Recs if you like The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet...

Nature is Fluid & Interconnected: A perspective blending Queer Theory (challenging norms around gender/sexuality) with Ecology (the study of relationships in nature). Queer ecology questions assumptions that human norms (like heterosexuality or fixed binaries) are the only "natural" way. It invites us to see nature, ourselves, and our relationships with more nuance and complexity.

History and justice, ecology style! From ancient China to the Little Ice Age, the swamps of North Carolina to the guano mines of Latin America, these books examine how history has shaped and been shaped by the environment and ecological conflict, thereby transforming the lives of people living both near and far—usually to the singular benefit of capitalist and imperialist forces. An ongoing work-in-progress, always open to suggestions!

Nonfiction books exploring the natural world and our “place in the family of things” (Mary Oliver, Wild Geese) through radical BIPOC, queer, feminist, anti-capitalist, disability ecological perspectives. 🪲🌾🦉🌵

Nonfiction books exploring the natural world and our “place in the family of things” (Mary Oliver, Wild Geese). 🐦‍⬛🦋🌱🪸🦊🪷🪼🍄

A curated collection of books on sustainable fashion, ethical style, and conscious consumerism. They explore things like eco-friendly fabrics, slow fashion, and filling your closet with purpose.

Nonfiction books about environmental ethics and philosophy, human/environment relations, cultural ways of knowing, and understanding wildlife. Essentially, books that will make you think about your role as a fellow creature of this earth🌱🐾🐚 (Check pinned comment for more recs!) [created Sep '25]

Let's break through the fog of the capitalist, racist, colonial system that is holding all of us down. For a new world, we need new perspectives. (this list is from a white european girl, so PLEASE also seek out recommendations from BIPOC creators!!)

Books by female ecologists, biologists, naturalists, environmental activists, and science writers from well-researched nonfiction to reflective memoirs.

(Keywords: science, nature, plants, animals, insects, ecology, climate change, biology, ocean, STEM)

🐋 dive into reflective reads that will make you cry, laugh, and reimagine the future of the human condition and our relationship to the natural world.

this list is a diverse mix of science, climate, foodways, migration, social and political organizing, and history that has shaped our present. fans of alie ward's olologies podcast welcome here.

ecology-based books—practical, cultural, and whimsical

Books to widen the possibilities of how we might save ourselves us from the worsening climate crisis by recognizing and learning from the queerness already represented in nature

Books read by Prose Before Bros, a book club for women of color in PDX

Climate and environment non-fiction reads for when the feeling of doom is overwhelming and you want positive outlooks on the climate and reminders about our connection to nature.

Mix of fiction and non-fiction for those seeking hope, ideas and strength in this ongoing planetary crisis.

How the western imperialism is destroying the world

Everything we've read in Environmental Justice Book Club

books on the history of textiles and sewists, on the evolution of clothing, and on the overconsumption that drives fast fashion—and destroys the environment—and why we should all buy secondhand

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

a collection of fiction and nonfiction texts on gender, race, culture, history, politics that feel like absolute must reads

Learning about ecology, our planet and nature, how it´s destroyed and how to stop it. Teaching myself what uni didn`t