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A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future by David Attenborough
$45.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
See the world. Then make it better. 'I am 93. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary. As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion. The tragedy of our time has been happening all around us ...Show more
Living with the Climate Crisis: Voices from Aotearoa (BWB Texts) by Tom Doig (editor)
$14.99 NZD
Category: Environment | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: near fine
If much of the world can work together to beat a deadly pandemic, imagine what might happen if we turned our collective energy to tackling the climate crisis. The devastating summer of Australian bush fi res underlined the terrifying sense of a world pushed to the brink. Then came Covid-19, and with it ...Show more
100% Pure Future - New Zealand Tourism Renewed by Sarah Bennett (ed.)
$14.99 NZD
Category: Environment | Series: BWB Texts
Covid-19 has had a devastating effect on New Zealand tourism, but the industry was already troubled by unchecked growth and questionable governance that has put pressure on the environment, infrastructure and communities. In this urgent collection of essays, nine authors outline their vision for sustain ...Show more
Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal - The Political Economy of Saving the Planet by Noam Chomsky; Robert Pollin; C. J. Polychroniou (Contribution by)
$32.99 NZD
Category: Environment
Climate change: watershed or endgame? In this compelling new book, Noam Chomsky, the world's leading public intellectual, and Robert Pollin, a renowned progressive economist, map out the catastrophic consequences of unchecked climate change--and present a realistic blueprint for change: the Green New De ...Show more
Fight for Planet A by Craig Reucassel
$37.99 NZD
Category: Environment
What we can do when there's no planet B. Based on the hit ABC series - don't leave earth without it Most Australians accept that climate change is real, but many don't know what to do about it and feel powerless to make a difference. In Fight for Planet A, Craig Reucassel shows that it isn't as scary as ...Show more
Eradicating Ecocide - Exposing the Corporate and Political Practices Destroying the Planet and Proposing the Laws to Eradicate Ecocide by Polly Higgins
$60.00 NZD
Category: Environment
In Eradicating Ecocide, international environment lawyer and Ecocide law expert Polly Higgins sets out to demonstrate how our planet is fast being destroyed by the activities of corporations and governments, facilitated by 'compromise' laws that offer insufficient deterrence. She offers a solution that ...Show more
What If We Stopped Pretending? by Jonathan Franzen
$14.99 NZD
Category: Environment
The climate crisis is here. Our chance to stop it has come and gone, but this doesn't have to mean the world is ending. 'Today, the scientific evidence verges on irrefutable. If you're younger than sixty, you have a good chance of witnessing the radical destabilization of life on earth--massive crop fa ...Show more
Water World by Ben Rothery
$45.00 NZD
Category: Environment
Life on Earth is shaped by water, and only survives here because of it, but our ocean ecosystems are at the epicentre of global warming. This enormous blue wilderness contains somewhere between half and three quarters of all life on Earth, including the biggest and most numerous creatures to ever live. ...Show more
Join the Greener Revolution: 30 Easy Ways to Live and Eat Sustainably by Ollie Hunter
$34.99 NZD
Category: Environment
Following the groundbreaking 30 Easy Ways to Join the Food Revolution, Ollie Hunter is back with his second book, Join the Greener Revolution. This time he's tackling sustainability in our day-to-day lives, and exploring future options to create and live in a more sustainable world. Ollie returns to th ...Show more
Featherhood by Charlie Gilmour
$29.99 NZD
Category: Environment
'The best piece of nature writing since H is for Hawk, and the most powerful work of biography I have read in years' Neil Gaiman 'Wonderful - I can't recommend it too highly' Helen Macdonald 'One of those rare, enchanted books' Isabella Tree 'Beautiful - it made me cry' Simon Amstell 'I was entrance ...Show more
The Secret Life of Fungi - Discoveries from a Hidden World by Aliya Whiteley
$29.99 NZD
Category: Environment
Fungi can appear anywhere, from desert dunes to frozen tundra, and create anew from rotting matter. They can invade bodies and thoughts; they can live between our toes or between our floorboards; they are unwelcome intruders or vastly expensive treats; they are symbols of both death and eternal life. Bu ...Show more