Running Out? Water in Western Australia by Ruth A Morgan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability/Environment
For nearly 200 years the visions and aspirations of the people of Australia’s west have been characterised by an unquenchable thirst. Ruth Morgan uncovers the fear of running out of water — a fear that has long gripped the region’s inhabitants and loomed large on the state’s political agenda. It has sha ...Show more
How to Give Up Plastic by Will McCallum
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability/Environment
As read by James Corden, Fearne Cotton, Jim Chapman and Dougie Poytner. 'We have a responsibility, every one of us' David Attenborough Around 12.7 million tonnes of plastic are entering the ocean every year, killing over 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals. By 2050 there could be more plastic ...Show more
Planet Earth: Inspirations and Thoughts from a Planet Warrior (HB) by Bob Brown
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability/Environment
In his first speech in the Senate, Bob Brown raised the threat posed by climate change. It has taken 10 years for politicians to finally begin to acknowledge the causes and effects of climate change. Since 1996, Bob has continued to take a courageous, and often politically lonely, stand on issues around ...Show more
Beyond Climate Grief: A journey of love, snow, fire and an enchanted beer can by Jonica Newby
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability/Environment
How do we find courage when climate change overwhelms us emotionally?In this magical, often funny and deeply moving personal story, award-winning science reporter Jonica Newby explores how to navigate the emotional turmoil of climate change.After researching what global warming will do to the snow count ...Show more
Food Rules: An Eater's Manual by Michael Pollan
$16.95 AUD
Category: Sustainability/Environment
#1 New York Times Bestseller A definitive compendium of food wisdom Eating doesn't have to be so complicated. In this age of ever-more elaborate diets and conflicting health advice, Food Rules brings welcome simplicity to our daily decisions about food. Written with clarity, concision, and wit that ...Show more
Blood and Guts: Dispatches from the Whale Wars by Sam Vincent
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability/Environment
I pull on my balaclava and step onto the bridge wing. It's loud outside: I can hear the rumbles of nine vessels' engines and the hiss of ten water cannons ... Suddenly the bridge is full of refugees from the upper deck. They are blocking my view out the back windows, but their faces - afraid, excited, a ...Show more
Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out by Bill McKibben
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability/Environment | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out. Bill McKibben's groundbreaking book The End of Nature - issued in dozens of languages and long regarded as a classic - ...Show more
Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal by Noam Chomsky; Robert Pollin; C. J. Polychroniou (Contribution by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability/Environment
Climate change: watershed or endgame? In this compelling new book, Noam Chomsky, the world's leading public intellectual, and Robert Pollin, a renowned progressive economist, map out the catastrophic consequences of unchecked climate change--and present a realistic blueprint for change: the Green New De ...Show more
Crimes Against Nature: Capitalism and Global Heating by Jeff Sparrow
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability/Environment | Reading Level: very good
A polemic about global warming and the environmental crisis that argues that ordinary people have consistently opposed the destruction of nature and so provide an untapped constituency for climate action. Crimes Against Nature uses fresh material to offer a very different take on the most important issu ...Show more
The Superpower Transformation: Making Australia's Zero-Carbon Future by Ross Garnaut
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability/Environment
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
Earthshot: How to Save Our Planet by Colin Butfield, Jonnie Hughes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability/Environment
With an introduction from HRH Prince William After 100,000 years of human history, we stand at a tipping point where the next decade will determine the future for our species, and our planet. Between human population growth, overconsumption, climate change, pollution and industrialisation, the world we ...Show more