Environment Books
Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle's Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching exploration of different kinds of intelligence--plant…
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, and set…
Energy and Civilization: A History
A comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society throughout history, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel-…
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed civilizations, and fed our ingenuity and greed…
The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch
How would you go about rebuilding a technological society from scratch? If our technological society collapsed tomorrow, perhaps from a vir…
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year Award. A…
How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors . . . If you want a brief but thorough ed…
Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
The hidden costs of artificial intelligence, from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality, and freedom “Eloquent, clear and profou…
Abundance
From bestselling authors and journalistic titans Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, Abundance is a once-in-a-generation, paradigm-shifting call to ret…
The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
A revelatory look at our national power grid--how it developed, its current flaws, and how it must be completely reimagined for our fast-approachi…