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Just Enough: Lessons in Living Green from Traditional Japan
Azby Brown

$39.95 – Hardcover book / Kodansha Internat.

This book, more than anything else, is about a mentality that pervaded Japanese society then and which can serve as a beacon for our own efforts to achieve sustainability now.

This is a book of stories, depictions of van... Buy or find out more 


Forecast - The Consequences of Climate Change, from the Amazon to the Arctic
Stephan Faris

$29.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications

'An intelligent, nuanced report on the complex relationships between increasingly unstable weather patterns and politics, ecology and lifestyles.' (Publisher's Weekly)

'Bad news is good news if it gets us to act. Forecas... Buy or find out more 



Pumped: Great Ways to Save on Fuel
Roz Hopkins

$0.00 – Paperback book / Hardie Grant

Have you found yourself at a party recently, starting up a conversation about the price of petrol? Let’s face it, we’re fast becoming obsessed with the subject and it’s not going away. This timely book is full of clever ... Buy or find out more 


Climate Code Red: The Case for Emergency Action
David Spratt & Phillip Sutton

$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 



Cradle to Cradle Rethinking the Way We Make Things
William Mcdonough

$61.95 – 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... Buy or find out more 


Bottlemania: How Water Went On Sale and Why We Bought It
Elizabeth Royte

$32.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications

How did we get tricked into paying top dollar for something we could get for free from the tap? How did water – the basis for all life – become a heavily marketed product? And what is the environmental cost we’re paying ... Buy or find out more 



Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalists Guide to Global Warming
Bjorn Lomborg

$30.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

A startling book that reshapes the debate about global warming and offers a moderate approach to meeting its challenges. Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and expensive actions now being considered--the Kyo... Buy or find out more 


Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis And The Coming Battle For The Right To Water
Maude Barlow

$24.95 – 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... Buy or find out more 



Our Changing Planet: The View from Space
Michael King

$39.95 – Hardcover book / Cambridge Univ Pres

Since their first launch in the 1960s, satellites have been used to observe the Earth at local, regional, and global scales, giving us unique insights into the often detrimental effects that human activity is having on o... Buy or find out more 


Reading the Land
Geoff Lacey

$39.95 – Paperback book / Aust Scholarly Pub

'Once when I was doing fieldwork on French Island, the ranger pointed out to me that around 1995 he noticed a striking change taking place in some of the island forests and woodlands. The dense heathy understorey had beg... Buy or find out more 



From Buddha to Bono
Tor Hundloe

$34.99 – Trade paperback / Jojo Publishing

This is a very special book. Until now, no one has put together the full environmental and ethical story facing Planet Earth, as Tor Hundloe has done. In 'From Buddha to Bono' he has put squarely on the agenda the key ma... Buy or find out more 


An Inconvenient Truth: Planetary Emergence of Global Warming
Al Gore

$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... Buy or find out more 



World Without Us
Alan Weisman

$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... Buy or find out more 


Boiling Point
Ross Gelbspan

$25.00 – Paperback book / Basic Books

If left unchecked, climate change will ultimately swamp every other issue facing us today. Indeed, what began as an initial response of many institutions--denial and delay--has now grown into a crime against humanity. In... Buy or find out more 



Internal Combustion
Edwin Black

$24.95 – Paperback book / Griffin

Internal Combustion is the compelling tale of corruption and manipulation that subjected the United States and the world to an oil addiction that could have been avoided, that was never necessary, and that could be ended... Buy or find out more 


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