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 warm, honest case for staying put — and finding that your neighbourhood was always the right place to begin.

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.

A Swedish economist gave up everything to spend 17 years as a forest monk in Thailand. This is what he learned — and it may be the most useful book you read this year.

The book that launched the global Slow Movement — and twenty years later, it's more urgent than ever. Honoré diagnoses our addiction to speed with clarity, wit, and genuine hope that the cure is within reach.

The antidote to eco-anxiety: a funny, practical guide to going green without the guilt, the lectures, or the hair shirt.

A farmer-turned-ecologist's riotously funny and quietly radical account of dragging Britain's bureaucracy — kicking and screaming — into a world with beavers in it again.

Robert Macfarlane travels to three rivers on three continents to ask one of the most urgent questions of our time: what does it mean to call a river alive — and what happens when we do?

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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 reluctant billionaire who turned a climbing gear company into a blueprint for doing business as if the planet actually matters.

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.