Merchants Of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability/Environment
"Merchants of Doubt should finally put to rest the question of whether the science of climate change is settled. It is, and we ignore this message at our peril."-Elizabeth Kolbert "Brilliantly reported andwritten with brutal clarity."-Huffington Post Now a powerful documentary from the acclaimed directo ...Show more
My Efficient Electric Home Handbook: How to slash your energy bills, protect your health & save the planet by Tim Forcey
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability/Environment
Everything you need to know to transform your home - old, new or rented - for an efficient, comfortable, cheaper electric future. Do you want to ... Make your home healthier and more comfortable in all seasons? Shrink your home's total energy costs? Make your gas bill disappear completely? Reduce your c ...Show more
The World without Us by Alan Weisman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability/Environment
On the day after humans disappear, nature takes over and immediately begins cleaning house - or houses, that is. Cleans them right off the face of the earth. They all go. What if mankind disappeared right now, forever? ...What would happen to the Earth in a week, a year, a millennium? Could the planet's ...Show more
Climate Justice by Mary Robinson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability/Environment
The antidote for your climate change paralysis. --Sierra MagazineAn urgent call to arms by one of the most important voices in the international fight against climate change, sharing inspiring stories and offering vital lessons for the path forward. Holding her first grandchild in her arms in 2003, Mar ...Show more
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill Gates
$39.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability/Environment | Reading Level: very good
Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, and sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions. Bill Gates explains why he cares so deeply about clim ...Show more
The Playbook: How to Deny Science, Sell Lies, and Make a Killing in the Corporate World by Jennifer Jacquet
$35.00 AUD
Category: Sustainability/Environment
A biting satire of corporate power - how it works, how it harms us and what we can do about it. Knowledge is power. Which is why the rich and powerful don't want you to have it. The Playbook is an expose of the extraordinary lengths that corporations will go to in order to deny the scientific facts - ar ...Show more
The Forest Wars: The Ugly Truth About What’s Happening in Our Tall Forests by David Lindenmayer
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability/Environment
Lifts the lid on destruction of native forests by government corporations and logging industry that is making bushfires worse, killing wildlife and costing taxpayers millions, for the sake of woodchips for export. Since colonisation, Australia has been frantically logging our native forests as if our l ...Show more
Feeding Frenzy: Land Grabs, Price Spikes, and the World Food Crisis by Paul McMahon
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability/Environment
"Feeding Frenzy" traces the history of the global food system and reveals the underlying causes of recent turmoil in food markets. Supplies are running short, prices keep spiking, and the media is full of talk of a world food crisis. The turmoil has unleashed some dangerous forces. Food-producing countr ...Show more
Most Good You Can Do by Peter Singer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability/Environment
Peter Singer, often described as the world's most influential living philosopher, presents a challenging new movement in the search for an ethical life, one that has emerged from his own work on some of the world's most pressing problems. Effective altruism involves doing the most good possible. It requ ...Show more
The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change by Tim Flannery
$24.95 AUD
Category: Sustainability/Environment
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 accessible. He tells the fascinating story of climate change over millions of years to help u ...Show more
Four Fish: The Story of Fishing and What's Left to Eat by Paul Greenberg
$32.95 AUD
Category: Sustainability/Environment
People are increasingly interested in where our food comes from, and what impact our consumption has on the natural world, as other books such as Fast Food Nation, Not on the Label and The Omnivore's Dilemma have shown. None have yet focused on the sea, a subject of particular interest in seafood-loving ...Show more
Underland - A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane
$45.00 AUD
Category: Sustainability/Environment | Reading Level: very good
In Underland, Robert Macfarlane delivers an epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself. Traveling through the dizzying expanse of geologic time--from prehistoric art in Norwegian sea caves, to the blue depths of the Greenland ice cap, to a ...Show more