Top Books by Leading Environmental Experts
Al Gore
1. The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change
2. An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
Bill McKibben
3. Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist
Naomi Klein
4. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
Elizabeth Kolbert
5. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Gavin Schmidt
6. Climate Change: Picturing the Science
James Hansen
7. Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity
James Lovelock
8. Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
Joseph J. Romm
9. Straight Up: America’s Fiercest Climate Blogger Takes on the Status Quo Media, Politicians, and Clean Energy Solutions
Lester R. Brown
10. Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised)
11. A Pivotal Moment: Population, Justice, and the Environmental Challenge
12. The Great Transition: Shifting from Fossil Fuels to Solar and Wind Power
Michael Brune
13. Coming Clean: Breaking America’s Addiction to Oil and Coal (Sierra Club Books (Sierra))
14. The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World
Michael Pollan
15. Pollan on Food Boxed Set
Paul Hawken
16. Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World
Rajendra K. Pachauri
17. Reducing Inequalities: A Sustainable Development Challenge (A Planet for Life)
Richard Heinberg
18. The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality
19. Snake Oil: How Fracking’s False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future
20. The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s Sustainability Crises
Stephen Schneider
21. Science as a Contact Sport: Inside the Battle to Save Earth’s Climate
22. Climate Change Science and Policy
Tom Steyer
23. Rooftop Revolution: How Solar Power Can Save Our Economy-and Our Planet-from Dirty Energy (BK Currents)
24. Clean Tech Nation: How the U.S. Can Lead in the New Global Economy
Vandana Shiva
25. Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace
26. Making Peace with the Earth
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