Who Owns the Wind?
£16.99Why the wind, and energy it produces, should not be private property
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Can We Really Help the Polar Bears?
£9.99The Arctic ice is melting and the polar bears need our help. They come to Warmland to explain what’s really going wrong. Luckily they find a group of lively, sparky kids who jump into action and draw up a brilliant plan.
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Lost Animals
£20.00A photograph of an animal long-gone evokes a feeling of loss more than a painting ever can. Often tinted sepia or black-and-white, these images were mainly taken in zoos or wildlife parks, and in a handful of cases featured the last known individual of the species. There are some familiar examples, such as Martha, the last Passenger Pigeon, or the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, recently fledged and perching happily on the hat of one of the biologists that had just ringed it. But for every Martha there are a number of less familiar extinct birds and mammals that were caught on camera prior to their demise.
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A Warning from the Golden Toad
£4.99Taking us on an extraordinary journey into the past and around the globe, from coral reefs to the North Pole, deserts to rainforests, Tim Flannery tells the story of the earth’s climate, and how we have changed it.
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Think Like a Mountain
£4.99In this lyrical meditation on the American wild lands, Leopold considers the different ways humans shape the natural landscape, and describes for the first time the far-reaching phenomenon now known as ‘trophic cascades’.
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We Belong to Gaia
£4.99James Lovelock draws on decades of wisdom to lay out the history of our remarkable planet, to show that it is not ours to be exploited – and warns us that it is fighting back.Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend the planet, and affirm our place at the heart of its restoration.
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An Idea Can Go Extinct
£4.99Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend the planet, and affirm our place at the heart of its restoration. Their words have endured through the decades, becoming the classics of a movement.
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This Can’t Be Happening
£4.99In these speeches and essays, George Monbiot calls on humanity to stop averting its gaze from the destruction of the living planet, and wake up to the greatest predicament we have ever faced.
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All Art Is Ecological
£4.99Provocative and playful, ‘All Art is Ecological’ explores the strangeness of living in an age of mass extinction, and shows us that emotions and experience are the basis for a deep philosophical engagement with ecology.
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There Is No Point of No Return
£4.99Emphasizing joy in the world, human cooperation and the value of all living things, this selection of Arne Næss’s philosophical writings is filled with wit, learning and an intense connection with nature.
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Every Species Is a Masterpiece
£4.99Edward O. Wilson is widely recognized as one of the world’s pre-eminent biologists and naturalists. This book brings together some of his most profound and significant writings on the rich diversity of life on Earth, our place in it, and our obligation to conserve the planet’s fragile ecosystems.