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The Transition Handbook by Rob Hopkins
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Written by the founder of the burgeoning Transition Network Rob Hopkins, the Transition Handbook looks to tackle arguably the most pressing question facing society today: how do we reduce our dependency on oil as we confront a decline in global production and a growing climate catastrophe? Hopkins shows how the inevitable changes we must make can lead to positive outcomes, such as the rebirth of local communities that can grow their own food, generate their own power, and even develop local currencies.
Organic Gardening: The Natural No-dig Way by Charles Dowding
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Paperback
Dowding, whose organic garden has been supplying local shops and restaurants for over 25 years, shares his unconventional no-dig approach in this thorough and no-nonsense book. He encourages readers to throw out the gardening rulebook, and instead learn to understand the soil, seasons and climate, and develop their own intuitive methods. With step-by-step sections on how to successfully plant and harvest a wide variety of fruit and vegetables with minimal soil damage and weeding the book is an enlightening challenge to received gardening knowledge.
The Doomsday Funbook edited by Edward Goldsmith
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A short collection of articles from the Ecologist, illustrated by Richard Wilson, of the Times, who has been cartoonist extraordinary to the Ecologist since it started in 1970. This book makes one thing clear: ‘Economic development’, contrary to what we have all been told, is the cause of, rather than the solution to, the ever more daunting problems we face today. This suggests that we can only hope to solve them by moving our society in the very opposite direction to that in which we are moving today: towards a community-based, much more self-sufficient and hence highly decentralised society.
Coming Home to Eat by Gary Paul Nabhan
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Written by a prize-winning essayist and ecologist, this book issues a profound and engaging, passionate call to us to rethink our food industry. Gary Paul Nabhan reminds us that eating close to home is not just a matter of convenience - it is an act of deep cultural and environmental significance.
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
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Eric Schlosser’s explosive bestseller, by turns funny and terrifying, tells the story of our love affair with fast food. He visits the lab that re-creates the smell of strawberries, examines the safety records of abattoirs, reveals why the fries taste so good and what really lurks between the sesame buns – and shows how fast food is transforming not only our diets but our world.
Go Make a Difference: 2 by Think Publishing in association with The Ecologist
RRP: £6.99
Paperback
If you care about the environment and aren’t sure how to make a positive difference, look no further. Go M.A.D.! is full of fascinating facts, thought-provoking statistics and over 500 practical tips to help YOU make a difference.
High Tide by Mark Lynas
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Hardback
With High Tide, Mark Lynas has given us a tremendous gift: he has time travelled into our terrifying collective future, a future that has already arrived in the farthest reaches of the globe. Go with him on this breathtaking, beautifully told journey – to island nations being engulfed by rising tides, to towns swallowed by encroaching desert, to glaciers melting into oceans.
Stuart. A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters
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This is the story of Stuart Shorter: thief, hostage taker, psycho and street raconteur. It is a story told backwards, as he wanted; from the man he was when Alexander Masters met him to a ‘happy-go-lucky’ boy of twelve. Brilliant, humane and funny, it is as extraordinary and unexpected as the life it describes.
The Man who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
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Jean Giono’s beautiful allegorical tale is legendary. Written in the 1950s, its message was ahead of its time, inspiring readers to rediscover the harmonies of the countryside and prevent its wilful destruction. Giono’s hope was to set in motion a worldwide reforestation programme that would rejuvenate the earth. The Man who Planted Trees is a hymn to creation and a purveyor of confidence in mans ability to change his – indeed the world’s – lot.
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy by Greg Palast
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Greg Palast, one of the world's most fearless investigative reporters, exposes the truth about globalisation, corporate cons and high-finance fraudsters. Whatever you know - or think you know - his discoveries make for explosive reading.
How To Make And Use Compost by Nicky Scott
RRP: £9.95
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Whether you live in an apartment with no garden or have a family and garden that generate large amounts of food and garden waste, this book shows you how to compost everything that can be composted at home, work, or school, and in spaces big and small.
The Use-It-All Cookbook by Bish Muir
RRP: £12.95
Paperback
Do you have to throw away that single carrot? How can you make that cold chicken tasty? Can you use that half pot of yoghurt at the back of the fridge? Over a third of the food we buy ends up in the bin. With this book you can reduce your waste and put the food on your plate, rather than in landfill where it contributes to climate change.
Local Money by Peter North
RRP: £14.95
Paperback
Local Money is an exciting and practical guide to creating local currencies – showing how they can help us unleash the power of our communities to build a resilient economic future.
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