Top Picks
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature, Janine M. Benyus
Connected to Place, Matt Biggar
Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World, Heidi Hayes Jacobs (ed)
Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect, David Orr
Ecological Literacy: Education and the Transition to a Postmodern World, David Orr
Governing the Commons, Elinor Ostrom
Learning and Sustainability in Dangerous Times, Stephen Sterling
If you don't have time to read the book, check out this book review.
Response-Able: How to Live Well Over Time on Planet Earth, Jaimie P. Cloud
The Serviceberry, Robin Wall Kimmerer
Thinking in Systems, Donella H. Meadows
For Children
Because of a Storm: The Spongy Moth A Small Bug with a Big (and Icky) Impact, Dorna Schroeter
We Are One: A User's Guide for Young Earthlings, Dorna Schroeter
Apart, Together, Linda Booth Sweeney
The Noisy Puddle, Linda Booth Sweeney. Supplements: Vernal Pool Bingo.
Do Bees Pee?, Linda Booth Sweeney
For Young People
Response-Able: How to Live Well Over Time on Planet Earth, Jaimie P. Cloud
How to Change Everything, Naomi Klein (written for young people)
For Educators
Seven Wonders: Everyday Things for a Healthier Planet, John C. Ryan
Connected Wisdom: Living Stories about Living Systems, Linda Booth Sweeney
Creating Better Cities for Children and Youth: A Manual for Participation, David Driskell
When a Butterfly Sneezes, Linda Booth Sweeney
Mapmaking with Children: Sense of Place Education for the Elementary Years, David Sobel
Stuff: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things, Alan Thein Durning and John C. Ryan
Asphalt to Ecosystems: Design Ideas for Schoolyard Transformation, Sharon Gamson Danks
DIGGING IN, Farm to School Activities, Case Studies, and Resources, The Center for Ecoliteracy
The Systems Thinking Playbook, Linda Booth Sweeney & Dennis. L. Meadows.
The Climate Change Playbook, Dennis Meadows, Linda Booth Sweeney, Gillian Martin Mehers
Brain Science
Neuroscience of engagement and SCARF: why they matter to schools, Dr. Giselle O. Martin-Kniep
Quiet Leadership, David Rock
SCARF: a brain-based model for collaborating with and influencing others, David Rock
Your Brain at Work, David Rock
Whole New Mind, Daniel Pink
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Malcolm Gladwell
The Necessary Revolution: How Individuals & Organizations are Working Together to Create a Sustainable World, Peter M. Senge, Joe Laur, Sara Schley, and Bryan Smith
Climate
Carbon, Paul Hawken
On The Commons
The Commoner’s Catalog for Changemaking, David Bollier
Equity
One Hen, Katie Smith Milway
Wangari Maathai : The Woman Who Planted Millions of Trees, Franck Prévot
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer, illustrated by Elizabeth Zunion
One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia, Miranda Paul
Books to Support Conversations and Thoughts About Race and Racism (K-3)
Books to Support Conversations and Thoughts About Race and Racism (3-5)
Hope
Hope Matters, Elin Kelsey
How to be Hopeful, Elin Kelsey
Indigenous
Braiding Sweetgrass
The Medicine Wheel
Regeneration
Regenerative Development and Design: A Framework for Evolving Sustainability
By Pamela Mang, Ben Haggard and Regenesis
Regenerative Economics
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution, Paul Hawken, Amory B. Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, William McDonough and Michael Braungart
Regenerative Economics open textbook
Social Change
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Jared Diamond
Short Stories
Stories from Nora Bateson — “How Our Ways of Knowing Shape Our Collective Future”, written by Nadine Maarhuis, We Are The Regeneration, Oct 2025.