Home by Natural Harry: DIY Recipes for a Tox-Free, Zero-Waste Life by Harriet Birrell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability/Environment
Down-to-earth recipes for a resourceful, tox-free, and waste-free home life. Home by Natural Harry is a compendium of DIY recipes, tips, tricks, and hacks for a calm, resourceful, and tox-free existence. It is a modern reference for anyone who wants to ditch their joyless supermarket habit, reduce plast ...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 Future We Choose: The Stubborn Optimist's Guide to the Climate Crisis by Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac
$22.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability/Environment
Climate change: it is arguably the most urgent and consequential issue humankind has ever faced. How we address it in the next thirty years will determine the kind of world we will live in and will bequeath to our children and to theirs. In The Future We Choose, Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Ca ...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
Poisoned Planet by Julian Cribb
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability/Environment
From morning to night, we are surrounded by man-made chemicals, most of them untested, many of them toxic. It's the price we pay for convenient, cheap products. The effects on our health are just now becoming known. We want things to be cheap, convenient and useful. Our food arrives contaminated with pe ...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 Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty by Peter Singer
$26.95 AUD
Category: Sustainability/Environment
The Life You Can Save is the book that Peter Singer has wanted to write for thirty years. It is his argument about how we should respond to hunger and poverty. We live in a unique moment in history where the rich can genuinely help the poor to escape relentless poverty. But this will only happen if the ...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
My Year Without Meat by Richard Cornish
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability/Environment
When food writer Richard Cornish was so overcome by the aroma of the roast leg of lamb he had buckled into the passenger seat next to him that he pulled over to the side of the road and tore it apart with his bare hands, he knew he had a problem. He began to examine what it means to eat meat by becoming ...Show more
Just Cool It : The Climate Crisis and what we can do, a Post-Paris Agreement by David Suzuki; Ian Hanington
$27.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability/Environment
A resounding post-Paris Agreement wake-up call about the urgency of the climate crisis that offers a range of practical solutions - and above all, hope. Climate change is the most important crisis humanity has faced, but we still confront huge barriers to resolving it. So, what do we do, and is there ho ...Show more
Climate Wars by Mark Butler
$27.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability/Environment
As the consequences of climate change become perilously close to the point of no-return, time-wasting wars over what to do distract us from taking real action. Mark Butler, the opposition minister for climate change and energy, makes a forceful case for using less and cleaner energy as part of global a ...Show more