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The Beaker Blog April 30, 2021 • By mygreenlab stack of books

In honor of Earth Month, team My Green Lab shared a few of their favorite environmental books, movies, and shows, listed below, to help inspire your sustainability journey!

Movies & Shows include:

  • Waterworld
  • Princess Mononoke
  • A Life on Earth (the new David Attenborough documentary from BBC Frontline’s Plastic wars – “everyone should watch this!” says Chief Sustainability Officer Rachael Relph)
  • Gorillas in the Mist
  • Fern Gully
  • Captain Planet
  • WALL-E
  • Merchants of Doubt
  • Chasing Ice

Books include:

  • The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine Benyus
  • Encounters with the Archdruid by John McPhee
  • Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water by Marc Reisner
  • Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
  • The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
  • The Planet Remade by Oliver Morton
  • The Green Collar Economy by Van Jones
  • A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
  • The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by   Elizabeth Kolbert
  • The Slums of Aspen by Lisa Sun-Hee Park and David Naguib Pellow
  • Fairness of Adaptation to Climate Change from the MIT Press

Have any book, movies, or shows, you'd like to add to our list?

Let us know on Linkedin. Happy watching and reading!

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