Deakin Lectures 2010 Books
How To Cool The Planet
$38.95 – Hardcover book / Houghton Mifflin
When Jeff Goodell first encountered the term ‘geoengineering’, he had a vague sense that it involved outlandish schemes to counteract global warming. As a journalist, he was deeply sceptical. But he was also intrigued. T... Buy or find out more →
The Life You Can Save: Acting Now To End World Poverty
$24.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Most of us are absolutely certain that we wouldn’t hesitate to save a drowning child, and that we would do it at considerable cost to ourselves. Yet while thousands of children die each day, we spend money on things we t... Buy or find out more →
Crossing The Energy Divide: Moving From Fossil Fuel Dependence To A Clean Energy Future
$34.95 – Hardcover book / Wharton School
The Environmentally and Economically Smart Strategy for Solving the Global Energy Crisis--Starting Now
If we continue our highly inefficient, dangerous energy usage, we’re headed for both economic and environmental catas... Buy or find out more →
Hack: The Planet: Radical Science And The Plans To Avert A Climate Change Catastrophe
$34.95 – Hardcover book / Wiley
Despite the efforts of those at the Copenhagen climate meeting and proposals in the U.S. Senate, cutting greenhouse pollution may not be enough to avert climate catastrophe. Last month nearly two hundred scientists from ... Buy or find out more →
The Vanishing Face Of Gaia: A Final Warning (Updated Edition)
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
'The most influential scientist and writer since Charles Darwin' Irish Times
'The Earth guru' Sunday Times
James Lovelock's Gaia theory, the idea that our planet is a living, self-regulating system, has transformed the w... Buy or find out more →
Requiem For A Species: Why We Resist The Truth About Climate Change
$24.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
We know how dire the future looks. We know how little time we have left to act. Yet we continue to ignore the warnings ... One of Australia's sharpest thinkers explores the reasons why and offers his vison of our new fut... Buy or find out more →
Eaarth: Making A Life On A Tough New Planet
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Black Inc
Twenty years ago, in The End of Nature, Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about global warming. Those warnings went mostly unheeded; now, he argues, we need to acknowledge that we’ve waited too long, and... Buy or find out more →
Climate Change And Small Island States: Power Knowledge And The South Pacific
$139.95 – Hardcover book / Earthscan Pubn
Small Island Developing States are often depicted as being among the most vulnerable of all places to the effects of climate change, and they are a cause célèbre of many involved in climate science, politics and the medi... Buy or find out more →
Plows, Plagues and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control Of Climate
$31.95 – Paperback book / Princeton Univ Press
The impact on climate from 200 years of industrial development is an everyday fact of life, but did humankind's active involvement in climate change really begin with the industrial revolution, as commonly believed? Will... Buy or find out more →
Peoplequake: Peoplequake: Mass Migration Ageing Nations and the Coming Population Crash
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Corgi Books
A groundbreaking book that reveals the truth about population levels, and where they will take us in the future.
Wherever we look, population is the driver of the most toxic issues on the political agenda. But the popula... Buy or find out more →
The Sixth Wave
$34.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
Five waves of innovation, beginning with the Industrial Revolution, have each transformed society, economies and industry. The fifth wave was dominated by information and communications technology but its peak is beginni... Buy or find out more →
Climate Change Justice
$42.95 – Hardcover book / Princeton Univ Press
Climate change and justice are so closely associated that many people take it for granted that a global climate treaty should--indeed, must--directly address both issues together. But, in fact, this would be a serious mi... Buy or find out more →
Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Atlantic Books
Three profound transformations are under way on Earth: climate change, urbanization and biotechnology. Climate change is finally pushing us towards recognizing the need to manage the planet as a whole. With half the worl... Buy or find out more →
The Climate Crisis: An Introductory Guide To Climate Change
$39.95 – Paperback book / Cambridge Univ Pres
An incredible wealth of scientific data on global warming has been collected in the last few decades. The history of the Earth's climate has been probed by drilling into polar ice sheets and sediment layers of the oceans... Buy or find out more →
Challenged By Carbon: The Oil Industry And Climate Change
$64.95 – Paperback book / Cambridge Univ Pres
Is there a low-carbon future for the oil industry? Faced with compelling new geological evidence, the petroleum industry can no longer ignore the consequences of climate change brought on by consumption of its products. ... Buy or find out more →
Too Smart For Our Own Good: The Ecological Predicament Of Humankind
$42.95 – Paperback book / Cambridge Univ Pres
We are destroying our natural environment at a constantly increasing pace, and in so doing undermining the preconditions of our own existence. Why is this so? This book reveals that our ecologically disruptive behavior i... Buy or find out more →
State Of The World 2010
$39.95 – Paperback book / Earthscan Pubn
Worldwatch's flagship publication, State of the World, has educated a broad audience of students, journalists, policymakers, and concerned citizens about trends in sustainable development for a quarter century. The book ... Buy or find out more →
A Blueprint For A Safer Planet
$27.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
A book about the action required of this generation to ensure the continued existence of the human race – by the world’s leading authority on climate change.
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Hurricanes and storms strike New Orlea... Buy or find out more →
Hope And Hard Times: Communities, Collaboration And Sustainability
$33.95 – Paperback book / New Society Pub
More than a dozen years ago, Ted Bernard travelled to nine communities across the United States to meet residents who were working collaboratively to solve natural resource conflicts. While there may have been different ... Buy or find out more →
The Big Picture: Reflections On Science, Humanity And A Quickly Changing Planet
$29.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
The world's leading environmentalist delivers an urgent assessment of the planet's state and offers science-based solutions.
Whether he's discussing how to reconcile economy with ecology, why a warmer world will result i... Buy or find out more →
The Three Secrets Of Green Business: Unlocking Competitive Advantage In A Low Carbon Economy
$34.95 – Paperback book / Earthscan Pubn
Business is coming under increasing pressure from government, customers and campaigning groups to improve its environmental performance. Soaring utility and compliance costs are hitting companies where it hurts - on thei... Buy or find out more →
Climate of Australia: The Authoritative Climate Reference
$64.95 – Hardcover book / Aust Scholarly Pub
This practical guide from the Bureau of Meteorology draws together our knowledge about Australia’s climate, past and present. It examines typical and extreme weather patterns, long-term variability and the effects of cli... Buy or find out more →
Storms of my Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and our Last Chance to Save Humanity
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Bloomsbury
An urgent and provocative call to action from the world's leading climate scientist.
In Storms of My Grandchildren, Dr. James Hansen, the world's leading scientist on climate issues, speaks out for the first time with th... Buy or find out more →
Global Environmental Change and Human Security
$39.95 – Paperback book / Mit Press
In recent years, scholars in international relations and other fields have begun to conceive of security more broadly, moving away from a state-centered concept of national security toward the idea of human security, whi... Buy or find out more →
Sustainability By Design
$29.95 – Paperback book / Yale Univ Pr
The developed world, increasingly aware of “inconvenient truths” about global warming and sustainability, is turning its attention to possible remedies—eco-efficiency, sustainable development, and corporate social respon... Buy or find out more →
Power Trip: From Oil Wells to Solar Cells, Our Ride to the Renewable Future
$0.00 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
In this smart, fluent and easy-to-read analysis, Little delivers a confident and constructive narrative that promises to move America, (and therefore the rest of the world) beyond the despair and the doom and gloom that ... Buy or find out more →
The Rough Guide To Green Living
$26.95 – Paperback book / Rough Guides
The Rough Guide to Green Living is a fact-filled, user-friendly guide to living a low-carbon, eco-friendly life. The guide provides hundreds of going green tips on all the key consumer areas - from greener shopping and r... Buy or find out more →
Hot, Flat And Crowded: Why The World Needs A Green Revolution And How We Can Renew Our Global Future
$26.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
"The World Is Flat" has helped millions of readers to see globalization in a new way. Now Friedman brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy - both of which co... Buy or find out more →
No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Little Brown
What does it really take to live eco-effectively? For one year, Colin Beavan swore off plastic and toxins, turned off his electricity, went organic, became a bicycle nut, and tried to save the planet from environmental c... Buy or find out more →
The Economical Environmentalist
$39.95 – Paperback book / Earthscan Pubn
In this book, Prashant Vaze, an environmental economist, distils and builds on his experience of trying to live a low carbon life in London. In doing so he helps navigate the choices that confront us all when making deci... Buy or find out more →
Prosperity Without Growth
$39.95 – Hardcover book / Earthscan Pubn
Is more economic growth the solution? Will it deliver prosperity and well-being for a global population projected to reach nine billion? In this explosive book, Tim Jackson - a top sustainability adviser to the UK govern... Buy or find out more →
Gaia In Turmoil: Climate Change Biodepletion And Earth Ethics on An Age Of Crisis
$43.95 – Paperback book / Mit Press
Gaian theory, which holds that Earth's physical and biological processes are inextricably bound to form a self-regulating system, is more relevant than ever in light of increasing concerns about global climate change. Th... Buy or find out more →
Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Bloomsbury
Al Gore offers a visionary blueprint of the changes that we should make as a world community in order to prevent the climate crisis from threatening human civilisation.
Al Gore has been a passionate advocate of action to... Buy or find out more →
Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing To Save Civilization
$22.95 – Paperback book / W W Norton
“[Brown’s] ability to make a complicated subject accessible to the general reader is remarkable.”—Katherine Salant, Washington Post
As fossil fuel prices rise, oil insecurity deepens, and concerns about climate c... Buy or find out more →
Reclaiming Patriotism: Nation-Building For Australian Progressives
$29.95 – Paperback book / Cambridge Univ Pres
Affronted by the xenophobic nationalists who stalked the land during the Howard years, many progressive Australians have rejected a love of country, forgetting that there is a patriotism of the liberal left that at diffe... Buy or find out more →
A Lighter Footprint
$24.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
Climate change is perhaps the most important issue facing the world today. A Lighter Footprint compiles the latest research, statistics and information specifically for Australians on how to minimise our impact on the en... Buy or find out more →
Less Is More: Embracing Simplicity For A Healthy Planet A Caring Economy And Lasting Happiness
$29.95 – Paperback book / New Society Pub
Our obsessive pursuit of wealth isn't working - people are afraid and anxious; we're destroying the planet, undermining happiness, and clinging to an unsustainable economy.
But there's another way. Less can be More. Thro... Buy or find out more →
What We Leave Behind
$37.00 – Paperback book / Seven Stories Press
What We Leave Behind is a piercing, impassioned guide to living a truly responsible life on earth. Human waste, once considered a gift to the soil, has become toxic material that has broken the essential cycle of decay a... Buy or find out more →
Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalists Guide To Global Warming (Second Edition)
$24.95 – Paperback book / Marshall Cavendish
Global warming has become one of the permanent concerns of our time, with ever stronger calls to combat it via drastic programs, like the Kyoto Protocol. In this highly controversial book, Bjorn Lomborg (author of the be... Buy or find out more →
An Appeal To Reason: A Cool Look At Global Warming
$21.99 – Paperback book / Duckworth
In the 1960s we were warned that the population explosion would lead to mass global starvation. In the 1970s we were warned that the planet was running out of natural resources and that world economic growth would grind ... Buy or find out more →
Mindfully Green: A Personal and Spiritual Guide to Whole Earth Thinking
$24.95 – Trade paperback / Finch Publishers
In this wise and compassionate book (full of ‘all the impossibly gnarly problems that face us on this planet’), Stephanie Kaza helps awaken in the reader a state of ‘green practice’. She describes this as a skilful prope... Buy or find out more →
The Sustainability Revolution: Portrait Of A Paradigm Shift
$29.95 – Paperback book / New Society
Sustainability has become a buzzword in the last decade, but its full meaning is complex, emerging from a range of different sectors. In practice, it has become the springboard for millions of individuals throughout the ... Buy or find out more →
The Rough Guide To Climate Change (Second Edition)
$26.95 – Paperback book / Rough Guides
The Rough Guide to Climate Change gives the complete picture of the single biggest issue facing the planet. Cutting a swathe through scientific research and political debate, this completely updated 2nd edition lays out ... Buy or find out more →
The Transition Handbook
$34.95 – Paperback book / Finch Publishers
Around the world, societies are facing the prospect of a future with dwindling oil reserves, an unstable climate and unpredictable food production. What are the ways we might move away from our dependency on oil, reduce ... Buy or find out more →
One World: The Ethics Of Globalisation
$24.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Known for his originality and courageous thinking on matters ranging from the treatment of animals to genetic screening, Peter Singer now turns his attention to the ethical issues surrounding globalisation. In this provo... Buy or find out more →
The Ethics Of What We Eat
$24.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
After achieving best-selling status in trade paperback, a handsome new format edition of this important work by Australia's Peter Singer.
In 1980 Peter Singer and Jim Mason published Animal Factories, a landmark work on ... Buy or find out more →
The Explorers
$24.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
The explorers of Australia tell an epic story of courage and suffering, of dispossession and conquest. This bestselling anthology, brilliantly edited and introduced by Tim Flannery, documents almost four centuries of exp... Buy or find out more →
The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change
$24.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
What does climate change mean?
How will global warming affect our lives?
Is it the cause of wilder storms and more frequent droughts?
Are these events inevitable?
Tim Flannery makes this urgent issue completely accessibl... Buy or find out more →
The Garnaut Climate Change Review
$79.95 – Paperback book / Cambridge Univ Pres
The weight of scientific evidence shows that Australians are at risk of damaging climate change. The risks can be substantially reduced if strong and early action is taken by all major world economies. Without that actio... Buy or find out more →
Quarterly Essay 31: Now Or Never: A Sustainable Future For Australia?
$15.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
Professor Tim Flannery investigates the latest climate science and the challenges facing Australia and the world. He looks at what the Rudd government needs to do if the nation is to play its part in averting a global ca... Buy or find out more →
Climate Code Red: The Case for Emergency Action
$27.95 – Paperback book / 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... Buy or find out 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 ... Buy or find out more →
The Future Eaters
$32.95 – Paperback book / Reed New Holland
Since the first brave adventurer left the great Afro-Asian homeland to travel down the long chain of islands to Australasia, human beings have consumed the resources they would need for their own future. Aborigines, Maor... Buy or find out more →
How Are We To Live (2nd Edition)
$19.95 – Paperback book /
Originally published in Australia in 1993, this text discusses an ethical approach to life and demonstrates how it can bring about significant changes to our lives. Includes a bibliography and index. The author is profes... Buy or find out more →
Throwim Way Leg An Adventure
$24.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Throwim Way Leg is a book of wonder and excitement, struggle and sadness, a love letter to Papua New Guinea and Irian Jaya. ‘In New Guinea Pidgin,’ Tim Flannery explains, ‘throwim way leg means to go on a journey. It des... Buy or find out more →
The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History Of North America And Its Peoples
$26.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
In the tradition of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel, and Flannery's own best-seller, The Future Eaters, this is ecological history on a monumental scale.
Tim Flannery has achieved something never before attempted: ... Buy or find out more →
Feeding the Planet: Environmental Protection through Sustainable Agriculture
$29.99 – Paperback book / Haus Publishing
Almost one billion people suffer from malnutrition worldwide. While the global population is still growing dramatically, many starve. Our climate is threatened while agricultural production stagnates. Klaus Hahlbrock ext... Buy or find out more →
Why We Disagree About Climate Change: Understanding Controversy, Inaction And Opportunity
$39.95 – Paperback book / Cambridge Univ Pres
Climate change is not a problem waiting for a solution. It is an environmental, cultural and political phenomenon which is re-shaping the way we think about ourselves, our societies and humanitys place on Earth. Drawing ... Buy or find out more →
Green Metropolis: What The City Can Teach The Country About True Sustainability
$35.00$19.95 – Hardcover book / Riverhead Books
While the conventional wisdom condemns it as an environmental nightmare, Manhattan is by far the greenest place in America, argues this stimulating eco-urbanist manifesto. According to Owen ("Sheetrock and Shellac"), sta... Buy or find out more →
If You Love This Planet: A Plan To Save The Earth
$22.95 – Paperback book / W W Norton
"Helen Caldicott has the rare ability to combine science with passion, logic with love, and urgency with humor."-- Naomi Klein
From the leader and spokeswoman of the antinuclear movement comes a revised and updated editi... Buy or find out more →
Poles Apart: Beyond the Shouting, Who's Right about Climate Change
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
Gareth Morgan couldn't decide whether he believed in climate change or not, so he hired the best international scientists to answer his questions and these are his findings. Combined with anecdotes from his own recent tr... Buy or find out more →
State Of The Earth Environmental Challenges On The Road To 2100
$57.95 – Paperback book / Univ Kentucky
The pace of human progress accelerated profoundly in the twentieth century, spawning revolutionary advances in medicine, agriculture, and industry. Between 1900 and 2000, the world's population quadrupled, and production... Buy or find out more →
Climate Action: A Campaign Manual For Greenhouse Solutions
$34.95 – Paperback book / Nsw University Pr
In the USA, social movements succeeded in stopping 59-proposals to build new conventional (dirty) coal-fired power stations. In the UK, there was an extended campaign to stop the expansion of Heathrow airport, primarily ... Buy or find out more →
Back To Basics: Breakthrough Proposals For The Australian Environment
$16.95 – Paperback book / Nsw University Pr
In this book Dr Geoff Wescott proposes a new approach to environmental decision making. He suggests we move forward from relying solely on individual virtuous action to improve our environment. He argues that the time ha... Buy or find out more →
The Clean Industrial Revolution: Growing Australian Prosperity In a Greenhouse Age
$27.00 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
'A passionate and informative demonstration of how mitigating climate change can be compatible with economic growth' - Professor Ross Garnaut, the Garnaut Climate Change Review 'Humanity' s greatest challenge is to minim... Buy or find out more →
Country: A Continent A Scientist And A Kangaroo
$25.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Country is about the unique nature of Australia and about Flannery's own journey toward understanding it. Travelling thousands of kilometres, he encounters Aboriginal cultures and examines Europeans trying to understand ... Buy or find out more →
Now Or Never
$22.00 – Paperback book / Black Inc
Tim Flannery's Quarterly Essay was a national bestseller. Now or Never combines this landmark essay with nine responses to it by leading figures, and Flannery's reply. The result is an essential short book about the most... Buy or find out more →
Cradle To Cradle Re Making The Way We Make Things
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
'Reduce, reuse, recycle' urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. But as architect William McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart point out in this provocative, visionary bo... Buy or find out more →
We Are The Weather Makers: The Story Of Global Warming (Young Adult Edition)
$22.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Tim Flannery dedicated the first edition of The Weather Makers to children: 'to all of their generation who will have to live with the consequences of our decisions.' Seventy percent of the people who are alive now will ... Buy or find out more →