Sustainable Recommendations to Watch + Read + Listen
DOCUMENTARIES
A great place to start is to join the Water Bear Network to have access to loads of short, indie climate films.
13th (Netflix)
Gather (Netflix)
Honeyland (website)
The True Cost (website)
The Story of Plastic (YouTube)
A Life on Our Planet (Netflix)
Kiss the Ground (Netflix)
Before the Flood (iTunes / Amazon)
Ice on Fire (HBO)
Biggest Little Farm (Amazon)
No Impact Man (YouTube Rental)
The Need to Grow - Vimeo
Human Flow (website)
Our Planet (Netflix)
The Cove (Amazon)
Albatross (Website)
An Inconvenient Truth (Website)
Chasing Ice (Netflix)
Chasing Coral (Netflix)
Period. End of Sentence (Netflix)
Mission Blue (Netflix)
A Plastic Ocean (Netflix)
Years of Living Dangerously series (YouTube)
Merchants of Doubt (Amazon)
This Changes Everything (Website)
Racing Extinction (iTunes / Amazon)
Blue Planet (BBC)
Gamechangers (YouTube)
What the Health? (website)
Forks Over Knives (website)
They’re Trying to Kill Us (website)
Fantastic Funghi (netflix)
Common Ground
BOOKS & ARTICLES
All We Can Save - Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
The Intersectional Environmentalist - Leah Thomas
Give a Sh*t - Ashlee Piper
Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer
A Terrible Thing to Waste - Harriet A. Washington
It’s Not That Radical - Mikaela Loach
Cradle to Cradle - William McDonough and Michael Braungart
The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis - Christiana Figueres
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming - Paul Hawken
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference - Greta Thunberg
101 Ways to Go Zero Waste - Kathryn Kellog
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast - Jonathan Safran Foer
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History - Elizabeth Kolbert
The Uninhabitable Earth - David Wallace-Wells
Eating Animals - Jonathan Safron Foer
White Fragility - Robin DiAngelo
This Changes Everything - Naomi Klein
Finding the Mother Tree - Suzanne Simard
Saving Us - Katharine Hayhoe
Consumed - Aja Barber
Regenesis - George Monbiot
Silent Spring - Rachel Carson
The Story of Stuff - Annie Leonard
Go Gently - Bonnie Wright
How the Other Half Eats - Priya Fielding-Singh
Healing Grounds - Liz Carlisle
Farming While Black - Leah Penniman
Plant Coach - Nick Cutsumpas
NY Times - How to Stop Freaking Out and Tackle Climate Change
Rolling Stone - How JP Morgan Chase Became the Doomsday Bank
PODCASTS
Know Better Do Better - Marie Beecham
How to Save a Planet - Dr. Ayana Johnson + Alex Bloomberg
The Yikes Podcast - Mikaela Loach and Jo Becker
The Joy Report - Intersectional Environmentalists & Arielle King
Outrage & Optimism - Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac and Paul Dickinson
TED Climate - Dan Kwartler
Rich Roll Podcast ft. Paul Hawken + Project Drawdown
Talking Tastebuds w Venetia La Manna
How I Built This ft. Ethan Brown + Beyond Meat
Science Vs. - Wendy Zukerman
All The Small Things - Venetia LaManna
TED TALKS
TED Countdown - Countdown Global Launch, a call to action on climate change
Katharine Hayhoe: The most important thing you can do for climate change: talk about it
Kimberlé Crenshaw: The urgency of intersectionality
Rebecca Henderson - Reimagine Capitalism
Ray Anderson: The business logic of sustainability
Ron Finley: A guerilla gardener in South Central LA
William Kamkwamba: How I built a windmill
Willie Smits: How to restore a rainforest
Lauren Singer: Why I live a zero waste life
Anab Jain: Why we need to imagine different futures
Ted Radio Hour - Future Consequences
Ted Radio Hour - Everything is Connected
Ted Radio Hour - Climate Crisis
Emma Marris - Nature is Everywhere
Alexis Nikole - A flavorful field guide to foraging
NEWSLETTERS
NY Times - Climate Fwd
LA Times - Boiling Point
Sunrise Movement - Activist Newsletter
Surfrider Foundation - News + Updates
Package Free Shop - Zero Waste Tips
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