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Recommended reading
The Legacy: An Elder's Vision for Our Sustainable Future
By David Suzuki
This book was the seed of inspiration that inspired me to create EarthFirst. If you don't have time to read the book listen to the podcast. It’s essentially the transcript of David Suzuki's last lecture, in Sydney Australia.
Eating Animals
By Jonathan Safran Foer
Living in the big city has an amnesic way of making us forget where our food comes from Jonathan Safran Foer tells it how it is in detailed cruel reality accounts from chickens, pigs, beef and sea life.
It's a life-changing book that will alter or at leas
t influence your eating habits!
David Suzuki's Green Guide
By David Suzuki & David R Boyd
Everyone knows that the planet is in trouble, but is there a solution? This timely book identifies the most effective ways individuals can be more green in four key areas: home, travel, food, and consumerism. It also describes how citizens can ensure that governments take the actions necessary to make sustainable lifestyles the norm instead of the exception.
Deep Future: The Next 100,000 Years of Life on Earth
By Curt Stager
A bold, far-reaching look at how our actions will decide the planet’s future for millennia to come. There are many events that are likely to befall Earth and human civilization in the next 100,000 years. And it will be the choices we make in this century that will affect that future more than those of any previous generation. We are living at the dawn of the Age of Humans; the only question is how long that age will last.
Few of us have yet asked, “What happens after global warming?” Drawing upon the latest, groundbreaking works of a handful of climate visionaries, Deep Future helps us look beyond 2100 a.d. to the next hundred millennia of life on Earth.
Here On Earth
By Tim Flannery
We stand at a crossroads, where comprehension of our place in nature—of our true abilities and of our history—is supremely important. We have formed a global civilisation of unprecedented might, driven forward by the power of our minds—a civilisation which is transforming our Earth. We are masters of technology, and of comprehension, but it’s what we believe that may, from now on, determine our fate.
We Are The Weather Makers
By Tim Flannery
The Weather Makers changed minds and hearts about global warming. We Are the Weather Makers is a concise and revised edition that will allow readers aged from nine to ninety to learn the facts about climate change.
In this passionate book Tim Flannery writes about cyclones and droughts, about coral reefs and polar bears, about wind energy and nuclear power. He reminds us that climate connects us all, from the Arctic to the Outback. And our climate is influenced by how we choose to live-how we use our fuels, our water and our land.
The Meat Free Monday Cookbook
By Paul, Stella & Mary McCartney
In 2009 Paul, Stella and Mary McCartney launched the Meat Free Monday campaign as a simple and straightforward idea to show everyone the value of eating less meat. Cutting down the amount of meat in our diet has a huge range of environmental and personal benefits, including significantly reducing the greenhouse gas emissions associated with livestock production, boosting our health by increasing the amount of fruit and veg in our diet, and helping us save money by offering substitures for expensive meat and fish.
The book is packed with delicious recipes for soups, risottos, pastas. The recipes are organised into simple menus for lunch, snacks, dinners and scrumptious desserts.