Ecovillages
The subtitle exactly describes the content of this comprehensive guide to both the principles and practice of sustainable communities. The author himself has extensive firsthand…… Read More »
Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
Biotechnology
Subtitled 'Corporate Power versus the Public Interest', this is a hard-hitting analysis of the regulation of biotechnology worldwide. He argues that the whole process represents…… Read More »
Building with Vision - Optimizing and Finding Alternatives to Wood
This is a companion volume to the excellent book on packaging but one with less immediate application as most readers will not be in the…… Read More »
Paper or Plastic - Searching for Solutions to an Overpackaged
You won't have read a book quite like this before, full as it is of fascinating facts about packaging along with some stirring photos. An…… Read More »
Water Crystals - Making the Quality of Water Visible
This fascinating book builds on the research of Viktor Schauberger and Johann Grander while introducing a new photographic process (using an electron microscope) that makes…… Read More »
Doing Less with Less
A poignant book in the light of the recent London bombings, arguing as it does that 'military interventionism is neither necessary for Britain's defence, nor…… Read More »
GAIA'S GIFT: EARTH, OURSELVES AND GOD AFTER COPERNICUS
Debates about the emerging global environmental crises such as climate change tend to focus on the proximal issues of causation and rarely mention the more…… Read More »
POWER DOWN
Richard Heinberg's previous book The Party's Over, subtitled 'Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies' addressed the multi-faceted consequences of oil depletion, expressing his…… Read More »
OUR FINAL CENTURY
In this book by the Astronomer Royal and recently appointed Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, Sir Martin Rees, FRS, the question mark appears in the…… Read More »
THE LONG SUMMER: HOW CLIMATE CHANGED CIVILISATION
Brian Fagan tells the story surrounding the development of human societies since the end of the last ice age, about 18,000 years ago. Information from…… Read More »