Origins: How the Earth Made Us by Lewis Dartnell
$35.00 AUD
Category: Environment
Why do so many of us eat cereal for breakfast?Is it because we like the taste? Or because 20 millions years ago, a certain species of plant colonised the same hospitable land that humanity did?Why is the world the way it is?If we follow chains of explanation as far back as they go - and keep asking, lik ...Show more
The Rising Tide: Among the Islands and Atolls of the Pacific Ocean by Tom Bamforth
$29.99 AUD
Category: Environment | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Vanuatu. The Cook Islands. Fiji. The names evoke white-sand beaches, swaying palms and lazy holidays. But in reality, these idyllic places are tropical maelstroms of global realpolitik, caught between the world's superpowers and former colonial masters. Collectively the Pacific nations, which form one t ...Show more
How to Talk about Climate Change in a Way That Makes a Difference by Rebecca Huntley
$32.99 AUD
Category: Environment
A toolkit for understanding our emotional responses to climate change and how we can have meaningful conversations across dividing lines. 'The antidote to climate anxiety is action. Make your first action reading this book.' OSHER GUNSBERG'Rebecca Huntley has given us a great gift: an essential guide to ...Show more
Waste Not: Simple Steps to Throw Away Less by Erin Rhoads
$29.99 AUD
Category: Environment
'This is a much-needed guidebook from a true agent of change.' Sarah WilsonThe one book you need to reduce waste at home and in everyday life. We need to talk about waste. Shrink-wrapped vegies, disposable coffee cups, clothes and electronics designed to be upgraded every year: we are surrounded by st ...Show more
Blackout How can energy-rich Australia be running out of electricity? by Matthew Warren
$29.99 AUD
Category: Environment | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
For 20 years Australia has been in political denial about the seismic changes occurring in the way we power our country. Successive governments continue to tell people that power prices will fall while the lights stay on. Debate is reduced to two equally preposterous narratives: coal-fired, climate chan ...Show more
Ice, Mud and Blood : Lessons from Climates Past by Chris Turney
$49.95 AUD
Category: Environment | Series: MacSci Ser.
Imagine a world of wildly escalating temperatures, apocalyptic flooding, devastating storms and catastrophic sea level rise. This might sound like a prediction for the future or the storyline of a new Hollywood blockbuster but it's something quite different: it's our past. In a day and age when where we ...Show more
A Room of One's Own; Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf
$12.95 AUD
Category: Environment | Reading Level: good
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Plastic Free: The Inspiring Story of a Global Environmental Movement and Why It Matters by Rebecca Prince-Ruiz, Joanna Atherfold Finn
$32.99 AUD
Category: Environment
‘I’m going plastic free next month, who wants to join me?’ When Rebecca Prince-Ruiz asked her colleagues this question in 2011, she had no idea that less than a decade later it would inspire a global movement of 250 million people in 177 countries to reduce their plastic use. Plastic Free tells the incr ...Show more
No is Not Enough by Naomi Klein
$29.99 AUD
Category: Environment
Trump, as extreme as he is, is less an aberration than a logical conclusion - a pastiche of pretty much all the worst and most dangerous trends of the past half century. A one-man megabrand, with wife and children as spin-off brands . . . ' Remember when it all seemed to be getting better? Before Trump ...Show more
How to Save the Planet - One Object at a Time by Tara Shine
$29.99 AUD
Category: Environment
At a time when many of us are becomingly increasingly aware of the impact that our lives have on the environment, we can still find the alternative consumer choices overwhelming or confusing, thanks to mixed messages, information overload, or a misplaced perception that 'greener' choices are more expens ...Show more
Solved: How Other Countries Have Cracked the World's Biggest Problems and We Can Too by Andrew Wear
$29.99 AUD
Category: Environment
Sometimes the solutions are closer than we think. Denmark will reach 100 per cent renewable electricity by 2030. Iceland has topped gender equality rankings for a decade and counting. Singaporean students beat almost all others in maths and reading. South Koreans will soon live longer than an ...Show more
The Superpower Transformation: Making Australia's Zero-Carbon Future by Ross Garnaut
$34.99 AUD
Category: 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