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Brian Goss: Choosing Solar Electricity – a guide to photovoltaic systems, 2010, Centre for Alternative Technology, 185 pages, £14.00, ISBN 978-1-902175-59-1.

Submitted by finn on Wed, 07/07/2010 - 11:07

Does your organisation want to generate its own electricity? Then this little book might be very useful to you. If you are allowed to put a solar panel on the roof of the building for a photovoltaic solar panel this is one way to produce electricity. In fact, you do not have to have a roof. The solar panels can be placed on the outside walls or on the ground. Read more

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Rob Hopkins: The Transition Handbook: From oil dependency to local resilience

Submitted by finn on Mon, 10/05/2010 - 16:02

Rob Hopkins: The Transition Handbook: From oil dependency to local resilience, Green Books Ltd, 2008, ISBN 978 1 900322 18 8, £12,95, 240 pages. Read more

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Vandana Shiva: Soil Not Oil, Climate Change, Peak Oil and Food Insecurity,

Submitted by finn on Mon, 10/05/2010 - 15:59

Vandana Shiva: Soil Not Oil, Climate Change, Peak Oil and Food Insecurity, Zed Books 2008, ISBN 978-1-84813-315-0, 145 pages. Read more

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Kelly Rae Chi, James MacGregor and Richard King: Fair miles – recharting the food miles map

Submitted by finn on Mon, 10/05/2010 - 15:56

Kelly Rae Chi, James MacGregor and Richard King: Fair miles – recharting the food miles map, iied and Oxfam, 46 pages, ISBN 978-1-84369-761-9. Read more

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Jonathan Dawson: Ecovillages – New Frontiers for Sustainability

Submitted by finn on Mon, 10/05/2010 - 15:01

Jonathan Dawson: Ecovillages – New Frontiers for Sustainability, Schumacher Briefings 12, Green Books, 2006, ISBN 1 903998 77 8, 94 pages, £6.00. Read more

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Fred Pearce: Confessions of an eco sinner

Submitted by finn on Mon, 10/05/2010 - 13:57

Fred Pearce: Confessions of an eco sinner, Eden Project Books, 2008, £7.99, 390 pages, ISBN 978-1-905-8112-0. Read more

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Tamzin Pinkerton & Rob Hopkins: Local Food – How to make it happen in your community

Submitted by finn on Mon, 10/05/2010 - 13:53

Tamzin Pinkerton & Rob Hopkins: Local Food – How to make it happen in your community, 2009, Transition Books, Green Books, £12.95, ISBN 978-1-900322-43-0, 216 pages. Read more

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The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone

Submitted by katieb on Tue, 20/04/2010 - 08:17

Really really clear, thorough and easy to read explanation of how numerous health and social problems are affected, not by how wealthy a society is, but how equal it is. According to this analysis, societies with a bigger gap between the rich and the poor are bad for everyone, including the rich, demonstrating clearly the fallacy of the "trickle down" effect. Read more

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Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet

Submitted by finn on Mon, 01/03/2010 - 12:49

“Prosperity without growth – Economics for a Finite Planet” by Tim Jackson, 264 pages, Earthscan 2009, £12.99. Read more

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The Hot Topic - how to tackle global warming and still keep the lights on

Submitted by finn on Wed, 06/01/2010 - 14:57

“The Hot Topic – how to tackle global warming and still keep the lights on” by Gabrielle Walker and Sir David King, 2008, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, £9.99. Read more

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Another World is Possible If

Submitted by iang on Mon, 16/11/2009 - 15:02

Participants in the worldwide movement for social change and global justice like to proclaim that "Another World Is Possible." But is it? To this popular slogan, Susan George adds a cautionary "If," and proposes how we can indeed reach that other World. Read more

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Ecological Debt: Global Warming and the Wealth of Nations

Submitted by iang on Tue, 16/06/2009 - 15:51

Simms shows how millions of us in the West are running up huge ecological debts: from the amount of oil and coal that we burn to heat our houses and run our cars, to what we consume and the waste that we create, the impact of our lifestyles is felt worldwide. Read more

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Fostering Sustainable Behaviour: An Introduction to Community-based Social Marketing

Submitted by iang on Tue, 16/06/2009 - 15:47

Our consumption patterns are threatening to outstrip Earth's ability to support humanity and other species. A sustainable future will require sweeping changes in public behaviour. Read more

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The Many-Headed Hydra: The Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic

Submitted by iang on Tue, 21/04/2009 - 14:23

"An extremely important and well written book" Times Literary Supplement "More than just a vivid illustration of the gains involved in thinking beyond the boundaries between nation-states.

Here, in incendiary form, are essential elements for a people's history of our dynamic, transcultural present." Paul Gilroy, author of The Black Atlantic Read more

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Silent Spring (Penguin Modern Classics)

Submitted by iang on Tue, 21/04/2009 - 14:18

Now recognised as one of the most influential books of the Twentieth Century, Silent Spring exposed the destruction of wildlife through the widespread use of pesticides. Read more

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Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World Food System

Submitted by iang on Tue, 21/04/2009 - 14:13

Naomi Klein, author of No Logo and the Shock Doctrine calls Stuffed and Starved
"One of the most dazzling books I've read in a very long time. The product of a brilliant mind and a gift to a world hungering for justice."

J. B. MacKinnon, co-author of The Hundred Mile Diet says Read more

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The End of Food

Submitted by iang on Tue, 21/04/2009 - 14:10

With an insightful global approach, Paul Roberts investigates the startling truth about the way we make, market, consume, and even think about food, and how this system is no longer compatible or safe for the billions of consumers that it was built to serve. Read more

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Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies

Submitted by iang on Tue, 21/04/2009 - 14:08

'If societies a century from now have managed to learn how to live peacefully, modestly, and sustainably, it may be at least partly because the advice in this timely book was heeded.' - Thom Hartmann, author of The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight 'The Party's Over is the book we need to reorient ourselves for a realistic future.' - Chellis Glendinning, Ph.D., author of When Technology Wounds

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The Gods That Failed: How the Financial Elite Have Gambled Away Our Futures

Submitted by iang on Tue, 21/04/2009 - 14:06

They promised economic stability, order and prosperity. But instead the world's bankers have delivered chaos, debt and uncertainty - and then blamed the feeble governments that surrendered control of the global economy to them. Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson explain how the reckless speculation of a super-rich elite has left us all the poorer

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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Submitted by iang on Tue, 21/04/2009 - 14:01

'Impassioned, hugely informative, wonderfully controversial, and scary as hell' John le Carre

'Packed with thinking dynamite ... a book to be read everywhere' John Berger

'If you read only one non-fiction book this year, make it this one' - , Books of the Year, Metro Read more