Author: Rob Hopkins
By Green Books

inspiring, 2009-10-04
I just finished The Transition Handbook from Rob Hopkins. I expected it to be a useful guide for developing a transition town. Not only was it an extremely useful guide, but also an inspiring read. In fact one of the best books of any category I've read in while.
Can't wait to get TT Bamberg started!...

Author: Nigel Lawson
By Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd

The truth is out there, 2010-02-14
What a relief to find this book a year or so ago. I was beginning to think I was a lone voice in the wilderness. Very easy to read. Wonderful to see so many other books available on Amazon on the same subject too. Well done Nigel - I loved it.

Author: Stewart Brand
By Atlantic Books

Everyone should read this. Now., 2010-02-06
Stewart Brands book on climate change, urbanization and biotechnology seems the only clear voice in the current climate change debate. Read it and see how the inventor of the pre-internet, the Whole Earth Catalogue, and one of the founders of the Long Now Foundation has remained well-informed, well connected and strikingly objective throughout the last 40 years, giving his clear view on what we should be doing to make sure humankind doesn't evaporate.

A scary, intelligent and uplifting read. Be ready to be converted and have your views changed - this man knows what he's talking about.

Author: Victoria Boutenko
By Raw Family Publishing,US

One book can change a life, 2010-01-22
This is that book. Thank you so much for sharing this vital information with us, VB. Your book is my best find in 2010 so far, and I will cherish it as I begin using my Vita-Mix blender seriously. I had one smoothie so far, and it was delicious. Anyone who buys this book and doesn't at least try living with the green smoothie is missing out.

Author: E.F. Schumacher
By Vintage

we are more than the sum of our possessions.., 2010-01-03
What is wrong with our world? Can one short book contribute a meaningful answer to this question? By looking at the major historical themes in economics, i.e. land, scarcity, man and education, goods, production and energy, housing and development, and looking at the thinking behind our present view, the answer is yes. The book advocates a shift in lifestyle, one that accords material goods a secondary place after a oneness with our planet, putting people ahead of profits, and ensuring a future for both. Although first published in 1973, helping the Alternate Technology movement, the book should be regarded as required reading for many other reasons than the familiar Green agenda.
Much of what we achieve is labelled `economic' or `uneconomic', or simply said, what is profitable in monetary terms. The book highlights how, even in the short term, a full picture of man and his purpose on earth will change our assumptions of what is economic.
Chapter six focuses on education, the greatest of man's resources. The emphasis here is on understanding the driving philosophy of our world and compare with an alternative. At present, man appears lost when contemplating whether his existence has lasting significance. Why? Six leading ideas bear responsibility according to Schumacher, namely, 1. Evolution, 2. Natural selection, 3. Competition, likewise a `survival of the fittest', 4. Freud's interpretation of the subconscious, which reduces the higher manifestations of man's unconscious intelligence to the unfulfilled urgings of childhood, and the idea that these higher manifestations, religion, philosophy and art, for example, are inferior or superfluous compared with material goods and their consumption, 5. Relativism, the idea that knowledge is not absolute, but depends on the relations in which things stand to each other, and limited by the changing conditions of our perceptive faculties, 6. Positivism, the acceptance of only that which can be scientifically proven, or that which can be experienced, all else being regarded as speculative and hence inferior.
These are the ideas that dominate the way the world is interpreted for us. They are also destroying us.
The book argues for a holistic, long-term approach, working in harmony with the environment, a balance between the urban and rural dweller, and the western and third world, avoiding a `small, mean calculating attitude to life, one that refuses to see or value anything that fails to promise an immediate advantage'.

Author: A W Montford
By Stacey International

The Hockey Stick Illusion, 2010-03-08
A first class history of the Climate Change fraud. Should be essential reading for any politician especially Ed Milliband. Needs a bit of brain power to follow the statistical arguments but it is well worth it. How so called scientists have allowed themselves to become so corrupted is beyond me. My old chemistry teacher must be turning in his grave. Andrew Montford is to be congratulated for documenting & exposing it all.

Author: Christopher Booker
By Continuum International Publishing Group

The real FACTS about climate change, 2010-02-24
Christopher Booker puts the whole debate about global warming (or is it now cooling!!) into perspective by presenting a fascinating history of just how we arrived at the ridiculous place we now find ourselves. He presents the scientific FACTS, not assumptions based on computer models. The outputs of those models are pre-determined by the assumption in the input data that global warming is caused by increases in greenhouse gases. Booker shows, THROUGH EVIDENCE AND REAL DATA, not speculation, that most of the alarmist information being pedalled by the IPCC is completely false.The IPCC, and all those people and organisations whose livelihood now depends upon the acceptance of the greenhouse gas warming idea (I cannot even call it an hypothesis never mind a theory) will continue to doctor reports and rubbish anything and anyone who disagrees with them. Their vested interest in maintaining the IPCC stance is there for all to see. How can they admit without losing face e.g that the polar bear population is very healthy and not vanishing; that sea levels are NOT rising; that the data shows that extreme weather events have NOT increased; that the thickness of polar ice is INCREASING and not decreasing; that from 2002 onwards the global temperature of the earth has FALLEN by what translates into 2 degrees of COOLING per century rather than the IPCC's predictions of 2.4 - 5.3 degrees of warming per century ...Then we have all those who will make millions, maybe billions of pounds through subsidies for wind farms and other renewable energy sources and traders and brokers buying and selling carbon offsets. The global trade in 'carbon credits' was estimated in 2008 to be worth 126 billion dollars!! and some estimate that this figure could rise eventually to 10 TRILLION dollars per year!! Some of the leading advocates of the greenhouse gas idea for global warming are the same people who stand to make all this money.

Tragically for all of us in the west we will be the ones who pay out. Countries like e.g China, Russia, Brazil and India, all of whom are major carbon emitters and whose emissions will increase markedly, have no intention whatsoever of reducing their emissions or their rates of increase. They will all become economically more powerful and we will diminish.
David Milliband, on behalf of the British government, has committed us to an 80% reduction in carbon emissions. NOBODY knows how that might be achieved. Most who have given it any thought know that it is impossible.If we are not very careful then within 10 years we will be suffering power shortages unless this ludicrous policy is changed. What we do know is that all these alternative ways of producing energy are very expensive. This, and much more, is admirably developed in this excellent book which should be essential reading for anyone who wants to really understand what is happening and the dangerous stance that western governments are taking.

Author: Rachel Carson
By Penguin Classics

Think twice before you spray, 2009-08-25
Excellent book that is well written. Takes you on a journey through how mankind is wrecking its own home. Why are we poisoning our own planet? Maybe that tractor spraying the wheat field isn't quite so innocent. What price cheap food? Is it corporate greed as usual? Rachel guides you through what we are doing to the earth with clarity and a list of suggestions for a better way to conduct ourselves. Worth a read.

Author: Vladimir Megré
By Ringing Cedars Press

Anasasia - Ringing Ceders series, 2010-02-12
Fantastic... it all makes so much sense. I would say that these books change your life, but they do more than that, they confirm that deep down feeling we all have, but sometimes dont understand, about how to ensure the future of our precious planet and the human race. The wonderful thing is... we can make a difference and we are!

Author: Ian Plimer
By Quartet Books

Another side to the global warming theory, 2010-01-30
This is a very informative view of the causes of global warming, stating scientific facts on the hot and cold periods the planet earth has been subjected to over millions of years. A very good read