🌾 Sustainability

A major international report makes the economic case that climate action and economic growth are not in tension — they are mutually reinforcing. The false trade-off has been the most powerful myth in climate politics.

A journalist travels the world to find out what we will eat when climate change, water scarcity, and land degradation strain global food systems — and discovers more resilience than she expected.

Kim Stanley Robinson's sprawling novel imagines a near-future organisation charged with representing future generations in international climate negotiations — and what it actually takes to decarbonise civilisation.

Legendary Silicon Valley investor John Doerr applies OKR (Objectives and Key Results) methodology to the climate crisis — with specific, measurable targets for reaching net zero by 2050.

The follow-up to Drawdown offers a systems-based vision of climate solutions rooted in life — regenerating ecosystems, communities, and economies rather than merely reducing harm.

A data scientist at Our World in Data argues that environmental progress is real, measurable, and underreported — and that despair is not only inaccurate but counterproductive.

The story of the decade (1979–1989) when humanity had everything it needed to solve climate change — and failed to do so — told as investigative narrative history.

Bill Gates applies the same analytical rigour that built Microsoft to the question of climate change — producing a clear, data-driven plan for reaching net zero that prioritises innovation and investment.

41 women climate leaders — scientists, farmers, writers, activists — contribute essays and poems on the climate crisis, its solutions, and what it means to do this work.

An environmental humanities professor offers tools for staying engaged with climate work without burning out — grounded in social science, therapy, and lived experience.

Annie Leonard traces the lifecycle of consumer goods from extraction to disposal and exposes the true cost of a system designed to generate maximum throughput rather than maximum wellbeing.

Elizabeth Cline's practical follow-up to Overdressed: how to build a wardrobe you love that doesn't cost the earth — with a guide to secondhand shopping, fabric quality, and industry reform.

The founder of fair trade fashion brand People Tree makes the case for slow fashion as an industry reform movement — rich in inspiration, lighter on the systemic analysis.

Michael Pollan's first book: a gardener's education that becomes a philosophical inquiry into wilderness, cultivation, and what it means to tend a place.

Elizabeth Cline investigates the true cost of cheap fashion — the factories, the fibres, the labour, the landfills — and asks how we ended up buying more clothes than any generation in history while caring about them less.

Kate Raworth proposes a new economic model shaped like a doughnut — with a social foundation below which no one should fall and a planetary ceiling above which we dare not go.

An architect and a chemist argue that waste itself is the wrong concept — that a world designed the way nature designs would have no waste at all.