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• An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming

  Nigel Lawson

  
  
   

• The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience

  Rob Hopkins

  
  
   

• Ecology: From Individuals to Ecosystems

  Michael Begon, Colin A. Townsend, John L. Harper

  
  
   

• Evolution

  Mark Ridley

  
  
   

• The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back - and How We Can Still Save Humanity: Why the Earth Is Fighting Back - and How We Can Still Save Humanity

  James Lovelock

  
  
   

• Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth

  James Lovelock

  
  
   

• Introduction to Behavioural Ecology

  J. R. Krebs, N. B. Davies

  
  
   

• Capitalism as If the World Matters: As If the World Matters

  Jonathon Porritt

  
  
   

• Biodiversity: An Introduction

  Kevin J. Gaston, John I. Spicer

  
  
   

• The Human Impact on the Natural Environment: Past, Present, and Future

  Andrew S. Goudie

  
  
   

• The Green Self-build Book: How to Design and Build Your Own Eco-home

  Jon Broome

  
  
   

• The Energy Efficient Home

  Patrick Waterfield

  
  
   

• Essentials of Ecology

  Colin R. Townsend, Michael Begon, John L. Harper

  
  
   

• Do Good Lives Have to Cost the Earth?

  Andrew Simms, Joe Smith

  
  
   

• Ecology: Principles and Applications

  J. L. Chapman, M. J. Reiss

  
  
   

• Sea Shore of Britain and Europe (Collins Pocket Guide)

  P.J. Hayward, Anthony Nelson-Smith, Chris Shields

  
  
   

• Soil and Soul: People Versus Corporate Power

  Alastair McIntosh

  
  
   

• Anastasia (Ringing Cedars Series, Book 1) (Ringing Cedars Series)

  
  
   

• Building with Cob: A Step-by-step Guide

  Adam Weismann, Katy Bryce

  
  
   

• The Skeptical Environmentalist

  
  According to The Skeptical Environmentalist the hole in the Ozone Layer is healing. The Amazon has shrunk by only 14 per cent since the arrival of Man. Only 0.7 per cent of species will be driven to extinction over the next 50 years. Even the poorest humans are getting richer by the year. Things are not good enough; but they are far, far better than we have been taught to believe. Lomborg, a professor of statistics and a former Greenpeace member, reveals the complexity, confusion, and (rarely) misuse of data behind the current Litany of approaching environmental Armageddon. But this is not a comforting or reassuring read. Nor is it a bible for lackeys and do-nothings. Lomborg uses the same figures everyone else uses, from national governments to the Kyoto summit to Greenpeace. Rarely have the raw data been discussed in such detail: their history, how they are calculated, their strengths, and their weaknesses. Lomborg argues persuasively that our sense of approaching human and environmental disaster is an artefact of the valid work of modern scientific, environmental and media institutions. There is, he asserts, no one to blame for our growing sense of despair, but everything to learn. We must learn what real risks are, and what we can do about them. (Kyoto? A very bad idea...) We must prioritise. (30p on the organic basil? Or 30p to buy a child clean water in Sierra Leone?) There is, after all, room for manoeuvre; panic achieves nothing. This is our generation's Silent Spring: a book to rewrite the environmental agenda, and a must-buy for any parent who wonders what kind of world we are leaving for our children.--Simon Ings