Shades of Green: A (mostly) practical A-Z for the reluctant environmentalist 

Few of us have what it takes to go ‘all the way’ on the green scale. Yet as fears about the food chain, climate change, plummeting biodiversity and the sustainability of our current lifestyles take hold, wouldn’t it be good to be clear about our range of options?  Whether you are pondering bicycles or baths, holidays or heating, pets or pasta, washing dishes or wine, Shades of Green tackles the topics. It’s designed to be an easy-to-use, A-Z guide which sets out your choices on a scale from ‘completely green’ to ‘not even a little bit green’. 

No preaching. No finger-wagging.  Whether you’re an eco-warrior or a planet-trasher or, like most of us, something in between, Shades of Green will give you all you need to know so you can choose what suits you best. This is useful and often surprising reading.


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Bottled & Sold - The story behind our obsession with bottled water

The author Peter Gleick knows water. A world-renowned scientist and freshwater expert, Gleick is a MacArthur Foundation "genius," and according to the BBC, an environmental visionary. And he drinks from the tap. Why don’t the rest of us?

Bottled and Sold shows how water went from being a free natural resource to one of the most successful commercial products of the last one hundred years—and why we are poorer for it.

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The Necessary Revolution - working to create a sustainable world

The paperback edition of this timely book from the bestselling author of The Fifth Discipline series and Presence - The Necessary Revolution reveals how corporations and organizations are, in the face of looming environmental crises and pressure from social issues, finding solutions that ensure both long- term survival and real-time business success.

Peter Senge writes in the preface: "A lot has happened in the year and a half since The Necessary Revolution was published in mid 2008. An economic downturn blossomed into the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression -- All of which makes the central message of the book more timely than ever: If we look closely around the world, the basics for life beyond the Industrial Age bubble are emerging everywhere."

  
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