No One is too Small to Make a Difference
This short book contains speeches given by Greta to parliaments and conferences over the last year. The tone is blunt, pithy and to the point,…… Read More »
Category: Environment
The Uninhabitable Earth
Earth Overshoot Day 2019 - marking the day when humanity exceeds nature's renewable ecosystem resources for the year - was the earliest ever, on July…… Read More »
THE GLOBAL HISTORY OF ORGANIC FARMING
Gregory Barton is Professor of History at Western Sydney University and the University of Johannesburg, whose earlier books include Empire Forestry and the Origins of…… Read More »
The Ends of the World
The Christian West has lived with apocalyptic prospects for more than 2000 years, where the end of the world was associated with the second coming…… Read More »
Whole Earth Thinking and Planetary Coexistence
This timely interdisciplinary study presents 'whole Earth thinking' as a way of ecological wisdom and a response to the challenges of planetary coexistence, apparent not…… Read More »
Glaciers
This book breaks new ground - or should I say ice - in bringing the vulnerability of glaciers to the general reading public. The author…… Read More »
THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING
In 2006 Al Gore presented us with an "inconvenient truth", about climate change. But it was not so inconvenient that we felt compelled to radically…… Read More »
The Anthropocene
In 2000, Nobel prize-winning chemist Paul Crutzen coined the geological term Anthropocene to describe our current era, succeeding the Holocene, as a period in which…… Read More »
Beyond Flying
It is perhaps surprising to learn that only 5% of the world population has flown, when nearly every reader of this publication will be a…… Read More »
Water Security
I have been keeping an eye on the political and economic implications of water for about 15 years. In my joint book with Jason Drew,…… Read More »