Building with Cob: A Step-by-step Guide by Adam Weismann
$55.99 AUD
Category: Green Building | Series: Sustainable Building Ser.
The ancient method of cob building uses a simple mixture of clay sub-soil, aggregate, straw and water to create solid structural walls built without shuttering or forms, onto a stone plinth. It is now undergoing a renaissance as an 'eco-friendly' building material because of its amazing 'green' credenti ...Show more
Ground Breaking by Philip Mulvey, Freya Mulvey
$34.95 AUD
Category: Land management
Practical solutions for agricultural management, enabling the restoration of landscape, climate and community. Reaching zero emissions alone won't stop the Earth heating up. There's another factor at play, even bigger than rising greenhouse gas levels: agricultural land use, and it is turning th ...Show more
The Milkwood Permaculture Living Handbook: Habits for Hope in a Changing World by Kirsten Bradley
$45.00 AUD
Category: Permaculture and growing
What if your habits could create a more meaningful life for you and a better world? The Milkwood Permaculture Living Handbook is your guide to improving your home, health and happiness - and the planet - one simple step at a time. Packed with practical skills and projects, it's regenerative living for ...Show more
Powering Up: Unleashing the Clean Energy Supply Chain by Alan Finkel
$36.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability
Former chief scientist Alan Finkel shares his compelling insights and expertise and makes the case for Australia leading the way in the global transition to clean energy. The clean energy transition is humanity's biggest ever economic challenge. In Powering Up, former Australian chief scientist Alan F ...Show more
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability
A stunning account of this century's most intense urban fire, and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind In May 2016, Fort McMurray, Alberta, the hub of Canada's oil industry, was overrun by wildfire. The multi-billion-dollar disaster turned entire neigh ...Show more
The Power of Trees: How Ancient Forests Can Save Us If We Let Them by Peter Wohlleben
$34.99 AUD
Category: Land management
The follow-up to the international bestseller The Hidden Life of Trees, offering compelling insights into the lungs of our planet and the fragility of our intertwined futures. Trees can survive without humans, but we can't live without trees. Even if human-caused climate change devastates our plant, tr ...Show more
Underground Lovers: Encounters with fungi by Alison Pouliot
$29.99 AUD
Category: Permaculture and growing
'Mists waft gently around me and slowly drizzle water through the fronds of tree ferns. Lichens wrap around twisted blackwood limbs like ornate scarves. In the gloom of the forest floor, fallen branches are sheathed with fungal stripes of yellow and purple. But beneath the colourful surface, the fallen ...Show more
The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg
$55.00 AUD
Category: Sustainability
It seems like an impossible task - secure a safe future for life on Earth, at a scale and speed that the world has never seen, in the face of vast and powerful forces -not just oil tycoons and governments, but the changing climate system itself. The odds are against us, and we are running out of time. B ...Show more
Wildlife in the Balance: Why Animals are Humanity's Best Hope by Simon Mustoe
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability
You are among the last in a long line of animals that were the likeliest to survive half a billion years of evolution. But you couldn't be here today without all other wildlife.In the past fifty years we've killed three-quarters of the creatures we need to keep ecosystems healthy. Now we have a choice t ...Show more
Grounded: How soil shapes the games we play, the lives we make and the graves we lie in by Alisa Bryce
$34.99 AUD
Category: Land management
An Aussie scientist digs up some dirt about the history and science of soilLife on land could not exist without soil. Almost everything we need can be traced to the soil- food, fibre, medicines - even oxygen produced by plants. What would we be without it? Certainly not a planet worthy of the name Earth ...Show more
Hothouse Earth by Bill McGuire
$22.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability
We inhabit a planet in peril. Our once temperate world is locked on course to become a hothouse entirely of our own making.
Hot Air - The Inside Story of the Battle Against Climate Change Denial by Peter Stott
$22.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability
The shocking inside story of the fight to halt climate change over the past twenty-five years by a world-renowned scientist. Ours is the age of global warming. Rising sea levels, extreme weather, forest fires. Dire warnings are everywhere, so why has it taken so long for the crisis to be recognized? ...Show more