Non-fiction about climate crisis
Post-Growth Living
An urgent and passionate plea for a new and ecologically sustainable vision of the good life.
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Beyond Climate Grief
How do we find courage when climate change overwhelms us emotionally? In this magical, often funny and deeply moving true story, award-winning science reporter Jonica Newby explores how to navigate the emotional turmoil of climate...
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The Climate Cure
An urgent and essential call to arms from one of Australia's most respected climate scientists, Tim Flannery. A compelling and solution-focused declaration of the action required to win the climate battle, and how change must...
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Flames of Extinction
Award-winning science writer John Pickrell investigates the effects of the 2019-2020 bushfires on Australian wildlife and ecosystems. Journeying across the firegrounds, Pickrell explores the stories of creatures that escaped the...
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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
One of the world's greatest innovators and practical problem-solvers tackles the biggest global problem of our time.
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What We Need to Do Now
What We Need To Do Now sets out a comprehensive programme of action to counter the threats to our environment. It is a manifesto for groups around the world that are seeking urgent action on climate breakdown and other...
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A Life on Our Planet
A legacy-defining book from Sir David Attenborough, reflecting on his life's work, the dramatic changes to the planet he has witnessed, and what we can do to make a better future.
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The New Climate War
A renowned climate scientist shows how fossil-fuel companies have waged a thirty-year campaign to deflect blame and responsibility and to delay action on climate change, and offers a battle plan for how we can save the...
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Dead in the Water
A very angry book about our greatest environmental catastrophe… the death of the Murray-Darling Basin.
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Call of the Reed Warbler: Revised Edition
Call of the Reed Warbler will change the way we farm, eat and think about food. In this groundbreaking book Charles Massy explores regenerative agriculture and the vital connection between our soil and our health.
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Superpower: Australia’s Low-Carbon Opportunity
We have unparalleled renewable energy resources. We also have the necessary scientific skills. Australia could be the natural home for an increasing proportion of global industry. But how do we make it happen?
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Tales of Two Planets
Building from his acclaimed anthology Tales of Two Americas, beloved writer and editor John Freeman draws together some of our greatest writers from around the world to help us see how the environmental crisis is hitting some of...
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How to Talk About Climate Change in a Way That Makes a Difference
A self-help book for the climate era, for readers of Ross Garnaut, Tim Flannery, Hugh Mackay
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Body Count: How Climate Change is Killing Us
Shocking and undeniable, Manning reveals what climate change really looks like, telling the moving stories of victims, their families and doctors - putting names and faces to the people who have already paid the ultimate price for...
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Windfall: Unlocking a fossil free future
We've had a decade of distraction and inaction on climate change, but what made things go so very wrong in Australia? And what can the rest of the world learn from our mistakes - and opportunities?
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Losing Earth
The most urgent story of our times, brilliantly reframed, beautifully told: how we had the chance to stop climate change, and failed.
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Climate Change and the Nation State
A major new book on why the most urgent issue confronting us all needs national solutions.
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The Future We Choose
The defining book on the climate crisis that shows us how we can and will survive.
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Facing the Climate Emergency
Facing the Climate Emergency addresses the fears of everyone who is alarmed about the climate crisis and yet feels powerless to stop it. Drawing on psychology, it shows readers how to use their feelings of fear, grief, and...
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The Progress of This Storm
An attack on the idea that nature and society are impossible to distinguish from each other
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The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
From the bestselling author of Lab Girl: a passionate scientist's uniquely personal take on the defining issue of our time.
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Our Final Warning
This book must not be ignored. It really is our final warning. Mark Lynas delivers a vital account of the future of our earth, and our civilisation, if current rates of global...
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The World in a Grain
The story of sand and how it shaped civilization.
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A Planet to Win
In October 2018, the IPCC published a report warning that the world would warm 1.5 C by 2040 without massive emissions reductions by 2030, with results more devastating than previously imagined. In November, the charismatic...
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We are the Weather
From the bestselling author of Eating Animals, a brilliantly fresh and accessible take on climate change - and what we can do about it.
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Sunburnt Country
What does climate change in Australia really look like?
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The Rising Tide
With humour and insight, Tom Bamforth presents both an insider's and an outsider's view of life in the Pacific, rendered in vivid detail and colour.
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This is Not a Drill
It's time. This is our last chance to do anything about climate change. Our last chance to save the world as we know it.
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Blackout
Blackout charts the disintegration of Australia's energy security, calls out what is holding us back, and plots the way for a brighter future.
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Clearing the Air
Clearing the Air is essential reading for anyone who cares about the air they breathe. And this much becomes clear: in the fight against air pollution, we all have a part to play. The fightback has begun.
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Choked
The landmark book on air pollution: a major threat to the health and longevity of each and every one of us.
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Who’s Minding the Farm?
A call to arms from Patrice Newell who has dedicated her life to land management at Elmswood in the Hunter Valley.
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2040: A Handbook for the Regeneration
Based on Damon Gameau's 2019 documentary, 2040, 2040: A Handbook for the Regeneration is a practical manual that provides you and your family with the tools and inspiration to live a more sustainable life - NOW.
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Losing Earth
The most urgent story of our times, brilliantly reframed, beautifully told: how we had the chance to stop climate change, and failed.
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Falter
The most urgent call-to-arms yet for us to solve climate change, from one of the world's most influential and respected environmental advocates
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Atmosphere of Hope
A decade after his internationally bestselling The Weather Makers, acclaimed scientist and author Tim Flannery argues that Earth's climate system is approaching a crisis. Catastrophe is not inevitable, but time is fast...
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
You have been told the market will save us, when in fact the addiction to profit and growth is digging us in deeper every day. This book about capitalism states that we can seize this crisis to transform our failed economic system...
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Quarterly Essay 66: The Long Goodbye: Coal, Coral and Australia’s Climate Deadlock
The Great Barrier Reef is dying. Extreme weather is becoming all too familiar. And the Coalition government is divided and paralysed.
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The Weather Makers: Our Changing Climate and what it means for Life on Earth
Tim Flannery makes this urgent issue completely accessible. He tells the fascinating story of climate change over millions of years to help us understand the predicament we face. But burning fossil fuels we are increasing the...
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Silent Spring
Exposes the destruction of wildlife through the widespread use of pesticides. This book aims to creates public awareness of the environment.
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Sunlight and Seaweed
Internationally renowned climate change expert Professor Tim Flannery presents a detailed and fascinating vision of the technologies that will prove invaluable in ensuring a sustainable future for our planet.
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We are the Weather Makers
Most of us suspect that climate change is happening, but is it a terrible threat to our world or an exaggerated beat up? Or is it something in between, an issue that humanity must eventually face, but not yet? Ages 12+
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How Did We Get into This Mess?
Where we have gone wrong, and what to do about it
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Here On Earth: An Argument for Hope
An extraordinary exploration of evolution and sustainability. Our success as a species has had disastrous effects on many of the Earth's ecosystems. But equally, we are now equipped as never before to explore our true relationship...
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Sustainability: A Love Story
Personal essays examining what it means to live and love sustainably while still being able to have Internet and eat bacon.
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Building a New World Order - Sustainable Policies for the Future
Demonstrates how the conditions for sustainable development might be created, and why all our futures are dependent on a global engagement and involvement, not just that of a few selected statesmen.
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