Editor's Picks

What happens to your donated clothes, appliances, and furniture? Minter follows the global secondhand trade from American donation bins to markets in Ghana, Japan, and Mexico.

A journalist who grew up in the scrap trade takes you inside the global recycling industry — and forces a reckoning with what 'recycling' actually means.

Fermentation, scrap cooking, seasonal eating — Bonneau makes zero-waste cooking feel like the obvious and delicious way to cook.

The sailor who discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch tells the story of plastic's invasion of the world's oceans — and makes the case for why it matters.

The definitive account of how the American West built a civilization on borrowed water — and the reckoning that has been building ever since.

A Georgia writer's memoir interweaves her hardscrabble childhood with an elegy for the longleaf pine forests that once covered the American Southeast.

Klein's argument that climate change isn't a problem to be solved within the existing economic system — it's a crisis created by it.

Why did Easter Island's civilization collapse? And what does it tell us about our own?

The first book to explain climate change to a general audience — written in 1989, it reads like it was written yesterday.

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 physician's rigorous, practical framework for extending both lifespan and healthspan — the most comprehensive popular guide to longevity science published this decade.

The definitive two-volume manual for designing food forest systems — Vol. 1 presents the vision and ecological principles that make forest gardening the most productive sustainable food system available.

Wendell Berry's enduring indictment of industrial agriculture — and a vision of what farming could be when it takes care of land, community, and culture together.

The forest ecologist whose research changed how we understand trees tells her own story — of discovery, resistance, and the intelligence beneath our feet.

Vicki Robin's landmark book on financial independence: the system that asks you to calculate the true hourly cost of your work — and then decide whether your spending is worth that price in life energy.

The story of the Knepp Estate rewilding project — the most documented and significant rewilding experiment in lowland England, and the book that made rewilding credible to farmers.

A doctor and researcher eats only ultra-processed food for a month and documents what happens to his body, his brain, and his appetite — then explains the industrial system that made this food.

The most comprehensive and unflinching account of what climate change will actually do to human civilization — chapter by devastating chapter.

The chef of Blue Hill at Stone Barns asks what food should look like when it's truly designed around the farm — not the other way around.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that weaves nine human lives into the life of trees — the most important environmental fiction since Steinbeck.

The definitive encyclopaedia of fermentation — every tradition, every food, every vessel — written by the man who brought fermentation back to the home kitchen.

E.F. Schumacher's 1973 argument that the modern obsession with scale, growth, and efficiency is destroying the human scale of economic life — and what economics as if people mattered would look like instead.

Elizabeth Kolbert travels the world documenting the sixth mass extinction as it happens — and finds humanity's fingerprints everywhere.

Annie Dillard spends a year watching a Virginia creek with furious, unblinking attention — and writes one of the great works of American prose.

Michael Pollan traces four meals from source to table — and in doing so, rewires how you think about every bite you take.

Seven words that cut through fifty years of nutritional confusion: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

A grief memoir, a natural history of the goshawk, and an investigation of T.H. White — three extraordinary books braided into one.

A passionate, rigorous case for letting nature run wild again — the rewilding manifesto that launched a movement.

Greg McKeown argues that the disciplined pursuit of less — doing fewer things, better — is not a productivity hack but a different way of approaching every decision.

An extraordinary journey into the kingdom of fungi — the hidden network that underlies all life on land and challenges every assumption we have about individuality and intelligence.

Jonathan Safran Foer investigates the animal agriculture industry and confronts the question every meat-eater eventually faces: can you know this and keep eating animals?

A rigorous, hopeful catalogue of the 100 most effective solutions to climate change — ranked by impact, costed out, and ready to implement.

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.

The book that gave conservation its moral philosophy — Aldo Leopold's land ethic remains the most important ecological ethics ever articulated.

The book that launched the modern environmental movement — still urgent sixty years on.

A Japanese farmer's radical manifesto for doing less — and growing more — by working with nature rather than against it.

A botanist weaves Indigenous plant knowledge with Western science into one of the most beautiful books about the natural world ever written.