We Are The Weather
By Jonathan Safran Foer Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming due to human activities. But do those of us who accept the reality of human-caused climate...
Category: Green Books
Novacene – The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence
By: James Lovelock James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis and environmental thinker, has produced a new theory about future of life on Earth. At the age of 100, he argues that the Anthropocene—the...
The Beachcomber’s Guide to Marine Debris
By: Michael Stachowitsch This richly illustrated book serves as the ideal guide to the items that litter the world’s beaches. Forget sea shells and other fauna and flora. Here, you will find what a...
On Infertile Ground: Population Control and Women’s Rights in the Era of Climate Change
By: Jade S. Sasser A critique of population control narratives reproduced by international development actors in the 21st century Since the turn of the millennium, American media, scientists, and environmental activists have insisted that...
A New Reality: Human Evolution for a Sustainable Future
By: Dr. Jonas Salk, Dr. Jonathan Salk and David Dewane A New Reality: Human Evolution for a Sustainable Future provides a startling, fresh new message of understanding, perspective and hope for today’s tense, rapid-fire,...
Balancing Green: When to Embrace Sustainability in a Business (and When Not To)
By: Yossi Sheffi, with Edgar Blanco An expert on business strategy offers a pragmatic take on how businesses of all sizes balance the competing demands of profitability and employment with sustainability. The demands and...
Eat for the Planet: Saving the World One Bite at a Time
By: Nil Zacharias and Gene Stone Do you consider yourself an environmental ally? Maybe you recycle your household goods, ride a bike, and avoid too much air travel. But did you know that the...
The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
By: Jeff Goodell What if Atlantis wasn’t a myth, but an early precursor to a new age of great flooding? Across the globe, scientists and civilians alike are noticing rapidly rising sea levels, and...
Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis
By George Monbiot A toxic ideology of extreme competition and individualism has come to dominate our world. It misrepresents human nature, destroying hope and common purpose. Only a positive vision can replace it, a...
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
By: Paul Hawken The 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the world. In the face of widespread fear and apathy, an international...
Never Out of Season
Never Out of Season: How Having the Food We Want When We Want It Threatens Our Food Supply and Our Future By Rob Dunn The bananas we eat today aren’t your parents’ bananas: We...
Annual State Of India’s Environment – SOE 2017
This is the fourth Annual report from Down To Earth. Each chapter has relevant articles that deal with current developments and related archival material from CSE’s more than 30 years of research. This makes...
Dangerous Years: Climate Change, the Long Emergency, and the Way Forward
By David W. Orr A leading environmental thinker takes a hard look at the obstacles and possibilities on the long road to sustainability. This gripping, deeply thoughtful book considers future of civilisation in the...
Green Signals: Ecology, Growth, and Democracy in India
By Jairam Ramesh The debate on whether to privilege economic growth over ecological security is passé. Environmental considerations must be at the heart of economic growth, especially for a country of 1.25 billion people...
Why I Should Be Tolerant
By: Sunita Narain Written by noted environmentalist and writer Sunita Narain, “Why I Should Be Tolerant” is a quasi-autobiographical book which chronicles the global development discourse from the 20th and 21st centuries. Narain, who...
“Alice, the Zeta Cat and Climate Change”: A fairytale about the truth
On a school field trip to Potsdam’s Telegraph Hill, Alice runs after a white rabbit – and falls into a hole, sliding down the ventilation shaft of a climate research institute’s supercomputer. From here...
The Greening of Asia: The Business Case for Solving Asia’s Environmental Emergency
By: Mark L. Clifford One of Asia’s best-respected writers on business and economy, Hong Kong-based author Mark L. Clifford provides a behind-the-scenes look at what companies in China, India, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia,...
TERI Photobook 2014
TERI is a not for profit research institution working in the field of energy, environment and sustainable development. Their success could not have been possible without the support from supporters and partners. Therefore, in...
Unnatural Selection – How We Are Changing Life, Gene by Gene
By: Dr. Emily Monosson PhD In Unnatural Selection, Emily Monosson shows how our drugs, pesticides, and pollution are exerting intense selection pressure on all manner of species. The author reveals that the very code...
The Soil Will Save Us
by Kristin Ohlson Thousands of years of poor farming and ranching practices—and, especially, modern industrial agriculture—have led to the loss of up to 80 percent of carbon from the world’s soils. That carbon is...
