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Useful publications

There are a wide variety of publications available from Friends of the Earth. See the main Friends of the Earth website for a list of reports, briefings and resources for campaigners.

Useful book publishers websites include Earthscan, Zed Books, Island Press and Penguin Books.

Useful books

Comprehensive lists of books about environmental issues can be found on

  1. The natural history book service website www.nhbs.co.uk
  2. Earthscan website www.earthscan.co.uk
  3. The Friends of the Earth list of books and publications. See the main FoE website for reports and briefings www.foe.co.uk and the shop website for books www.foe.co.uk/shop

Useful background reading

Climate Change

Carbon detox   - your step-by-step guide to getting real about climate change.    Author – George Marshall, published by Gaia, a division of Octopus Publishing, ISBN 978-1-85675-288-6, £7.99.

Six Degrees – our future on a hotter planet. Author Mark Lynas, published by Harper Perennial, ISBN 978-0-00-72-905-7, £8.99

The Weather Makers – our changing climate and what it means for life on Earth. Author – Tim Flannery, published by Penguin Books, ISBN 978-0-141-02627-5, £8.99

The revenge of Gaia. Author - James Lovelock, published by Penguin books, ISBN 978-014-102597-1, £8.99

Kyoto 2 – How to manage the global greenhouse.  Author – Oliver Tickell, published by Zed Books, ISBN 978-1-84813-025-8, £10.99

Heat – by George Monbiot pub. Penguin Books Ltd.
ISBN 0-713-99923-3

The Last Generation by Fred Pearce pub. Eden Project Books
ISBN 1-903-91987-8

Global Warming – the complete briefing by John Houghton pub. Cambridge University Press
ISBN 0-521-52874-7

Globalization and Corporates

The Age of Consent: a manifesto for a new world order by George Monbiot pub. Flamingo
ISBN 0-00-715042-3

Capitalism as if the world matters by Jonathon Porritt pub. Earthscan
ISBN 1-84407-192-8

When Corporations Rule the World by David C. Korten pub. Kumarian Press Inc.
ISBN 1-887208-01-1

Globalization and its discontents by Joseph Stiglitz pub. Penguin Books Ltd.

Making Globalization Work by Joseph Stiglitz pub Penguin Books Ltd.
ISBN 978-0-141-02496-7

No Logo by Naomi Klein

Supermarkets and Food

The End of Food – The coming Crisis in the World Food Industry. Author – Paul Roberts, published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, ISBN 978-0-7475-8881-8, £12.99

Shopped – the shocking power of British supermarkets by Joanna Blythman pub. Harper Perennial
ISBN 0-00-715804-1

Not on the Label

Waste

Rubbish – dirt on our hands and crisis ahead by Richard Girling pub. Eden Project Books
ISBN 1-903-91944-4

Travel and Transport

The Final Call – In Search of the True Cost of our Holidays. Author – Leo Hickman. Published by Eden Project Books, ISBN 978-1-903-91999-6, £12.99

Cutting your car use by Anna Semlyen pub. Green Books
ISBN 1-903998-32-8

Marine

The Unnatural History of the Sea – the past and future of humanity and fishing. Author – Professor Callum Roberts. Published by Gaia – a division of Octopus Publishing Limited. ISBN 978-1-85675-294-7, £7.99

Peak oil

The Party`s over – oil, war and the fate of industrial societies by Richard Heinberg pub. Clairview Books
ISBN 1-902636-45-7

The End of Oil by Paul Roberts Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 07475-7075-2

Global biodiversity

Hotspots by Russell A, Mittermeier, Norman Myers, Patricio Robles Gil & Cristina Goettsch Mittermeier pub. Cemex and Conservation International
ISBN 9-6863-9758-2

Wilderness – Earth`s Last Wild Places by Russell A. Mittermeier, Cristina Goettsch Mittermeier, Patricio Robles Gil, John Pilgrim, Gustavo Fonseca, Thomas Brooks & William R. Konstant pub. Cemex
ISBN 9-6863-9769-8

Sustainable business

The Necessary Revolution – How Individuals and Organizations Are Working Together to Create a Sustainable World. Author – Peter Senge, published by Nicholas Brealey Publishing, ISBN 978-1-85788-373-2, £16.99

Sustainable Consumption

Confessions of an Eco-sinner – travels to find where my stuff comes from. Author Fred Pearce. Published by Eden Project Books, ISBN 978-1-906-1-905-81110-6, £12.99

General

Plan B 3.0 – Mobilizing to Save Civilization. Author – Lester R. Brown, published by W.W. Norton, ISBN 978-0-393-33087-8, £10.99. also available to download for free from The Earth Policy Institute Website.

Seven Years to Save the Planet – the Questions and Answers. Author Bill McGuire. Published by Weidenfeld and Nicholson, ISBN 978-0-297-85336-7, £9.99

 

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