Pesticides and Health - How New Zealand Fails In Environmental Protection (BWB Texts) by Neil Pearce
$15.00 NZD
Category: Environment | Series: BWB Texts
New Zealand has been one of the world's heaviest users of pesticides, including some contaminated with dioxin, a notorious toxic chemical. In this BWB Text a leading epidemiologist uses the example of dioxin to illustrate how badly New Zealand handles problems of environmental pollutants, and why we can ...Show more
Penguin Bloom: The odd little bird who saved a family: The award-winning, international bestselling sensation by BLOOM, CAMERON
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
PENGUIN BLOOM is a unique journey of recovery and an extraordinary celebration of life, featuring Cameron Bloom's exceptional photographs and a captivating narrative by NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Bradley Trevor Greive. Penguin the Magpie is a global social media sensation with over 113k followers ...Show more
The Zero-Waste Lifestyle: How to Live Well by Throwing Away Less by Amy Korst
$30.00 NZD
Category: Environment
A practical guide to generating less waste, featuring meaningful and achievable strategies from the blogger behind The Green Garbage Project, a yearlong experiment in living garbage-free. Trash is a big, dirty problem. The average American tosses out nearly 2,000 pounds of garbage every year that piles ...Show more
What Jacinda Cant Say - The Difficult Truth about Climate Change by David Chapman
$20.00 NZD
Category: Environment
Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters by Steven E. Koonin
$48.00 NZD
Category: Environment
"Surging sea levels are inundating the coasts." "Hurricanes and tornadoes are becoming fiercer and more frequent." "Climate change will be an economic disaster." You've heard all this presented as fact. But according to science, all of these statements are profoundly misleading. When it comes to c ...Show more
The Future is Fungi: How Fungi Can Feed Us, Heal Us, Free Us and Save Our World by Michael Lim, Yun Shu
$54.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
The kingdom of fungi has survived all five major extinction events. They are the architects of the natural world, integral to all life. They sustain critical ecosystems, recycling nutrients and connecting plants across vast areas, and help to produce many staples of modern life, such as wine, chocolate, ...Show more
The Omnivore's Dilemma - The Secrets Behind What You Eat by Michael Pollan
$21.00 NZD
Category: Investigative Journalism
For use in schools and libraries only. Delves into facts about food, life expectancy as it relates to consumption, and global health implications resulting from food choices made by people around the world, encouraging readers to consider their food choices and eating habits.
The End of Nature by Bill McKibben
$30.00 NZD
Category: Environment
One of the earliest warnings about climate change and one of environmentalism's lodestars'Nature, we believe, takes forever. It moves with infinite slowness,' begins the first book to bring climate change to public attention.Interweaving lyrical observations from his life in the Adirondack Mountains wit ...Show more
The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth by Ben Rawlence
$40.00 NZD
Category: Environment
A powerful blend of reportage, nature, travel and science writing, deeply researched and beautifully written, underpinned by a startling and urgent message for our time. 'The very treeline is on the move- a devastating image. This book is an evocative, wise and unflinching exploration of what it will m ...Show more
Electrify: An Optimist's Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future by Saul Griffith
$45.00 NZD
Category: Environment
An optimistic--but realistic and feasible--action plan for fighting climate change while creating new jobs and a healthier environment- electrify everything. Climate change is a planetary emergency. We have to do something now-but what? Saul Griffith has a plan. In Electrify, Griffith lays out a detail ...Show more
A Trillion Trees - How We Can Reforest Our World by Fred Pearce
$37.00 NZD
Category: Environment
A fascinating scientific journey through the world's forests - revealing what they do for us, what we're doing to them, and how we can help nature repair the damage. Trees keep our planet cool and breathable. They make the rain and sustain biodiversity. They are essential for nature and for us. And yet, ...Show more
Count Down: How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of t by Shanna Swan
$35.00 NZD
Category: Futurism
In the tradition of Silent Spring and The Sixth Extinction, an urgent, meticulously researched, and groundbreaking book about the ways in which chemicals in the modern environment are changing--and endangering--human sexuality and fertility on the grandest scale, from renowned epidemiologist Shanna Swan ...Show more