Environmental Science Challenge 2024 - hosted by sarah16

A book about sustainability
Our world needs our care now more than ever. Chose to learn about a sustainability topic that interests you, from plastics and landfill, to deforestation and climate change, or chose a book that teaches you some everyday sustainable techniques that you can start using at home.
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Understanding Imperiled Earth: How Archaeology and Human History Can Inform Our Planet's Future by Todd J. Braje

Understanding Imperiled Earth: How Archaeology and Human History Can Inform Our Planet's Future

Todd J. Braje

208 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction science technology
We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth by Dahr Jamail

We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth

Dahr Jamail

13 hours, 38 minutes • audio • 2022 user-added

nonfiction nature race emotional hopeful informative medium-paced
Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future by Patty Krawec

Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

Patty Krawec

217 pages • hardcover • 2022

nonfiction history race sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock by Dina Gilio-Whitaker

As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock

Dina Gilio-Whitaker

224 pages • hardcover • 2019

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World by Katharine Hayhoe

Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World

Katharine Hayhoe

307 pages • hardcover • 2021

nonfiction politics science hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future by David Attenborough

A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

David Attenborough

272 pages • hardcover • 2020

nonfiction memoir nature informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Turning the Tide on Plastic: How Humanity (And You) Can Make Our Globe Clean Again by Lucy Siegle

Turning the Tide on Plastic: How Humanity (And You) Can Make Our Globe Clean Again

Lucy Siegle

264 pages • paperback • 2018

nonfiction nature science challenging informative medium-paced
A Gardener at the End of the World by Margot Anne Kelley

A Gardener at the End of the World

Margot Anne Kelley

240 pages • hardcover

nonfiction autobiography memoir nature
American War by Omar El Akkad

American War

Omar El Akkad

333 pages • hardcover • 2017

fiction dystopian literary dark slow-paced
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchie

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

Hannah Ritchie

9 hours, 25 minutes • audio • 2024

nonfiction science hopeful informative medium-paced