TWILIGHT IN THE DESERT
Peak Oil has surfaced into public awareness in the last 18 months, even if we are currently experiencing cheaper petrol prices than earlier this year.…… Read More »
Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
The Little Green Book of Big Green Ideas
A good book for the loo, with an introduction by Tony Juniper of Friends of the Earth and contributing organisations listed at the back. Each…… Read More »
Putting Morality back into Politics
This book argues that the time has come to set aside the legacy of Machiavelli and to implement public policies based on moral objectives. This…… Read More »
Hard Rain
Authors: Lloyd Timberlake, Mark Edwards
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
Based on a radical 1960s lyric by Bob Dylan, this powerful book of images about our headlong collision with nature is essential reading for all…… Read More »
Ecological Literacy
Authors: Michael K Stone, Zenobia Barlow
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
A key volume for anyone engages in education for sustainability. In his preface, Fritjof Capra points out that the systemic understanding of life emerging from…… Read More »
At Home in Nature - Modern Homesteading and Spiritual Practice in America
A very interesting book giving the history of homesteading and spiritual practice and taking as its starting point Thoreau's 'Walden'. The reader is introduced to…… Read More »
The Little Green Data Book
This pocket book is based on the the World Development Indicators 2004. It contains a wealth of statistics on population, agriculture, forests, energy, emissions and…… Read More »
Hope Dies Last
The subtitle carries the message of this engaging book where a multitude of activists tell their stories in a simple and often disarming manner. The…… Read More »
Sekem
The amazing story of the Sekem (literally the life-giving force of the sun) community in Egypt. The author was trained as a physician but returned…… Read More »
The End of the Line
Subtitled 'How overfishing is changing the world and what we eat' this is an extensive and damning analysis of world fishing policies in relation to…… Read More »