21 Best nonfiction books like Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change by Aja Barber

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Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change

By: Aja Barber

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Aja Barber wants change. In the 'learning' first half of the book, she will expose you to the …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change by Aja Barber , here is a list of 21 books like this:

Cover of Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic by Vicki Robin, John De Graaf, David Wann, Thomas H. Naylor, None, Thomas H Naylor

1. Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic

By: Vicki Robin , John De Graaf , David Wann , Thomas H. Naylor , None , Thomas H Naylor

3.87

Format: 54 pages,

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Similar categories in Vicki Robin's Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic book and Aja Barber's Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change

  • politics
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
Cover of Wardrobe Crisis: How We Went From Sunday Best to Fast Fashion by Clare Press

2. Wardrobe Crisis: How We Went From Sunday Best to Fast Fashion

By: Clare Press

4.17

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

Who makes your clothes? This used to be an easy question to answer: it was the seamstress next door… read more

Similar categories in Clare Press's Wardrobe Crisis: How We Went From Sunday Best to Fast Fashion book and Aja Barber's Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change

  • history
  • politics
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • fashion
  • environment
Cover of To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back by Alden Wicker

3. To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back

By: Alden Wicker

4.32

Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition

A Silent Spring for your wardrobe, To Dye For is a jolting exposé that reveals the true cost of the… read more

Similar categories in Alden Wicker's To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back book and Aja Barber's Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • fashion
  • environment
  • audiobook
Cover of Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement by Ashley Shew

4. Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement

By: Ashley Shew

4.30

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A manifesto exploding what we think we know about disability, and arguing that disabled people are … read more

Similar categories in Ashley Shew's Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement book and Aja Barber's Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
Cover of The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet by Leah     Thomas

5. The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet

By: Leah Thomas

4.15

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A primer on intersectional environmentalism aimed at educating the next generation of activists on … read more

Similar categories in Leah Thomas's The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet book and Aja Barber's Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change

  • feminism
  • politics
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • climate change
  • environment
Cover of Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change by Aja Barber

6. Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change

By: Aja Barber

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Aja Barber wants change. In the 'learning' first half of the book, she will expose you to the … read more

Similar categories in Aja Barber's Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change book and Aja Barber's Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change

  • history
  • feminism
  • politics
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • fashion
  • climate change
  • environment
  • audiobook
Cover of Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey

7. Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto

By: Tricia Hersey

4.08

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Far too many of us have claimed productivity as the cornerstone of success. Brainwashed by capitali… read more

Similar categories in Tricia Hersey's Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto book and Aja Barber's Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
Cover of The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves by J.B. MacKinnon

8. The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves

By: J.B. MacKinnon

4.20

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Consuming less is our best strategy for saving the planet—but can we do it? In this thoughtful and … read more

Similar categories in J.B. MacKinnon's The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves book and Aja Barber's Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change

  • politics
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • audiobook
"We can't stop shopping, we must stop shopping. It isn't only that consumption is distorting the climate, felling the forests, cluttering out lives, filling our heads with a throwaway mindset, even st…"

-J.B. MacKinnon, The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves

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9. The Conscious Closet: The Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good

By: Elizabeth L. Cline

4.01

Format: 348 pages, Paperback

The Conscious Closet is not just a style guide. It is a call to action to transform one of the most… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth L. Cline's The Conscious Closet: The Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good book and Aja Barber's Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change

  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • fashion
  • climate change
  • environment
  • audiobook
Cover of Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care by Kelly Hayes

10. Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

By: Kelly Hayes

4.64

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let T… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Hayes's Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care book and Aja Barber's Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change

  • history
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
Cover of Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes by Dana Thomas

11. Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes

By: Dana Thomas

3.91

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An investigation into the damage wrought by the colossal clothing industry and the grassroots, high… read more

Similar categories in Dana Thomas's Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes book and Aja Barber's Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change

  • history
  • politics
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • fashion
  • climate change
  • environment
  • audiobook
"Shoppers snap up five times more clothing now than they did in 1980."

-Dana Thomas, Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes

"In 1991, 56.2% of all clothes purchased in the United States were American-made. By 2012, it was down to 2.5%. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, between 1990 and 2012, the U.S. textile and…"

-Dana Thomas, Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes

Cover of All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

12. All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis

By: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

4.45

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are har… read more

Similar categories in Ayana Elizabeth Johnson's All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis book and Aja Barber's Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change

  • feminism
  • politics
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • audiobook
Cover of Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility by Rebecca Solnit

13. Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility

By: Rebecca Solnit

3.98

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

An energizing case for hope about the climate comes from Rebecca Solnit, called the voice of the re… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Solnit's Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility book and Aja Barber's Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change

  • politics
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • climate change
  • environment
"To hope is to accept despair as an emotion but not as an analysis. To recognize that what is unlikely is possible, just as what is likely is not inevitable. To understand that difficult is not the sa…"

-Rebecca Solnit, Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility

"What gives me hope is that human history is full of examples of people across the ages who have risen to face the great challenges of their time and have succeeded. Victory is not the arrival in some…"

-Rebecca Solnit, Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility

"These are among the many foundation stones of this new world we have built, and the work continues. I know all this seemed impossible a decade ago, when it felt as if everything was falling apart and…"

-Rebecca Solnit, Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility

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14. It's Not That Radical

By: Mikaela Loach

4.47

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

For too long, representations of climate action in the mainstream media have been white-washed, gre… read more

Similar categories in Mikaela Loach's It's Not That Radical book and Aja Barber's Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change

  • politics
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • climate change
  • environment
Cover of How To Break Up With Fast Fashion by Lauren Bravo

15. How To Break Up With Fast Fashion

By: Lauren Bravo

4.22

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

You probably know the statistics: global clothing production has roughly doubled in just 15 years, … read more

Similar categories in Lauren Bravo's How To Break Up With Fast Fashion book and Aja Barber's Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change

  • feminism
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • fashion
  • environment
  • audiobook
Cover of A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining by Rachel Elizabeth Cargle

16. A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining

By: Rachel Elizabeth Cargle

4.26

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A deeply personal and illuminating approach to antiracism and allyship, revealing the power of imag… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Elizabeth Cargle's A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining book and Aja Barber's Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
Cover of Loved Clothes Last: How the Joy of Rewearing and Repairing Your Clothes Can Be a Revolutionary Act by Orsola de Castro

17. Loved Clothes Last: How the Joy of Rewearing and Repairing Your Clothes Can Be a Revolutionary Act

By: Orsola de Castro

4.05

Format: 263 pages, Paperback

Running out of space for the clothes you can't stop buying? Curious about how you can make a differ… read more

Similar categories in Orsola de Castro's Loved Clothes Last: How the Joy of Rewearing and Repairing Your Clothes Can Be a Revolutionary Act book and Aja Barber's Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change

  • fashion
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • environment
Cover of "No Offence, But..." by Gina  Martin

18. "No Offence, But..."

By: Gina Martin

4.36

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

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Similar categories in Gina Martin's "No Offence, But..." book and Aja Barber's Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change

  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
Cover of Climate Optimism: Climate Wins and Creating Systemic Change Around the World by Zahra Biabani

19. Climate Optimism: Climate Wins and Creating Systemic Change Around the World

By: Zahra Biabani

3.61

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A Guide on Climate Optimism and Environmental Sustainability Zahra Biabini, a climate activist … read more

Similar categories in Zahra Biabani's Climate Optimism: Climate Wins and Creating Systemic Change Around the World book and Aja Barber's Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change

  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • audiobook
Cover of Rewilding the Urban Soul: Searching for the Wild in the City by Claire Dunn

20. Rewilding the Urban Soul: Searching for the Wild in the City

By: Claire Dunn

3.88

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

How can we become more in tune with nature, even in the heart of the city? Once upon a time, a… read more

Similar categories in Claire Dunn's Rewilding the Urban Soul: Searching for the Wild in the City book and Aja Barber's Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change

  • nonfiction
  • environment
"Lockdown would save lives. I was up for that. What I couldn't bend my mind around was this new currency of fear and panic."

-Claire Dunn, Rewilding the Urban Soul: Searching for the Wild in the City

"The sacred-fire experience taught me how critically important it is for cultural repair to reinvent such shared ceremonial containers. 'They're as old as time,' one white-haired woman told me as I sa…"

-Claire Dunn, Rewilding the Urban Soul: Searching for the Wild in the City

Cover of Be The Change: A Toolkit for the Activist in You by Gina  Martin

21. Be The Change: A Toolkit for the Activist in You

By: Gina Martin

4.12

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

Inspiring and practical, BE THE CHANGE is the essential handbook for the budding activist.'Gina Mar… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice

12 Top audiobook books like Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change by Aja Barber

Transform Your Habits

To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back

Alden Wicker

4.32

Transform Your Habits

Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement

Ashley Shew

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change

Aja Barber

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto

Tricia Hersey

4.08

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5 Best adult books like To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back by Alden Wicker

Transform Your Habits

Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic

Emily Monosson

3.87

Transform Your Habits

To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back

Alden Wicker

4.32

Transform Your Habits

Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater

Peggy Orenstein

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans

Jane Marie

3.78

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