Edward Perchard reviews Jonathan Paul Marshall and Linda H. Connor's book, Environmental Change and the World’s Futures: Ecologies, ontologies and mythologies.
Resource takes a look at some of the findings presented in The Atlas of Climate Change: Mapping the World's Great Challenge and asks what they can tell us.
Libby Peake reviews Barbara A. Meyers' new book, Common Ground, Uncommon Gifts: Growing Peace and Harmony through Stories, Reflections and Practices in the Natural World.
Transport and Neighbourhoods reveals the surprising influence of town planning on our green behaviour and the significance of transport strategy in reducing carbon emissions.
These days, concerns about chemical-based agriculture are enormous. So Michael Phillips’s new book The Holistic Orchard, in which he explains how to grow orchards ‘the holistic way’, couldn’t have arrived at a better time.
Readers of Resource will be more than aware of the problems that the world is currently facing: overpopulation, unsustainable growth, inequality, species extinction, global warming, peak oil...
Samantha MacBride has written a highly specialised, incredibly dense book that argues: ‘Recycling as we know it today generates the illusion of progress while allowing industry to maintain the status quo and place responsibility on consumers and local government.’
In this age of ‘going green’, many consumers opt for natural or organic products in their kitchens, and this is extending to the bathroom. Deborah Burnes’s Look Great, Live Green is a detailed analysis of the ‘$60 billiona- year Goliath’ that is our cosmetics industry.
Launched at the Bywaters recycling facility in March, this ‘lift the flap’ book comes with great credentials: the University of Northampton’s Dr Margaret Bates, waste expert and Resource Hot 100 favourite, was a consultant on the content and it’s an Usborne title.
Some of us in the Resource office face a dilemma when it comes to fashion – we love having new clothes and looking fashionable, but don’t want them to cost the earth or a textile worker’s dignity or health.
Totnes and District’s Energy Descent Action Plan (EDAP), the first such document to come out of the burgeoning Transition movement, takes as its basis the idea that...
‘When it comes to suspicion and conspiracy theories, recycling rivals the assassination of John F Kennedy’, writes Lucy Siegle in her introduction to this refreshingly accessible guide to recycling.
One of the problems with presenting an environmental argument as a book within the Rough Guides series is the format. Often designed to be dipped into in a fairly non-linear fashion, the typical Rough Guide is a heady mix of text, box outs, diagrams and pictures, usually...
When I was a child, I spent many a rainy day digging into my ‘craft box’, making paper wall hangings, plasticine figurines, beaded jewellery and other treasures.
Casting my mind back to a particular science lesson at school, I remember quite clearly a teacher declaring that we had already pushed climate change too far, that no degree of cutting back could undo...
At time of writing, government delegates are meeting in Japan, trying to hammer out a global deal on biodiversity in a summit that is depressingly reminiscent of Copenhagen. So, it was a good time to pick up Thompson’s book and find out if we really do need pandas...
Let’s be straight from the start: this book is selling a dream, a dream of freedom from the stresses and strains of modern life, of your own delicious, fresh-from-the-earth fruit and veg, of clucking chickens and home-brewed ale.
Media, Ecology and Conservation explores how media engages with animal conservation. The cover indicates that: ‘The work and achievements of media/conservation activists are located within a cultural framework that simultaneously loves nature,
Slow Travel and Tourism considers slow travel in relation to a variety of social, economic, and environmental factors, providing a comprehensive exploration of the issues surrounding the emergence of slower forms of travelling.
In this line of work, where we spend our days contemplating waste and recycling, and by extension, the Earth and its future, it can be easy to forget that there are folk out there who give the environment much less heed.
From Waste to Resource – a study into the global waste industry which details information about the landfilling habits of countries around the world – is the result of a collaboration between waste management, recovery and recycling megalith Veolia Environmental Services...
Far from a dream-pedalling book of aspiration, Rosen’s in-depth exploration of the off-grid lifestyle draws on his own extensive experience of pushing a run-down shack in Majorca into self-sufficiency, as well as interviews and analysis of case studies around the UK.
We produce 10 million tonnes of packaging waste each year, but there’s generally a blithe acceptance that whatever can’t be recycled is a necessary evil. However, as we push our technological competence for reclaiming value from waste resources...
The marketing blurb on the back of this book asks: ‘When did you last climb a tree? Pick some blackberries? Spot a bird of prey? Walk through woodland looking for wildflowers? Search for treasure on a beach?
Taking a detailed look at the state of the world, this book offers practical talking points to where we should be headed in our race against climate change.
The growing consciousness of our planet’s plight has birthed a multiplicity of employment opportunities: the scope for ‘green-collar’ jobs is widening and this book tells you how to find a job with a
Author of Not on the Label, investigative journalist Felicity Lawrence is back on the warpath. Determined to show ‘why the food business is bad for the planet and your health’, Lawrence searches out
I would like to turn my parents green: they leave lights on; their refrigerator is three times the size it needs to be; and they drive absolutely everywhere. Unfortunately, I don’t think James Russell
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