Green Ideas

Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As humans have driven the planet to the brink of collapse visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend it. Their works have endured, becoming the classics that define the environmental movement today. In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.

“No One is Too Small to Make a Difference” Greta Thunberg

“Hot Money” Naomi Klein

“All Art is Ecological” Timothy Morton

“This Can’t be Happening” George Monbiot

“An Idea Can Go Extinct” Bill McKibben

“Uncanny and Improbable Events” Amitav Gosh

“A Warning from the Golden Toad” Tim Flannery

“The Clan of One Breasted Woman” Terry Tempest Williams

“Food Rules” Michael Pollan

“The Democracy of Species” Robin Wall Kimmerer

“The Most Dammed Country in the World” Dai Qing

“The World We Once Lived In” Wangari Maathai

“The Last Tree on Easter Island” Jared Diamond

“What I Stand for Is What I Stand On” Wendell Berry

“Every Species is a Masterpiece” Edward O. Wilson

“We Belong to Gaia” James Lovelock

“The Dragonfly Will Be the Messiah” Masanobu Fukuoka

“There is No Point of No Return” Arne Naess

“Man’s War Against Nature” Rachel Carson

“Think Like a Mountain” Aldo Leopold