Deakin Lecture 2008 - Environment and Sustainability
Nature And Power
$44.95 (Paperback book / Cambridge Univ Pres )
This book aims to demonstrate that the changing relationship between humanity and nature is key to understanding world history. Humans have been grappling with environmental problems since prehistoric times, and the envi... More »
Cradle To Cradle Remaking The Way We Make Things
$54.95 (Paperback book / North Point Press )
Environmentalists are normally the last people to be called shortsighted, yet that's essentially what architect McDonough and chemist Braungart contend in this clarion call for a new kind of ecological consciousness. The... More »
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The Weather Makers: The History And Future Impact Of Climate Change
$34.95 (Paperback book / Text Publishing )
The last 10,000 years have been humanity's day in the sun: we planted the first crops, domesticated animals, and built the first civilisations - and all of this happened not once but many times independently in different... More »
Sacred Balance New Edition
$26.95 (Paperback book / Allen & Unwin )
In the ten years since The Sacred Balance was first published, global warming has become a major issue as glaciers and polar ice caps have begun to melt at an alarming rate, populations of polar bears have dwindled, the ... More »
Six Degrees Our Future On A Hotter Planet
$24.99 (Paperback book / Harper Perennial )
Like many who watched the hurricane disaster strike New Orleans last year, I was shocked at the deprivations endured by the victims – left to fend for themselves in terrible conditions in the world’s richest country. It ... More »
Blue Planet Run
$75.00 (Hardcover book / The Five Mile Press )
Drawing on the work of some of the finest photojournalists in the world, Blue Planet Run: The Race to Provide Safe Drinking Water to the World focuses on the entire safe drinking water story: its origins, its implication... More »
World Without Us
$27.95 (Paperback book / Virgin Publishing )
What if mankind disappeared right now, forever … what would happen to the Earth in a week, a year, a millennium? Could the planet’s climate ever recover from human activity? How would nature destroy our huge cities and o... More »
Climate Code Red: The Case For Emergency Action
$27.95 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )
In this meticulously documented call-to-action, David Spratt and Philip Sutton reveal extensive scientific evidence that the global warming crisis is far worse than official reports and national governments have indicate... More »
Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis And The Coming Battle For The Right To Water
$29.95 (Trade paperback / Black Inc )
"Life requires access to clean water; to deny the right to water is to deny the right to life."- from the introduction to Blue Covenant.
Scientists call them "hot stains" - the parts of the earth running out of clean, dr... More »
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Thirsty Country Options For Australians
$27.95 (Paperback book / Jacana )
Australia is the driest inhabited continent in the world and current global warming forecasts are for it to become drier still but what do we do about it? Schemes abound but will they work, can we afford them and are the... More »
Inconvenient Truth Planetary Emergence Of Global Warming
$35.00 (Trade paperback / Bloomsbury )
The truth about the climate crisis is an inconvenient one that means we are going to have to change the way we live our lives. Our climate crisis may at times appear to be happening slowly, but in fact it has become a tr... More »