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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 13 books in this booklist
£12.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781570673733 | ISBN 10: 157067373x
Set aside any worries that living off the grid means a life without comfort and convenience or that it will be too challenging for you and your family to handle. Author Gary Collins literally wrote the book on how to transition to a life off the grid ... more
View book details£15.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9789462982062 | ISBN 10: 9462982066
Though oil prices have been on a downward trajectory in recent months, that doesn't obscure the fact that fossil fuels are finite, and we will eventually have to grapple with the end of their dominance. At the same time, however, skepticism about the ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780225333 | ISBN 10: 1780225334
A user's guide to the solar revolution - and why we must all get on board before it is too late. Our civilisation stands on the brink of catastrophe. Our thirst for energy has led to threats from global warming, nuclear disaster and c ... more
View book details£4.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781906860141 | ISBN 10: 1906860149
This is a sourcebook of facts and figures about carbon emissions and energy use in the UK. The book emphasises the impact of domestic consumption and personal lifestyle choices. It's not about politics or ethics: there are no grand designs for how th ... more
View book details£18.00 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781849350051 | ISBN 10: 1849350051
As the world's energy system faces a period of unprecedented change, a global struggle over who controls the sector - and for what purposes - is intensifying. The question of "green capitalism" is now unavoidable, for capitalist planners and anti-cap ... more
View book details£27.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780745330129 | ISBN 10: 0745330126
Since they were heralded as a key weapon in the fight against climate change, agrofuels have been criticised heavily for doing more harm than good due to deforestation and stealing agricultural land essential to farmers in the developing world. This ... more
View book details£16.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780470496374 | ISBN 10: 0470496371
The consumer guide to small-scale wind electricity production! Maybe you're not T. Boone Pickens, but you can build your own home-sized wind-power empire right in your back yard. Wind Power For Dummies supplies all the guidance you need to instal ... more
View book details£12.95 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781900322560 | ISBN 10: 1900322560
The Transition Timeline lightens the fear of our uncertain future, providing a map ofwhat we are facing and the different pathways available to us. It describes four possible scenarios for the UK and world over the next twenty years, ranging from Den ... more
View book details£19.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781848133174 | ISBN 10: 1848133170
The Environmental Responsibility Reader is a collection of classic and contemporary environmental works that offer a comprehensive overview of the issues involved in environmental responsibility, steering the reader through each development in thoug ... more
View book details£17.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781900322188 | ISBN 10: 1900322188
We live in an oil-dependent world, and have got to this level of dependency in a very short space of time, using vast reserves of oil in the process – without planning for when the supply is not so plentiful. Most of us avoid thinking about what happ ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780553818192 | ISBN 10: 0553818198
The word 'off-grid' refers to places or people without mains water, power or phone line. Off-grid locations can range from private islands to tree-houses; the people living there might be back-packers, international business travellers or hippies; th ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781845282509 | ISBN 10: 1845282507
This book gives you the nuts and bolts instructions for changing your lifestyle towards becoming more carbon neutral. It includes everything from the back yard compost bin to the electric car. From the humble low-energy bulb to a 50KW wind turbine, t ... more
View book details£26.99 paperback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9781902916514 | ISBN 10: 1902916514
In this fully updated edition of A Solar Manifesto Herman Scheer attacks the lack of political will to find answers to threats to the global environment outside a conventional frame of reference. Climate change, pollution, deforestation, destruction ... more
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