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50 book list What are your top green books? by Leo Hickman

28/1/2010 Guardin “What’s your favourite ‘green’ book?” I get asked this question quite a bit and I always struggle for an answer. Read the rest of this entry »

Andrews, Cecile & Urbanska,Wanda 2009 Less is More

Andrews, Cecile & Urbanska,Wanda New Society Publishers 2009 267 pages ISBN 978-0-86571-650-6. Read the rest of this entry »

Berners-Lee, Mike and Clark, Duncan 2013 The Burning Question.

Berners-Lee, Mike and Clark, Duncan 2013 The Burning Question: We Can’t Burn Half the World’s oil, coal and gas. Read the rest of this entry »

Brown, Paul 2006 Global Warning

by Paul Brown, Guardian Books, Dakini books NP, 2006 307 pages large format, £19.95 ISBN 10 0 7136 8205 1 or 13 978 0 7136 8205 2 Read the rest of this entry »

Clark, Duncan Rough Guide to Green Living

Clark, Duncan Rough Guide to Green Living Nov 2009

Cox, Peter 2007 ‘Planet Earth We Have a Problem’

Peter Cox, Deepak Rughani, Peter Wadhams. David Wasdell  ‘Planet Earth We Have a Problem’ , Proceedings of a Briefing given in the House of Commons, 6th July 2007. Read the rest of this entry »

Crompton, Tom Common Cause: The Case for Working with our Cultural Values.

100 page Report available as a pdf file of the full Report- Read the rest of this entry »

Cromwell, David & Levene, Mark ‘Surviving Climate Change’

Cromwell, David & Levene, ‘Mark Surviving Climate Change; The Struggle to Avert Global Catastrophe’ 2007 Pluto ISBN 978-0-7453-2567-5  292 pps

Diamond, Jared 2005 COLLAPSE: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive

by Jared Diamond, 2005  ISBN Allen Lane, HBK ISBN 0-713-99286-7 PBK ISBN 0-713-99862-8  575 pages  Read the rest of this entry »

Doppelt, Bob, The Power of Sustainable Thinking

by Doppelt, Bob 2008 September,   Earthscan Books 240 pages   ISBN 9781844075959 (hdbk) £16.99. Read the rest of this entry »

Dow, Kirstin & Downing, Thomas E. 2007 Atlas of Climate Change

by Kirstin Dow and Thomas E Downing, 2007 Earthscan, PBK ISBN 1-84407-376-9 £12.99

Dunion, Kevin. Troublemakers: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Scotland

Dunion, Kevin. Troublemakers: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Scotland.  2003 Edinburgh U.Press, ISBN o 7486 1781 7 pbk 245pp

Evans, Kate 2006 Funny Weather

Funny Weather by Kate Evans, Myriad Editions, 2006, ISBN -10:9549309-3-2/ISBN -13: 978-0-9549309-3-6, 95 pages, £6.99 Read the rest of this entry »

Fagan, Brian 2008 The Great Warming; Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations

by Brian Fagan,  2008 Bloomsbury Press ISBN 978-1-59691-392-9  281 pages $26.95 Read the rest of this entry »

Flannery, Tim 2007 THE WEATHER MAKERS- The Story of Global Warming

by Tim Flannery, 2007, Penguin, PBK ISBN 978-0-141-02627-5  341pages, £8.99  Read the rest of this entry »

Foster, John The Sustainability Mirage

Foster, John The Sustainability Mirage, 2008 Earthscan ISBN 978-1-84407-535-5 pbk, 170pp  £15 REVIEW follows Read the rest of this entry »

Giddons, Anthony. The Politics of Climate Change

Giddons, Anthony. The Politics of Climate Change, 2009 Polity Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-4693-0 pbk 264pp £12.99

Girardet, Herbert 2007 Surviving the Century.

Surviving the Century, Facing Climate Chaos and Other Global Challenges.   Ed. Girardet, Herbert, Director of the World Future Council.   May 2007 224 pp. ISBN 978-1-84407-458-7 hdbk only £17.99 Read the rest of this entry »

Goodall, Chris 2007 How to live a low-carbon life

by Chris Goodall, 2007, Earthscan PBK ISBN 978-1-84407-426-6 £12.99

Goodall, Chris Ten technologies to Save the Planet

Ten Technologies to Save the Planet, a new book by businessman and climate-change commentator Chris Goodall, Read the rest of this entry »

Gore, Al 2006 AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH

by Al Gore, 2006,  Mecher media, ISBN 0 7475 8906 2 , 325 pages £14.99 Read the rest of this entry »

Gore, Al 2007 Earth in the Balance

by Al Gore, 2007 reissue of 1992 book, Earthscan, PBK ISBN 978-1-84407-484-6 £9.99 Read the rest of this entry »

Gore, Al, 2009 ‘Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis’

‘Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis’ by Al Gore (Paperback) £16 from Amazon

Guzman, Andrew Overheated: The Human Cost of Climate Change

Overheated: The Human Cost of Climate Change .Guzman, Andrew, Oxford University Press 2013 Read the rest of this entry »

Hamilton, Clive 2010 Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth about Climate Change

Hamilton, Clive Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth about Climate Change Earthscan 2010 ISBN 978-1-84971-081-7 Read the rest of this entry »

Hansen, James 2009 Storms of my Grandchildren

Hansen, James, 2009 Storms of My Grandchildren, Bloomsbury ISBN 978 1 4088 0744 6 (Hardback) now available in paperback approx £12

Editor’s review. Read the rest of this entry »

Hansen, James Storms of my Grandchildren 2009

by Jamnes Hansen, Storms of my Grandchildren, 2009 ISBN-10: 1408807459  ISBN-13: 978-1408807453 Hbk £16.95 Pbk 320pp release Dec 2009 320 pp.

Henson, Robert 2006 The Rough Guide to CLIMATE CHANGE: The Symptoms-The Science-The Solutions

by Robert Henson, 2006,  Penguin (Rough Guides Ltd),  PBK ISBN 978-1-84353-711-3  341 pages,  £9.99,  Read the rest of this entry »

Hillman, Mayer & Fawcett, Tina 2004 How We Can Save the Planet

by Mayer Hillman with Tina Fawcett, 2004, Penguin ISBN 0-141-01692-2 194 pages, £8.99  Read the rest of this entry »

Hulme, Mike. Why We Disagree About Climate Change

Hulme, Mike. Why We Disagree About Climate Change 2009 Cambridge U.Press ISBN 978-0-521-72732-7 pbk, 392pp

Jarman, Melanie ‘Climate Change’

Jarman, Melanie ‘Climate Change’ 2007 Pluto (Small Guides to Big Issues) ISBN 078-0-7453-2580-4 190 pps

Jones, Steve 2007 CORAL: A Pessimist in Paradice

by Steve Jones, 2007, Little, Brown  HB ISBN 978-0-316-72938-3,  242 pages ££15.99  Read the rest of this entry »

Kalof, Linda & Satterfield, Terre ‘Reader in Environmental Values’

Kalof, Linda & Satterfield, Terre ‘Reader in Environmental Values’ 2005 Earthscan ISBN 1-84407-167-7  334 pps

Lynas, Mark 2005 HIGH TIDE: How Climate Crisis is Engulfing Our Planet

by Mark Lynas, 2005, Harper Perennial, ISBN 0 00 713940 3, 349 pages £7.99  Read the rest of this entry »

Lynas, Mark 2007 SIX DEGREES: Our Future on a Hotter Planet

by Mark Lynas, 2007 Fourth Estate, ISBN 0-00-720904-5,  358 pages, £12.99 Read the rest of this entry »

MacCracken, M.J. (Ed.) 2007 Sudden and Destructive Climate Change,

Sudden and Destructive Climate Change, Exploring the Real Risks and How We Can Avoid Them, MacCracken, M.J. ed.  Dec 2007, Pub. Climate Institute, 320 pg  ISBN 978-1-84407-478-5 pbk £24.95. Read the rest of this entry »

MacDonald, Christine 2008 Green Inc. A Grubby Shade of Green

by Christine MacDonald,  Lyons Press, 2008 $24.95  ISBN 978 1599214368 Read the rest of this entry »

MacKay, David Sustainable Energy: without the hot air.

Sustainable Energy: without the hot air, David MacKay 2009, UIT Cambridge UK. Read the rest of this entry »

Mann, Michael E. The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines.

Michael E. Mann 2012 The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the front Lines. Read the rest of this entry »

Mann, Michael The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars

The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars, Michael Mann Hardback Read the rest of this entry »

Marshall, George 2007 Carbon Detox by

Carbon Detox, George Marshall, 2007,  Octapus Publishing, ISBN 978-1-85675-288-6 £7.99 Read the rest of this entry »

Mattoo, Aaditya and Subramanian, Arvind A New Approach to Cooperation on Climate Change

A New Approach to Cooperation on Climate Change.   – by Aaditya Mattoo and Arvind Subramanian. Centre for Global Development; 150 pages.

McGuire, Bill Waking the Giant

Bill McGuire, Waking the Giant Read the rest of this entry »

McIntosh, Alastair 2008 Hell and High Water

by Alastair McIntosh 2008 Birlinn ISBN 13: 978 1 84158 622 9 / ISBN 10: 1 84158 622 6 Read the rest of this entry »

Meyer, Aubrey 2000 Contraction and Convergence

by Aubrey Meyer, 2000, Schumacher Briefings 5, Green Books for the Schumacher Society, Create Ctr, Smeaton Road, Bristol BS1 6XN  ISBN 1 870098 94 3  92 pages, £5 Read the rest of this entry »

Monbiot, George 2006 HEAT: How to Stop the Planet Burning

by George Monbiot, 2006, Allen Lane, ISBN -13 978-0-713-99924-2/-10 0-713-99924-1, 275 pages Read the rest of this entry »

Myers, Norman & Kent, Jennifer 2005 The New GAIA ATLAS of PLANET MANAGEMENT

by Norman Myers & Jennifer Kent, 2005, Gaia Books, update of previous versions, HBK ISBN1- 85675-209-7,   304 pages,  £20 Read the rest of this entry »

Oreskes, N & Conway E.M Merchants of Doubt

Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming  by Oreskes, N & Conway E.M Read the rest of this entry »

Oreskes, N and Conway,E 2010 – Merchants of Doubt

Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, August 2010, Bloomsbury hbk £13.99 from Amazon. Read the rest of this entry »

Pearce, Fred 2006 THE LAST GENERATION How Nature Will Take Her Revenge for Climate Change

by Fred Pearce, 2006, Eden Project, PBK ISBN 1-903-91987-8 (or -3) 324 pages £12.99 Read the rest of this entry »

Pearce, Fred 2006 WHEN THE RIVERS RUN DRY: What Happens When Our Water Runs Out?

by Fred Pearce, 2006, Eden Project, ISBN 24681097531, 368 pages, £8.99 Read the rest of this entry »

Pearce, Fred 2007 WITH SPEED AND VIOLENCE – Why Scientists fear Tipping Points in Climate Change

by Fred Pearce, 2007, Beacon Press, Boston, HBK ISBN 978-0-8070-8576-9, 278 pages $24.95 Read the rest of this entry »

Pearce, Fred Peoplequake (world populations crashing – ed.)

Pearce, Fred ‘Peoplequake: Mass Migration, Ageing nations and the Coming Population Crash’ 2010 Transworld Publishers, ISBN 9781905811342, 342 pages £12.99 Read the rest of this entry »

Pinker, Steven, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Allen Lane, 2011

by Pinker, Steven, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Allen Lane, 2011 ISBN 978-1- 846- 14093-9 (hbk) 700p £30 Read the rest of this entry »

Pittock, A.B. Climate Change: The Science, Impacts and Solutions

by Pittock A. Barrie (2nd Edition) 2009 May, Earthscan Books, 360 pages •  ISBN 9781844073009 (pbk) £22.95

Reay, Dave 2005 Climate Change Begins at Home

by Dave Reay, MacMillan, 2005  ISBN-13 978-1-4039-4578-5, 203 pages. Read the rest of this entry »

Rees, Marton ‘Our Final Century’

Rees, Martin ‘Our Final Century: Will the Human Race Survive the Twenty-first Century?’ 2003 Heinneman ISBN 0-434-00809-5 214 pps.

Rogers, Heather Green Gone Wrong

Green Gone Wrong by Heather Rogers, Published by Verso/Scribner £16.99/$26

Schmidt, Gavin, Climate Change: Picturing the Science.

by Schmid, Gavin,  2009 Climate Change: Picturing the Science, published byW. W. Norton. Read the rest of this entry »

State of the World 2009: Confronting Climate Change.

State of the World 2009: Confronting Climate Change. 2009 Earthscan Worldwatch Institute

State of the World 2010 Transforming Cultures from Consumerism to Sustainability, 2010.

State of the World 2010 Transforming Cultures from Consumerism to Sustainability, 2010, Earthscan, Worldwatch Institute ISBN 978 1 84971 054 1 

244pp  26 articles plus box summaries, tables and figues.

Steffen, Alex (Ed.) 2008 World Changing: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century

by Steffen, Alex editor, published Abrams, New York 2008 Winner of the Green Prize for Sustainable Literature.  600 pages medium size, double column, £9.99  ISBN 13: 978-0-8109-7085-4 Read the rest of this entry »

Stern, Nicholas 2009 A Blueprint for a Safer Planet

by Nicholas Stern 2009 Bodley Head ISBN 9781847920386 PBK 243 pages £16.99  (HBK) Read the rest of this entry »

Tim Jackson Prosperity without Growth

 Jackson, TimProsperity without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet, 2009 ISBN 9781844078943  280pp £12.99

Turney, Chris 2008 Mud, Ice and Blood: Lessons from Climates Past

by Chris Turney 2008 Macmillan ISBN 13: 978-0-230-55382-8 ISBN 10: 0-230-55382-6 234pages £15.99 Hbk Read the rest of this entry »

Walker, Gabrielle & King, Sir David 2008 Hot Topic, – a dangerous but important book.

The Hot Topic – How to Tackle Global Warming and Still Keep the Lights On, Gabrielle Walker & Sir David King, 2008, Bloomsbury Publ;ishing, ISBN 9780747593959,  300 pg, £9.99 Read the rest of this entry »

Ward, Peter D The Flooded Earth: Our Future in a World without Ice Caps – Book details

16/7/2010 Ward, Peter D The Flooded Earth: Our Future in a World without Ice Caps Read the rest of this entry »

Washington, Haydn and Cook, John Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand

• Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand by Haydn Washington and John Cook Read the rest of this entry »