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Is Being Vegan Really Better for the Environment? - BBC News

2018

Are you a vegan, thinking about going vegan or a total meat lover? Whatever your preference, an increasing number of people are choosing the plant-based diet. Everyone has their own reason for doing it whether it’s for health reasons, to reduce animal cruelty or to protect the environment. See more...

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The Closing Circle: Nature, Man, and Technology

A radical argument about the root causes of climate change, The Closing Circle was progressive when it was written in 1971 and its message remains increasingly relevant today.

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Barry Commoner
2025
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Falter

Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out. Falter is a powerful and sobering call to arms, to save not only our planet but also our humanity.

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Bill Mckibben
2025
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Going Vegan: Can Switching to a Plant-Based Diet Really Save the Planet?

If politicians are serious about change, they need to incentivise it, say scientists and writers

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Sarah Marsh
2021
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Ever Green: Saving Big Forests to Save the Planet

An original and compelling argument about how to control climate change by conserving the world’s megaforests.

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John W. Reid, Thomas E. Lovejoy
2022
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What Will You Say to Your Grandchildren?

Facing oncoming climate disaster, some argue for “Deep Adaptation”—that we must prepare for inevitable collapse. However, this orientation is dangerously flawed. It threatens to become a self-fulfilling prophecy by diluting the efforts toward positive change.

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Jeremy Lent
2019
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Like a Tree: How Trees, Women, and Tree People Can Save the Planet

The book will appeal most to people who realize that they are “tree people.” It is poetic, educational, inspirational, spiritual, and down to earth, covering the subject of trees from anatomy and physiology to trees as archetypal and sacred symbols.

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Jean Shinoda Bolen
2011
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Why Bother?

Why bother? That really is the big question facing us as individuals hoping to do something about climate change, and it’s not an easy one to answer.

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Michael Pollan
2008
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World as Lover, World as Self: Courage for Global Justice and Ecological Renewal

A new beginning for the environment must start with a new spiritual outlook. In this book, author Joanna Macy offers concrete suggestions for just that, showing how each of us can change the attitudes that continue to threaten our environment.

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Joanna Macy
2003
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Prosocial World

Thinking more explicitly about cultural catalysis can help to accomplish in years what otherwise would require decades or not take place at all. As we experiment with cultural catalysis, we need to make it fast and benign rather than fast and pathological for the common good.

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David Sloan Wilson
2021
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Still Hopeful: Lessons from a Lifetime of Activism

In this timely book, Canadian activist Maude Barlow counters the prevailing atmosphere of pessimism that surrounds us and offers lessons of hope that she has learned from a lifetime of activism.

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Maude Barlow
2022
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