Environment

The surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates. The natural world, as a whole or in a particular geographical area, especially as affected by human activity.

New Releases Tagged "Environment"

Hotshot: A Life on Fire
The Call of the Honeyguide: What Science Tells Us about How to Live Well with the Rest of Life
The Beast in the Clouds: The Roosevelt Brothers' Deadly Quest to Find the Mythical Giant Panda
Strata: Stories from Deep Time
A Year with the Seals: Unlocking the Secrets of the Sea's Most Charismatic and Controversial Creatures
We Are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate
Dream State
Playground
Bewilderment
The Place of Tides
Cabin: Off the Grid Adventures with a Clueless Craftsman
Welcome to Glorious Tuga
The Music of Bees
Diddly Squat: A Year on the Farm (Diddly Squat, #1)
Juice
The Beast in the Clouds: The Roosevelt Brothers' Deadly Quest to Find the Mythical Giant Panda
The Displacements
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures
The Bear
Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature
Life of Pi by Yann MartelLife, the Universe and Everything by Douglas AdamsThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Story of My Life by Helen KellerIf Life Is a Bowl of Cherries What Am I Doing in the Pits? by Erma Bombeck
This is the.......life
1,162 books — 57 voters
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara KingsolverThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanThis Changes Everything by Naomi KleinSilent Spring by Rachel CarsonCradle to Cradle by William McDonough
Best Sustainability Nonfiction
398 books — 294 voters

A Brief History of Time by Stephen HawkingCosmos by Carl SaganA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondThe Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
History of the Universe and Earth
148 books — 71 voters
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie KondōThe Joy of Less, A Minimalist Living Guide by Francine JayWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauGoodbye, Things by Fumio SasakiEssentialism by Greg McKeown
Minimalism
85 books — 68 voters


Silent Spring
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
The Overstory
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
The World Without Us
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Slavoj Žižek
[T]his readiness to assume the guilt for the threats to our environment is deceptively reassuring: We like to be guilty since, if we are guilty, it all depends on us. We pull the strings of the catastrophe, so we can also save ourselves simply by changing our lives. What is really hard for us (at least in the West) to accept is that we are reduced to the role of a passive observer who sits and watches what our fate will be. To avoid this impotence, we engage in frantic, obsessive activities. We ...more
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