How to Save the World For Free by Natalie Fee
Category: Enviromental Issues
There is no greater aspiration than saving the world. Natalie Fee's upbeat and engaging book is a life-altering guide to making those changes that will contribute to helping our planet. Covering all key areas of our lives, from food and leisure to travel and sex, Natalie will galvanize you to think and ...Show more
Resilience Thinking by WALKER BRIAN
Category: Enviromental Issues
Increasingly, cracks are appearing in the capacity of communities, ecosystems, and landscapes to provide the goods and services that sustain our planet's well-being. The response from most quarters has been for "more of the same" that created the situation in the first place: more control, more intensif ...Show more
No One is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg
Category: Enviromental Issues
'Everything needs to change. And it has to start today.'In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not to go to school one day. Her actions ended up sparking a global movement for action against the climate crisis, inspiring millions of pupils to go on strike for our planet, ...Show more
Together We Can: Everyday Australians Doing Amazing Things To Give Our Planet a Future by Claire O'Rourke
Category: Enviromental Issues
Inspiring stories about people around Australia who are taking action on climate change, helping create a better future for our children and for the planet, while at the same time deepening connections with each other. Millions of Australians are quietly freaking out about climate change, and Claire O'R ...Show more
Here On Earth: An Argument for Hope by Tim Flannery
Category: Enviromental Issues
Tim Flannery's first major book since The Weather Makers charts the history of life on our planet. Here on Earth, which draws its points of departure from Darwin and Wallace, Lovelock and Dawkins, is an extraordinary exploration of evolution and sustainability. Our success as a species has had disastrou ...Show more
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring and Other Writings on the Environment by Rachel Carson; Sandra Steingraber (Editor)
Category: Enviromental Issues | Series: The\Library of America Ser.
The book that sparked the modern environmental movement, with an unprecedented collection of letters, speeches, and other writings that reveal the extraordinary courage and vision of its author Library of America launches its Rachel Carson edition with this deluxe illustrated volume presenting one of th ...Show more
Call of the Reed Warbler: Revised Edition by Charles Massy
Category: Enviromental Issues
Call of the Reed Warbler will change the way we farm, eat and think about food. In this groundbreaking book Charles Massy explores regenerative agriculture and the vital connection between our soil and our health. Using his personal farming experience as a touchstone, he tells the real story behind ind ...Show more
Windfall: Unlocking a Fossil-Free Future by Ketan Joshi
Category: Enviromental Issues
We've had a decade of distraction and inaction on climate change, but what made things go so very wrong in Australia? And what can the rest of the world learn from our mistakes – and opportunities? In Windfall, renewable energy expert Ketan Joshi examines how wind power inspired the creation of a weird, ...Show more
Are We Screwed? How a New Generation Is Fighting to Survive Climate Change by Geoff Dembicki
Category: Enviromental Issues
A declaration of independence, and a call for systemic change, from the generation that will be most impacted by climate change. If anyone doubted the potential political power of the Millennial generation, Bernie Sanders' campaign put it in the spotlight. Are We Screwed? makes clear that the ardor for ...Show more
Blackout How can energy-rich Australia be running out of electricity? by Matthew Warren
Category: Enviromental Issues
For 20 years Australia has been in political denial about the seismic changes occurring in the way we power our country. Successive governments continue to tell people that power prices will fall while the lights stay on. Debate is reduced to two equally preposterous narratives: coal-fired, climate chan ...Show more
Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist by Paul Kingsnorth
Category: Enviromental Issues
A provocative and urgent essay collection that asks how we can live with hope in "an age of ecocide" Paul Kingsnorth was once an activist--an ardent environmentalist. He fought against rampant development and the depredations of a corporate world that seemed hell-bent on ignoring a looming climate cris ...Show more
Crimes Against Nature: Capitalism and Global Heating by Jeff Sparrow
Category: Enviromental Issues
A polemic about global warming and the environmental crisis that argues that ordinary people have consistently opposed the destruction of nature and so provide an untapped constituency for climate action. Crimes Against Nature uses fresh material to offer a very different take on the most important issu ...Show more