Green Issues
Just Enough: Lessons in Living Green from Traditional Japan
$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... More »
Drivers of Change
$135.00 (Hardcover book / Prestel )
This innovative tool will help anyone concerned with trying to anticipate and respond to the challenges facing the world - from software designers to civil engineers, architects to executives. What will the world look li... More »
Forecast - The Consequences of Climate Change, from the Amazon to the Arctic
$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... More »
Pumped: Great Ways to Save on Fuel
$12.95 (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 ... 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... More »
Cradle to Cradle Rethinking the Way We Make Things
$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... More »
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Bottlemania: How Water Went On Sale and Why We Bought It
$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 ... More »
Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalists Guide to Global Warming
$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... More »
Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis And The Coming Battle For The Right To Water
$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... More »
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Final Energy Crisis: Second Edition
$44.95 (Paperback book / Pluto Press )
Final Energy Crisisexamines energy trends and prospects, in different political systems and regions, including the US, Venezuela, China, Africa, the ex-Soviet Union, North Korea, Japan, France and Australia. More »
Our Changing Planet: The View from Space
$69.95 (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... More »
Reading the Land
$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... More »
From Buddha to Bono
$34.99 (Trade paperback / Jo Jo 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... More »
An 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 »
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 »
Boiling Point
$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... More »
Internal Combustion
$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... More »