The NC State University Libraries has selected books and videos for Earth Month this April. Read and watch, and be sure to post on your Instagram as part of the Libraries’ Earth Month Instagram Challenge to be eligible to win a Zero-Waste Starter Kit!
Nonfiction books
All we can save: truth, courage, and solutions for the climate crisis
Ed. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Katharine K. Wilkinson
(print or ebook)
As long as grass grows: the indigenous fight for environmental justice from colonization to Standing Rock
Dina Gilio-Whitaker
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer
(print or ebook)
Cast Away: poems for our time
Naomi Shihab Nye
(print)
Grandma Gatewood's walk: the inspiring story of the woman who saved the Appalachian Trail
Ben Montgomery
(ebook)
Green Deen: what Islam teaches about protecting the planet
Ibrahim Abdul-Matin
(ebook)
The home place: memoirs of a colored man's love affair with nature
J. Drew Lanham
(print or ebook)
Latinx environmentalisms: place, justice, and the decolonial
edited by Sarah D. Wald, David J. Vázquez, Priscilla Solis Ybarra, and Sarah Jaquette Ray ; with a foreword by Laura Pulido
(ebook)
The modern cook's year: more than 250 vibrant vegetarian recipes to see you through the seasons
Anna Jones
(ebook)
The rise of the American conservation movement: power, privilege, and environmental protection
Dorceta E. Taylor
(ebook)
Soil not oil: environmental justice in a time of climate crisis
Vandana Shiva
(print)
Where the water goes: life and death along the Colorado River
David Owen
(print)
The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet
Leah Thomas
The boy who harnessed the wind: creating currents of electricity and hope
William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
Fiction Books
American War
Omar El Akkad
(print)
Bangkok wakes to rain
Pitchaya Sudbanthad
(print)
The fifth season
N.K. Jemisin
(print)
The Fishermen
Chigozie Obioma
(print)
The Lightest Object in the Universe
Kimi Eisele
(ebook)
The island of missing trees
Elif Shafak
(print)
Salvage the bones
Jesmyn Ward
(print or ebook)
Videos
Blue Gold: World Water Wars
(streaming)
Last Call at the Oasis
(streaming)
Beasts of the Southern Wild
(DVD)
Kiss the Ground
(streaming)
Gather
(streaming)
Wall-E
(DVD)