Permaculture Handbook: Garden Farming for Town and Country by Peter Bane; David Holmgren (Foreword by)
94.99 NZD
Category: Environment | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
The urban landscape has swallowed vast swaths of prime farmland across North America. Imagine how much more self-reliant our communities would be if thirty million acres of lawns were made productive again. Permaculture is a practical way to apply ecological design principles to food, housing, and energ ...Show more
The EcoEdge: Urgent Design Challenges in Building Sustainable Cities by Esther Charlesworth
94.99 NZD
Category: Environment
Presenting diverse case studies of contemporary sustainable urban practice from Europe, Africa, India, South America, the USA and Australia, this book offers the reader a fantastic wealth of practical material from a range of internationally renowned authors. Each practical case study has addressed issu ...Show more
Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World by Michael Pollan
29.99 NZD
Category: Environment
What shall we have for dinner? Such a simple question has grown to have a very complicated answer. We can eat almost anything nature has to offer, but deciding what we should eat stirs anxiety. Should we choose the organic apple or the conventional? If organic, local or imported? Wild fish or farmed? Lo ...Show more
Shells and Corals by Albertus Seba
24.99 NZD
29.99 (16% off)
Category: Environment
Seba's "Cabinet of Curiosities" is one of the 18th century's greatest natural history achievements and remains one of the most prized natural history books of all time.
Here On Earth: An Argument for Hope by Tim Flannery
30.00 NZD
Category: Environment
Tim Flannery's first major book since The Weather Makers charts the history of life on our planet. Here on Earth, which draws its points of departure from Darwin and Wallace, Lovelock and Dawkins, is an extraordinary exploration of evolution and sustainability. Our success as a species has had disastrou ...Show more
Deep Future: The Next 100,000 Years of Life on Earth by Curt Stager
42.00 NZD
Category: Environment
In this major new book, paleoclimatologist Curt Stager vividly shows how what we do to the environment in the 21st century will affect the next 100,000 years of life on this planet. Most of us have accepted that our planet is warming and that we've played the key role in causing climate change. Yet few ...Show more
Climate Code Red : The Case for Emergency Action by David Spratt & Philip Sutton
31.99 NZD
Category: Environment
In this call to action, David Spratt and Philip Sutton reveal extensive scientific evidence that the global warming crisis is far worse tahn official reports and national governments have indicated, and that we are almost at the point of no return. Philip Sutton is a former president of The Aust & N ...Show more
Forecast by FARIS Stephen
40.00 NZD
41.00 (2% off)
Category: Environment
While reporting just outside of Darfur, Stephan Faris discovered that climate change was at the root of that conflict, and began to wonder what current and impending - and largely unanticipated - crises such changes have in store for the world. Forecast provides the answers. Global warming will spur the ...Show more
The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change by Tim Flannery
28.00 NZD
30.00 (6% off)
Category: Environment
What does climate change mean? How will global warming affect our lives? Is it the cause of wilder storms and more frequent droughts? Are these events inevitable? Tim Flannery makes this urgent issue completely accessible. He tells the fascinating story of climate change over millions of years to help u ...Show more
We are the Weather Makers by Tim Flannery
21.00 NZD
Category: Environment | Reading Level: very good
Tim Flannery dedicated the first edition of The Weather Makers to children: 'to all of their generation who will have to live with the consequences of our decisions.' Seventy percent of the people who are alive now will be alive in 2050. This is the date, many scientists agree, by which we have to cut o ...Show more
Shouldn't Our Grandchildren Know by Graham Chittleborough
28.00 NZD
29.00 (3% off)
Category: Environment
Issues raised when this book was first published are even more important today. Graham Chittleborough's clear and straightforward presentation of the facts about the current state of the environment is a compelling read. Focusing on Australia, but relevant on a global basis, he casts an environmental sc ...Show more
Ten Thousand Acres: A Love Story by Patrice Newell
55.00 NZD
Category: Environment
This unique and beautiful book pleads for a more personal knowledge of Australia's ancient, fragile landscape, a re-evaluation of one of the oldest relationships of all.