The One Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka; Larry Korn (Translator); Wendell Berry (Preface by); Frances Moore Lappe (Introduction by)
$26.99 AUD
Category: Environmental Issues | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Call it "Zen and the Art of Farming" or a "Little Green Book," Masanobu Fukuoka's manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food. At the same time, it is a spiritual memoir of a man whose innovative system of ...Show more
The Story of More by Hope Jahren
$22.99 AUD
Category: Environmental Issues
Hope Jahren is an award-winning geobiologist, a brilliant writer, an inspiring teacher, and one of the seven billion people with whom we share this earth. In The Story of More, Jahren illuminates the link between human consumption habits and our imperiled planet. In short, highly readable chapters, she ...Show more
The Superpower Transformation: Making Australia's Zero-Carbon Future by Ross Garnaut
$34.99 AUD
Category: Environmental Issues
In his bestselling Superpower, renowned economist Ross Garnaut showed that Australia - rich in resources for renewable energy and for capturing carbon in the landscape - could become an economic superpower of the post-carbon world. Now, in The Superpower Transformation, he turns that idea into a practic ...Show more
The Sustainable House Handbook: How to plan and build an affordable, energy-efficient and waterwise home for the future by Josh Byrne
$39.99 AUD
Category: Environmental Issues
The Sustainable House Handbook is your comprehensive guide to building an affordable, eco-friendly and energy- plus water-efficient green home for the future. In this book, sustainability expert and Gardening Australia presenter Josh Byrne takes takes readers through the process of planning a 10-Star ra ...Show more
The Sustainable(ish) Guide to Green Parenting: Guilt-free eco-ideas for raising your kids by Jen Gale
$29.99 AUD
Category: Environmental Issues
'The most family friendly way to start doing your bit.' - The Sunday TimesThe must-have friendly green bible of accessible eco-tips for families.As a parent, getting out of the house with everyone wearing shoes (on a good day) can feel like you're winning, so adding 'being green' to the never-ending to- ...Show more
The Universe in Your Hand: A Journey Through Space, Time and Beyond by Christophe Galfard
$19.99 AUD
Category: Environmental Issues
Imagine if The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy were a real, practical book about the mysteries of the universe...The Universe In Your Hand takes us on a wonder-filled journey to the surface of our dying Sun, shrinks us to the size of an atom and puts us in the deathly grip of distant Black Holes. Along ...Show more
There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years - Updated Edition by Mike Berners-Lee
$19.95 AUD
Category: Environmental Issues
Feeding the world, climate change, biodiversity, antibiotics, plastics, pandemics - the list of concerns seems endless. But what is most pressing, and what should we do first? Do we all need to become vegetarian? How can we fly in a low-carbon world? How can we take control of technology? And, given the ...Show more
Together We Can: Everyday Australians Doing Amazing Things To Give Our Planet a Future by Claire O'Rourke
$32.99 AUD
Category: Environmental 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
Trade Winds - A Sailing Voyage to a Sustainable Future for Shipping by Christiaan De Beukelaer
$39.99 AUD
Category: Environmental Issues
Almost everything you consume, from your weekly shop to the Christmas presents you ordered online, arrived by cargo ship. Shipping is the engine of the world economy, transporting 11 billion tonnes of goods each year. Despite an environmental crisis, shipping emissions have doubled since 1990, producing ...Show more
Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in the Woods by Lyndsie Bourgon
$32.99 AUD
Category: Environmental Issues
The tree was poached in a two-part operation. It was felled one night and taken another.Here was a murder mystery in the deep woods: who had taken the cedar, how had they done so, and - most importantly - why?__________A gripping account of the billion-dollar timber black market -- and how it intersects ...Show more
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert
$29.99 AUD
Category: Environmental Issues
The author of the international bestseller The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking- After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it? Elizabeth Kolbert has become one of the most important writers on the environment. Now she i ...Show more
Uninhabitable Earth - A Story of the Future by David Wallace-Wells
$22.99 AUD
Category: Environmental Issues | Reading Level: very good
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