Climate and Environmentalism Books
Our co-founders Luke and Agathe both worked in climate and sustainability jobs for well over a decade before starting Sherlock & Pages. Indeed, Agathe still continues her work in climate diplomacy for cities. Much to their frustration, they often noticed how poorly climate and environmental books were categorised. One homogenous blob of books vaguely nature related were presented to customers, often mixed with a bit of travel. As such, Sherlock & Pages have separated out Climate and Environmentalism books from our nature writing offer - although sometimes difficult - and created several curated sub-categories including ‘Environmental Philosophy’, ‘Climate Impacts,’ ‘Energy Futures,’ and more. In this way, we hope our bookshop can appeal to those with a particular interest in these topics - those who we also hope will play a significant role in building a better future for us all.
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Vendor:Akshat Rathi
Climate Capitalism : Winning the Global Race to Zero Emissions / "An important read for anyone in need of optimism" Bill Gates
Hailed as a top science and environment book by The Times and featuring on Prospect's Top Thinkers 2024 list, this groundbreaking work has garnered praise from luminaries like Bill Gates and David Wallace-Wells. The Financial Times lauds its engaging narratives of pivotal figures behind...- £20.00 GBP
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Vendor:Andreas Malm
How to Blow Up a Pipeline : Learning to Fight in a World on Fire
The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appeals, mass street protests, petition campaigns, and peaceful demonstrations, we are still facing a booming fossil fuel industry, rising seas, rising emission levels, and a rising...- £10.99 GBP
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Vendor:Mikaela Loach
It's Not That Radical : Climate Action to Transform Our World
Crowned with Bookshop.org's Non-Fiction Annual Indie Champions Award, this groundbreaking work challenges the sanitised portrayal of climate action in mainstream media. Mikaela Loach exposes how environmental efforts have been diluted to fit within the confines of capitalism—a system that prioritises profit over all else....- £16.99 GBP
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Vendor:Leah Thomas
The Intersectional Environmentalist : How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet
Essential brain food' CondAc Nast Traveler'As much a manifesto as a guide' Los Angeles Times'Read this book and save the planet' Soho House NotesOne of Business Insider's Most Anticipated Non-fiction Books of 2022We cannot save the planet without uplifting the voices of its people...- £12.99 GBP
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Vendor:Michael E. Mann
The New Climate War : the fight to take back our planet
Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, and one of The Observer's `Thirty books to help us understand the world'. Are we really to blame for the climate crisis? Over 70 per cent of global emissions come from...- £10.99 GBP
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Vendor:Naomi Klein
This Changes Everything : Capitalism vs. the Climate
Naomi Klein, author of the #1 international bestsellers, The Shock Doctrine and No Logo, returns with This Changes Everything, a must-read on how the climate crisis needs to spur transformational political changeForget everything you think you know about global warming. It's not about carbon...- £14.99 GBP
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Vendor:William MacAskill
What We Owe The Future : The Sunday Times Bestseller
The challenges we face are enormous. But we�can still secure a positive future for our planet, and for everyone on it. In What We Owe The Future, philosopher William MacAskill persuasively argues for longtermism, the idea that positively influencing the distant future is a...- £10.99 GBP
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Vendor:Greta Thunberg
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
The history-making, ground-breaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young activist who has become the voice of a generation'Everything needs to change. And it has to start today' In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not to go to school one day....- £3.99 GBP
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Vendor:Johan Rockstrom
Breaking Boundaries : The Science of Our Planet
On the brink of a critical moment in human history, this book presents a vision of "planetary stewardship" - a rethinking of our relationship with our planet - and plots a new course for our future. The authors, whose work is the subject of...- £12.99 GBP
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Vendor:Elizabeth Kolbert
The Sixth Extinction : An Unnatural History
________________WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION________________'An invaluable contribution to our understanding of present circumstances, just as the paradigm shift she calls for is sorely needed' - Al Gore, New York Times'Compelling ... It is a disquieting tale, related with rigour and...- £12.99 GBP
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Vendor:Timothy Morton
Being Ecological
To read Being Ecological is to be caught up in a brilliant display of intellectual pyrotechnics' P.D.Smith, GuardianWhy is everything we think we know about ecology wrong?Is there really any difference between 'humans' and 'nature'?Does this mean we even have a future?Don't care about...- £10.99 GBP
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Vendor:DK
Simply Climate Change
Understanding climate change like never before!Explore and understand the intriguing science behind climate change. Gain valuable knowledge on why climate change is occurring, one of the planet's most challenging issues, and analyse possible solutions. Simply Climate Change is the perfect guide for a clear...- £9.99 GBP
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Vendor:Mark Shayler
You Can't Make Money From a Dead Planet : The Sustainable Method for Driving Profits
Doing good is no longer a luxury or a 'nice to have', it's a necessity. While businesses, both big and small, have undoubtedly caused the majority of our environmental and sustainability problems, only they can solve these issues at scale. You Can't Make Money...- £12.99 GBP
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Vendor:Vanessa Chakour
Awakening Artemis : Deepening Intimacy with the Living Earth and Reclaiming Our Wild Nature
We all come from different cultures and practice different spiritual traditions, but we have one thing in common: we are all of the earth. Vanessa Chakour, founder of the rewilding programme Sacred Warrior, takes us on a journey to deepen our relationship with ourselves...- £16.99 GBP
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Vendor:Tori Tsui
It's Not Just You
Greta Thunberg declares this book a global necessity, whilst Mikaela Loach hails it as an invigorating breath of fresh air. Vogue recognises Tori Tsui's groundbreaking approach to mental health and climate crisis discourse, and Vanessa Nakate deems it essential reading for those seeking to...- £16.99 GBP
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Vendor:Julian Aguon
No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies : With an introduction by Arundhati Roy
A powerful, beautiful book. Its fierce love - of the land, the ocean, the elders and the ancestors - warms the heart and moves the spirit.' - Alice Walker, author of The Color PurplePart memoir, part manifesto, Chamorro climate activist Julian Aguon's No Country...- £16.99 GBP
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Vendor:Nick Jelley
Renewable Energy : A Very Short Introduction
Energy is vital for a good standard of living, and much of the world's population does not have enough. Affordable and adequate sources of power that do not cause climate change or pollution are crucial; and renewables provide the answer. Wind and solar farms...- £8.99 GBP
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Vendor:Simon Mundy
Race for Tomorrow : A Journey Through the Front Lines of the Climate Fight
As featured on CNN's Amanpour & Company and BBC Radio 4's Start the Week with Andrew Marr One of the Financial Times' best books of 2021 In this compelling journey through twenty-six countries, Simon Mundy traces how the struggle to respond to the climate...- £10.99 GBP
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Vendor:Tim Smedley
The Last Drop : Solving the World's Water Crisis
The Times Book of the Year pick'Smart, sobering, and scholarly.' - Steve Brusatte, the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of DinosaursA gripping, thought-provoking and ultimately optimistic investigation into the world's next great climate crisis - the scarcity of water. Water...- £20.00 GBP
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Vendor:Christiana Figueres
The Future We Choose : 'Everyone should read this book' MATT HAIG
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Everyone should read this book' MATT HAIG'One of the most inspiring books I have ever read' YUVAL NOAH HARARI'Inspirational, compassionate and clear. The time to read this is NOW' MARK RUFFALO'Figueres and Rivett-Carnac dare to tell us how our response can...- £12.99 GBP
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Vendor:Elizabeth Kolbert
Under a White Sky : Can we save the natural world in time?
The author of the international bestseller The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: after doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it?Meet the biologists trying to save the world's rarest fish; the engineers...- £9.99 GBP
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Vendor:Jonathan Maxwell
The Edge : How competition for resources is pushing the world, and its climate, to the brink - and what we can do about it.
We Are At the Edge, Not the End, of HistoryWhy did Russia invade Ukraine? Why have energy costs and inflation been so high? Why is there is there a cost-of-living crisis? Why does the climate crisis keep getting worse? What causes conflict, socio-economic crises,...- £25.00 GBP
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Vendor:Georgina Wilson-Powell
365 Ways to Save the Planet : A Day-by-day Guide to Sustainable Living
Step up your sustainability and unlock your full eco potential with 365 easy, trackable changes. What if sustainability didn't have to be so complicated? 365 Ways to Save the Planet cuts through the noise and explains exactly how to live a "greener" lifestyle day...- £14.99 GBP
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Vendor:Mr Eric Lonergan
Supercharge Me : Net Zero Faster
Almost everyone agrees on the need to transition the global economy to net zero. But how do we do it? And how do we do it faster? If you feel demoralized, depressed or confused about the climate crisis this book will provide answers -...- £12.99 GBP
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Vendor:Tom Heap
39 Ways to Save the Planet
We got ourselves into this. Here's how we can get ourselves out. We know the problem: the amount of biodiversity loss, the scale of waste and pollution, the amount of greenhouse gas we pump into the air... it's unsustainable. We have to do something....- £12.99 GBP
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Vendor:Assaad Razzouk
Saving the Planet Without the Bullsh*t : What They Don't Tell You About the Climate Crisis
Fast paced and energetic' Financial Times'Punchy, provocative and wonderfully readable' - David Shukman'Eye-popping and essential' - Rowan Hooper'A must-read' - Peter Stott Have you heard that you should plant trees to save the planet? Or buy carbon offsets when you fly? Or recycle plastic?...- £10.99 GBP
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Vendor:Alice Bell
Our Biggest Experiment : A History of the Climate Crisis - SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION WRITING
The history of climate change research - how the world became addicted to fossil fuels, how we discovered that electricity may be our saviour, and how renewable energy is far from a 20th-century discovery. Did you know the link between carbon dioxide and global...- £11.99 GBP
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Vendor:Nathaniel Rich
Losing Earth : The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change
�_~Nathaniel Rich�_Ts account starts in Washington in the 1990s and tells the story of how climate change could have been stopped back then, if only the powerful had acted. But they didn�_Tt want to.�_T �_" Observer By 1979, we knew all that we know...- £9.99 GBP
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Vendor:Colm O’Regan
Climate Worrier : A Hypocrite's Guide to Saving the Planet
Bestselling author Colm O'Regan is a worrier. A professional one. Caution is his watchword. Risk aversion is his love language. Now Colm is grappling with the biggest worry of all: the whole `planet being on fire' thing and how exactly we can help. Don't...- £9.99 GBP
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Vendor:Jemma Wadham
Ice Rivers : A Story of Glaciers, Wilderness and Humanity
Longlisted for the Wainwright PrizeShortlisted for the Richard Jeffries AwardThe story of one woman's passion for glaciersAs one of the world's leading glaciologists, Professor Jemma Wadham has devoted her career to the glaciers that cover one-tenth of the Earth's land surface. Today, however, these...- £12.99 GBP
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Top Climate and Environmentalism Books for Eco-Conscious Readers
More people are becoming environmentally aware and want to live more sustainably. This growing interest in green living has led to greater demand for books about climate change, environmentalism, conservation, and going zero waste. Our collection of climate and environmentalism books has something for everyone, from thought-provoking nonfiction to inspiring memoirs.
Learn about the science behind climate change and the state of the environment. Gain insights from visionary thinkers leading grassroots green movements. Discover practical tips for reducing your carbon footprint at home. Find motivation to get involved and be part of the solution to our planetary crisis.
It's easy to feel overwhelmed in the face of the climate emergency. But knowledge is power. Our handpicked selection of the best books on climate and environmentalism will give you a deeper understanding of the problems we face - and reasons to feel hopeful about creating a sustainable future.