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Welcome to Green Books  

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.

GREEN BY NAME, GREEN BY NATURE: All our recent books (where the publisher is listed as 'Green Books') are printed on a minimum of 75% 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. All the printers we currently use are within 150 miles as the crow flies from our offices in Devon, and they use vegetable-based inks. We don't print overseas, thus reducing 'book miles', and our carbon footprint.

SPECIAL OFFER: 20% off book prices if you order £30 or more from our online bookstore.

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Have a thrifty Christmas with Green Books: here are some great presents . . .

 

The Holistic Beauty Book
by Star Khechara

Shows you how to create your own skincare potions. Indluge in goegeous body butters and bath scrubs, and pamper yourself with face masks, moisturisers and massage bars.

The Use-It-All Cookbook
by Bish Muir

Packed with ideas for using up your leftovers. Features a user-friendly A-Z of ingredients and related quick and easy recipes, and also includes basic recipes which you can use for a variety of different ingredients.


Get a new perspective on the current financial crisis . . .
How the Rich are Destroying the Earth by Hervé Kempf

“A fact-filled, concise, hard-hitting, highly rational, and much needed analysis of the crises we face, and of the need to both reduce and redistribute global material consumption.”– John Perkins, bestselling author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man and The Secret History of the American Empire

A bestseller in France, and already translated into Spanish, Italian, Greek, and Korean, Hervé Kempf’s How the Rich Are Destroying the Earth now appears in its first English edition. In this important primer on the link between global ecology and the global economy, Kempf makes the following observations: First, that the planet’s ecological situation is growing ever worse, despite the efforts of millions of engaged citizens around the world. And second, despite environmentalists’ emphasis that ‘we’re all in the same boat’, the world’s economic elites – who continue to benefit by plundering the environment – have access to ‘lifeboats’ that insulate them from the resulting catastrophes.

Societies have not been able to effectively combat the expanding ecological crisis because it is intimately linked to the social crisis in which the ruling form of capitalism has been organized to impede democratic initiatives. This link explains the failure to make progress against the greatest emergency of our time, because in this relationship the oligarchy plays an essential and destructive role. For this reason, solving the ecological crisis depends on disrupting the power of the world’s elite. We cannot understand the entwined ecological and social crises, Kempf argues, if we don’t see them as the two sides of the same disaster—a disaster that comes from a system piloted by a dominant social strata that has no drive other than greed, no ideal other than conservatism, no dream other than technology. But Kempf also calls for measured optimism: “Despite the scale of the challenges that await us, solutions are emerging and—faced with the sinister prospects the oligarchs promote—the desire to remake the world is being reborn.”

The Author: Since 1988 Hervé Kempf has specialized in environmental and ecological reporting. He created the environmental magazine Reporterre, and has written for scientific and economic newspapers. He is the Environmental Editor of the influential French newspaper Le Monde.


Our current best-selling title (22,000 copies in print):
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!

 

 

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Polytunnel video

Andy McKee and Mark Gatter on Polytunnels

Salad Leaves for all seasons by Charles Dowding

Charles Dowding on growing Salad Leaves

Rob Hopkins The Transition Handbook

Rob Hopkins on Transition Towns

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