Recommended Reading for Climate Concerned Creatives
These days, when we should be adhering to public health policies and staying home as much as possible, it’s the perfect time to pick up a new book! We at Symbiont want to provide you with a list of some of our favorites, divided into some key categories. Enjoy!
Science:
Microcosmos - Lynn Margulis
Symbiotic Planet: A New Look At Evolution - Lynn Margulis
Microbia: A Journey Into the Unseen World Around You - Eugenia Bone
The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher - Lewis Thomas
Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities - Vaclav Smil
Decolonization:
As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock - Dina Gilio-Whitaker
Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds - Arturo Escobar
Decolonizing Nature: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology - T. J. Demos
Lo-TEK: Design by Radical Indigenism - Julia Watson
Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives - Macarena Gómez-Barris
Multispecies Ecology:
Multispecies Archaeology - Suzanne Pillar Birch
Staying with the Trouble - Donna J. Haraway
A Cyborg Manifesto - Donna J. Haraway
The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness - Donna Haraway
Regenerative Economics:
The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision - Fritjof Capra and Pier Luigi Luisi
Designing Regenerative Cultures - Daniel Christian Wahl
Climate Politics:
Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime - Bruno Latour
Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime - Bruno Latour
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable - Amitav Ghosh
Deep Economy - Bill McKibben
Environmental History
Nature and Power - Joachim Radkau
Narratives told through Nature
The Overstory - Richard Powers
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures - Merlin Sheldrake
Agriculture/Soil Studies:
Fermented Landscapes: Lively Process of Socio-environmental Transformation - Colleen C. Myles
Letters to a Young Farmer: On Food, Farming, and Our Future - Gene Logsdon
Field to Palette: Dialogues on Soil and Art in the Anthropocene - Alexandra Toland, Jay S. Noller, Gerd Wessolek
Gender and The Regenerative Future:
Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis - Multiple Authors
The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology and the Scientific Revolution - Carolyn Merchant
