Australia's First Naturalists: The Importance of Indigenous People to Early Zoological Collectors (PB) by Penny Olsen; Lynette Russell
$44.99 AUD
Category: SUSTAINABLE | Series: Indigenous Peoples' Contribution to Early Zoology
Would Blaxland, Wentworth and Lawson have ever crossed the Blue Mountains without the help of the local Aboriginal people? The invaluable role of local guides in this event is rarely recognised. As silent partners, Aboriginal Australians gave Europeans their first views of iconic animals, such as the Ko ...Show more
The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature (25th Anniversary Edition) by David Suzuki
$34.99 AUD
Category: SUSTAINABLE | Series: David Suzuki Institute Ser.
'The Sacred Balance has a beautiful spirit.' — E.O. WilsonWith a new foreword from Robin Wall Kimmerer, New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass — and an afterword from Bill McKibben — this special 25th anniversary edition of a beloved bestseller invites readers to see ourselves as part ...Show more
Speed and Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now by John Doerr
$32.99 AUD
Category: SUSTAINABLE
The practical plan to save our planet using fast, global and definitive solutions.To solve the seemingly-insurmountable climate crisis, we have to take collective action, drive societal change and accelerate the net zero economy using a plan of speed and scale. And we have to start now.In Speed and Scal ...Show more
Go Lightly: How to travel without hurting the planet by Nina Karnikowski
$29.99 AUD
Category: SUSTAINABLE
This sustainable travel handbook inspires readers to explore our fascinating planet without causing it further harm. Ten chapters help you go lightly, including how to choose the least impactful methods of travel, how best to protect wildlife, how to pack with more consideration and how to implement min ...Show more
Fire Country: How Indigenous Fire Management Could Help Save Australia by Victor Steffensen
$29.99 AUD
Category: SUSTAINABLE
Delving deep into the Australian landscape and its alarming state of devastation, Fire Country is a powerful account from Indigenous land management expert Victor Steffensen on how the revival of Indigenous fire practices, including what's called 'cool burns', could restore our country. Fire Country o ...Show more
Rethinking Our World: an invitation to rescue our future by David Shaw, Maja Gopel
$29.99 AUD
Category: SUSTAINABLE | Reading Level: near fine
A compelling and persuasive look at the social transformations needed to cope with our environmental crises.Our world is at a tipping point, and we feel it every day. On the one hand, we have never been so well off; on the other hand, we find destruction and crisis everywhere we look. Whether throughout ...Show more
Wasteland: The Dirty Truth About What We Throw Away, Where It Goes, and Why It Matters by Oliver Franklin-Wallis
$34.99 AUD
Category: SUSTAINABLE
'A gripping read that will anger as much as it fascinates' Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall'An incredible journey into the world of rubbish, full of fascinating characters and mind-bending facts' Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland 'Urgent, probing and endlessly interesting' Cal Flyn, author of Islands of A ...Show more
Ultrawild : An Audacious Plan to Rewild Every City on Earth by Steve Mushin
$34.99 AUD
Category: SUSTAINABLE
Mind-bendingly original and full of intricate illustrations, Ultrawild is totally unique, containing over one hundred outrageously funny, scientifically plausible inventions for rewilding cities and saving the planet. Join maverick inventor Steve Mushin as he tackles climate change with an avalanche of ...Show more
Rewild - The Art of Returning to Nature by Nick Baker
$19.99 AUD
Category: SUSTAINABLE
"An ingenious and invigorating insight into the essential wildness within us all." Chris Packham As our busy, technology-driven lives become more sedentary we have become less connected to our natural surroundings. In these challenging times, it is by rediscovering our links to the world around us that ...Show more
Losing Eden - Why Our Minds Need the Wild by Lucy Jones
$39.99 AUD
Category: SUSTAINABLE
Today many of us live indoor lives, disconnected from the natural world as never before. And yet nature remains deeply ingrained in our language, culture and consciousness. For centuries, we have acted on an intuitive sense that we need communion with the wild to feel well. Now, in the moment of our gre ...Show more
The End of Nature by Bill McKibben
$24.99 AUD
Category: SUSTAINABLE
One of the earliest warnings about climate change and one of environmentalism's lodestars'Nature, we believe, takes forever. It moves with infinite slowness,' begins the first book to bring climate change to public attention.Interweaving lyrical observations from his life in the Adirondack Mountains wit ...Show more
Crimes Against Nature: Capitalism and Global Heating by Jeff Sparrow
$29.99 AUD
Category: SUSTAINABLE | Reading Level: very good
A polemic about global warming and the environmental crisis that argues that ordinary people have consistently opposed the destruction of nature and so provide an untapped constituency for climate action. Crimes Against Nature uses fresh material to offer a very different take on the most important issu ...Show more