Books like 'Cooler Smarter: Practical Steps for Low-Carbon Living'
Readers who enjoyed Cooler Smarter: Practical Steps for Low-Carbon Living by The Union of Concerned Scientists, Seth Shulman, Jeff Deyette, Brenda Ekwurzel, David Friedman, Margaret Mellon, John Rogers & Suzanne Shaw also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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Lethal Echo by Cara Carnes
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsShe’s spent her life on the periphery of humanity.Bree Geissenger lives by one mantra: You’re only as good as your latest creation. Tucked away in laboratories, always wanted for her brains, she’s been safe. Unseen. But the new life she has at The Arsenal has upended her carefully constructed world. Unable to cope with the threats against her friends, she fractured... -
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Skallagrigg by William Horwood
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSkallagrigg unites Arthur, a little boy abandoned many years ago in a grim hospital in northern England with Esther, a radiantly intelligent young girl who is suffering from cerebral palsy, and with Daniel, an American computer-games genius.Skallagrigg - whatever the name signifies, whoever he is - will come to transform all their lives...Categorized as:
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![The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr]()
The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsBill is an IT manager at Parts Unlimited. It's Tuesday morning and on his drive into the office, Bill gets a call from the CEO. The company's new IT initiative, code named Phoenix Project, is critical to the future of Parts Unlimited, but the project is massively over budget and very late...Categorized as:
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Playground by Richard Powers
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFour lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the world’s first aqualungs. Ina Aroita grows up on naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home...Categorized as:
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![Everything is Illuminated & Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer]()
Everything is Illuminated & Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratings[NB: 2-in-1 edition]Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer's stunning debut, tells the story of a young Jewish American's quixotic journey into an unexpected past... -
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The Pelican Tide by Sharon J. Wishnow
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAfter disaster strikes, a Louisiana family and their community need to prove to each other and the world that their bond is thicker than the oil threatening their shores in Sharon J. Wishnow’s stunning debut novel.It’s taken Chef Josie Babineaux six months to reconcile the debts left from her husband Brian’s gambling along with her broken heart... -
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Say Yes and Keep Smiling by Laurence Beaudoin-Masse
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the highly anticipated sequel to Suck it In and Smile, Ellie is wrestling her picture-perfect life as a social media influencer back under control ― but how long can she keep bridging the distance between the desire to be herself and the pressure to conform? Ellie is an inspiration to her hundreds of thousands of followers on Instagram and YouTube... -
![Only a Little While Here: A Novel by María Ospina Pizano]()
Only a Little While Here: A Novel by María Ospina Pizano
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis prizewinning debut novel weaves together four meticulously observed animal odysseys in a poignant meditation on migration, displacement, and the inextricability of the human and the natural worlds.In Only a Little While Here, an award-winning author evokes a sensation birders and naturalists know well—the deep gratification that comes through close, compassionate observation of fauna... -
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Their Nerd by Allyson Lindt
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAntonio wants Justin, Justin wants Emily, and Emily would mind all of the aboveAs long as Antonio has Justin and the Silicon Valley start-up they built together, Antonio’s content to hide his true feelings. He’d rather keep Justin’s friendship than confess his love and lose everything.But Justin’s gotten careless with their business... -
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Low Flying Aircraft And Other Stories by J.G. Ballard
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsContents:The Ultimate CityLow-Flying AircraftThe Dead AstronautMy Dream of Flying to Wake IslandThe Life and Death of GodThe Greatest Television Show on EarthA Place and a Time to DieThe Comsat AngelsThe Beach... -
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Anchor Point by Alice Robinson
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen her mother disappears into the bush, ten-year-old Laura makes an impulsive decision that will haunt her for decades. Despite her anger and grief, she sets about running the house, taking care of her younger sister, and helping her father clear their wild acreage to carve out a farm...Categorized as:
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Doors Into Chaos by Robert Greenberger
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLeft behind by a long-vanished civilisation, the mysterious portals known as the Gateways can enable spacefarers to reach the very furthest corners of the galaxy. Their discovery opens the door to a whole new era of exploration.. -
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![Love Offline: Looking For Romance In Real Life by Olivia Spring]()
Love Offline: Looking For Romance In Real Life by Olivia Spring
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsDating Apps or Dating In Real Life? Where Will Emily Find True Love? Online dating isn’t working for introvert Emily. Although she’s comfortable swiping right in her PJs, the idea of meeting a guy in person fills her with dread. So when her best friend challenges her to ditch the apps, attend a load of awkward singles’ events and find love in real life, Emily wants to run for the hills... -
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![The Fish by Joanne Stubbs]()
The Fish by Joanne Stubbs
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings'There is a fish on the sand; I see it clearly. But it is not on its side, lying still. It is partly upright. It moves. I can see its gills, off the ground and wide open. It looks as though it’s standing up.'A few decades into the twenty-first century, in their permanently flooded garden in Cornwall, Cathy and her wife Ephie give up on their vegetable patch and plant a paddy field instead...Categorized as:
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Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson
Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsA visionary technothriller about climate change.Neal Stephenson’s sweeping, prescient new novel transports readers to a near-future world where the greenhouse effect has inexorably resulted in a whirling-dervish troposphere of superstorms, rising sea levels, global flooding, merciless heat waves, and virulent, deadly pandemics...Categorized as:
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We Can Save Us All by Adam Nemett
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"At a moment when it’s hard to trust anyone who claims to see things clearly, Adam Nemett has written a smart, sensitive, terrifying novel about masculinity, philosophy, technology, and the end of the world. Recommended for all college first-years and their parents, as well as those in between...Categorized as:
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Revision by Andrea Phillips
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis is an ACE for ISBN13:9780986104015 RevisionMira is a trust fund baby playing at making it on her own as a Brooklyn barista. When Benji, her tech startup boyfriend, dumps her out of the blue, she decides a little revenge vandalism is in order. Mira updates his entry on Verity, Benji’s Wikipedia-style news aggregator, to say the two have become engaged... -
![The Big Disruption: A Totally Fictional But Essentially True Silicon Valley Story by Jessica Powell]()
The Big Disruption: A Totally Fictional But Essentially True Silicon Valley Story by Jessica Powell
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA rip-roaring comedy about big plans and bigger egos at the world's largest tech companySomething is fishy at Anahata--and it's not just the giant squid that serves as a mascot for the tech company. A prince in exile is working as a product manager. The sales guys are battling with the engineers. The women employees are the unwitting subjects of a wild social experiment... -
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Primitive by Mark Nykanen
Rated: 3.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSonya Adams steps into a limo at a Montana airport expecting to be driven to her next modeling assignment. Minutes later she realizes the horrifying she's been tricked and kidnapped... -
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Klifi by Adriaan van Dis
Rated: 3.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDe aasgieren zweven boven de republiek Nederland. Na een verpletterend warme zomer wordt het land voor het eerst in zijn geschiedenis getroffen door een orkaan. De gepensioneerde bibliothecaris Jákob Hemmelbahn is getuige van een lokale ramp waarbij tientallen mensen omkomen. Jákob wil de verhalen van de overlevenden optekenen, maar wordt daarbij gehinderd door een dreigende censor...Categorized as:
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Solar by Ian McEwan
Rated: 3.26 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsMichael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions and half-heartedly heads a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering...Categorized as:
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![The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions by Jason Hickel]()
The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions by Jason Hickel
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 15 ratings‘There’s no understanding global inequality without understanding its history. In The Divide, Jason Hickel brilliantly lays it out, layer upon layer, until you are left reeling with the outrage of it all.’ - Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut EconomicsFor decades we have been told a story about the divide between rich countries and poor countries...Categorized as:
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![Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton]()
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsCelebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada.Before there was Kate Beaton, New York Times bestselling cartoonist of Hark A Vagrant fame, there was Katie Beaton of the Cape Breton Beatons, specifically Mabou, a tight-knit seaside community where the lobster is as abundant as beaches, fiddles, and Gaelic folk songs... -
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![Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling, Annemie de Vries]()
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling, Annemie de Vries
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsFactfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts.When asked simple questions about global trends—what percentage of the world’s population live in poverty; why the world’s population is increasing; how many girls finish school—we systematically get the answers wrong...Categorized as:
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Wilding by Isabella Tree
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsForced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp in West Sussex was economically unsustainable, Isabella Tree and her husband Charlie Burrell made a spectacular leap of faith: they decided to step back and let nature take over... -
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Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention- and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsOur ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections comes a groundbreaking examination of why this is happening--and how to get our attention back. In the United States, teenagers can focus on one task for only sixty-five seconds at a time, and office workers average only three minutes...Categorized as:
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Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air by David J.C. MacKay
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAddressing the sustainable energy crisis in an objective manner, this enlightening book analyzes the relevant numbers and organizes a plan for change on both a personal level and an international scale—for Europe, the United States, and the world...Categorized as:
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![Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery]()
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsCharles Montgomery’s Happy City will revolutionize the way we think about urban life.After decades of unchecked sprawl, more people than ever are moving back to the city. Dense urban living has been prescribed as a panacea for the environmental and resource crises of our time...Categorized as:
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![The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter by Joseph Henrich, Jonathan Yen]()
The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter by Joseph Henrich, Jonathan Yen
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHumans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators...Categorized as:
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