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Welcome to Green Books
environmental publishers for over 20 years
 

We are an independent UK publishing company, producing books on a wide range of environmental and cultural issues. To see subject categories, click on the Bookstore link in the left hand column, from where you can also download our latest catalogue, which includes forthcoming titles. You can order our books from this website, using our secure store.

All our recent books (where the publisher is listed as 'Green Books') are printed on a minimum of 50% recycled paper, and wherever possible 100% recycled paper, including Cyclus Offset, Five Seasons, Corona Natural and Revive. The book covers of recent titles are made of 50%–100% recycled materials.

SPECIAL OFFER: 20% off book prices if you order £30 or more from our online bookstore. Click here to go direct to the home page of the online bookstore.


The Transition Handbook: from oil dependency to local resilience by Rob Hopkins

“This is much more than just a book. It is a manual for a movement. And not just any movement, but one which – in avoiding the civilisational collapse threatened by the twin crises of peak oil and climate change – could prove to be the most important social force humanity has ever seen.” – Mark Lynas, author of Six Degrees

We live in an oil-dependent world, and have got to this level of dependency in a very short space of time, using vast reserves of oil in the process – without thinking ahead to plan for when the supply is not so plentiful. Most of us avoid thinking about what happens when oil runs out (or becomes prohibitively expensive), but The Transition Handbook shows how the inevitable and profound changes ahead can have a positive outcome. These changes can lead to the rebirth of local communities, which will grow more of their own food, generate their own power, and build their own houses using local materials. They can also encourage the development of local currencies, keeping money in the local area.

BREAKING NEWS . . . In the long-running Radio 4 series 'The Archers', Pat Archer is drumming up interest in making Ambridge a Transition Village, or Borchester a Transition Town!

Click here to see a Flash movie of Rob talking about his book.

 


James Russell How to Turn Your Parents GreenNew book combats kids’ eco-fears
As a father of two James Russell knows what keeps children awake at night, and global warming is high on the list. When he found a piece of paper on which his eight-year-old daughter had repeatedly scribbled NO CLIMATE CHANGE!

He decided to look into the matter further and discovered a widespread problem. A 2007 national review of Primary education (1) reported among children “a sense of deep pessimism about the future.”

“Many expressed concern about climate change, global warming and pollution… Some children also deplored the gulf between the world’s rich and poor.” What struck the Bristol-based primary school governor most, however, was what happened when kids had a chance to learn more about the issues that scared them:

“Yet where schools had started engaging children with global and local realities as aspects of their education they were noticeably more upbeat. In several schools children were involved in environmental and energy-saving projects and the sense that ‘we can do something about it’ seemed to make all the difference.”

With this in mind, Russell wrote ‘How to Turn Your Parents Green’, a book that aims to help children sleep better at night both by presenting environmental issues in a fresh and funny way and by empowering kids to take action for themselves.

Adopting a style reminiscent of Roald Dahl and the Horrible Histories series, Russell addresses 8-12 year olds in terms they readily understand, sweetening important messages with plenty of laughs.

‘How to Turn Your Parents Green’ is unique in offering children practical tips on tackling climate change in the home and at school, even suggesting a system of fines for adults who won’t comply. This attracted attention from a columnist in The Times, while the book as a whole has created a buzz around the Internet. The respected children’s book magazine ‘Books for Keeps’ gave it four stars out of five.

How to Turn Your Parents Green is now on sale in Australia and the USA, as well as in the UK.

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Organic Gardening: the natural no-dig way by Charles Dowding

Click here to see a Flash movie of Charles in his garden


Eco-Centres & Courses: over 150 places which offer practical courses and fun days out by Terena Plowright

Click here to see a Flash movie of Terena in the Sustainability Centre in Hampshire


Marvel at Gaia

Stephan Harding takes you on a journey through the intricacies of Gaia's cycles, bringing together science and intuition to explain and marvel at the extraordinary world in which we live.
256 pages, £10.95.

Stephan is in 'The Green Room' on the BBC website.

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