Environmentalist thought & ideology

  • 140 Artists’ Ideas for Planet Earth

    £8.99

    Artists are uniquely situated to present new ideas about how we are living, the materials that make up our lives and how we can begin to work together to tackle the most urgent crisis of our time. Featuring Ed Ruscha’s memorial plaques to trees that didn’t make it, Judy Chicago’s urge to make a mark and express a feeling, Jacob V. Joyce and Rudy Loewe’s activism flowchart, James Bridle’s instructions to help plants along with their global velocity, Vivienne Westwood’s plea for lockdown not to be lost, Olafur Eliasson’s poetic wisdom to ‘look up, look down’, Marina Abramovic’s performance art for the climate, and Rose Wylie’s recipe for cooking for the environment, alongside many more.

  • Small World, Big Ideas

    £9.99

    There’s an activist in all of us, and you don’t have to shout about it to be heard. In Small World, Big Ideas, Satish Kumar collects the voices of some of the most passionate activists fighting for a better world, and shares their insights into how we can achieve this.

  • Going to Seed

    £14.99

    At a young age, Simon Fairlie rejected the rat race and embarked on a new trip to find his own path. He dropped out of Cambridge University to hitchhike to Istanbul and bicycle through India. He established a commune in France, was arrested multiple times for squatting and civil disobedience, and became a leading figure in protests against the British government’s road building programs of the 1980s and – later – in legislative battles to help people secure access to land for low impact, sustainable living. In ‘Going to Seed’ he shares the highs of his experience, alongside the painful costs of his ongoing search for freedom.

  • Living Planet

    £20.00

    The Sunday Times Bestseller

    A new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough’s seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet.

  • Do Earth

    £8.99

    ‘Do Earth’ is a ‘now or never’ handbook about the climate emergency and the collective action we must now take.

  • Man’s War Against Nature

    £4.99

    Rachel Carson was an American marine biologist, author and conservationist whose book ‘Silent Spring’ and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement. Here, with the precision of a scientist and the simplicity of a fable, she reveals how man-made pesticides have destroyed wildlife, creating a world of polluted streams and silent songbirds.

  • The Last Tree on Easter Island

    £4.99

    This is his haunting account of visiting the mysterious stone statues of Easter Island, showing how a remote civilization destroyed itself by exploiting its own natural resources – and why we must heed this warning.

  • A Warning from the Golden Toad

    £4.99

    Taking 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.

  • The Dragonfly Will Be the Messiah

    £4.99

    The celebrated pioneer of the ‘do-nothing’ farming method reflects on global ecological trauma and argues that we must radically transform our understanding of both nature and ourselves in order to have any chance of healing.

  • The Democracy of Species

    £4.99

    Robin Wall Kimmerer guides us towards a more reciprocal, grateful and joyful relationship with our animate earth, from the wild leeks in the field to the deer in the woods.

  • Hot Money

    £4.99

    Naomi Klein lays out the evidence that deregulated capitalism is waging war on the climate, and shows that, in order to stop the damage, we must change everything we think about how our world is run.

  • Think Like a Mountain

    £4.99

    In 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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