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Featured book this month:
The Good Shopping Guide (10th Edition)
by The Ethical Company Organisation
RRP £11.99
PaperbackWorlds-leading ethical shopping reference book features brand new research as well as the Ethical Company Index, which provides comparative ethical shopping rankings for over 700 companies and brands, scoring each out of 100. Order the book direct now with free delivery. 10th Edition.
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The Bee-Kind Garden by David Squire RRP £9.95 Hardback The Bee-Kind Garden gives a wealth of information about the intriguing lives of honeybees, and includes many amusing and illuminating stories about the role that they have played in human history. The book explains how crucial bees are to our food chain, and describes how you can attract them to your garden. |
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Organic Places to Stay: UK and Ireland by Linda Moss RRP £12.95 Paperback Are you looking for a bed and breakfast, guesthouse or hotel that serves organic food? Would you like to self-cater in a cottage on an organic farm and have an organic vegetable box delivered? Or would you prefer to camp on an organic smallholding with the possibility of buying the holding's own fresh organic produce? |
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Making the most of your Glorious Glut by Jackie Sherman RRP £12.95 Paperback Making the most of your Glorious Glut is the answer to the perennial problem of an over-abundance of wonderful fruit and vegetables. From courgettes to spinach or tomatoes to blackcurrants, most gardeners will recognise the sinking feeling that creeps over you when you have had such a good harvest that you cannot face picking, cooking or eating any more. And even if you haven’t grown them yourself, it is easy to end up with too many fruit or vegetables after just one visit to the local pick-your-own centre or a trip to a country hedgerow. Over 250 recipes included. |
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The Holistic Beauty Book by Star Kechara RRP £12.95 PaperbackDo you: * Worry about chemicals in your cosmetics? * Want to use only the very best fresh handmade holistic potions? * Want to use ethical and environmentally friendly products? * Have sensitive skin and need very pure potions? DIY skincare is fun, easy and empowering. The Hand-made Beauty Book is packed with safe, 100% natural, organic, eco-friendly skincare potions that you can make at home that are gorgeous yet affordable. |
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Local Sustainable Homes: How to Make Them Happen in Your Community by Chris Bird RRP £14.95 Paperback While politicians talk about sustainable housing, thousands of individuals, groups and organisations are busy putting ideas into practice now – pushing the boundaries to cut carbon emissions far beyond government targets. |
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GROW YOUR FOOD FOR FREE (well almost) by Dave Hamilton RRP £14.95 Paperback Don’t like spending money in garden centres? Think you can make it yourself for a fraction of the price or find a cheaper option? Dave Hamilton shows you how. By recycling and reusing materials creatively and making the most of what you have, you can gather all you need to grow your food on a budget. Whether it’s building your own shed from scrap, constructing a path out of recycled materials or storing your harvest without a freezer, it’s all here. |
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Green Up! A compact reference guide to greening your house, from minor improvements, such as what paint to use, to major ones, such as how to choose and install solar electric panels. Structured in A-Z format, each entry lists an area for greening your house, and then describes the options available, the pros and cons, costs, risks and problems, as well as sources of information and advice. Drawing on his experience of having built his own eco-friendly house, Will Anderson writes from the perspective of having tackled these problems himself, but without assuming any prior technical knowledge on the part of the reader |
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HERBS FOR HOME TREATMENT by Anna Newton RRP £14.95 Paperback There’s enough stuff about potatoes and leeks, about clouds, sheds and slugs, to qualify as a Green Book – and enough about kippers and cows, pain relief, petty theft and public nudity, to qualify as a typical Harvey offering. In Herbs for Home Treatment Anna Newton explains the advantages of using herbs, and provides herbal remedies to cure common ailments, and improve general health. She provides easy-to-follow advice on creating your own apothecary with a small number of versatile herbs. |
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WHERE EARWIGS DARE by Matt Harvey RRP £9.95 Paperback A collection of Matt’s latest poems – horticultural, whimsical, ecological, political and just plain funny. Where Earwigs Dare contains a rich biodiversity of verse, some recycled from Matt’s appearances on Radio 4’s Saturday Live and his stint writing Desktop Poetry for The Guardian, others that bubbled doggedly up of their own accord from a grim sense of joie de vivre. |
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The Doomsday Funbook edited by Edward Goldsmith RRP: £9.99 Paperback A short collection of articles from the Ecologist, illustrated by Richard Wilson, of the Times, who has been cartoonist extraordinaire 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. |
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Coming Home to Eat by Gary Paul Nabhan RRP: £10.99 Paperback 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. |
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Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser RRP: £7.99 Paperback 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. |
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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. |
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Stuart. A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters RRP: £7.99 Paperback 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. |
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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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The Man who Planted Trees by Jean Giono RRP: £5.99 Paperback 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. |
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The Best Democracy Money Can Buy by Greg Palast RRP: £7.99 Paperback 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. |
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How To Make And Use Compost by Nicky Scott RRP: £9.95 Paperback 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. |
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The Good Shopping Guide (10th Edition) by The Ethical Company Organisation RRP £11.99 Paperback Worlds-leading ethical shopping reference book features brand new research as well as the Ethical Company Index, which provides comparative ethical shopping rankings for over 700 companies and brands, scoring each out of 100. Order the book direct now with free delivery. 10th Edition. |
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