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A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future by David Attenborough
$45.00 NZD
Category: Environment & Climate
See the world. Then make it better. 'I am 93. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary. As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion. The tragedy of our time has been happening all around us ...Show more
What If We Stopped Pretending? by Jonathan Franzen
$15.00 NZD
Category: Environment & Climate
The climate crisis is here. Our chance to stop it has come and gone, but this doesn't have to mean the world is ending. 'Today, the scientific evidence verges on irrefutable. If you're younger than sixty, you have a good chance of witnessing the radical destabilization of life on earth--massive crop fa ...Show more
Scorchers: A Climate Fiction Anthology by Paul Mountfort & Rosslyn Prosser (eds)
$29.00 NZD
Category: Environment & Climate
Scorchers is the first ever pan-Australasian anthology of climate fiction writings. Including pieces both by some of Australia and New Zealand’s most celebrated authors, its sixteen contributors have responded to a deceptively simple provocation: How can writers—and by implication literature—respond wit ...Show more
The Good Country Equation by Anholt, Simon
$37.00 NZD
Category: Environment & Climate
"Not only does Anholt explain the challenges facing the world with unique clarity, he also provides genuinely new, informative, practical, innovative solutions. . . . The book is a must-read for anyone who cares about humanity's shared future." --H. E. Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed (Farmaajo), President of ...Show more
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert
$37.00 NZD
Category: Environment & Climate
The author of the international bestseller The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking- After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it? Elizabeth Kolbert has become one of the most important writers on the environment. Now she i ...Show more
Towards a Warmer World : What Climate Change Will Mean for New Zealand's Future (BWB Texts) by Veronika Meduna
$15.00 NZD
Category: Anthologies & Essays | Series: BWB Texts
2014 was the hottest year since record keeping began back in 1880. July 2015 was recently confirmed as the globe's hottest month ever recorded, both on land and in the oceans. This December a major international meeting, to be held in Paris, seeks a new agreement to address climate change. Against th ...Show more
Climate Justice: Hope Resilience... by Mary Robinson
$25.00 NZD
Category: Environment & Climate
The antidote for your climate change paralysis. --Sierra MagazineAn urgent call to arms by one of the most important voices in the international fight against climate change, sharing inspiring stories and offering vital lessons for the path forward. Holding her first grandchild in her arms in 2003, Ma ...Show more
This is Not a Drill by Extinction Rebellion Staff
$24.00 NZD
Category: Environment & Climate
Extinction Rebellion are inspiring a whole generation to take action on climate breakdown. Now you can become part of the movement - and together, we can make history. It's time. This is our last chance to do anything about the global climate and ecological emergency. Our last chance to save the world a ...Show more
On Time and Water by Andri Snær Magnason; Lytton Smith (Translator)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Environment & Climate
A unique approach to climate change that recalls W. G. Sebald.
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer
$26.00 NZD
Category: Environment & Climate
In We Are the Weather, New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Safran Foer explores the central global dilemma of our time in a surprising, deeply personal, and urgent new way. Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming because of human activity. B ...Show more
The Oak Papers by James Canton
$30.00 NZD
Category: Environment & Climate
Oaks are born and die on the same patch of earth. It is that sure-footedness that is so appealing. Ancient oaks hold a powerful sense of the longevity of life. The sense of security, of attachment to place, enchants us. You can stand beneath a grand oak and know that your more distant ancestors did so t ...Show more
The Uninhabitable Earth - A Story of the Future by David Wallace-Wells
$26.00 NZD
Category: Environment & Climate
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
