Frank Kaminski

With its brilliant blend of epic scope, dark comedy, goofiness, sharp irony and a multilayered, eerily prescient narrative, Greener Than You Think remains a wildly successful and thoroughly entertaining work of satire.

Whether you’re looking for hands-on strategies, a deeper understanding of the big-picture frameworks underpinning those strategies, or thought-provoking reflections on the current state of the world and its likely future, this book has something for you.

The film explores how these synthetic “forever chemicals”–widely used in products such as nonstick cookware, firefighting foams and waterproof clothing–have infiltrated soil, water and everyday products

For all its bleakness, The Burning World offers a more hopeful outlook on humanity’s future than does The Drowned World. While the latter leaves no room for hope that human extinction can be averted, the former hints at the possibility of recovery and renewal for humanity.

The novel’s central message that our well-being as a species hinges on our ability to coexist harmoniously with nature is simple, yet poignant. It’s also especially timely as modern examples like deforestation, overfishing and unchecked industrial pollution show how disrupting that harmony leads to our own undoing.

Michael Stocks’ documentary Deep Sea Greed: Exploiting the Ocean Floor looks at three of the major threats facing Earth’s marine ecosystem: deep-sea mining, sand harvesting and overfishing.