Nature & the Environment
Top books in Nature & Environment

Top books in Nature & Environment

Classic Blinks on the essentials of nature and the environment

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Nature & the Environment
If you want to have a broad understanding of nature and and our impact on it, then this collection of Blinks is your starting place! From trees and animals, to the effects of farming and fossil fuels—learn more about the complex web of connections that we are merely one part of.

Top books in Nature & Environment

Classic Blinks on the essentials of nature and the environment

The Sixth Extinction
The Sixth Extinction
Elizabeth Kolbert
An Unnatural History
4.1
Should We Eat Meat?
Should We Eat Meat?
Vaclav Smil
Evolution and Consequences of Modern Carnivory
20 min3.3
On the Origin of Species
On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
By Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
23 min4.6
Green Illusions
Green Illusions
Ozzy Zehner
The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism (Our Sustainable Future)
26 min3.7
The Hidden Life of Trees
The Hidden Life of Trees
Peter Wohlleben
What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from a Secret World
21 min4.6
Scale
Scale
Geoffrey West
The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
23 min3.9
Adventures in the Anthropocene
Adventures in the Anthropocene
Gaia Vince
A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made
30 min4.2
Silent spring
Silent spring
Rachel Carson
Teaser: The Classic that Moved the Environmental Movement
14 min4.5
Walden
Walden
Henry David Thoreau
Life in the Woods
20 min4.6
Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels
Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels
Ian Morris
How Human Values Evolve
22 min4.0
The Inner Life of Animals
The Inner Life of Animals
Peter Wohlleben
Love, Grief, and Compassion―Surprising Observations of a Hidden World
24 min4.5
Cradle to Cradle
Cradle to Cradle
William McDonough, Michael Braungart
Re-making the way we make things
16 min4.3

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