New Environmental Studies
Green Philosophy: How To Think Seriously About The Planet
$39.99 – Trade paperback / Atlantic Books
Roger Scruton is one of Britain's most respected thinkers and in this new book he offers a radically different solution to the planet's most important problem.
The environment has long been the undisputed territory of th... Buy or find out more →
Garnaut Review 2011: Australia In The Global Response To Climate Change
$39.95 – Paperback book / Cambridge Univ Pres
In this update to the 2008 Garnaut Climate Change Review, Ross Garnaut re-examines the case for action in the aftermath of the global financial crisis and recent developments by major countries to reduce emissions and pr... Buy or find out more →
Deep Future: The Next 100,000 Years Of Life On Earth
$10.00 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
In this major new book, paleoclimatologist Curt Stager vividly shows how what we do to the environment in the 21st century will affect the next 100,000 years of life on this planet.
Most of us have accepted that our plan... Buy or find out more →
Feeling The Heat
$36.99 – Trade paperback / Melb Univ Press
In Feeling the Heat, journalist Jo Chandler sets out on a quest that takes her across the Antarctic ice, under the seas and through the tropical rainforests of far north Queensland. Her mission is to explore one of the d... Buy or find out more →
Climate Capitalism Capitalism In The Age Of Climate Change
$34.95 – Paperback book / Farrar Straus & Giro
HOW INNOVATORS, ENTREPRENEURS, AND COMPANIES ARE PROVING THAT YOU CAN PROFIT FROM SUSTAINABILITY
A decade after the publication of the seminal work Natural Capitalism, among the first books to link environmental challeng... Buy or find out more →
Prosperity Without Growth: Economics For A Finite Planet
$23.00 – Paperback book / Earthscan Pubn
"Prosperity without Growth" challenges the embedded, unquestioned assumptions of the global policy of growth and shows that it is necessary-and possible-to have increased and widespread prosperity without economic growth... Buy or find out more →
The No-Nonsense Guide To Climate Change
$17.95 – Paperback book / New Internationalist
Just as the need for action on climate change becomes more urgent and overwhelming, the campaign to deny that humans are causing it has gained more traction. This completely new book meets the sceptics head on, offering ... Buy or find out more →
The Great Disruption: How The Climate Crisis Will Bring On The Sustainable Revolution
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Bloomsbury
Human civilisation and the economy have now grown so large that we have passed the limits of the planet to support any further growth in the current model. The science is clear. We have entered a period of great crisis a... Buy or find out more →
Cracking The Carbon Code: The Key To Sustainable Profits In The New Economy
$39.95 – Hardcover book / Palgrave
The carbon market is a new one, so investing in it is not as easy as it could be. The market is extremely volatile and very illiquid, to say nothing of being at the mercy of the whims of politicians. Still, that doesn’t ... Buy or find out more →
Storms Of My Grandchildren: The Truth About The Coming Climate Catastrophe And Our Last Chance To Save Humanity
$24.99 – Paperback book / 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 →
The Legacy: An Elder's Vision For Our Sustainable Future
$26.99 – Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin
This book provides a unique insight into the knowledge and wisdom David Suzuki has acquired over the years, and points to his legacy for generations to come.
One of the planet's preeminent elders, in his lifetime Suzuki ... Buy or find out more →
Here On Earth: An Argument For Hope
$34.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
We stand at a crossroads, where comprehension of our place in nature—of our true abilities and of our history—is supremely important. We have formed a global civilisation of unprecedented might, driven forward by the pow... Buy or find out more →
The World According To Monsanto: Pollution, Politics and Power
$34.95 – Paperback book / Spinifex Press
We’re often too busy to think about where our food comes from. But as this widely-acclaimed exposé and its companion documentary film demonstrate, we should make time to pay attention. Marie-Monique Robin spent three yea... Buy or find out more →
Voice Of Reason: Reflections On Australia
$34.95 – Trade paperback / Univ Queensland Pr
Can civilisation survive the 21st century?
Professor Ian Lowe, author (The Big Fix; Living in the Hothouse), pre-eminent scientist, environmentalist, cultural commentator and president of the Australian Conservation Foun... Buy or find out more →
Under Corporate Skies
$26.95 – Paperback book / Freemantle Press
Under Corporate Skies is about what happens to communities when they stand in the way of corporate profits. It is the story of a tiny town pitted against a strong corporate neighbour.
With the help of international campa... Buy or find out more →
How To Cool The Planet: Geoengineering And The Audacious Quest To Fix The Earth's Climate
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
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 →
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 →
Building a New World Order: Sustainable Policies for the Future
$29.99 – Paperback book / Haus Publishing
Peace and security are fundamental concepts for everyone involved in the struggle for sustainable development. But our world is shaped by different value systems, cultures and ideologies, as well as by faith, morals and ... 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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Two Degrees Too High: Understanding the Copenhagen Summit
$29.95 – Paperback book / Abrams
2009 is a crucial year in the international effort to address climate change, culminating in the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, 7-18 December. In 2007, Parties agreed to shape an ambitious and ef... 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 →
Ferocious Summer: Palmers, Penguins And The Warming Of Antarctica
$24.95 – Paperback book / Profile
Meredith Hooper worked with key scientists in bases, on ice breakers and in research vessels. Her story focuses on the work and ideas of individual scientists and on the local animals. In it she memorably brings an outsi... Buy or find out more →
Stormy Weather: The Challenge Of Climate Change And Displacement
$16.95 – Paperback book /
Climate change is predicted to dislocate millions of people in regions already vulnerable to economic, political and environmental disruption. Already some communities, notably Pacific Islanders, are under direct threat ... Buy or find out more →
Hijacking Sustainability
$44.95 – Hardcover book / Mit Press
The idea of "sustainability" has gone mainstream. Thanks to Prius-driving movie stars, it's even hip. What began as a grassroots movement to promote responsible development has become a bullet point in corporate ecobrand... Buy or find out more →
Ecological Intelligence: How Radical Transparency Transforms The Marketplace
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Allen Lane
sign up to read more, your monthly newsletter Ecological Intelligence: Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Authors: Goleman Daniel
Most of us want to make the right choices as consumers. But how can any one individ... 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 →
The Balance Of Nature: Ecology's Enduring Myth
$48.95 – Hardcover book / Princeton Univ Press
The idea of a balance of nature has been a dominant part of Western philosophy since before Aristotle, and it persists in the public imagination and even among some ecologists today. In this lively and thought-provoking ... Buy or find out more →
Eco-Sufficiency And Global Justice
$68.95 – Paperback book / Pluto Press
Eco-Sufficiency and Global Justice: Women Write Political Ecology explores the issues of democracy and sustainability. This book brings academics and alternative globalisation activists into conversation. About issues su... Buy or find out more →
A Blueprint For A Safer Planet
$34.95 – Trade paperback / Bodley Head
Further substantial global warming is unavoidable and the risks to the natural world, the economy and our everyday lives are immense. The way we live in the next thirty years - how we invest, use energy, organise transpo... Buy or find out more →
The Water Dreamers: How Water and Silence Shaped Australia
$24.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
The long-awaited history that will change the way Australians think about their country.
The Water Dreamers is the story of the settlement of Australia: of the scarcity of water and the need to fill an imagined silence w... Buy or find out more →
Time to Eat the Dog?: The Real Guide to Sustainable Living
$45.00 – Paperback book / Thames And Hudson
The world and its resources are finite, yet we are seemingly locked into a system based on growth: growth of population, growth of income and growth of consumption. From this irrefutable starting point, Time to Eat the D... Buy or find out more →
Simple Steps Deck
$29.95 – Pack / Chronicle Books
Got a minute? Got a morning? Got a month?
Follow these 50 tips, and in no time at all, you'll be able to make your home healthy and safe. Organized room by room, this deck provides green solutions for the whole house, i... Buy or find out more →
Green Stuff For Kids
$29.99 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
Green Stuff for Kids is a young readers’ guide to what’s up with the planet and what they can do to make a difference. Jam-packed with fun facts, eco-activities, information and green tips, this book covers a huge range ... Buy or find out more →
The CSIRO Home Energy Saving Handbook
$29.99 – Paperback book / Macmillan
There has never been a more important time to save energy. Not only is it becoming more vital with every passing year to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, but the rising price of energy is adding to the pain of househ... 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 →
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 →
Our Choice: Young Reader
$24.95 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury
A children’s edition of the book that proposes solutions to global warming, specially edited for the 12+ age group
Al Gore has been a passionate advocate of action to halt climate change for many years. In his bestsell... Buy or find out more →
Pumped: Great Ways to Save on Fuel
$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 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 →