World Book Day: Sustainability must reads
Posted on: 6 March 2024 in Issue 7
To celebrate World Book Day, the Sustainability team, along with our friends from Liverpool's not-for-profit radical and community bookshop, News From Nowhere have compiled their top sustainability book recommendations, aimed at educating and inspiring university staff and students.
Our recommendations
Since our red brick building first opened in 1881, the university has made it its mission to support the advancement of learning and ennoblement of life. This mission has not changed, it has only adapted to the challenges of our times. Becoming a more sustainable society is a great challenge and we are all in this together. To find solutions for these problems we look hopefully to you, the new generation of academics with bold ideas and the knowledge to implement them.
You may not be studying environmentalism or eco-engineering but some reading on the subject can go a long way. Browse the University's library catalogue and you will find various books on sustainability that will help you make small differences to your carbon footprint while giving you a larger understanding of the big picture. And make sure you always check our libraries for books/resources before buying from larger chains. Here's our list of sustainability related must reads:
The Sustainable(ish) Living Guide by Jen Gale
This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein
There is no Planet B by Mike Berners-Lee
The New Climate War by Michael E. Mann
The World Transformed: An Untold History by Peter Frankopan
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
How Bad Are Bananas? By Mike Berner-Lee
The Children of Men by P. D. James
It’s not that Radical by Michaela Loach
Cradle 2 Cradle by Braungart and McDonough
Donut Economics by Kate Raworth
Saving the Planet without the Bullsh*t by Assaad Razzouk
Zero Altitude: How I learned to fly less and travel more by Helen Coffey
Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
Flight Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver
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News From Nowhere’s recommendations
News From Nowhere is located at 96 Bold Street and run collectively by a workers' co-operative. Committed to social justice, the literature they stock empowers and inspires people to make positive change. Both the shop, and online shop focus on subjects such as; environment and sustainability, feminism, anti-racism, LGBT+, workers' rights, disability rights, animal rights and veganism, and socialism. Plus fiction and poetry, books for children and young people, books on health and wellbeing, and local interest books. Here are News From Nowhere's must read recommended titles on sustainability:
Food For Free, by Richard Mabey
The Vegan Book of Permaculture: Recipes for Healthy Eating and Earthright Living, by Graham Burnett
Small is Necessary: Shared Living on a Shared Planet, by Anitra Nelson
Going Zero: One Family's Journey to Zero Waste and a Greener Lifestyle, by Kate Hughes
Regenesis: Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet, by George Monbiot
Find out more
If you have read a good book about sustainability please suggest it via our book suggestion form.
For more information about sustainability plans and progress at the university, please contact the Sustainability Department by emailing sustainability@liverpool.ac.uk
Like most independent bookshops, although relatively small, News From Nowhere can order the same vast range of books as bigger shops and websites. Make sure you shop local and check out News From Nowhere, 96 Bold Street and visit the customer order website to search millions of books in print that can be ordered on request.
Keywords: Sustainability, Books, World Book Day.