Whether you’re looking to pick up a few new gardening tricks, or to educate yourself on lifestyle changes that can lead to more sustainable work and life choices, these 14 titles are must-reads for Earth Month.
The Landscape of Home: In the Country, By the Sea, In the City by Edmund Hollander | Rizzoli
Landscape architect Ed Hollander, founder of Hollander Design Landscape Architects, explores the idea of home as the natural surroundings that people live in: a place of living, changing beauty, refuge, and above all, joy, where family and friends gather to create a lifetime of memories.
Reimagining Luxury: Building a Sustainable Future for your Brand by Diana Verde Nieto | Kogan Page
This comprehensive guide provides practical advice on how to shift mindsets, heartsets and practices to achieve sustainable economic growth. Whether you’re an established luxury organization or a new player in the field, this book is an essential resource for navigating the changing landscape of sustainability and innovation in the 21st century.
Sustained: Creating a Sustainable House Through Small Changes, Money-Saving Habits, and Natural Solutions by Candice Batista | Mango
Authored by award-winning environmental journalist, Candice Batista, this step-by-step, eco-living guide offers simple yet powerful ways to turn each room in your home into a hub of sustainability, while pocketing impressive savings every step of the way.
Bunny Williams: Life in the Garden by Bunny Williams | Rizzoli
Inviting us into her impressive grounds with charming personal anecdotes, expert advice, and creative ideas for how to bring natural elements into the home, this is a testament to Bunny Williams’ love affair with the garden and woodlands surrounding her eighteenth-century manor house in Northwestern Connecticut.
Off the Grid: Houses for Escape Across North America by Dominic Bradbury | Thames and Hudson
The need to reduce our carbon footprints as the effects of climate change become a reality has brought sustainable living, particularly in off-grid and net-zero houses, to the forefront. In Off the Grid, Dominic Bradbury turns to North America to showcase how architects are making living in the wilderness a more affordable and attainable dream.
Land Back: Relational Landscapes of Indigenous Resistance across the Americas by Heather Dorries and Michelle Daigle | Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
Relationships with land are fundamental components of Indigenous worldviews, politics, and identity. “Land back” has become a slogan for Indigenous land protectors across the Americas, reflecting how relations to land are foundational to calls for decolonization and liberation. This new book highlights the ways Indigenous peoples and anti-colonial co-resistors understand land relations for political resurgence and freedom across the Americas.
Soil to Table: The Land Gardeners Recipes for Healthy Soil and Food by Henrietta Courtauld, Bridget Elworthy | Thames and Hudson
Soil is a delicate ecosystem made up of minerals, water, air, plant roots, organic matter, insects and a complex web of micro-organisms. We rely on its health for our food and our future – just as caring for the gut flora within our intestines is vital to human wellbeing, so too is caring for the microbes in the soil the essence of soil health. Reflecting on the link between the health of our soils and what we eat, Soil to Table is filled with ideas and wisdom about how to care for your soil and includes recipes from chef Lulu Cox.
A Year Full of Pots: Container Flowers for All Seasons by Sarah Raven | Bloomsbury Publishing
Master the art of growing flowers in pots year-round with inspiration from stunning full-color images and expert advice from the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Year Full of Flowers.
Second Nature: Photography in the Age of the Anthropocene edited by Jessica May and Marshall N. Price | Rizzoli
The pressing issue of our time through the lens of important artists working today: the toll of human activity on the climate—known as the Anthropocene—is considered in-depth in this historic convening of photographers and thought-leaders from the worlds of art, Indigenous studies, philosophy, and ecology.
The Super Bloom Handbook: Maximum flowers. Minimum effort. by Jac Semmler | Thames and Hudson
From bearded irises and roses to pelargoniums and zinnias, there is a flower for every pot, planter box or garden. Here are flowers that are abundant and resilient, that will grow even if you garden in tough conditions.
This Is Wildfire: How to Protect Yourself, Your Home, and Your Community in the Age of Heat by Nick Mott, Justin Angle | Bloomsbury Publishing
A practical guide for living with wildfire, including essential history and science, actions you can take to protect your home, and guiding principles for life in an increasingly fiery future.
Paul Bangay: A Life in Garden Design by Paul Bangay | Thames and Hudson
Paul Bangay is Australia’s most sought-after garden designer, with close to forty years’ experience. Known for his mastery of scale, balance, form and color, Paul draws on his lifelong study of the natural and classical worlds to create gardens around the globe.
The Good Eater: A Vegan’s Search for the Future of Food by Nina Guilbeault | Bloomsbury Publishing
In The Good Eater, Harvard-trained sociologist (and vegan) Nina Guilbeault, PhD vividly explores the vegan movement’s history and its present-day tensions by grappling with the most fundamental question of all: Is there a truly ethical way to eat? What emerges is a fascinating portrait of how social change happens, with profound implications for our plates- and our planet.
Floramour: Peonies by Anja Klaffenbach | teNeues
Lush, full, and incredibly beautiful, the peony is one of the most magnificent flowers adorning our gardens- but with a short window. Their blooming period is limited to just a few weeks between May and June. Now, during the long wait between blooms, the photo book “Floramour: Peonies / Pfingstrosen” offers a replacement that is unparalleled.
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