Recommendations

Products
Services
Books

Products

Cleaning Products

Food Storage & Kitchen

Waste & Recycling

Paper Products

Personal Care & Bathroom

Electronics

Furniture

  • Avocado → zero-waste furniture

  • Inside Weather → sustainable, non-toxic, washable materials

  • Etsy → reclaimed furniture

  • Sabai → recycled, upcycled, repairable furniture

  • Medley → eco-friendly, long-lasting furniture

Clothing & Shoes

  • TenTree → sustainably made apparel and every purchase plants trees

  • Allbirds → shoes and apparel made with natural and recycled materials

  • Rothy's → shoes and accessories made from plastic bottles in zero waste factories

  • Everlane → everyday basics with many sustainable materials

  • Patagonia → outdoor apparel with all profits going to the planet

  • Warp + Weft → sustainably made denim

  • Thousand Fell → fully recycled and recyclable shoes

  • Nisolo → leather shoes and accessories made sustainably and with living wages

  • Thursday Boot → leather shoes and accessories; some are vegetable tanned but other products are not so should be avoided

Linens

The default decision should always be to not buy something, or if we need something then to buy used. However, we frequently do need new things. Here's a list of brands and products I've found that align with the values I present in the book.

Services

Recycling

Emissions Offsets

  • Decarbon → social network enabling climate actions

  • Wren → carbon footprint calculator and offset marketplace

  • Carbon Removed → carbon removal credits

Finances

  • Bank.Green → identifies which banks use your money to fund fossil fuel expansion

  • Mighty Deposits → find out what any U.S. bank or credit union invests in

  • Fossil Free Funds → find mutual funds and ETFs that avoid fossil fuel investments

  • Fossil Banks → see which banks are financing fossil fuels

Energy

  • Nest Renew → shifts your energy use to times of day where your utility sources from cleaner energy sources

  • Inspire Clean Energy → works with your utility to switch your usage to renewable sources

  • QuitCarbon → offers advice on how to electrify your home while maximizing your savings

Food

Books

Nonfiction

  • Alter, Lloyd. Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle: Why Individual Climate Action Matters More Than Ever. New Society Publishers, 2021.

  • The Carbon Almanac Network. The Carbon Almanac: It’s Not Too Late. Edited by Seth Godin, Penguin Publishing Group, 2022.

  • Gates, Bill. How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2021.

  • Gies, Erica. Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge. University of Chicago Press, 2023.

  • Goldstein, Julia L. F. Material Value: More Sustainable, Less Wasteful Manufacturing of Everything from Cell Phones to Cleaning Products. Bebo Press, 2019.

  • Goodell, Jeff. The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World. Little, Brown, 2017.

  • Hawken, Paul, editor. Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming. Penguin Publishing Group, 2017.

  • Hawken, Paul. The Ecology of Commerce Revised Edition: A Declaration of Sustainability. HarperCollins, 2010.

  • Hawken, Paul. Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation. Edited by Paul Hawken, Penguin Publishing Group, 2021.

  • Hayhoe, Katharine. Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World. Atria/One Signal Publishers, 2021.

  • Kellogg, Kathryn. 101 Ways to Go Zero Waste. WW Norton, 2019.

  • Kolbert, Elizabeth. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History. Henry Holt and Company, 2014.

  • Kolbert, Elizabeth. Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future. Crown, 2021.

  • Krauss, Lawrence M. The Physics of Climate Change. Post Hill Press, 2023.

  • McDonough, William, and Michael Braungart. Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.

  • Oreskes, Naomi, and Erik M. Conway. Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming.

    Bloomsbury USA, 2010.

  • Pabon, John. Sustainability for the Rest of Us: Your No-Bullshit, Five-Point Plan for Saving the Planet. Fulcrum Strategic Advisors, 2020.

  • Seferian, Stephanie Marie. Sustainable Minimalism: Embrace Zero Waste, Build Sustainability Habits That Last, and Become a Minimalist Without Sacrificing the Planet (Green Housecleaning, Zero Waste Living). Mango Media, 2021.

  • Smil, Vaclav. How the World Really Works: A Scientist’s Guide to Our Past, Present, and Future. Penguin Books, Limited, 2022.

  • Sustainability, Rodale. F**k Plastic: 101 Ways to Free Yourself from Plastic and Save the World. Harmony/Rodale, 2019.

  • Thunberg, Greta. The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions. Edited by Greta Thunberg, Penguin Publishing Group, 2023.

  • Wahl, Daniel Christian. Designing Regenerative Cultures. Triarchy Press, 2016.

  • Wilson, Edward O. Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life. WW Norton, 2016.

Fiction

  • Markley, Stephen. The Deluge. Simon & Schuster, 2023.

  • McConaghy, Charlotte. Migrations: A Novel. Flatiron Books, 2020.

  • Powers, Richard. Bewilderment: A Novel. W. W. Norton, Incorporated, 2021.

  • Powers, Richard. The Overstory: A Novel. W. W. Norton, 2019.

  • Robinson, Kim Stanley. The Ministry for the Future. Orbit, 2020.

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