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Beyond Manapouri: 50 Years of Environmental Politics in New Zealand by Catherine Knight
$40.00 NZD
Category: Environment | Reading Level: near fine
Beyond Manapouri: 50 Years of Environmental Politics in New Zealand traces the evolution of environmental administration in New Zealand since the dawn of the environmental era in the late 1960s. The national campaign to stop the government from raising the water level in the scenically spectacular Lake ...Show more
Living Lightly: The Busy Person's Guide to Mindful Consumption by Nicola Turner
$45.00 NZD
Category: Environment
How do you reduce your impact when you don't want to compromise your lifestyle? How do you live lighter when you're juggling the motherlode of life? How can you become more mindful of how and what you're consuming? In a previous career, Nicola Turner's job was to convince us to buy more - and now she u ...Show more
Hope in Hell - Confronting the Climate Emergency by Jonathon Porritt
$38.00 NZD
Category: Environment
'Brave and unflinching in setting out the reality of the hell towards which we're headed, but even more urgent, passionate and compelling about the grounds for hope if we change course fast enough, Hope in Hell is a powerful call to arms from one of Britain's most eloquent and trusted campaigners.' Caro ...Show more
No One is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg
$10.00 NZD
Category: Environment
'Everything needs to change. And it has to start today.' In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not to go to school one day. Her actions ended up sparking a global movement for action against the climate crisis, inspiring millions of pupils to go on strike for our plane ...Show more
Clearing the Air - Shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2019 by Tim Smedley
$25.00 NZD
Category: Environment
Read this book and join the effort to terminate air pollution.--Arnold Schwarzenegger, 38th Governor of California The story of what's happened to the air we breathe, the impact it has had on our health and what we can do to fight back. Clearing the Air tells the full story of what's happened to ...Show more
Ending Hunger - The Quest to Feed the World Without Destroying It by Anthony Warner
$37.00 NZD
Category: Environment
Nutritionists tell you to eat more fish. Environmentalists tell you to eat less fish. Apparently they are both right. It's the same thing with almonds, or quinoa, or a hundred other foods. But is it really incumbent on us as individuals to resolve this looming global catastrophe? From plastic packaging ...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)
$33.00 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
Marine Biology: a Very Short Introduction by Philip Mladenov
$30.00 NZD
Category: Environment | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
The oceans are our planet's most distinctive and imposing natural habitat. They cover 71 percent of its surface; support a remarkably diverse and exquisitely adapted array of life forms, from microscopic viruses, bacteria, and plankton to the largest existing animals; and possess many of Earth's most si ...Show more
The Uninhabitable Earth - A Story of the Future by David Wallace-Wells
$26.00 NZD
Category: Environment
The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn't happening at all, and if your anxiety about it is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible, even within the lifetime of a teenager today. Ov ...Show more
Prophecy on the River: My Journey to Waitaha by Judith Hoch
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Notes On A Nervous Planet by Matt Haig
$23.00 NZD
Category: Environment | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
The instant #1 international bestseller from the beloved author of How to Stop Time and The HumansThe societies we are part of are increasingly making our minds ill. It very often feels that the way we live is almost engineered to make us unhappy. Whether it is our attitudes toward sleep, the marketing ...Show more
Rewilding - The Radical New Science of Ecological Recovery by Paul Jepson; Cain Blythe
$23.00 NZD
Category: Environment | Series: Hot Science Ser.
The ground-breaking science behind ambitious new schemes for restoring lost natural systems.