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Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came Into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming

10 best books like Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came Into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming (Paul Hawken): Silent Spring, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate, Marie Antoinette: The Journey, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late, The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World, The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century, Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in without Going Crazy, The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World

Silent Spring
AuthorRachel Carson
ISBN0618249060
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in June of 1962. The book appeared in September of that year and the outcry that followed its publication forced the banning of DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land,...
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
AuthorNaomi Klein
ISBN1451697384
Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It's not about carbon – it's about capitalism. The good news is that we can seize this crisis to transform our failed economic system and build something radically better.

In her most provocative book yet, Naomi Klein, author of...
Marie Antoinette: The Journey
AuthorAntonia Fraser
ISBN0307277747
Brilliantly written, a work of impeccable scholarship. An utterly riveting and intensely moving book by one of our finest biographers.

Never before has the life of Marie Antoinette been told so intimately and with such authority as in Antonia Fraser's newest work, Marie Antoinette: The...
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
AuthorWilliam McDonough
ISBN0865475873
"Reduce, reuse, recycle," urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. But as architect William McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart point out in this provocative, visionary book, such an approach only perpetuates the one-way, "cradle to grave" manufacturing...
Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
AuthorBill McKibben
ISBN0805090568
Our old familiar globe is suddenly melting, drying, acidifying, flooding, and burning in ways that no human has ever seen. We've created, in very short order, a new planet, still recognizable but fundamentally different. We may as well call it Eaarth.

That new planet is filled with new binds...
The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late
AuthorThom Hartmann
ISBN1400051576
While everything appears to be collapsing around us -- ecodamage, genetic engineering, virulent diseases, the end of cheap oil, water shortages, global famine, wars -- we can still do something about it and create a world that will work for us and for our children’s children. The inspiration for...
The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
AuthorDavid Abram
ISBN0679776397
David Abram draws on sources as diverse as the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Balinese shamanism, Apache storytelling, and his own experience as an accomplished sleight-of-hand magician to reveal the subtle dependence of human cognition on the natural environment. He explores the character of...
The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century
AuthorJames Howard Kunstler
ISBN0802142494
Kunstler is like that super-intelligent, yet vitriolic friend whose opinions you totally jibe with but find yourself apologizing to others after he's totally ripped them a new one at the cocktail party you hosted last saturday night.

Yeah, he's kind of bitter. But then again, he's so right....
Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in without Going Crazy
AuthorJoanna Macy
ISBN1577319729
The challenges we face can be difficult even to think about. Climate change, the depletion of oil, economic upheaval, and mass extinction together create a planetary emergency of overwhelming proportions. Active Hope shows us how to strengthen our capacity to face this crisis so that we can respond...
The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World
AuthorPaul Roberts
ISBN0618562117
Petroleum is now so deeply entrenched in our economy, our politics, and our personal expectations that even modest efforts to phase it out are fought tooth and nail by the most powerful forces in the world: companies and governments that depend on oil revenues; the developing nations that see oil as...
Nutrition and Physical Degeneration: A Comparison of Primitive and Modern Diets and Their Effects
AuthorWeston A. Price
ISBN0879838167
An epic study demonstrating the importance of whole food nutrition, and the degeneration and destruction that comes from a diet of processed foods.

For nearly 10 years, Weston Price and his wife traveled around the world in search of the secret to health. Instead of looking at people afflicted...
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