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Green Ideas is a series of books published by Penguin Books in the UK, on environmental subjects. The series began in 2021, and contains twenty short books. [1] [2] [3] [4]

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Books

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1 Greta Thunberg No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference [5]
2 Naomi Klein Hot Money [6]
3 Timothy Morton All Art Is Ecological [7]
4 George Monbiot This Can't Be Happening [8]
5 Bill McKibben An Idea Can Go Extinct [9]
6 Amitav Ghosh Uncanny and Improbable Events [10]
7 Tim Flannery A Warning from the Golden Toad [11]
8 Terry Tempest Williams The Clan of One-Breasted Women [12]
9 Michael Pollan Food Rules [13]
10 Robin Wall Kimmerer The Democracy of Species [14]
11 Dai Qing The Most Dammed Country in the World [15]
12 Wangari Maathai The World We Once Lived In [16]
13 Jared Diamond The Last Tree on Easter Island [17]
14 Wendell Berry What I Stand for Is What I Stand On [18]
15 Edward O. Wilson Every Species is a Masterpiece [19]
16 James Lovelock We Belong to Gaia [20]
17 Masanobu Fukuoka The Dragonfly Will Be the Messiah [21]
18 Arne Næss There is No Point of No Return [22]
19 Rachel Carson Man's War Against Nature [23]
20 Aldo Leopold Think Like a Mountain [24]

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References

  1. ↑ Flood, Alison (26 August 2021). "Penguin Classics launches 'new canon' of environmental literature". The Guardian . Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  2. ↑ Mountford, Kaylee (27 August 2021). "Penguin goes green with ethereal covers by Tom Etherington". Creative Review . Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  3. ↑ "Why Penguin Classics are going Green". Penguin Books . 25 August 2021. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  4. ↑ "Penguin Green Ideas Collection". Penguin Books . Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  5. ↑ No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference. Penguin Books. 26 August 2021. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  6. ↑ Hot Money. Penguin Books. 26 August 2021. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  7. ↑ All Art Is Ecological. Penguin Books. 26 August 2021. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  8. ↑ This Can't Be Happening. Penguin Books. 26 August 2021. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  9. ↑ An Idea Can Go Extinct. Penguin Books. 26 August 2021. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  10. ↑ Uncanny and Improbable Events. Penguin Books. 26 August 2021. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  11. ↑ A Warning from the Golden Toad. Penguin Books. 26 August 2021. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  12. ↑ The Clan of One-Breasted Women. Penguin Books. 26 August 2021. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  13. ↑ Food Rules. Penguin Books. 26 August 2021. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  14. ↑ The Democracy of Species. Penguin Books. 26 August 2021. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  15. ↑ The Most Dammed Country in the World. Penguin Books. 26 August 2021. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  16. ↑ The World We Once Lived In. Penguin Books. 26 August 2021. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  17. ↑ The Last Tree on Easter Island. Penguin Books. 26 August 2021. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  18. ↑ What I Stand for Is What I Stand On. Penguin Books. 26 August 2021. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  19. ↑ Every Species is a Masterpiece. Penguin Books. 26 August 2021. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  20. ↑ We Belong to Gaia. Penguin Books. 26 August 2021. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  21. ↑ The Dragonfly Will Be the Messiah. Penguin Books. 26 August 2021. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  22. ↑ There is No Point of No Return. Penguin Books. 26 August 2021. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  23. ↑ Man's War Against Nature. Penguin Books. 26 August 2021. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  24. ↑ Think Like a Mountain. Penguin Books. 26 August 2021. Retrieved 14 September 2022.


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