Top Picks
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature, Janine M. Benyus
Carbon, Paul Hawken
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Jared Diamond
Connected to Place, Matt Biggar
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, William McDonough and Michael Braungart
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
Educating for Sustainability with the Brain in Mind, Jaimie Cloud
Governing the Commons, Elinor Ostrom
How to Change Everything, Naomi Klein
Learning and Sustainability in Dangerous Times, Stephen Sterling
If you don't have time to read the book, check out this book review published by Rosemarie, our program specialist, in the Australian Journal of Environmental Education.
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution, Paul Hawken, Amory B. Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins
Neuroscience of engagement and SCARF: why they matter to schools, Dr. Giselle O. Martin-Kniep
Quiet Leadership, David Rock
The Commoner’s Catalog for Changemaking, David Bollier
The Necessary Revolution: How Individuals & Organizations are Working Together to Create a Sustainable World, Peter M. Senge, Joe Laur, Sara Schley, and Bryan Smith
The Serviceberry, Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Malcolm Gladwell
Thinking in Systems, Donella H. Meadows
SCARF: a brain-based model for collaborating with and influencing others, David Rock
Stories from Nora Bateson — “How Our Ways of Knowing Shape Our Collective Future”, written by Nadine Maarhuis, We Are The Regeneration, Oct 2025.
Your Brain at Work, David Rock
Whole New Mind, Daniel Pink
Equity in Sustainability
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)
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
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. A gentle, early introduction to systems thinking (ages 3–6)
The Noisy Puddle, Linda Booth Sweeney. ST through a living ecosystem kids can actually explore. Supplements: Vernal Pool Bingo.
Do Bees Pee?, Linda Booth Sweeney. (ages 3–7)