The Clan of One-Breasted Women

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16. Birdgirl

By: Mya-Rose Craig

3.94

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Discover a powerful, evocative and urgent new young voice in nature writing*WINNER OF THE SOMERSET … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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17. I Have More Souls Than One

By: Fernando Pessoa

3.96

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

'But no, she's abstract, is a birdOf sound in the air of air soaring,And her soul sings unencumbere… read more

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18. We Belong to Gaia

By: James E. Lovelock

3.73

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.James Lovelock… read more

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  • nature
  • ecology
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
"We are interfering with temperature regulation by turning up the heat and then simultaneously removing the natural systems that help to regulate it."

-James E. Lovelock, We Belong to Gaia

"It is foolish to think that we can explain science as it evolves, rationally and consciously. We have to use the crude tool of metaphor to translate conscious ideas into unconscious understanding."

-James E. Lovelock, We Belong to Gaia

"Over half the Earth's people live in cities, and they hardly ever see, feel or hear the natural world. Therefore our first duty should be to convince them that the real world is the living Earth and …"

-James E. Lovelock, We Belong to Gaia

"The Earth System behaves as a single, self-regulating system comprised of physical, chemical, biological and human components.' These words marked an abrupt transition from a previously solid convent…"

-James E. Lovelock, We Belong to Gaia

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19. The Most Dammed Country in the World

By: Dai Qing

3.52

Format: 89 pages, Paperback

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.The courageous… read more

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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • essays
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20. A Warning from the Golden Toad

By: Tim Flannery

3.68

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.Taking us on a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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21. The World We Once Lived In

By: Wangari Maathai

3.91

Format: 71 pages, Paperback

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.From the Congo… read more

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  • nature
  • ecology
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • climate change
  • environment
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22. What I Stand for Is What I Stand On (Green Ideas)

By: Wendell Berry

4.16

Format: 87 pages, Kindle Edition

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.From the ravag… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • environment
  • nature
  • green
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23. The Last Tree on Easter Island

By: Jared Diamond

3.98

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.This is Jared … read more

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  • nature
  • science
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • climate change
  • environment
  • green
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24. An Idea Can Go Extinct (Green Ideas)

By: Bill McKibben

3.30

Format: 72 pages, Kindle Edition

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.An Idea Can Go… read more

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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
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25. Every Species is a Masterpiece

By: Edward O. Wilson

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

In twenty short books, Penguin Classics brings you the ideas that have changed the way we think and… read more

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  • nature
  • science
  • ecology
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • environment
  • green
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26. Man's War Against Nature

By: Rachel Carson

3.85

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.With the preci… read more

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  • nature
  • ecology
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
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27. Think Like a Mountain

By: Aldo Leopold

3.86

Format: 85 pages, Paperback

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.In this lyrica… read more

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  • ecology
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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28. This Can't Be Happening (Green Ideas)

By: George Monbiot

4.31

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.In the galvani… read more

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  • nature
  • science
  • ecology
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • essays
  • climate change
  • green
  • environment
  • earth
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29. Hot Money

By: Naomi Klein

4.27

Format: 115 pages, Paperback

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.In Hot Money N… read more

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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
"when climate change deniers claim that global warming is a plot to redistribute wealth. It's not (only) because they are paranoid. It's also because they are paying attention."

-Naomi Klein, Hot Money

"And the real surprise, for all involved, is that we are so much more than we have been told we are - that we long for more and in that longing have more company than we ever imagined."

-Naomi Klein, Hot Money

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30. There is No Point of No Return

By: Arne Næss

3.43

Format: 102 pages, Paperback

Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by… read more

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  • nature
  • ecology
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • green
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31. Uncanny and Improbable Events

By: Amitav Ghosh

3.73

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.In this person… read more

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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • climate change
  • environment
  • green

26 Top nonfiction books like This Can't Be Happening (Green Ideas) by George Monbiot

Transform Your Habits

Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

Michael Pollan

4.04

Transform Your Habits

The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

Amitav Ghosh

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet

Hannah Ritchie

4.29

Transform Your Habits

No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

Greta Thunberg

3.86

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21 Top nonfiction books like A Warning from the Golden Toad by Tim Flannery

Transform Your Habits

Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

Michael Pollan

4.04

Transform Your Habits

No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

Greta Thunberg

3.86

Transform Your Habits

The Democracy of Species

Robin Wall Kimmerer

4.49

Transform Your Habits

All Art is Ecological

Timothy Morton

3.39

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