Recs if you like The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health-and a Vision for Change...

microhistory: the intensive historical investigation of a well defined smaller unit of research (such as an event, community, individual or a settlement); it aspires to "ask large questions in small places"

Nonfiction about trash, waste management, its links to consumerism and social inequity, and how it's contributing to the desecration of our planet.

eco-philosophy, ecology, capitalism and how it relates to climate, etc etc with some fiction thrown in there to spice things up.