The Fires Next Time: Understanding Australia's Black Summer by Peter Christoff
$35.00 AUD
Category: Environment
Following a three-year drought and during the hottest and driest year on record, a flume of scorching air set the Australian continent aflame. Australia's Black Summer fires were unprecedented. Over six months in 2019-20 they burned more than ten million hectares of Australia's southern and eastern fore ...Show more
Dark Emu : Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture by Bruce Pascoe
$27.99 AUD
Category: Environment | Reading Level: very good
Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests t ...Show more
The Little Green Book Three for Twenties & Wrinklies (HB) by Ian Plimer
$19.95 AUD
Category: Environment
The perfect introduction to climate change. Volume 3 is for teens to wrinklies and shows the long history of the planet, its climate changes and how climate policy will have a profound negative effect on their generation. “I find it frustrating, as a lay person, to find answers to technical questions. Y ...Show more
The Little Green Book: For Ankle Biters by Ian Plimer
$19.95 AUD
Category: Environment
Fun and entertaining, this is the perfect introduction to climate change. Written for primary school children and uses body functions such as food and farts to show the carbon cycle and demonstrates that net zero and carbon neutral are impossible. The trilogy for children called The little green book is ...Show more
The Little Green Book Two for Teens (HB) by Ian Plimer
$19.95 AUD
Category: Environment
Fun and entertaining, this is the perfect introduction to climate change. Volume 2 is for high school students and deals with climate change, renewable energy and EVs in a humorous, irreverent, seditious and entertaining style. “I find it frustrating, as a lay person, to find answers to technical questi ...Show more
The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth by Ben Rawlence
$35.00 AUD
Category: Environment
A powerful blend of reportage, nature, travel and science writing, deeply researched and beautifully written, underpinned by a startling and urgent message for our time. 'The very treeline is on the move- a devastating image. This book is an evocative, wise and unflinching exploration of what it will m ...Show more
The Dark Cloud: How the Digital World Is Costing the Earth by Guillaume Pitron
$35.00 AUD
Category: Environment
A gripping new investigation into the underbelly of digital technology, which addresses the pressing question of the carbon footprint it leaves behind. In a sort of news thriller, the author reveals not only how costly the virtual world is, but how damaging it is to the environment. A simple 'like' sent ...Show more
Heat: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell
$37.99 AUD
Category: Environment
A searing examination of the impact that temperature rise will have on our lives and what we can do to stop it, by the author of The Water Will Come.'When heat comes, it's invisible. It doesn't bend tree branches or blow hair across your face to let you know it's arrived ... The sun feels like the barre ...Show more
Our Little Farm Adventures in Sustainable Living by Peter Wohlleben, Miriam Wohlleben
$39.99 AUD
Category: Environment | Series: David Suzuki Institute Ser.
From Peter Wohlleben, the New York Times-bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees, and his wife, Miriam, comes an inspired, practical memoir of creating a sustainable homestead amongst the trees. Called "a veritable tree whisperer" by the Wall Street Journal, Peter Wohlleben is known across the w ...Show more
Losing Earth: The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change by Nathaniel Rich
$32.99 AUD
Category: Environment | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
By 1979, we knew all that we know now about the science of climate change - what was happening, why it was happening, and how to stop it. Over the next ten years, we had the very real opportunity to stop it. Obviously, we failed. Nathaniel Rich's groundbreaking account of that failure - and how tantali ...Show more
Green Nation Revolution: Use Your Future to Change the World by Valentina Giannella, Lucia Esther Maruzzelli
$19.99 AUD
Category: Environment
Take your place in the Green Nation, a nation without geographical borders that unites the youth of today in their fight for the planet. From the economy and new professions, to advanced technology and sustainable start-ups, learn how the world needs to change in order to secure its future, and find o ...Show more
Climate Change for Dummies by John Kidder; Elizabeth May
$41.95 AUD
Category: Environment
Master the hottest--and most chilling--topic in the world today More and more frequent extreme weather events occur each year, and wildlife everywhere is increasingly endangered. Science fiction or science fact, most climate experts see this as our world on climate change--and, according to polls, a maj ...Show more