I’d like your help with something, if you’ve got a minute.
I’m starting a little project called the Little Green Library. It’s based on the Little Free Libary idea, which I’m a big fan of, but with a climate literacy twist.
I’m planning to place boxes of books on green issues in a few public locations – cafes, schools, churches, maybe actual libraries if they’ll work with me. It’ll work on trust, like the Little Free Libraries do, and will hopefully encourage the reading and sharing of books on environmental and social themes.
So, as I put the pilot box together, what shall I put in it?
If you had to put a dozen books out there for a general audience, what would they be? What are your most recommended climate books? What was most helpful or inspiring?
Recommendations in the comments please!
The Earthbound Report 
Great idea. No particular order:
1. There is no planet B – Mike Berners-Lee
2. Riders on the Storm – Alastair McIntosh
3. Your book Climate Change is Racist
4. Ruth Valerio – Just Living
5. Too hot to handle? – Rebecca Willis
6. Prosperity without Growth – Tim Jackson
7. Laudato Si’ – Pope Francis
8. Wangari Maathai – Replenishing the Earth
9. Rupert Read – Parents for a Future
10. Mike Hulme – Climate Change
Thanks, some useful titles there.
From What Is to What If – Rob Hopkins
The World-Ending Fire – Wendell Berry
The Way Home – Mark Boyle
If Women Rose Rooted – Sharon Blackie
Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist – Paul Kingsnorth
Active Hope – Joanna Macy
I’d forgotten about Hopkins’ book, that’s a good idea – thanks!
Hi,
‘Regeneration’ by Paul Hawken is excellent and very inspiring.
‘We are the Weather’ by Joathan Safran Foer will make you eat less meat and convince others to do the same.
Thanks – I’m going to tailor the selection to different locations, and We are the Weather would be a good one to include in cafes. I really liked Regeneration too.
Naomi Klein – This Changes Everything
Great idea!
In my opinion you have to include Overstory by Richard Power. Others might be Wilding by Isabella Tree and The Future we Choose by Figueres/Rivett Carnac.
Interesting, I hadn’t really considered fiction, but why not? There’s a growing number we could include.
How Bad Are Bananas? by Mike Berners-Lee – a great book to dip into so good for a cafe library. L is for Lifestyle by Ruth Valerio is also a good one
Hope In Hell by Jonathan Porritt
A Christian Guide to Environmental Issues, by Martin & Margot Hodson
My daughter liked This Book Is Not Rubbish when she was about 10, be good to have some children’s books in there
Most of my suggestions are mentioned above so I will give some an extra vote; in no particular order
A World Ending Fire by Wendell Berry
Confessions of s recovering Environmentalist by Paul Kingsnorth
There is no Planet B by Mike Berners-Lee
Affluence and Abundance by James Suzman
Climate Justice by Mark Robinson
The Climate Generation by L Gold
What’s Really Happening to the Planet by Tony Juniper
This id not a Drill by Extinction Rebellion
No one is too small to make a difference by G Thunberg
Losing Earth by N Rich
Cherishing the Earth by M Hodson and M Hodson
The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells
Oikos : God’s big word for a small planet by A Francis
Time to act by J Williams
What we need to do now by Chris Goodall
The Future we choose by C Figures and T Rivett-Carmac
Too hot to handle by Rebecca Willis
Riders on the Storm by Alistair McIntosh
Entangled Life by Merlin Mandrake
Bible and Ecology by Richard Baukman
Net zero: how we stop causing climate change byDieter Helm
Why we disagree about climate change by Mike Hulme
radical hope by Jonathan Lear
A Life on Our Planet by David Attenborough
A Ministry for the Future by Tim Stanley Robinson
Climate Change is Racist by J Williams
How to think about Climate Change by Graham Parkes
Towards Oikos by Mark Dick
Don’t forget the kids. I used to read The Lorax (Dr Seuss) to my class every year. Brilliant expose of consmerism/capitalism from 1971
The Terrible Greedy Fossifoo is a good one for young children
Thanks, not heard of that one, but I like the author Charles Fuge. We have a couple of his on the shelves.