Uninhabitable Earth - A Story of the Future by David Wallace-Wells
Category: Enviromental Issues
The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn't happening at all, and if your anxiety about it is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible, even within the lifetime of a teenager today. Ov ...Show more
Living with the Anthropocene: Love, Loss and Hope in the Face of Environmental Crisis by Cameron Muir (Editor); Jennifer Newell (Editor); Kirsten Wehner (Editor)
Category: Enviromental Issues
Australia — and the world — is changing. On the Great Barrier Reef corals bleach white, across the inland farmers struggle with declining rainfall, birds and insects disappear from our gardens and plastic waste chokes our shores. The 2019–20 summer saw bushfires ravage the country like never before and ...Show more
Mindfully Green: A Personal and Spiritual Guide to Whole Earth Thinking by Stephanie Gaza
Category: Enviromental Issues
We may try to live sustainably, but what is our personal connection with green living? And, particularly, what is my impact on the natural world? This personal perspective is the one thing missing from discussions about living sustainably.
The Climate Cure: Solving the Climate Emergency in the Era of COVID-19 by Tim Flannery
Category: Enviromental Issues
Australians are witnessing an unprecedented government response to crisis-swift decisive action to avert catastrophe. And the advice of scientists has informed every step of the way. But for decades the advice of scientists on the impending catastrophe that climate change will bring has been ignored, di ...Show more
Landscapes of Our Hearts by Matthew Colloff
Category: Enviromental Issues
On this ancient continent, waves of people have made their mark on the landscape; in turn, it too has shaped them. If we look afresh at our history through the land we live on, might Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians find a path to a shared future? An epic exploration of our relationship with th ...Show more
End Game - Tipping Point for Planet Earth? by Anthony D Barnosky and Elizabeth A Hadly
Category: Enviromental Issues
overconsumption / population growth / dwindling natural resources / climate change / disease / contamination / storms / thirst / war ...will the struggle to simply stay alive become humanity's future rather than its past? What happens if population pressures finally hit a threshold that tumbles the domi ...Show more
Who's Minding the Farm? In This Climate Emergency by Patrice Newell
Category: Enviromental Issues
A vital account of how sustainable farming can address urgent issues such as climate change and water scarcity, health and nutrition, land stewardship, renewables vs. the coal industry, as well as meaningful and fulfilling rural employment. And a call to arms. You know who is minding the farm - our cons ...Show more
IFLScience! How to F***ing Save the Planet: The Brighter Side of the Fight Against Climate Change by Jennifer Crouch
Category: Enviromental Issues
A serious guide to the climate crisis with a humorous twist. The book includes rigorous scientific details to explain the issues that we face, while brightening the mood with humorous quotes, photos and illustrations. If you are a decent human being who believes in science, then IFLScience! How to F***i ...Show more
The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg
Category: Enviromental Issues
It seems like an impossible task - secure a safe future for life on Earth, at a scale and speed that the world has never seen, in the face of vast and powerful forces -not just oil tycoons and governments, but the changing climate system itself. The odds are against us, and we are running out of time. B ...Show more
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle by Nicky Scott
Category: Enviromental Issues | Series: Green Books Guides
What do you do with your old mobile phone? Where can you take your old medicines? Which plastic is recyclable? What happens to the stuff you recycle? This easy-to-use guide has the answers to all your recycling questions. Use its A-Z listing of everyday household items to see how you can recycle most of ...Show more