Shelf Life Climate Conversations

It seems like an impossible task: secure a safe future for life on Earth, at a scale and speed that the world has never seen, in the face of vast and powerful forces - not just oil tycoons and governments, but the changing climate system itself. The odds are against us, and we are running out of ...

Feeling anxious, powerless or confused about the future of our planet? This book will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems - and how we can solve themWe are bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil won't be able to support crops, fish will vanish from our oceans, ...

Every mouthful you take is informed by the subtle tweaking and nudging of a vast, complex, global system: one so intimately woven into everyday life that you hardly even know it's there. The food system is no longer simply a means of sustenance. It is one of the most successful, most innovative a...

Renowned climate scientist Michael Mann arms readers with the knowledge necessary to appreciate the gravity of the unfolding climate crisis, while emboldening them - and others - to act before it truly does become too late.

The challenges we face can be difficult even to think about. Climate change, political polarization, economic upheaval, and mass extinction together create a planetary emergency of overwhelming proportions. 'Active Hope Revised' shows us how to strengthen our capacity to face this crisis so that ...

Here is an engaging collection of illustrations teaching children all about the amazing planet we live on and the things we can do to keep it healthy. Entries include: A for activist, C for compost, E for energy, and O for oxygen. Illustrator Greg Paprocki's classically retro midcentury art style...

Every day we make decisions, and we don't always choose well. The authors of this book believe that the reason for this is that we are all susceptible to cognitive biases and blunders that make us prone to error. But they demonstrate how we can use our human fallability and the way we think to ou...

Elizabeth Kolbert has become one of the most important writers on the environment. Now she investigates the immense challenges humanity faces as we scramble to reverse, in a matter of decades, the effects we've had on the atmosphere, the oceans, the world's forests and rivers - on the very topogr...

How much of the earth's surface has been concreted over? How much of our energy still comes from burning coal? How many trees would we have to plant to make our planet carbon-neutral? How much space do we need to satisfy all our energy needs through wind and solar power? Presenting a vast amount ...

The Paris Agreement was a landmark for humanity. In this timely and important book, two of the principle creators of that agreement show us why and how we can now realise its' promise. Written by former UN Secretary for Climate Christiana Figures and Tom Rivett-Carnac, this call to arms outlines ...

A collection of contemporary Scottish writing on nature and landscape, 'Antlers of Water' showcases the diversity and radicalism of new Scottish nature writing. Edited, curated, and introduced by the award-winning Kathleen Jamie, and featuring prose, poetry, and photography, this inspiring collec...

This title provides an inspired weaving of indigenous knowledge, plant science, and personal narrative from a distinguished professor of science and a Native American whose previous book, 'Gathering Moss,' was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing. In this book, Kimmerer...

'How Bad Are Bananas?' was a groundbreaking book when first published in 2010, when most of us were hearing the phrase 'carbon footprint' for the first time. Mike Berners-Lee set out to inform us what was important (aviation, heating, swimming pools) and what made very little difference (bananas,...

Significant climate change means that massive social change is essential if much of the earth can remain habitable. What needs to happen will challenge our politics, our economics and our technical capacity. But above all these, it will be a challenge to our humanity. Alastair McIntosh examines b...

Follow in Greta Thunberg's footsteps and join the global mission to save our planet from climate change. With in-depth text and data, this necessary and timely book will answer readers' questions on what climate change means, what its consequences will be, and what must be done to protect our world.

Renowned environmentalist Paul Hawken has assembled a team of over 200 scholars, scientists, policymakers, business leaders and activists to illustrate the hundred most substantive solutions to combat climate change that together will not only slow down the growth of carbon emissions, but reverse...

Most of us recognize that climate change is real yet we do nothing to stop it. What is the psychological mechanism that allows us to know something is true but act as if it is not? George Marshall's search for the answers brings him face to face with Nobel Prize-winning psychologists and Texas Te...

It is easy to feel helpless in the face of information about environmental catastrophes taking place all over the world. The author shows how it is still possible for individuals to take on the might of corporate power and emerge victorious.