Being sustainable means making better decisions that affect both you and the environment you live in. By obtaining sustainable choices and habits, you’ll be starting to look on the healthier side of life and you’ll also start reducing your carbon footprint and the number of toxins released into the environment.

However, incorporating a sustainable lifestyle and choices can be difficult if you don’t have enough knowledge about what’s better for you and the environment. So, if you have no idea where to start from, we’ve created a list of the best sustainable living books everyone should read.

101 Ways to Go Zero Waste by Kathryn Kellogg

Once you decide to get a sustainable living book and start making healthier life choices, “101 Ways to Go Zero Waste” is the perfect point to start from. Wondering why? Well, the author, Kathryn Kellogg is one of the rare people who managed to maximally reduce their carbon footprint and as she claims, fit all her rubbish from the past two years into a 16-ounce jar.

This eco book will teach you a bunch of valuable lessons about sustainability and how to be more responsible for the environment, give you excellent tips along with DIY recipes for beauty and home and a couple of secrets for how to go waste-free at home, work and in public spaces such as airports etc.

So, don’t hesitate to put this book on your reading list and learn about the best practices for reducing your environmental carbon footprint.

Adaptogens: A Directory of Over 70 Healing Herbs by Melissa Petitto

By incorporating sustainable practices you aren’t only contributing to the carbon footprint reduction, but you’re also automatically doing better choices for your well being. This includes learning to incorporate better eating habits, sharpening the mind out of brain fog and staying calmer throughout stressful situations, boosting your immunity and stamina and bringing better decisions for your overall well-being and happiness.

“Adaptogens: A Directory of Over 70 Healing Herbs” is the ultimate sustainable living book that will teach you about the healing power of adaptogens, herbs, roots and other medicinal plants that help the body function better than its natural capacity. More specifically, you’ll acquire knowledge about the history and science behind a bunch of herbal remedies, get a bulky A-Z directory of over 70 healing herbs and tasty, yet nutritious recipes to embrace nature’s power.

Ferment – A Guide to the Ancient Art of Culturing Foods by Holly Davis

Looking for ways to eat tasty and dynamic flavoured, yet healthy and balanced food? This guide is one of the healthy lifestyle books that will inspire you to cook lesser-known foods that are celebrated for their health benefits in different worldwide cultures.

In fact, Holly Davis, the author of this book spent more than 40 years researching and gaining expertise in fermented ingredients and fermentation techniques. And not only does she share her knowledge to help us become more sustainable, but she also contributes to the revival of the ancient art of culturing foods. Therefore, she provides us with over 120 recipes enriched with up to 100 photographs, helpful hints and informational charts for incorporating fermented ingredients into your diet.

On top of that, the list of recipes isn’t only intended for experienced cooks and fermenters, as you can also find a bunch of useful tips on how to start bringing healthier eating choices, regardless of your cooking skills.

Plant-Powered Beauty by Amy Galper and Christina Daigneault

We already mentioned a couple of clean living books dedicated to reaping the health benefits of a diet rich in herbs, plants and fermented ingredients. But did you know that the products you apply to your skin are also getting absorbed into your body and circling around your bloodstream? Hence, you can imagine the number of chemicals and synthetic ingredients in commercial products that travel and do “hazards” in your organism.

Once you find out that sustainability for your well-being doesn’t only come from the inside, you might want to replace all those commercial skincare products with plant-based cosmetics that will help you maintain your natural beauty and help your skin glow like never before. On top of that, you’ll also learn how to deconstruct beauty labels, parse ingredients lists, make informed choices about the products you use, and what’s the most important, start better understanding how the skin works.

This healthy lifestyle book will provide you with over 50 recipes using natural ingredients for health, wellness and personal skincare such as almond milk facial cleansers, choco-mint lip balms, coconut whip make-up removers, cucumber-thyme body scrubs, different anti-aging and blemish facial gels and many more natural skincare products to become sustainable and healthy.

Holistic Aromatherapy for Animals by Kristen Leigh Bell

You’ve probably heard about the benefits of aromatherapies with essential oils, as they’re excellent for releasing tension and stress, relaxing your body and mind and creating a bunch of different inflammations. On top of that, aromatherapy is a science that actually has a much larger archive of supported scientific data than most other holistic care methods But did you know that essential oil therapies aren’t only good for humans, but pets can also reap their endless range of benefits?

In fact, French veterinarians were the first who incorporate essential oils and hydrosols in their practices. And they managed to prove that aromatherapy can be a primary form of healthcare to treat and balance all sorts of minor alignments and discomforts in the lives of pets. Hence, everyone enabled with quality essential oils or hydrosols and adequate knowledge can use a plant’s most concentrated and energetic byproducts to improve the health of their animals and treat and prevent various illnesses and common elements.