Estrogeneration

This book is all about the endocrine disruptors around us in everything from beauty products, cleaning products, and even plastic.

It’s a total eye-opener and really drives home how living a zero-waste lifestyle is healthier for you and the planet.

I can’t wait to see how this little club evolves and grows, and I really hope that you’ll be joining me for book #1!

What If We Get It Right?

Ever imagine a future where strong climate policy is put into place and the earth is thriving for it? You can, thanks to this book. 

Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson has assembled a collection of essays and conversations on possible climate futures. This collection of interviews, data, poetry and art will ground and inspire you to help advocate a just future for us all. 

And if you still don’t know where you fit into everything, she invites you to ask three simple questions to help you find your role in a positive climate future: what brings you joy; what work needs doing; and what are you good at? That’s your climate action. 

Climate Optimism

If you’re sick of doomscrolling, give this book a read. Zahra Biabani provides tangible systemic solutions we can all take beyond individual and lifestyle changes. 

We all need to do our part – and not give up on the climate crisis. Biabani advocates for changing how we think about the climate to implement nature-based solutions.  

And while headlines news can leave us feeling bleak, it’s important to remember there are so many people doing good all over the world. Biabani provides two years worth of good news from her Weekly Earth Wins series to prove it!

Saving Us

If you’ve ever wondered how to broach the subject of climate change with people in your circle, this is the book for you. Katharine Hayhoe knows how to navigate all sides of the conversation on our changing planet. And she shows you how to as well. 

With so much division in the world, sometimes it can be daunting to engage in climate talks with argumentative friends and family.

But Hayhoe does a wonderful job of illustrating how interconnected we all are – whether we realize it or not – and how we can make climate action relevant to every circle (even things like sports!). 

It’s Not That Radical

We can’t have climate action without climate justice. For too long, mainstream media has white-washed, green-washed and diluted solutions to be made compatible with capitalism. But profit shouldn’t come before planet (or its people!). 

Mikaela Loach offers real climate action that could help dismantle oppressive systems that harm both people and planet. Because tackling the climate crisis also requires us to visit the roots of poverty, capitalist exploitation and environmental racism.  

Her ideas offer accessible climate justice that would benefit us all – not just a select few. 

Sustainability: A History

I love history and etymology, so I found this book fascinating!

This book tracks the origins of the word Sustainability and how it’s become used so prevalently in our modern society.

The term ‘sustainability’ was first used in the 1600s.

This might sound like a dry textbook read, but I promise it’s not.

It’s really entertaining, and I think it lays a good groundwork for understanding the challenges we’ve faced in the past and how they’re very much tied to the future.

Braiding Sweetgrass

This book is one of my all time favorites. It’s a beautiful love story written to the Earth written by Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer and reflects on her life as an Indigenous woman and scientist.

She circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world.

For only when we can hear the languages of other beings, will we be capable of understanding the generosity of the earth and learn to give our own gifts in return.

Story of Stuff

This book takes a deep look at systems, processes, manufacturing, and even the advertising of STUFF. The things we buy and how this is fueling the climate crisis.

Annie Leonard highlights each step of the materials economy and its actual effect on the earth and the people who live near sites like these.

She shares concrete steps for taking action at the individual and political level to bring about sustainability, community health, and economic justice. 

All We Can Save

This book is a must read. It combines the expertise and insights of diverse women leading on climate all across the U.S.

It’s an amazing book that focuses on solutions and collective action through personal essays, art, and poetry.

Featuring scientists, journalists, farmers, lawyers, teachers, activists, innovators, wonks, and designers across generations, geographies, and race, it aims to advance a more representative, nuanced, and solution-oriented conversation to rapidly reshape society.

A Terrible Thing to Waste

This book takes a deep dive into environmental racism — a confluence of racism and other institutional factors that relegate marginalized communities to living and working near sites of toxic waste, pollution, and insufficient sanitation services.

Award-winning science writer Harriet A. Washington investigates heavy metals, neuro-toxins, deficient prenatal care, and bad nutrition to explain why communities of color are disproportionately affected — and what can be done to remedy this devastating problem.

Doughnut Economics

Oxford academic Kate Raworth identifies seven critical ways in which mainstream economics has led us astray.

She creates a new, cutting-edge economic model that is fit for the 21st century — one in which a doughnut-shaped compass points the way to meet the needs of all within our planetary means.

Doughnut Economics promises to reframe and redraw the future of economics for a new generation.

The Overstory

The Overstory is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of — and paean to — the natural world.

From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

101 Ways to Go Zero Waste

I wrote a book! 101 Ways to Go Zero Waste is a non-judgmental, beginners handbook for eco-friendly and sustainable living.

It’s full of 101 tips + a bunch of never before seen recipes for beauty, cleaning, and food scraps. Read it cover to cover, or jump to the page/question that pertains to you at that moment.

It’s the beginners’ guide I wish I had when I started this zero waste journey, and I hope it does the trick for you!