Books about living ethically and sustainably make brilliant gifts - handing people the knowledge to help make the world a better place (browse related categories Environment & Animal Rights Changing the World )
Bear Witness by Mandy Haggith - £8.99
The brutal shooting of a bear cub galvanises ecologist Callis MacArthur into becoming an activist. Dreaming of bears roaming free, she finds herself exploring Europe’s remotest forests and meeting colourful characters who are as passionate about natu ... more ORDER ONLINE |
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Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach by Jean Sprackland - £8.99
An insightful and lyrical account of a year on one beach - part natural history, part meditation, part travelogue.
This is the ultimate beachcomber's book. A series of meditations prompted by walking on the wild estuarial beaches of Ainsdale Sand ... more ORDER ONLINE |
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The Burning Question: We Can't Burn Half the World's Oil, Coal and Gas. So How Do We Quit? by Duncan Clark and Mike Berners-Lee - £9.99
Take one complex scientific discipline. Add the future of energy, economics and geopolitics. Season with human nature ...
The Burning Question reveals climate change to be the most fascinating scientific, political and social puzzle in histo ... more ORDER ONLINE |
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Walking Home: Travels with a Troubadour on the Pennine Way by Simon Armitage - £8.99
In Summer 2010 Simon Armitage decided to walk the Pennine Way. The challenging 256-mile route is usually approached from south to north, from Edale in the Peak District to Kirk Yetholm, the other side of the Scottish border. He resolved to tackle it ... more ORDER ONLINE |
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The Global Vegetarian Kitchen by Troth Wells - £14.99
The Global Vegetarian Kitchen starts from where you are, whether you only have a windowbox with some herbs, or an allotment, yard or other space to grow things. There are recipes for dishes you can make from your own garden, as well as popular foods ... more ORDER ONLINE |
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Julia Bradbury's Wainwright Walks: Coast to Coast by Julia Bradbury - £14.99
The much-loved fellwalker Alfred Wainwright created one of the truly great walking challenges – to walk across the whole of England. The Coast to Coast route was AW’s last great venture and has become his greatest legacy to long distance walkers – a ... more ORDER ONLINE |
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Loving This Planet: Leading Thinkers Talk About How to Make a Better World by Helen Caldicott - £12.99
Ever since quitting her job as a pediatrician at Harvard Medical School in 1980, Helen Caldicott has worked tirelessly for a safe, sustainable, nuclear-free planet, most recently by hosting a weekly radio show featuring environmentalists and leading ... more ORDER ONLINE |
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Ramble On: The Story of Our Love for Walking Britain by Sinclair McKay - £8.99
A history of walking and our relationship with the British countryside.
On the afternoon of Sunday April 24, 1932, a group of approximately five hundred men and women set out for the summit of Kinder Scout, the highest point in Derbyshire's Peak ... more ORDER ONLINE |
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Permaculture in Pots: How to Grow Food in Small Urban Spaces by Juliet Kemp - £12.95
In these times of soaring food prices, growing food in cities is becoming the big urban trend. As demand far outstrips supply for allotments, Permaculture in Pots shows you how to get started with whatever space you have available – appealing to thos ... more ORDER ONLINE |
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Urban Gardening For Dummies by The National Gardening Association, with Paul Simon and Charlie Nardozzi - £15.99
The easy way to succeed at urban gardening.
A townhouse yard, a balcony, a fire escape, a south-facing window—even a basement apartment can all be suitable locations to grow enough food to save a considerable amount of money and enjoy the fres ... more ORDER ONLINE |
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Making Peace with the Earth by Vandana Shiva - £14.99
In this compelling and rigorously documented exposition, Vandana Shiva demolishes the myths propagated by corporate globalisation in its pursuit of profit and power and shows its devastating environmental impact.
Shiva argues that consumeris ... more ORDER ONLINE |
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The Rurbanite: Living in the Country without Leaving the City by Alex Mitchell - £16.99
In cities around the world, we are redefining our sense of urban living. No longer satisfied with a grey, sterile metropolis, we want the best of both worlds – the energy and diversity of the city, but a connection with nature too.
Filled w ... more ORDER ONLINE |
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Shamanic Gardening: Timeless Techniques for the Modern Sustainable Garden by Melinda Joy Miller - £14.99
Brings sustainable ancient, indigenous, and traditional gardening techniques, history, and mythology to modern permaculture.
Shamanic Gardening contains a cultural history of sustainable gardening, including techniques used by Cleopatra, th ... more ORDER ONLINE |
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Fighting for Birds: 25 Years in Nature Conservation by Mark Avery - £12.99
"...it’s a triumph, and if you have any real interest in the job of saving species and their habitats then it’s a tremendously rewarding ‘must read’."(Chris Packham)
Devoted to birds and wildlife since childhood, Mark’s early scientific research a ... more ORDER ONLINE |
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Make it Last: Prolonging and Preserving What We Love by Raleigh Briggs - £7.99
Make It Last: Prolonging and Preserving What We Love bridges the gap between life in a disposable culture and the basic skills needed to save money and live more sustainably. This book teaches you how to extend the lives of the things you love by rep ... more ORDER ONLINE |
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Sustainability: A Cultural History by Ulrich Grober, translated by Ray Cunningham - £16.95
From diets to economic growth, everything these days has to be ‘sustainable’. But the word’s currency should not obscure its origins: sustainability is an age-old aspiration; a concept deeply rooted in human culture. Though in danger of abuse and ove ... more ORDER ONLINE |
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Wild Town by Mike Dilger - £12.99
Wild Town takes you on an amazing journey through the secret world of wildlife in Britain's towns and cities.
With eye-catching photography, fascinating facts, and details on the locals as well as some unexpected visitors, this is the ultim ... more ORDER ONLINE |
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My Kitchen Table: 100 Vegetarian Feasts by Sophie Grigson - £7.99
Sophie Grigson's passion for vegetarian food shines through every recipe in this gorgeous collection. From light summery salads to root vegetable soups, Mediterranean pastas and Middle Eastern stews, this book will entice all readers, whether you are ... more ORDER ONLINE |
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The Things That Nobody Knows: 501 Mysteries of Life, the Universe and Everything by William Hartston - £9.99
Here are many, many things that nobody knows...
Why are so many giraffes gay?
Has human evolution stopped?
Where did our alphabet come from?
Can robots become self-aware?
Can lobsters recognize other lobsters by sight?
What goes on insi ... more ORDER ONLINE |
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Talking Green by Colin Ward - £8.99
Colin Ward was the historian of unofficial uses of the landscape. The ten essays in Talking Green cover environmental pollution, urban life, allotments, the uses of nature, land settlement, regionalism, squatting, smallholding, the green personality ... more ORDER ONLINE |
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Peak Water: How We Built Civilisation on Water and Drained the World Dry by Alexander Bell - £9.99
"Civilisation is thirsty... it never stopped to think what would happen if the water ran out."(Alexander Bell)
This tale flows from the moment a ditch was dug in old Iraq, to the way our modern cities work. It links the hanging gardens of Babylon ... more ORDER ONLINE |
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Fools Rule: Inside the Failed Politics of Climate Change by William Marsden - £12.99
From the National Business Book Award-winning author of Stupid to the Last Drop, a captivating polemic on the global failure to deal with climate change.
Kyoto, 1997. Montreal, 2005. Copenhagen, 2009. Cancun, 2010. In Fools Rule, Marsden il ... more ORDER ONLINE |
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Infinite Spaces: The Art and Wisdom of the Japanese Garden by Joe Earle, with photos by Sadao Hibi - £8.99
“When you design your garden you can pick and choose from the very best that you have seen in nature, ensuring that every stone contributes something to the overall effect.” - from the Sakuteiki.
Japanese gardens have long been admired for t ... more ORDER ONLINE |
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The Nature of Business: Redesigning for Resilience by Giles Hutchins - £14.95
This book sets out a new business paradigm.
Author Giles Hutchins presents the challenges to the prevailing ‘business as usual’ model, explains the pressing need for transformational change, and reveals the concepts and mindsets necessary to ... more ORDER ONLINE |
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The Good Shopping Guide: 11th Revised Edition by Charlotte Mulvey - £14.95
The Good Shopping Guide guides readers towards the most ethical brands from companies who do not cause harm to or exploit humans, animals or the environment.
There are over 70 product sections (from Butter to Banks and Fax Machines to Fashi ... more ORDER ONLINE |
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Fly and be Damned: What Now for Aviation and Climate Change? by Peter McManners - £14.99
Fly and be Damned gets underneath the well-known facts about the unsustainable nature of the aviation industry and argues for fundamental change to our traveling habits.
The first book to transcend the emotional debate between the entrenche ... more ORDER ONLINE |
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Good Food: More Veggie Dishes by Sharon Brown - £4.99
The Good Food team is back with more mouth-watering ideas for delicious vegetarian meals. Wave goodbye to lacklustre lunches and dull dinners with this inventive range of recipes.
Every recipe is short, simple and accompanied by a full nutri ... more ORDER ONLINE |
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Mindfulness in the Garden: Zen Tools for Digging in the Dirt by Zachiah Murray - £12.99
"Mindfulness poems, also called gathas, help us to dwell in the present moment and to be deeply aware of the action we are doing so that we can perform it with understanding and love."(Thich Nhat Hanh)
Mindfulness in the Garden offers simple mindf ... more ORDER ONLINE |
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Divine Vegan Desserts by Lisa Fabry - £10.99
The transformation of veganism from fringe movement to the mainstream is growing at a pace. There are estimated to be at least 200,000 vegans in the UK, although there may now be up to one million. Whatever the figure, the number is certainly growing ... more ORDER ONLINE |
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Self-sufficiency: Breadmaking by Kathryn Hawkins - £7.99
Making your own bread by hand is such a simple pleasure and a great starting point for anyone
looking to become a little more self-sufficient.
Making bread can be therapeutic and creative and is achievable with even a basic level of culi ... more ORDER ONLINE |
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Sharing for Survival: Restoring the Climate, the Commons and Society by Brian Davey (Editor) - £14.95
Sharing for Survival:
* Describes a workable strategy for stabilising the climate in a way that ensures social justice
* Includes the developing country perspective on climate policy
* Will be of interest to climate activists, campaigners, ... more ORDER ONLINE |
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How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival by David Kaiser - £12.99
For physicists, the 1970s were a time of stagnation. Dissatisfied, underemployed and eternally curious, an eccentric group of Berkeley physicists threw off the constraints of the physics mainstream to explore the wilder side of science. Dubbing thems ... more ORDER ONLINE |
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Ultimate Guide to Permaculture by Nicole Faires - £11.99
Permaculture is an important but often misunderstood method of growing food and building homes in a manner that works with nature, rather than against it, to create beautiful, healthy, and useful gardens. Blending ecology, organic agriculture, green ... more ORDER ONLINE |
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Gardening and Planting by the Moon 2013 by Nick Kollerstrom - £8.99
Tap into the energy cycles of the moon the organic way – and grow better plants.
This is your gardening manual for all seasons. More than just a lunar calendar, it is an everyday workbook of down-to-earth, natural advice and organic know-how tha ... more ORDER ONLINE |
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The Derrick Jensen Reader: Writings on Environment Revolution by Derrick Jensen, edited by Lierre Keith - £17.99
In an age marked by seemingly unstoppable environmental collapse and the urgent quest for solutions, environmental philosopher Derrick Jensen, the voice of the growing deep ecology movement, reveals for us new seeds of hope. Here for the first time i ... more ORDER ONLINE |
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The Moneyless Manifesto: Live Well, Live Rich, Live Free by Mark Boyle - £14.99
That we need money to live like it or not is a self-evident truism. Right? Not anymore. Drawing on almost three years of experience as The Moneyless Man, ex-businessman Mark Boyle not only demystifies money and the system that binds us to it, he also ... more ORDER ONLINE |
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Will We Ever Speak Dolphin? and 130 other science questions answered by New Scientist - £7.99
Why do birds sing at dawn? What's the slowest a plane can fly without stalling and falling out of the sky? And how long can you keep a tiger cub as a pet? Will We Ever Speak Dolphin?, the eagerly-awaited new 'Last Word' collection, has the answers to ... more ORDER ONLINE |
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The Secret Anarchy of Science by Michael Brooks - £8.99
This is a bold expose of science's mavericks. For more than a century, science has cultivated a sober public image for itself. But as bestselling author Michael Brooks explains, the truth is very different: many of our most successful scientists have ... more ORDER ONLINE |
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An Optimist's Tour of the Future by Mark Stevenson - £8.99
This is one curious man's journey to find out 'what's next?' Mark Stevenson has been to the future a few years ahead of the rest of us - and reckons it has a lot going for it.
His voyage of discovery takes him to Oxford to meet Transhumanis ... more ORDER ONLINE |
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The Little Book Of Little Gardens by Steve Wheen - £9.99
The Banksy of Guerilla gardening!
The Little Book of Little Gardens is an artistic demonstration and playful collection of the internationally acclaimed ‘Pot Hole Gardener’. This creative East London figure has been described as the “Banksy of gu ... more ORDER ONLINE |
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Science Tales: Lies, Hoaxes and Scams by Darryl Cunningham - £11.99
A documentary comic book debunking myths and exposing the lies of scientific naysayers and conspiracy theorists, and the role of the media.
By the author of the best-selling Psychiatric Tales, Darryl Cunningham turns his questioning mind and ... more ORDER ONLINE |
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Birdwatching With Your Eyes Closed: An Introduction to Bird Song by Simon Barnes - £8.99
Learning birdsong is not just a way to become a better bird-spotter. It is tuning in: a way of hearing the soundtrack of the planet earth...Why do birds sing? What are they trying to say? Birdsong is not just about natural history. It is also about o ... more ORDER ONLINE |
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Edgelands: Journeys into England's True Wilderness by Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts - £8.99
Edgelands explores a wilderness that is much closer than you think: a debatable zone, neither the city nor the countryside, but a place in-between – so familiar it is never seen for looking. Passed through, negotiated, unnamed, ignored, the edgelands ... more ORDER ONLINE |
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Brave Old World: A Month-by-Month Guide to Husbandry, or the Fine Art of Looking After Yourself by Tom Hodgkinson - £9.99
Drawing on the wisdom of an eclectic range of thinkers and writers, on medieval calendars and manorial records, and, as ever, on Tom's own honestly recounted and frequently imperfect attempts to travel the road to self-sufficiency, Brave Old World is ... more ORDER ONLINE |
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Veggiestan: A Vegetable Lover's Tour of the Middle East by Sally Butcher - £25.00
VEGGIESTAN or ‘land of the vegetables’. There is of course no such word, and no such country. But in this upbeat guide to Middle Eastern vegetarian cookery Sally Butcher proves that the region more than merits the term, and that its constituent natio ... more ORDER ONLINE |
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Urban Farms by Sarah Rich - £19.99
Urban Farms provides in-depth profiles of approximately 20 established and emerging urban farm leaders across America, from Brooklyn to LA. The types of farms featured encompass a full spectrum of large, organised community farms to individuals growi ... more ORDER ONLINE |
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RSPB Pocket Guide to British Birds by Simon Harrap - £5.99
This brand new edition of the best-selling field guide from the RSPB is compact, informative and beautifully illustrated, and features 215 of the most common birds found in Britain. ... more ORDER ONLINE |
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New Vegetarian Kitchen: raw * grill * fry * steam * simmer * bake by Nicola Graimes - £14.99
Lift the lid on vegetarian cooking – you're about to discover just how exciting eating vegetarian food can be.
New Vegetarian Kitchen proves once and for all that there's more to vegetarian cuisine than old stand-bys such as lentils, pasta and be ... more ORDER ONLINE |
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The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane - £20.00
In The Old Ways Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove-roads and sea paths that form part of a vast network of routes criss-crossing the British landscape and its waters, and connecting them ... more ORDER ONLINE |
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Fukushima Mon Amour: Essays on Japan's Nuclear Crisis by Daniel de Roulet, Anne Waldman, Silvia Federici & George Caffentzis, Sabu Kohso - £7.99
Four literary and political essays on the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster of March 11, 2011, following the earthquake and tsunami that struck the northeastern coast of Honshu, Japan. ... more ORDER ONLINE |
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Vegan Pregnancy Survival Guide by Sayward Rebhal - £11.99
The Vegan Pregnancy Survival Guide is a fun, informative, and totally comprehensive reference manual. Leave the heavy textbooks at home! This is a "pocket guide" with quick answers to all your most pressing pregnancy questions - from straightforward ... more ORDER ONLINE |
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