Environmental Book Reviews, Summaries & Sustainability Guides

Book cover of "The Day the World Stops Shopping," featuring a tree graphic and bold red text, highlighting themes of consumerism and environmental awareness.

The Day the World Stops Shopping

Imaginative and inspiring, The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves will embolden you to envision another way.

Book cover of "After the Map: Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century" by William Rankin, featuring a blue circle with the title and intricate map lines in the background.

After the Map: How GPS Transformed Our Geographic Perspective

The shift from paper maps to GPS radically changed our experience of geographic knowledge, from a God’s-eye view to embedded subjectivity.

Atlas of Vanishing Places book cover featuring a map highlighting lost locations, emphasizing themes of disappearance and environmental change.

Atlas of Vanishing Places

Imagine what the world once looked like as you discover places that have disappeared from modern atlases in Atlas of Vanishing Places: The lost worlds as they were and as they are today. Have you ever wondered about cities that lie forgotten under the dust of newly settled land? Rivers and seas whose changing shape has shifted the […]

Book cover of "After Cooling: On Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of Comfort," featuring bold black and orange text on a light blue background, emphasizing themes of climate change and environmental impact.

On Freon, Global Warming, & The Cost of Comfort

After Cooling interweaves the science and history of the powerful refrigerant (and greenhouse gas) Freon with a haunting meditation on how to live meaningfully and morally in a rapidly heating world.

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Atlas of a Changing Climate

Brian Buma’s Atlas of a Changing Climate helps us envision the history, present & possible futures of imperiled ecosystems affecting us.

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