The Most Dammed Country in the World by Dai Qing
$9.99 AUD
Category: Climate | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
The courageous, unflinching speeches and writings collected here detail the devastating human and environmental cost of China's economic rise.
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh
$32.99 AUD
Category: Climate
'Do not miss this book' NAOMI KLEIN, author of This Changes EverythingThe history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation - of both human life and the natural environment - and the origin of our contemporary climate crisis.Tracing the threats to our future to the discovery of the New World and ...Show more
The Superpower Transformation: Making Australia's Zero-Carbon Future by Ross Garnaut
$34.99 AUD
Category: Climate
In his bestselling Superpower, renowned economist Ross Garnaut showed that Australia - rich in resources for renewable energy and for capturing carbon in the landscape - could become an economic superpower of the post-carbon world. Now, in The Superpower Transformation, he turns that idea into a practic ...Show more
The World We Once Lived In by Wangari Maathai
$9.99 AUD
Category: Climate
From the Congo Basin to the traditions of the Kikuyu people, these lucid, incisive writings explore the sacred power of trees, and why humans lay waste to the forests that keep us alive.
There Is No Point of No Return by Arne Næss
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Category: Climate | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
Emphasizing joy in the world, human cooperation and the value of all living things, this selection of his writings is filled with wit, learning and an intense connection with nature.
Think Like a Mountain by Aldo Leopold
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Category: Climate | Series: Green Ideas
In this lyrical meditation on the American wilderness, Leopold considers the different ways humans shape the natural landscape, and describes for the first time the far-reaching phenomenon now known as 'trophic cascades'.
This Can't Be Happening by George Monbiot
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Category: Climate | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
In these galvanising speeches and essays, he calls on humanity to stop averting its gaze from the destruction of the living planet, and wake up to the greatest predicament we have ever faced.
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert
$22.99 AUD
Category: Climate
The author of the international bestseller The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: after doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it?CHOSEN BY BILL GATES AND BARACK OBAMA AS A SUMMER READMeet the biologists trying to save the ...Show more
We Belong to Gaia by James Lovelock
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Category: Climate | Series: Penguin Non Fiction Classics
James Lovelock draws on decades of wisdom to lay out the history of our remarkable planet, to show that it is not ours to be exploited - and warns us that it is fighting back. Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans, visionary thinkers a ...Show more
What I Stand for Is What I Stand On (Penguin Green Ideas series) by Wendell Berry
$9.99 AUD
Category: Climate | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
From the ravages of the global economy to the great pleasures of growing a garden, these powerful essays represent a heartfelt call for humankind to mend our broken relationship with the earth, and with each other.
What Is to Be Done: political engagement and saving the planet by Barry Jones
$35.00 AUD
Category: Sustainability
A sequel to the prescient bestseller, first published in 1982, that alerted the public to the likely impacts of information technologies and the emergence of a post-industrial society. When Sleepers, Wake!was first released in Australia, it immediately became influential around the world: it was read by ...Show more
Why Rebel by Jay Griffiths
$16.99 AUD
Category: Climate
A blazing call-to-arms for living a life in rebellion, inspired by the author's unshakeable, deep-rooted love for our planet Why rebel? Because our footprint on the Earth has never mattered more than now. How we treat it, in the spirit of gift or of theft, has never been more important. Because we need ...Show more