Natural Resources
There are a lot of great books about natural resources and climate change. Natural Capitalism by Paul Hawken is the grandfather of the connection between capitalism and the environment. It is also important to me as I met Paul whilst at Cambridge University and did some research for this book. Paul made me realise that it was not enough to be an environmentalist - you needed to create profitable companies that were self sustaining to make real change.
There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years. by Mike Berners-Lee and The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future David Wallace-Wells are thoroughly depressing to read but worth reading none the less. Read them with a good bottle of wine by your side. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate by Naomi Klein. Naomi is another very popular writer and is a key critic of capitalism in general. In this book she discovers climate change.
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: By Charles Darwin - Illustrated by Charles Darwin. Darwin is surprisingly readable. The Vital Question: Why is life the way it is? by Nick Lane. Nick is an enthusiastic writer and in The Vital Question he asks how life evolved. The Universe Within: A Scientific Adventure by Neil Shubin. Everything by Neil is great. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari. Yuval is quite a ubiquitous writer and I have seen his books on the shelves of a number of friends. Sapeins is probably his best work.
There are so many good books here. Enjoy them all!
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate
Naomi Klein, Liza Ross,
There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years
Berners-Lee, Mike
The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future
David Wallace-Wells, Penguin Books Ltd
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom
Carroll, Sean B.
What Happens Next? Conversations from MARS
Adam Savage, Audible Original
Harper, Kyle
Origin Story: A Big History of Everything
Christian, David
Thorne, Kip
Professor Brian Cox
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Kolbert, Elizabeth
Universal: A Journey Through the Cosmos
Cox, Brian
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
Rutherford, Adam
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: By Charles Darwin - Illustrated
Charles Darwin
Robert M. Hazen, The Great Courses
The Vital Question: Why is life the way it is?
Lane, Nick
Fischer, Tristan
Mukherjee, Siddhartha
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Harari, Yuval Noah
The Origin and Evolution of Earth: From the Big Bang to the Future of Human Existence
Robert M. Hazen
The Nature of Matter: Understanding the Physical World
David W. Ball
Power System Economics: Designing Markets for Electricity
Steven Stoft
Creation: The Origin of Life / The Future of Life
Adam Rutherford
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
Naomi Klein
The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being: Evolution and the Making of Us
Roberts, Alice
Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway
Arrival of the Fittest: Solving Evolution's Greatest Puzzle
Wagner, Andreas
The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future
Naomi Oreskes, Erik Conway
Science: A Four Thousand Year History
Fara, Patricia
The Universe Within: A Scientific Adventure
Neil Shubin
In Line Behind a Billion People: How Scarcity Will Define China's Ascent in the Next Decade
Damien Ma, William Adams
Colin Tudge
Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution
Richard Fortey
Seventeen Equations that Changed the World
Ian Stewart, John Davey
Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements
Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis
Al Gore
What on Earth Evolved? ... in Brief: 100 Species That Have Changed the World
Christopher Lloyd
Christopher Lloyd
The What on Earth? Wallbook: A Timeline from the Big Bang to the Present Day
Christopher Lloyd, Andy Forshaw
Nessa Carey
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
Nick Lane
The Great Disruption: How the Climate Crisis Will Transform the Global Economy
Paul Gilding
The Magic of Reality: How we know what's really true
Richard Dawkins, Dave McKean
Daniel Yergin
The God Species: How the Planet Can Survive the Age of Humans
Mark Lynas
A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (Infrastructures)
Paul N. Edwards
The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-food World
Michael Pollan
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
Richard Dawkins
Ben Goldacre
A New Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations
Clive Ponting
Thomas Friedman (Author)
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
Brian Greene (Author)
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Texture of Reality (Penguin Press Science)
Brian Greene (Author)
Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5 Billion-Year History of the Human Body
Neil Shubin (Author)
Kendal McGuffie (Author), Ann Henderson-Sellers (Author)
The End of Oil: The Decline of the Petroleum Economy and the Rise of a New Energy Order
Paul Roberts
Making Competition Work in Electricity
Sally Hunt
Paul Hawken, et al