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Ologies Podcast Suggestions
Ologies is a weekly science podcast hosted by Alie Ward. Each episode, Ward interviews an expert from a distinct scientific field.
This unofficial list contains book suggestions made by the host or by her guests. I avoided extremely technical books or papers. Currently from episode 1 to 525 More details on these books and their associated episodes in my ever evolving spreadsheet.
In the spreadsheet there are also books not found on Goodreads and general book recommendations (like the entire bibliography of a specific author or group of people)






Radical Intersectional Ecologies💚
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. 🪲🌾🦉🌵






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






Hopepunk
Books to help us imagine the future we're growing towards






But WAIT. There’s Hope. ✨NON-FICTION✨
Straight from the Solarpunk Manifesto, “We are solarpunks because the only other options are denial or despair.”
What if there’s more to our future? What if we were optimistic?
Below are the non-fiction books that have made it to O.E. Tearmann’s Open List of Positive and Hopeful Futures
Feel free to suggest any recs!






Finding Hope
Fighting for social and planetary justice.






an Urban Planner's recs
books I can find on PB that my professor's and cohort reference






Non fiction science books for bio/chem/phys/med
Non fiction books for all them nerds who like the natscience Recommendations are welcomed






earth and weeds and how it all goes
ecology-based books—practical, cultural, and whimsical






Climate Policy 101
Get to your seats! Class is in session 👩🏫🏫🌿
A mix of introductory materials for climate/environmental policy and foundational environmental works






Finding Hope and Whimsy
Books that feel like a warm hug and leave us feeling hopeful and whimsical, a little light amidst the dark. For the days we cannot have any more reality but instead need a cup of fluffy dreams and a pick-me-up and some optimism for the future






Non-Fiction to Survive the Ameripocalypse
Non-fic on how we got here and how to sustain eachother going forwards. A mix of difficult history, revolutionary and abolitionist works, and optimistic pathworking. Decolonial and anti-imperialist at the core.






SciFri Book Club
The SciFri Book Club, created by the people who bring you the weekly public radio show Science Friday, is a program to bring people together around all things science reading—anything from sci-fi short stories to nonfiction science books to science articles from various publications to science-y poetry!






an incomplete guide to hope @ the end of the world
Partly cosmic hope/horror, partly nonfiction






Climate Literature
Fiction and Nonfiction books on climate (change)!






Climate Justice Reading List
Reads about the climate crisis that’s facing humanity






I Speak for the Trees
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living. ~Sir David Attenborough






Books that are Time Machines
I recently read How To Fall In Love With The Future and was thinking of books that remind me of that method of imagining a future where the reforms we want have already happened and imagining how we got there. If anyone has suggestions I'm incredibly open to it!






reading nonfic is chic 💅🏻
come with me on a journey to read all the nonfic books piling up in our tbrs! september is going to be the month i go on a side quest to work through them all. books on the list are just personal areas of interest 👀 share your recs of your favorite non fic!





