Eco-logical!
A colourful and lively book aiming to present the key ecological issues in an accessible fashion, with arguments on both sides of controversial questions: so-called…… Read More »
Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
The Roots of Sustainability
This is one of a series of essays commissioned by The Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment with a foreword by the Prince of Wales…… Read More »
A Short History of the Future
The author of what the BBC rightly calls 'a good, all-round primer on the state of the planet' was an Australian Senator for nine years,…… Read More »
Unnatural Selection
Authors: Peter Healey, Steve Rayner
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
This book arises for a conference held at the James Martin Institute in Oxford, and has the unfortunate subtitle: 'the challenges of engineering tomorrow's people.'…… Read More »
Earth in the Balance
I reviewed this book when it first came out in 1992, since when Al Gore has been vice president of the United States and has…… Read More »
Here for our Children's Children
The author of this very useful book is both a hydrologist and a priest in The Church of England who teaches environmental ethics at Birmingham…… Read More »
time's up!
The author of this original book in diagnosis our situation as one where 'we have to choose between the short-term greed of Industrial Civilisation over…… Read More »
Money & Soul
With a foreword by Jonathon Porritt, this is an important book by a Norwegian organisational psychologist and management consultant. It is particularly relevant to reflections…… Read More »
Future Scenarios
This book is about how communities can adapt to peak oil and climate change. Unless we have some unexpected breakthrough, fossil energy is going to…… Read More »
Let Them Eat Junk
Three years ago I reviewed a major book by Thomas Campbell called The China Study, which tracked a large number of Chinese people in terms…… Read More »