Recommended Reading
Recommended Reading
Below, you will find a long list of books recommended by SSAFE members. To make finding your next book to read easier, we have provided a search tool by title, ISBN, category, or author. Browse all books or narrow your choices by using the options below.
Showing 1-20 of 47 Books
No More Plastic 
Can You Hear the Trees Talking? Discovering the Hidden Life of the Forest
(Ages 14-20)
Categories: Children's and Young Adult, Nature
The Second Life of Trees 
Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt 
Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming
Categories: Environmental Economics, Science and Environment
What We Know About Climate Change 
What Can I Do?: My Path from Climate Despair to Action
Inspired by Greta Thunberg and informed by Naomi Klein’s new book, On Fire, about the Green New Deal, Fonda has produced a readable, practical book filled with ideas for how each of us can make a difference before it’s too late.
Categories: Biographies and Memoirs, Science and Environment
The Water Will Come 
The Uninhabitable Earth 
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
Having detailed the coming man-made climate disaster in her Pulitzer-winning The Sixth Extinction, Kolbert explores the costs of trying to repair the mess by more manipulation of Mother Nature. “By turns inspiring, terrifying, and darkly comic,” says the jacket.
Categories: Science and Environment
Sustainable Nation: Urban Design Patterns for the Future 
The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where We Go from Here
Categories: Science and Environment
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History 
On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal
Categories: Policy and Politics, Science and Environment
Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency 
Net Zero: How We Stop Causing Climate Change
Categories: Climate Change Impacts:, Policy and Politics, Science and Environment
Natural Capital: Valuing the Planet 
Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril
Arguing that more than even a scientific or technical challenge, climate change is a moral challenge, and that moral arguments are a primary necessity. This staggering collection brings us Thomas Berry, Desmond Tutu, Sally McFague, Robin Kimmerer, Brian Doyle and dozens of others.
Categories: Ethics and Morality, Science and Environment
Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway 
Losing Earth: A Recent History 
