From camouflage to poison, many animals use all kinds of tricks to outwit and outrun predators. Australia is home to some of the strongest, smartest and sneakiest survivors in the world. But only one animal will be crowned the Ultimate Survivor.
Australia is infamous for its dangerous animals. With more deadly snakes than any other country worldwide, it isn’t surprising. Though sharks, spiders, and snakes get the majority of bad press, it is actually an awesome array of predators and venomous critters that have earned Australia its fearsome reputation. Australias Most Dangerous is a ......
Packed with practical tips to immediately reduce your environmental footprint
The toolkit you need to nurture yourself and the environment that nurtures you. Unless we look after ourselves, each other and the natural world in a balanced and harmonious manner we will continue to go from crisis to crisis. The tips in this book will help you to reduce your environmental footprint and enjoy a healthier and more satisfying life.
The Aussie animals that share our backyards, our cities and our lives.
Australia is the most urbanised nation on earth and yet we share our built environment with a cavalcade of amazing native creatures. This book examines some of the issues around our complex relationship with nature.
Scientists' tales from the frontiers of climate change Foreword by Karl Kruszelnicki
These tales of adventure and research in remote and remarkable corners of the earth investigate a multitude of ways the world is changing and explain the science behind exactly what a couple of degrees of warming mean. Addressed are glacier melt, rising seas, extreme weather, ocean currents, changing ecosystems, bushfires, and dying forests.
The Stirling and Porongurup ranges of south-western Australia are ancient and mysterious places. Dawn till Dusk is a visual celebration of and a practical guide to these mountains. With its stunning photographs, detailed maps, and information on social and natural history, flora and fauna, bushwalks and climbs, special attractions and facilities, ......
In Pollution Solution, the friendly turtle, Professor Poppy, comes in the nick of time to show Jack and his mates how to handle a rubbishy deluge of storm water.
Dinosaurs couldn’t adapt fast enough to changes in atmosphere and climate. This illustrated book looks at the speed of climate change, asking if Homo sapiens have time to cope better.
How Inequality, AI and Climate Will Usher in a New World Order
What is the impact of COVID-19 on world economies? If the cost of providing universal health care is lower than the cost of building a political movement to prevent it, would politicians still view it as socialism? In a world where algorithms and robots take the jobs of immigrants and citizens alike, are border controls an effective response? If ......
Facing the challenges of climate change involves all of us. This book offers children truth without despair, hope without deception, and a road map to a better future.
A comprehensive and gripping account of the disaster that devastated New Guinea in 1998, destroying towns and villages, and taking a shocking death toll. Professor Hugh Davies was there, and in this book he explains in harrowing detail the events of the earthquake and tsunami, and the recovery effort that followed. It also describes the history ......
Deadly Secrets, Corporate Corruption, and One Man's Search for Justice
Lee Johnson was a man with simple dreams. All he wanted was a steady job and a nice home for his wife and children, something better than the hard life he knew growing up. He never imagined that he would become the face of a David-and-Goliath showdown against one of the world's most powerful corporate giants. But a workplace accident left Lee ......
Applying Ecological Understanding to Our Lives and Our Planet
Social Ecology addresses the burning question of how to apply ecological understanding to every aspect of our lives. It provides a holistic framework for change, based on the interrelationships between the personal, social, environmental and 'spiritual'. It helps us to understand how we got here, and how to realise more sustainable futures, caring ......
Green Cleaning is your go-to guide for beating the big companies at their own game, giving you chemical-free tips, tricks, and recipes to clean everything from the bathroom tiles to red wine stains on carpet and blocked drains. All recipes are 100% environmentally and budget friendly, making sure your cleaning footprint is green and cost ......
Collects seven seminal lectures - four on developing a spiritual perception of nature and three from the author's Agriculture Course, dealing with the preparations. This book offers a transformative approach that can change the way we live together on Earth.
Stories of the Natural World That Inspired Human Ingenuity
Did you know that mosquitoes' mouthparts are helping to develop pain-free surgical needles? Who'd have thought that the humble mussel could inspire so many useful things, from plywood production to a "glue" that can cement the crowns on teeth? Or that the design of polar bear fur may one day help keep humans warm in space? In everything from ......
How the spiritual world works through bees for nature and humanity
The most important task of the bees, apart from the preparation of honey, wax and propolis, is the healing of the atmosphere! The honey bee, apis mellifera, alone, is able to perform this task. This is its first and foremost purpose.'
Ralf Roessner
Describing the Genius of Bees as the group ......
Our current food system has decimated rural communities and confined the choices of urban consumers. Even while America continues to ramp up farm production to astounding levels, net farm income is now lower than at the onset of the Great Depression, and one out of every eight Americans faces hunger. But a healthier and more equitable food system ......
An anthology of essays bringing together renowned Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian thinkers, scientists, activists and artists responding to the Black Summer of 2019-20. Their diverse voices confront the experience and ‘aftermath of our bushfires’ apocalypse with hope and vision.
What The Bee Crisis Teaches Us About Building a Sustainable World
In a world all too familiar with environmental disasters, Horst Kornberger argues that the bee crisis is a more significant problem than deforestation, pollution and global warming put together, as it points to the causes behind all these.
Global Hive is a rallying cry for a new understanding of world ecology. More ......
When The Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change was first published in 2014, it offered something entirely new: a fun, illustrated guide to a planetary crisis. If that sounds like an oxymoron, you've never seen the carbon cycle demonstrated through yoga poses or a polar bear explaining evolution to her cubs. That creativity comes from the minds ......
How, he asks, can we extract from the Earth's resources what we need for the prosperity, well-being, and dignity of current and future generations of billions of people without exhausting or polluting those resources? Written in clear, jargon-free prose, Science for a Green New Deal is a realistic and optimistic look at how we can attain a more ......
For most, "conservation" conjures the notion of minimizing human presence on wildlands to avoid harmful impacts. But too often, this defensive approach has pitted local communities against conservationists, wasting opportunities for collaboration and setting the stage for ongoing conflict. One conservation approach turns that paradigm on its head, ......
Designing and Building for Well-Being, Equity, and Sustainability
The first edition of Making Healthy Places offered a visionary and thoroughly researched treatment of the connections between constructed environments and human health. Since its publication over 10 years ago, the field of healthy community design has evolved significantly to address major societal problems, including health disparities, obesity, ......
"This book invites the reader to explore the chains of improbable events that can mold a long unknown pathogen into an agent of distress and tragedy for humanity"--
Tens of millions of Americans are at risk from sea level rise, increased tidal flooding, and intensifying storms. The design and policy decisions that have shaped coastal areas are in desperate need of updates to help communities better adapt to a changing climate. A Blueprint for Coastal Adaptation identifies a bold new research and policy agenda ......
In the US, there is a wide-ranging network of at least 370 food banks, and more than 60,000 hunger-relief organizations such as food pantries and meal programs. These groups provide billions of meals a year to people in need. And yet hunger still affects one in nine Americans. What are we doing wrong? In Reinventing Food Banks and Pantries, Katie ......
The current industrial food system comes at a tremendous economic cost. Dealing with malnutrition, diseases, and environmental degradation costs trillions of dollars, but because that price tag does not show up at the grocery store, it is too often ignored by economists and policymakers.
The global emergencies facing the inhabitants of our planet -climate change, biodiversity meltdown, ocean acidification, overfishing, land degradation and more - are symptoms of a common problem: the world is full. Humanity has already exceeded several planetary boundaries. The situation is without precedent and its manifestations are ......
Sustainability Made Simple explores the relationship between everyday life and the intricate global environmental issues of today, illustrating how small changes in daily routines and mentalities can add up to a big impact.
Following John Muir's Journey Through an Endangered Land
In 1867, John Muir set out on foot to explore the botanical wonders of the South, keeping a detailed journal of his adventures as he traipsed from Kentucky southward to Florida. One hundred and fifty years later, on a similar whim, veteran Atlanta reporter Dan Chapman, distressed by sprawl-driven environmental ills in a region he loves, recreated ......
Declarations through Images and Words for a Just and EcologicallySustainabile Peace
A collection of essays, artworks and poetry by a range of First Nations and religiously inspired peace and environmental activists. It represents a call to recognise the deep implication of cultures of war and climate crisis.
Our massive, global system of consumption is broken. Our individual relationship with our stuff is broken. In each of our homes, some stuff is broken. And the strain of rampant consumerism and manufacturing is breaking our planet.
For more than a decade Mikhail Gorbachev has been engaged in working to protect the earth and its inhabitants via the organisation he founded in 1992, Green Cross International. In an age when ecological crises, poverty and military conflicts are humanity's main challenges, Gorbachev urges us to stop regarding these problems in isolation. The man ......
