At ecobirmingham we support the National Literacy Trust’s #Take10ToRead campaign. Thousands of people across the UK take part each year to inspire people of all ages to read more often and feel the benefits to their mental health and wellbeing.
To encourage you to drop what you are doing and join us in taking some time out to read together for just 10 minutes each day we’ve asked our staff for their top picks on environmental books they have recently read, here are their favourites, a mix of books for adults, kids, fiction and non fiction:
- Not the End of the World by Hannah Ritchie
- The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
- The History of Bees by Maja Lunde
- Losing Eden by Lucy Jones
- Braiding Sweetgrass – (also available for young adults) – by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- No one is too small to make a difference by Greta Thunberg – age 12+
- The Wild by Yuval Zommer for ages 4-8
- Leila and the blue fox by Kiran Millwood Hargrave – age 9+
- A rainbow for Amala by The Other Way Works – age 8+
- This book is not rubbish by Isabel Thomas – age 9+
Reading something you enjoy can help you relax and boost your mood and all the above books have a message of hope for our planet (and us!) in common, so find your cosy corner and enjoy!
The best options when looking for these books are Your nearest library or local, independent bookshop. You can find alternatives to Amazon and other various book-selling streams, on the Ethical Consumer website, their guide considers print as well as ebooks and audio books, sustainability, buying secondhand, and how to support independent authors, publishers and bookshops.
Thanks to the National Literacy Trust in Birmingham for inspiring us to read more and supporting our stories for nature projects.
Together we can make Birmingham a greener and healthier place to live.