New and Featured Books at Pardee Library

In this bold, hopeful book, a data scientist draws on the latest research to give us the tools for understanding our current environmental crisis and making truly impactful changes.

Kohei Saito argues that calls for “sustainable growth” and a “Green New Deal” are a dangerous compromise with the same capitalist forces that impoverish people and ravage the planet. Rather, Saito advocates for degrowth and deceleration.

What would a sustainable economy look like? What would it take to live within our environmental means? This book explains what we would have to do to mend our ways and ensure a bright future for the next generations.

In this searing and insightful critique, Adrienne Buller examines the fatal biases that have shaped the response of our governing institutions to climate and environmental breakdown, and asks - in the face of crisis - what we really value.

Bob Keefe details how climate change has become an economic issue above all and how that has changed everything from the business to politics to the outlook for the future.

Written by experts in the field from academia and industry, this book covers the concept of sustainable investing, its role in fighting climate change, and sustainable investing strategies you can implement.

Capitalism has reformed itself twice before and is poised for a third major reformation. Retelling the origin story of capitalism from the 15th century to today, Stuart L. Hart argues that a radically sustainable, just capitalism is possible, and even likely, in our lifetime.

Centering on the Indigenous land defenders whose lives are being destroyed by untamed capitalist growth, this book provides an under-discussed but vital perspective on climate change, energy infrastructure, and mining.