These are some of my favourite books. I will be adding more as they emerge.
Title | Author | |
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Agriculture | ||
![]() | Dirt to Soil: One Family’s Journey into Regenerative Agriculture | Gabe Brown |
![]() | For the Love of Soil: Strategies to Regenerate Our Food Production Systems | Nicole Masters |
Climate Crisis | ||
![]() | A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency | Seth Kline |
![]() | Dangerous Years: Climate Change, the Long Emergency and the Way Forward | David W Orr |
Don’t Even Think About It: Why Our Brains are Wired to Ignore Climate Change | George Marshall | |
![]() | Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming | Paul Hawken |
![]() | Encyclical Letter Laudato Si’ of the Holy Father Francis: On Care for Our Common Home | Pope Francis |
![]() | Internationalism or Extinction | Noam Chomsky |
![]() | Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Climate Change | Erik M Conway, Naomi Oreskes |
![]() | The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption | Dahr Jamail |
![]() | The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis | Christiana Figueres , Tom Rivett-Carnac |
![]() | The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet | Michael E. Mann |
![]() | The Sixth Extinction | Elizabeth Kolbert |
![]() | The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming | David Wallace-Wells |
Communication | ||
![]() | Communicating for a Change: Seven Keys to Irresistible Communication | Andy Stanley |
De-funding the Police | ||
![]() | The End of Policing | Alex S. Vitale |
Ecocide | ||
![]() | Dare to Be Great: Unlock Your Power to Create a Better World | Polly Higgins |
![]() | Earth is Our Business: Changing the Rules of the Game | Polly Higgins |
![]() | Eradicating Ecocide 2nd edition: Laws and Governance to Stop the Destruction of the Planet | Polly Higgins |
![]() | Polly Higgins: The Earth’s Lawyer | Mrs Juliana Muniz Westcott |
Economics | ||
![]() | Bullshit Jobs: A Theory | David Graeber |
![]() | Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist | Kate Raworth |
![]() | The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy | Stephanie Kelton |
![]() | Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World | Rutger Bregman |
Environment | ||
![]() | Silent Spring | Rachel Carson |
![]() | The Overstory | Richard Powers |
![]() | The Sea Trilogy: Under the Sea-Wind / The Sea Around Us / The Edge of the Sea | Rachel Carson |
Epigenetics | ||
![]() | The Biology of Belief | Bruce H. Lipton |
![]() | The Honeymoon Effect: The Science of Creating Heaven on Earth | Bruce H. Lipton |
![]() | The Wisdom of Your Cells: How Your Beliefs Control Your Biology | Bruce H. Lipton |
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion | ||
![]() | Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion | Tyler LeBlanc |
![]() | In the Black: My Life | B. Denham Jolly |
![]() | There’s Something in the Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous & Black Communities | Ingrid R G Waldron |
![]() | White Fragility: Why it is So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism | Dr. Robin DiAngelo |
![]() | Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race | Reni Eddo-Lodge |
First Nations, Inuit & Metis | ||
![]() | 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples Reality | Bob Joseph |
![]() | Five Little Indians | Michelle Good |
![]() | All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward | Tanya Talaga |
![]() | Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants | Robin Wall Kimmerer |
![]() | Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America | Thomas King |
![]() | Indian Horse: A Novel | Richard Wagamese |
![]() | Seven Fallen Feathers | Tanya Talaga |
![]() | Seven Truths | Tanya Talaga |
Food Security | ||
![]() | Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do about It | Anna Lappe |
![]() | Eating Animals | Jonathan Safran Foer |
![]() | In Defence of Food | Michael Pollan |
![]() | The Botany of Desire | Michael Pollan |
![]() | Omnivore’s Dilemma | Michael Pollan |
![]() | The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony | Will Tuttle Ph.D. |
Future | ||
![]() | How Soon is now?: The Handbook for Global Change | Daniel Pinchbeck |
![]() | The Green New Deal: Why Fossil Fuel will Collapse by 2028 and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth | Jeremy Rifkin |
![]() | The Long Emergency | James Howard Kunsler |
![]() | The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Duelling Visions to Shape Tomorrow’s World | Charles C. Mann |
![]() | This Changes Everything | Naomi Kline |
Government | ||
![]() | How Government Really Works: a field guide to bureaucracies in Canada | Jane Allt & Angela Poirier |
![]() | Tear Down:Rebuilding Democracy from the Ground Up | Dave Meslin |
![]() | The Effective Citizen: How to Make Politicians Work for You | Graham Steele |
![]() | What I Learned About Politics: Inside the Rise & Collapse of Nova Scotia’s NDP Government | Graham Steele |
Leadership | ||
![]() | Herding Cats: A Primer for Programmers Who Lead Programmers | Hank Rainwater |
![]() | Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t | Simon Sinek |
![]() | Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World | Margaret J. Wheatley |
![]() | Love as a Business Strategy: Resilience, Belonging & Success | Mohammad F. Anwar, Frank E. Danna, Jeffrey F. Ma, Christopher J. Pitre |
![]() | The Infinite Game | Simon Sinek |
![]() | Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization | Dave Logan , John King , Halee Fischer-Wright |
![]() | Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen | Dan Heath |
Politics | ||
![]() | Get Out the Vote: How to Increase Voter Turnout | Donald P. Green and Alan S. Gerber |
![]() | Rules for Revolutionaries: How Big Organizing Can Change Everything | Zack Exley , Becky Bond |
![]() | The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion | Jonathan Haidt |
![]() | What Does Green Mean | James Marshall |
Psychology | ||
![]() | Emotional Intelligence, 10th Edition | Daniel Goleman |
![]() | How the Mind Works | Steven Pinker |
![]() | Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are | Kevin J. Mitchell |
Self Help | ||
![]() | Talk Like TED: The 9 Public Speaking Secrets of the World’s Top Minds | Carmine Gallo |
![]() | The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business | Charles Duhigg |
Teamwork | ||
![]() | Collaborating with the Enemy: How to Work with People You Don’t Agree with or Like or Trust | Andrew Kahane |
Agriculture | Climate Crisis | Communication | De-funding the Police | Ecocide | Economics | Environment | Epigenetics | Equity, Diversity & Inclusion | First Nations, Inuit & Metis | Food Security | Future | Government | Leadership | Politics | Psychology | Self Help | Teamwork.