Books on Sustainability You Need to Read
Education is the first step to activism. It’s hard to fight for something you don’t know a lot about. I’m a huge fan of reading when it comes to educating myself. When I first started my sustainable living lifestyle, I read any book I could get my hands on on the subject. it helped a lot to fuel the fire. I hope this list of books on sustainability can do the same for you!
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Books on Sustainability to Read Now:
1. Cradle to Cradle
This book challenges the current “cradle to grave” manufacturing process. Using nature as a model the way a tree produces seeds to create more trees instead of just becoming waste at the end of its life. Since everything is a resource for something else, why not turn waste into something new? This book will change the way you see everyday items from waste to wondering what they could become.
2. Sustainability for the rest of us: Your no bullsh*t, 5 point plan for saving the planet
Have you ever wondered if all your sustainable efforts are worth it? recycling, using reusable, voting for a climate-affirming political party, etc. This book cuts the bull in a hilarious way to give you straightforward answers on what needs to change and what you can do to actually help save the planet.
3. How bad are bananas? The carbon footprint of everything
Realizing that everything has a carbon footprint can be overwhelming to wrap our heads around. But everything ever made took resources to make and has travelled a distance. And even our technology and internet usage has a footprint. Thi book outlines this all in an easy digest format to help us understand the concept of carbon footprints more easily.
4. Grow food for free
The author of this book, Huw Richards grew his own food for a year (for free!) and wrote this book sharing how he did it. This book is full of easy tips and pictures to help you on your sustainable food-growing journey!
5. Wear no evil
Wear no evil gets up close and personal with the horrors of our fashion industry and shows us how we can shop sustainably when building our wardrobes.
6. The story of stuff
An in-depth look at how over-consumption is ruining our planet, our health and our communities. But don’t worry, there’s also an upside. The book outlines the steps and actions we can take to help!
7. The (almost) zero waste guide
Get tips for reducing waste at home, travelling, in your community and in your fashion choices! This is the (almost) zero waste guide, after all, so you’ll find actionable steps to living more sustainably!
8. 101 ways to go zero waste
Written by fellow blogger Kathryn Kellog, this book highlights 101 easy and attainable ways to help you reduce waste. From trash to reduce to home and beauty DIYs to help you eliminate the trash in your life!
9. The sustainable home
This inspiring book will take you room by room through your home giving you tips, advice, products, and DIYs to help make and maintain a more eco-friendly home!
10. All we can save
Truth, courage and solutions for the climate crisis. This book highlights dozens of diverse women leading on climate from lawyers, farmers, scientists, journalists, activists and more. By the end of this book, you will be filled with hope about the ongoing climate crisis.
11. The Intersectional Environmentalist
Fellow activist Leah Thomas pens this powerful book highlighting marginalized voices in the environmental spaces. We cannot have climate justice without racial justice. This book is a perfect guide on how to be a more inclusive activist.
How to be an imperfect environmentalist
Why biodegradable and compostable plastics won’t solve the pollution problem
These are just a few books on sustainability that I think everyone should read. They all cover important topics in a very easy-to-digest way as to not overwhelm us.
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