Dramatically, the cover of this excellent DVD has a hook line that runs: 'The war over your water is about to begin'. For once, such

language is not sensationalist. Water is our most vital commodity, if indeed it is a commodity and not a shared, mutually-owned

and inalienable right.

his is a multi-award winning documentary film about practical "closed loop" thinking. But what does that mean? In a closed loop system there is no such thing as waste.  All the outputs from the system go back into the system, waste from one part of the system is food for another part.   But no Waste... that's impossible!  Are there any examples of this working anywhere?  Plenty, and all around us.  This is how nature has been working for the last 3.5 billion years and why the natural environment has survived so long.

Barack Obama said: 'Few challenges facing the world are more urgent than combating
climate change. The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear.' And yet
America still lags behind the rest of the developed world in showing the way to a
greener way of doing business that does not doom us, our children and our grandchildren (should we even get that far) to a world
ever-more hostile to not only our way of life but even of our lives themselves. Why? Because denial isn't just a big river in Africa,
as the joke goes. Except in this instance, the consequences of denial are no joke at all.

this book draws on a wide spectrum of academic understanding, from
evolutionary theory, biology, anthropology, archeology, economics
and environmental science to history to argue the case that
ecologically disruptive behaviour is deeply rooted in who and what
we are as a species.

These are the key questions that this book and its authors ask: 'Can
capitalism effectively respond to climate change? Do we need a
different type of capitalism that is able to deliver growth but on a lowcarbon
basis? If so, how do we get there?'

Subtitled, 'A South African Guide To Green Living', this one is meant for the sort of person who would buy Simply Green magazine –
which is to say you, the reader.

Eco demonstrates how everyone can make a difference to the planet by incorporating environmental design, decoration, and strategies for living into their home. Whether you are considering a new build, an addition to your existing home, or simply hold an interest in Eco friendly design.

From the editors of PublicAgenda.org, an entertaining, irreverent, and absolutely essential nonpartisan guide to the energy crisis

Energy: It's a problem that never goes away (despite our best efforts as a nation to ignore it). Why has there been so much talk and so little action? In Who Turned Out the Lights? Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson offer a much-needed reality check: The "Drill, Baby, Drill" versus "Every Day Is Earth Day" battle is not solving our problems, and the finger-pointing is just holding us up.

Sorting through the political posturing and confusing techno-speak, they provide a fair-minded, "let's skip the jargon" explanation of the choices we face. And chapters such as "It's All Right Now (In Fact, It's a Gas)" prove that, while the problem is serious, getting a grip on it doesn't have to be. In the end, the authors present options from the right, left, and center but take just one position: The country must change the way it gets and uses energy, and the first step is to understand the choices.

Scott Bittle

Publisher: Harper Paperbacks

ISBN-10: 0061715646

This is not merely another coffee-table book; it’s almost the coffee-table book. That’s not just because it’s huge, measuring well over 37cm by 31cm, and is vast in its scope, but because it has been so beautifully done. Each page is filled with gorgeous pictures and/or illustrations, which are used to full effect in this very large format, and there are excellent info boxes, graphics and, where necessary, are tightly edited by fairly thorough explanations – for example the one-page summary of Darwinism and evolution. At over 200 large-size pages, it manages to cover just about all the main areas of science today – from the earth itself, through climate (including global warming and climate change), chemistry, biology, space and physics to cosmology – each neatly sub-divided into main topics within that discipline. This work is reminiscent of those large-sized atlases that had sections of the solar system, the sun, moon, planets, asteroids, plate tectonics , crystals and so on, which were so fascinating to us as kids, only it’s a bit bigger and somewhat better. With this at one’s side, school (and even university) subjects would have been a way-easier challenge to understand. And the presentation is just so well done that even the most disinterested layman will find themselves drawn into the fascinating realms of science – and learning a lot in a very
little time. Simply superb.

Piers Bizony

Quercus ISBN 978 1 84916 485 6