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Summer Reads: 10 New Environmental Memoirs, Novels, and Other Energizing Books

Gather up some of these environmentally focused books for your vacation or staycation and enhance your summer break with restorative and refreshing new perspectives.
May 28, 2025
by
Colleen M. Crary, Ph.D.
Gather up some of these environmentally focused books for your vacation or staycation and enhance your summer break with restorative and refreshing new perspectives.
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Environmental Books

Feeling Anxiety About Climate Change and Other Environmental Threats? These Five New Books Can Help

Advice to help recharge your momentum and resilience makes these books must-reads for anyone who feels helpless or hopeless about climate chaos.
May 2, 2025
by
Colleen M. Crary, Ph.D.
Advice to help recharge your momentum and resilience makes these books must-reads for anyone who feels helpless or hopeless about climate chaos.
Environmental Books

This Land Is Our Land: New Books About Public Lands, the Threats They Face, and Their Ecological Importance

These new books cover challenges to our shared land, ranging from Indigenous appropriation to current corporate grabs.
April 16, 2025
by
John R. Platt and Colleen M. Crary, Ph.D.
These new books cover challenges to our shared land, ranging from Indigenous appropriation to current corporate grabs.
Environmental Books

How Will Your Garden Grow? New Books to Inspire Your Home Gardening, Landscaping, and Community Green Spaces

Start your transformative journey of creating sustainable plantscapes that embrace native, non-invasive, pro-pollinator plant species.
March 12, 2025
by
Colleen M. Crary, Ph.D.
Start your transformative journey of creating sustainable plantscapes that embrace native, non-invasive, pro-pollinator plant species.
Environmental Books

Comics for Earth: Eight New Graphic Novels About Saving the Planet and Celebrating Wildlife

These new comics collections use satire, poetry, and science to shine a light on human failures — and who and what we need to save.
February 28, 2025
by
John R. Platt
These new comics collections use satire, poetry, and science to shine a light on human failures — and who and what we need to save.
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Environmental Books

19 Books About Wolves

These howling good books examine how we’ve persecuted wolves, how we’ve helped to restore them, and how they embody humanity’s relationship with nature.
January 23, 2025
by
John R. Platt and Colleen M. Crary, Ph.D.
These howling good books examine how we’ve persecuted wolves, how we’ve helped to restore them, and how they embody humanity’s relationship with nature.
Environmental Books

Revelator Reads Bonus: 280+ Environmental Books Published in 2024

This year brought essential reading on climate change, endangered species, ecology, environmental justice, and other important topics about protecting the planet.
December 17, 2024
by
John R. Platt
This year brought essential reading on climate change, endangered species, ecology, environmental justice, and other important topics about protecting the planet.
Environmental Books

20 Environmental Books to Inspire You in the Year Ahead

Our latest group of reviews showcases books that remind us about what we’re saving — and why we do it.
December 11, 2024
by
John R. Platt
Our latest group of reviews showcases books that remind us about what we’re saving — and why we do it.
Environmental Books

20 Books to Help Prepare for Trump 2.0

Whether they’re primers on environmental activism or a series on resisting autocrats, these books offer a chance to study up for the bumpy years ahead.
November 8, 2024
by
John R. Platt
Whether they’re primers on environmental activism or a series on resisting autocrats, these books offer a chance to study up for the bumpy years ahead.
Environmental Books

12 New Environmental Books You Need to Read This Autumn

The season brings important new books by climate scientists, conservationists, activists, and novelists.
October 18, 2024
by
John R. Platt
The season brings important new books by climate scientists, conservationists, activists, and novelists.

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