The World We Once Lived In by Wangari Maathai
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Category: Magazines
From the Congo Basin to the traditions of the Kikuyu people, these lucid, incisive writings explore the sacred power of trees, and why humans lay waste to the forests that keep us alive.
Gen F'd?: How Young Australians Can Reclaim Their Uncertain Futures by Alison Pennington
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Category: Magazines | Series: The\Crikey Read Ser.
In Gen F-d?, economist Alison Pennington shows how the most educated generation in Australia's history stands to be the first generation worse off than their parents, and gives young people the tools to create the change we need. This is the fifth book in The Crikey Read series from Crikey and Hardie G ...Show more
The Big Teal by Simon Holmes à Court
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Category: Magazines | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
The May 2022 election marked the great re-engagement of those ignored and patronised for too long on climate, integrity and gender equity. The electoral map has been dramatically redrawn. However, the triumph of the 'teals' was not entirely unexpected to those assisting their rise, such as Climate 200 f ...Show more
Man's War Against Nature (Penguin Green Ideas series) by Rachel Carson
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Category: Magazines | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
Here, with the precision of a scientist and the simplicity of a fable, she reveals how man-made pesticides have destroyed wildlife, creating a world of polluted streams and silent songbirds.
Fortune's Fool: Australia's Choices by Satyajit Das
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Category: Magazines | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Australia’s prosperity relies on the continent’s extraordinary natural — primarily mineral — riches and good fortune. But economic, financial, environmental, geopolitical and societal pressures now threaten the nation’s high living standards. The COVID-19 pandemic is the first of many trials to come. La ...Show more
Granta 164: Last Notes by Sigrid Rausing
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Category: Magazines
Granta's summer issue will be themed around sound, music, silence and war. From established voices to debut novelists, Britain's most prestigious literary magazine brings you the best new writing from around the world. Featuring non-fiction by Lydia Davis, Peter Englund (tr. Sigrid Rausing) Diana Evans ...Show more
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg
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Category: Magazines | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
The groundbreaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young climate activist who has become the voice of a generation, including her history-making address to the United Nations Everything needs to change. And it has to start today. In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided no ...Show more
There Is No Point of No Return by Arne Næss
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Category: Magazines | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
Emphasizing joy in the world, human cooperation and the value of all living things, this selection of his writings is filled with wit, learning and an intense connection with nature.
This Can't Be Happening by George Monbiot
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Category: Magazines | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
In these galvanising speeches and essays, he calls on humanity to stop averting its gaze from the destruction of the living planet, and wake up to the greatest predicament we have ever faced.
Burning Down the House: Reconstructing Modern Politics by Jo Dyer
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Category: Magazines | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
The Morrison government’s moral decline happened first slowly and then all at once. We suffered through ‘Sports rorts’ and ‘Watergate’ and an MIA PM, before the dissembling response to allegations of sexual abuse at the very heart of federal politics threw into stark relief the cynicism and moral bankru ...Show more
Good International Citizenship: The Case for Decency by Gareth Evans
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Category: Magazines | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Why should we in Australia, or any country, care about poverty, human rights atrocities, health epidemics, environmental catastrophes, weapons proliferation or any other problems afflicting faraway countries, when they don’t, as is often the case, have any direct or immediate impact on our own safety or ...Show more