For Climate's Sake! A Visual Reader of Climate Change

by Edgar Vaid

Edgar Vaid reviews a book which aims to convey the knowledge revealed by current climate research through the power of images, graphics, and case studies. more...

Class, Poverty & Climate Change

by Susan Clark

It may be one of those New York Times best-sellers on sale at the airport but Susan Clark is not fooled; Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behaviour is a novel that sets out to tackle the biggest single issue we are facing
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Earth Debt

By Mark Cocker

Mark Cocker highlights why we must not take Earth’s universal services for granted and must now start to repay our debts. more...

Stepping stones

by Tom Brenan

Tom Brenan discovers a wide range of voices from Earth law proponents around the world...... more...

Storytelling for Life

Why Stories Matter and Ways of Telling Them

by Edgar Vaid

Edgar Vaid reviews Josie Felce's book on the importance of storytelling and its continued relevance to our modern lives. more...

Earth Freedoms

by Michael Mansfield

Fed up with broken promises and stultifying inaction? If so, 'Earth is Our Business' is the book for you, says Michael Mansfield. more...

Last Call for Capitalism

Gar Smith

A global hangover haunts the world economies, but Gar Smith says there may just be a cure..... more...

Global warming, peak oil, economic chaos

Edgar Vaid

Edgar Vaid reviews “Convivial Policies for the Inevitable” by Michael Bassey which warns we may be forced to start relating to each other in long-forgotten ways, because there is no alternative. more...

Small World Big Ideas

by Edgar Vaid

December 12th, 2012

A film-maker, a writer, a peace walker, a primatologist - these are just a few of the 11 activists who have contributed to a new book that claims there is an activist in us all. Edgar Vaid reviews Small World, Big Ideas.. more...

Hiroshima... Nagasaki.... Fukushima...

by Lynn Batten

December 3rd, 2012

Lynn Batten reviews Strong in the Rain, a haunting book which gives an account of the 9.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Japan in 2011 though the narratives of six survivors. more...

Environment: Why Read the Classics?

by Edgar Vaid

November 13th, 2012

Edgar Vaid reviews a compilation of six essays by leading environmental thinkers, including Ecologist editor-in-chief, Satish Kumar. Each essay is based on a book that has become an environmental classic. more...

An Urban Pilgrimage

by Jon Every

November 7th, 2012

Jon Every takes the message of The Green London Way: Walking The City's History and Wildlife, by Bob Gilbert, to heart more...

Urban Beekeeping

by Edgar Vaid

October 23rd, 2012

Intrigued by the growing popularity of urban beekeeping, Edgar Vaid recommends a book that works well as a manual for aspiring beekeepers ... more...

Planetary Pirates

Leo Hickman

October 12th, 2012

Leo Hickman reviews the three-part book Earth Grab: Geopiracy, the New Biomassters and Capturing Climate Genes more...

Vital Signs: Psychological Responses to the Ecological Crisis

Peter Reason

9th October, 2012

Exploring the Global Self - Peter Reason considers the contribution of ecopyschology to the crisis of sustainability more...