A Year of No Garbage

A Year of No Garbage

In this book, Eve O. Schaub tackles her most difficult challenge to date: garbage. Schaub and her family attempt the seemingly impossible: living in the modern world without creating any trash at all. For an entire year. And- as it turns out- during a pandemic. Recommended by Beyond Plastics.

Count Down

Count Down

By Shanna H. Swan and Stacey Colino In the tradition of Silent Spring and The Sixth Extinction, an urgent, “disturbing, empowering, and essential” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) book about the ways in which chemicals in the modern environment are changing—and endangering—human sexuality and fertility on the grandest scale, from renowned epidemiologist Shanna Swan.

Sicker, Fatter, Poorer: The Urgent Threat of Hormone-disrupting Chemicals on Our Health and Future… and what We Can Do about it.

Sicker, Fatter, Poorer: The Urgent Threat of Hormone-disrupting Chemicals on Our Health and Future… and what We Can Do about it.

By Leonardo Trasande A leading voice in public health policy and top environmental medicine scientist reveals the alarming truth about how hormone-disrupting chemicals are affecting our daily lives—and what we can do to protect ourselves and fight back.

A Poison Like No Other

A Poison Like No Other

Matt Simon reveals a whole new dimension to the plastic crisis. The thing that makes plastic so useful–its toughness–means it never really goes away. It just gets smaller and smaller: eventually small enough to enter your lungs or penetrate a fish’s muscle tissue before it becomes dinner.

Plastic: A Toxic Love Story

Plastic: A Toxic Love Story

Freinkel treks through history, science and the global economy to assess the real impact of plastic in our lives through eight familiar plastic objects. Each one illuminates a different facet of our synthetic world to give us a new way of thinking about a substance that has become the defining medium—and metaphor—of our age. 

No More Plastic

No More Plastic

(Ages 4-7) A young girl takes action against ocean pollution in a timely story with unique plastic-waste diorama art from award-winning author-illustrator Alma Fullerton. No More Plastic is a moving, eye-catching, and ultimately hopeful reminder that the health of our oceans—and our planet—is in our hands.