10 Books On Sustainability

Cradle to Cradle

William McDonough, Michael Braungart · 2010

The Upcycle

William McDonough, Michael Braungart · 2013

This Changes Everything

Naomi Klein · 2015

Let My People Go Surfing

Yvon Chouinard · 2016

Thinking in Systems

Donella Meadows · 2008

Plan B 4.0

Lester R. Brown · 2009

Braiding Sweetgrass

Robin Kimmerer · 2013

A New York Times bestseller A Washington Post bestseller A Los Angeles Times bestseller Named a "Best Essay Collection of the Decade" by Literary Hub A Book Riot "Favorite Summer Read of 2020" A Food Tank Fall 2020 Reading RecommendationAs a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on "a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise" (Elizabeth Gilbert).Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings—asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass—offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices. In reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings will we be capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learn to give our own gifts in return.