Books for Sustainability Champions

Thanks to Vartika Goel who shared it with in Nadhi group, and Venkat who compiled the list!

1. The ministry for the future - science fiction.

2. The story of more - short read about overconsumption.

3. The limits to growth - A little long but very good book on systems thinking

4. Braiding sweetgrass - A little long again but was a completely different world for me - learning form indigenous people and their practices

5. Climate capitalism - Good overview of solutions

6. How to save our planet - Not very deep but a good starter

7. The sixth extinction

8. Nutmegs curse - Good read that brings out a lot of nuanced issues

9. The Age of Sustainable Development Book by Jeffrey D Sachs (You also have a course on edx platform https://www.edx.org/learn/sustainable-development/sdg-academy-age-of-sustainable-development)

10. The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Whollben

11. Finding the mother tree by Suzanne Simard

12. Bill Gates’ How to Avoid Climate Disaster (a good primer but gets some criticism for pushing tech in which he has personally invested + for not addressing honestly how much billionaires/industries disproportionately hurt the environment IIRC)

13. Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan to Reverse Global Warming - By Paul Hawken, Katharine Wilkinson

14. The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future - By David Wallace-Wells

15. Creating Climate Wealth: Unlocking the Impact Economy By Jigar Shah

16. The Wizard and the Prophet (an incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped our ideas about the environment.)

17. Confessions of an Eco-Sinner: Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff (https://amzn.in/d/9y6DYh1)

18. What If We Get It Right? Visions of Climate Futures by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

19. How much should a person consume: Ramachandra Guha

20. A Life Stripped Bare by Leo Hickman

21. Wasteland (on waste management, which opens up the conversation on circularity).

22. Margin lands by Arati Kumar ..(not directly related to climate though)

23. Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake (Not strictly related to climate)

24. Waste-free world by Ron Gonen

25. Drawdown by Paul Hawken—100 solutions to reverse climate change

26. Conflicts of Interest by Sunita Narain-not strictly about climate but about corporate-public interest conflicts.

27. This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein--about the global climate and climate denial movement.

28. Silent Spring - Rachel Carson

29. The Climate Solution by Mridula Ramesh--good overview, a bit dated

I’m yet to read these books. But I hope the list helps you in choosing a book related to sustainability :)