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52 Weeks to Change Your World by Allan Shepherd and Caroline Oakley
(Centre for Alternative Technology, 2004)
A handy resource for anyone looking to make a difference, from buying green electricity to setting up an eco-business or taking environmentally-friendly holidays. Get this book.
A handy resource for anyone looking to make a difference, from buying green electricity to setting up an eco-business or taking environmentally-friendly holidays. Get this book.
All About Compost: Recycling household and garden waste by Pauline Pears (Search Press Ltd, 1999)
Learn how to save money, help the environment and enrich even the smallest garden by recycling household and garden waste. Get this book.
Learn how to save money, help the environment and enrich even the smallest garden by recycling household and garden waste. Get this book.
Half Gone: Oil, gas, hot air and the global energy crisis by Jeremy Leggett (Portobello Books, 2005)
The author is a geologist who spent the 1980s in the service of Big Oil before jumping ship to become Chief Scientist at Greenpeace UK. Writing with watertight knowledge and sobering clarity, he explains how we became addicted to oil and how this habit is dragging us into an increasingly dangerous dependence upon the Middle East and toward economic and environmental catastrophe.
Get this book.
The author is a geologist who spent the 1980s in the service of Big Oil before jumping ship to become Chief Scientist at Greenpeace UK. Writing with watertight knowledge and sobering clarity, he explains how we became addicted to oil and how this habit is dragging us into an increasingly dangerous dependence upon the Middle East and toward economic and environmental catastrophe.
Get this book.
Complete Book of Green Living: A practical guide to eco-friendly living by Sarah Callard and Diane Millis (Carlton Books, 2001)
Lots of information on green and organic products for your home and garden and shows you how to improve both your well-being and the planet's on a day-to-day basis. Get this book.
Lots of information on green and organic products for your home and garden and shows you how to improve both your well-being and the planet's on a day-to-day basis. Get this book.
The Energy Saving House by Thierry Salomon and Stephane Bedel (Centre for Alternative Technology, 2003)
From construction to renovation, white goods to heating systems, maintenance to running costs, this is an invaluable guide to energy saving in the home. Get this book.
From construction to renovation, white goods to heating systems, maintenance to running costs, this is an invaluable guide to energy saving in the home. Get this book.
Global Warming: The complete briefing by Sir John Houghton (Cambridge University Press, 2004)
A world-renowned expert explores the scientific basis of global warming and the likely impacts of climate change on human society before addressing the action that could be taken by governments, industry and individuals to mitigate the effects. Get this book.
A world-renowned expert explores the scientific basis of global warming and the likely impacts of climate change on human society before addressing the action that could be taken by governments, industry and individuals to mitigate the effects. Get this book.
High and Mighty by Keith Bradsher (Public Affairs, 2004)
Prize-winning journalist and former Detroit bureau chief for the New York Times, Bradsher makes a powerful case that SUVs are more dangerous than cars for both people and the planet. Get this book.
Prize-winning journalist and former Detroit bureau chief for the New York Times, Bradsher makes a powerful case that SUVs are more dangerous than cars for both people and the planet. Get this book.
How We Can Save the Planet by Mayer Hillman and Tina Fawcett (Penguin, 2004)
Explains the real issues we should focus on: what the government is doing, what role technology can play and, above all, why we must act now to protect our planet for later generations. Get this book.
Explains the real issues we should focus on: what the government is doing, what role technology can play and, above all, why we must act now to protect our planet for later generations. Get this book.
Power to the People: How the coming energy revolution will transform our lives, turn the energy business upside down and perhaps even save our planet by Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran (Farrar Straus Giroux, 2003)
A correspondent for The Economist discusses the economic, political and technological forces that are reshaping global management of energy resources and identifies a promising energy revolution currently taking place. Get this book.
A correspondent for The Economist discusses the economic, political and technological forces that are reshaping global management of energy resources and identifies a promising energy revolution currently taking place. Get this book.
