Spydus Search Results - Climate Change

The climate change garden : down to earth advice for growing a resilient garden / Sally Morgan, Kim Stoddart.

It is no longer gardening as usual. The long-predicted extremes of weather caused by climate change are now on our doorstep and gardens around the world are suffering. There's no getting away from it; no matter where on the planet you live, the climate and weather patterns are changing fast, and our gardening practices need to catch up. Learning how to protect the garden against the extremes of torrential rain, storms, heatwaves, and drought is key. The Climate Change Garden reveals which plants are better suited to deal with such extremes and which techniques, practices, and equipment can be put to good use in our gardens to help temper the issues. This is a global gardener's guide to climate change that shows readers how to adapt and cope with the volatile weather extremes that lie ahead. It's about working with the natural world to create a productive, low-maintenance, climate-wise garden.
Author: Morgan, Sally, 1957-
Updated edition.
Published: Minneapolis : Cool Springs, 2023.
Published: ©2023
224 pages : colour illustrations ; 22 cm

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - House and Garden - 635 MOR - Available - 010688433

Maisy goes to the dentist / Lucy Cousins.

Join Maisy and her friends as they accompany Charley on his first visit to the dentist and help calm his nerves. This Maisy First Experiences story is ideal for preparing little ones for their first dental check-up. Oh no, Charley has a wobbly tooth! Luckily Maisy and friends are on hand to reassure him as he visits the dentist for the very first time. Come along as Charley meets Dr Biteright, takes a twirl on a special chair, has his teeth photographed by an x-ray machine and gargles mouthwash! With a tooth-brushing demonstration and a book to take home, Maisy and Charley learn all about their teeth and how to look after them. Charley is soon smiling again! This entertaining Maisy First Experiences story provides little ones with a gentle introduction to visiting the dentist.
Author: Cousins, Lucy
Published: London : Walker Books, 2023.
Published: ©2023
1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 19 x 23 cm
Maisy first experiences book

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Junior Picture Books - C - Onloan - Due: 10 May 2024 - 010917021
Hampton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Junior Picture Books - C - Onloan - Due: 30 May 2024 - 010917038
Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Junior Picture Books - C - Onloan - Due: 17 May 2024 - 010710646
Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Junior Picture Books - C - Onloan - Due: 22 May 2024 - 010917045

Not too late : changing the climate story from despair to possibility / edited by Rebecca Solnit & Thelma Young Lutunatabua ; with illustrations by David Solnit.

"Not Too Late brings strong climate voices from around the world to address the political, scientific, social, and emotional dimensions of the most urgent issue human beings have ever faced. Accessible, encouraging, and engaging, it's an invitation to everyone to understand the issue more deeply, participate more boldly, and imagine the future more creatively. In concise, illuminating essays and interviews, Not Too Late features the voices of Indigenous activists, such as Guam-based attorney and writer Julian Aguon; climate scientists, among them Jacquelyn Gill and Edward Carr; artists, such as Marshall Islands poet and activist Kathy Jeñtil-Kijiner; and longtime organizers, including The Tyranny of Oil author Antonia Juhasz and Emergent Strategy author adrienne maree brown. Shaped by the clear-eyed wisdom of editors Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua, and enhanced by illustrations by David Solnit, Not Too Late is a guide to take us from climate crisis to climate hope. Contributors include Julian Aguon, Jade Begay, adrienne maree brown, Edward Carr, Renato Redantor Constantino, Joelle Gergis, Jacquelyn Gill, Mary Annaise Heglar, Mary Ann Hitt, Roshi Joan Halifax, Nikayla Jefferson, Antonia Juhasz, Kathy Jetnil Kijiner, Fenton Lutunatabua & Joseph `Sikulu, Yotam Marom, Denali Nalamalapu, Leah Stokes, Farhana Sultana, and Gloria Walton."--Publisher marketing.
Published: Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2023.
Published: ©2023
200 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Environment - 333.72 NOT - Available - 010711537

Adventures in climate science : scientists' tales from the frontiers of climate change / edited by Wendy Bruere.

These tales of adventure and research in remote and remarkable corners of the earth investigate a multitude of ways the world is changing and explain the science behind exactly what a couple of degrees of warming mean. Addressed are glacier melt, rising seas, extreme weather, ocean currents, changing ecosystems, bushfires, and dying forests. The experts tell us the world is warming, but why do we care so much about a few lousy degrees? These tales of adventure from remote and remarkable parts of the Earth explore a multitude of ways the world is changing and explain the science behind exactly what those few degrees mean. Scientists share their own stories about falling into crevasses, facing sharks, surviving cyclones, chasing pirates on the high seas, and more. Along the way, they examine critical elements of climate change, including sea ice and glacier melt, rising sea levels, bushfires, collapsing ecosystems, shifting ocean currents, and extreme weather events. With knowledge comes power, and this book makes sense of how and why a warming planet matters.
Published: Warriewood, NSW : Woodslane Press, 2023.
Published: ©2023
v, 250 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Environment - 363.738 ADV - Available - 010707844

Ground breaking : soil security and climate change / Phillip Mulvey & Freya Mulvey.

Zero carbon emissions alone won't stop global warming. Agricultural land use is turning the world's breadbaskets into deserts. But the depleted soil that feeds us all today might yet save our civilisation. In Western Australia, the rabbit-proof fence presents the world's largest study of contrasting land management within the same vast region. The 'Bunny Fence Experiment' is strong evidence that clearing and cropping is a major reason rainfall dropped by 20% in the Wheat Belt between 1976 and 2002, and continues to drop. Ground Breaking explains how modern farming methods deplete the soil and influence our climate: exporting heat waves, dust, and fire south-eastward in Eastern Australia and north-westward in Western America. It presents solutions too: managing land use to reduce bare ground, restore the small water cycle and sequester carbon in the soil.
Author: Mulvey, Philip
Published: Melbourne, Victoria : Kerr Publishing, 2023.
Published: ©2023
ix, 244 pages : colour illustrations ; 23 cm
1 reserve

Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Environment - 333.73 MUL - Onloan - Due: 01 May 2024 - 010839248

Elixir : in the valley at the end of time / Kapka Kassabova.

An exceptional work of narrative non-fiction by a prizewinning writer, Elixir is an exploration of place, people, plants, and an urgent call to rethink how we live. In the valley of the Mesta, one of the oldest inhabited river valleys in Europe, where the surrounding forests and mountains are a nexus for wild plant gatherers, Kapka Kassabova finds a story with vast resonance for us all. Elixir is an unforgettable exploration of the deep connections between people, plants and place. Over several seasons, Kassabova spends time with the people of this magical region. She meets women and men who work in a long lineage of foragers, healers and mystics. She learns about wild plants and the ancient practice of herbalism, and experiences a symbiotic system where nature and culture have blended for thousands of years. Through her captivating encounters we come to feel the devastating weight of the ecological and cultural disinheritance that the people of this valley have suffered. Yet, in her search for elixir, she also finds reasons for hope. The people of the valley are keepers of a rare knowledge, not only of mountain plants and their properties, but also of how to transform collective suffering into healing. Immersive and enthralling, at its heart Elixir is a search for a cure to what ails us in the Anthropocene. It is an urgent call to rethink how we live - in relation to one another, to the Earth and to the cosmos.
Author: Kassabova, Kapka
Published: London : Jonathan Cape, 2023.
Published: ©2023
x, 380 pages : map ; 24 cm

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Environment - 304.2 KAS - Available - 010705642

The heat will kill you first : life and death on a scorched planet / Jeff Goodell.

"The Heat Will Kill You First is about the extreme ways in which our planet is already changing. It is about why spring is coming a few weeks earlier and fall is coming a few weeks later and the impact that will have on everything from our food supply to disease outbreaks. It is about what will happen to our lives and our communities when typical summer days in Chicago or Boston go from 90° F to 110°F. A heatwave, Goodell explains, is a predatory event--one that culls out the most vulnerable people. But that is changing. As heatwaves become more intense and more common, they will become more democratic. As an award-winning journalist who has been at the forefront of environmental journalism for decades, Goodell's new book may be his most provocative yet, explaining how extreme heat will dramatically change the world as we know it"-- Provided by publisher.
Author: Goodell, Jeff
First edition.
Published: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2023.
Published: ©2023
x, 385 pages ; 25 cm

Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Environment - 363.738 GOO - Onloan - Due: 30 May 2024 - 010839361

Charged : a history of batteries and lessons for a clean energy future / James Morton Turner ; foreword by Paul S. Sutter.

"To achieve fossil fuel independence, few technologies are more important than batteries. Used for powering zero-emission vehicles, storing electricity from solar panels and wind turbines, and revitalizing the electric grid, batteries are essential to scaling up the renewable energy resources that help address global warming. But given the unique environmental impact of batteries--including mining, disposal, and more--does a clean energy transition risk trading one set of problems for another? In Charged, James Morton Turner unpacks the history of batteries to explore why solving "the battery problem" is critical to a clean energy transition. As climate activists focus on what a clean energy future will create--sustainability, resiliency, and climate justice--the history of batteries offers a sharp reminder of what building that future will consume: lithium, graphite, nickel, and other specialized materials. With new insight on the consequences for people and communities on the front lines, Turner draws on the past for crucial lessons that will help us build a just and clean energy future, from the ground up."--Back cover.
Author: Turner, James Morton, 1973-
First paperback edition.
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2023.
Published: ©2022
xv, 234 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Weyerhaeuser environmental book

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Environment - 621.312 TUR - Onloan - Due: 22 May 2024 - 010862963

Five times faster : rethinking the science, economics, and diplomacy of climate change / Simon Sharpe.

"As Greenland melts, Australia burns, and greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, we think we know who the villains are: oil companies, consumerism, weak political leaders. But what if the real blocks to progress are the ideas and institutions that are supposed to be helping us? Five Times Faster is an inside story from Simon Sharpe, who has spent ten years at the forefront of climate change policy and diplomacy. In our fight to avoid dangerous climate change, science is pulling its punches, diplomacy is picking the wrong battles, and economics has been fighting for the other side. This provocative and engaging book sets out how we should rethink our strategies and reorganise our efforts in the fields of science, diplomacy, and economics, so that we can act fast enough to stay safe"-- Provided by publisher.
Author: Sharpe, Simon (Researcher on climate change economics)
First edition.
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Published: ©2023
ix, 334 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Environment - 363.738 SHA - Onloan - Due: 18 May 2024 - 010862802

Eating the Earth : why we need to change the way we do business with nature / Justyn Walsh.

Money talks, but it doesn't always tell the truth... Fossil fuel-fired capitalism has generated riches for billions, but is underwritten by a planetary pyramid scheme - one in which withdrawals from the natural world are not supported by underlying capital replenishment, resulting in global impacts such as climate change and biodiversity loss. Investment banker Justyn Walsh argues that the failure to properly value nature is more than just a glitch in the system, but in many ways is the system - one enabling a 'cowboy economy' that relentlessly rolls forward to new frontiers of exploitation, and gives the appearance of wealth being created when in fact much of it is being destroyed. Stark in its warnings but hopeful in its prescriptions, Eating the Earth argues that we need to embrace a new story - one acknowledging that humankind is a part of nature rather than apart from nature, that measures how life is enriched rather than destroyed, and that lives off nature's dividends rather than eating into its capital.
Author: Walsh, Justyn, 1970-
Published: St Lucia, Queensland : University of Queensland Press, 2023.
Published: ©2023
xvii, 317 pages ; 23 cm
1 reserve

Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Environment - 304.2 WAL - Onloan - Due: 05 May 2024 - 010942290

The climate action handbook : a visual guide to 100 climate solutions for everyone / Heidi A. Roop, Phd ; illustrated by Joshua M. Powell.

"Every Action Matters will lay out the issues facing the planet and offer up 100 important actions that readers can take to help slow the adverse affects of climate change. Each action will get a spread and be accompanied by an infographic, statistic, or display quote to provide visual impact to the topic at hand"-- Provided by publisher.
Author: Roop, Heidi A.
Published: Seattle : Sasquatch Books, [2023]
Published: ©2023
xxiv, 245 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Environment - 363.705 ROO - Available - 010929789

Firmament : the hidden science of weather, climate change and the air that surrounds us / Simon Clark.

A thin, invisible layer of air surrounds the Earth, sustaining all known life on the planet and creating the unique climates and weather patterns that make each part of the world different. In Firmament, atmospheric scientist and science communicator Simon Clark offers a rare and accessible tour of the ins and outs of the atmosphere and how we know what we know about it. From the workings of its different layers to why carbon dioxide is special, from pioneers like Pascal to the unsung heroes working in the field to help us understand climate change, Firmament introduces us to an oft-overlooked area of science and not only lays the ground work for us to better understand the debates surrounding the climate today, but also provides a glimpse of the future that is possible with this knowledge in hand.
Author: Clark, Simon
Published: London, UK : Hodder & Stoughton, 2022.
Published: ©2022
xvii, 236 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Environment - 551.5 CLA - Available - 010480860

Hurricane lizards and plastic squid : how the natural world is adapting to climate change / Thor Hanson.

A fascinating insight into climate change biology around the globe, as well as in our own backyards. Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid is the first major book by a biologist to focus on the fascinating story of how the natural world is adjusting, adapting, and sometimes measurably evolving in response to climate change. Lyrical and thought-provoking, this book broadens the climate focus from humans to the wider lattice of life. Bestselling nature writer Thor Hanson - author of Buzz (a Radio 4 'Book of the Week') - shows us how Caribbean lizards have grown larger toe pads to grip trees more tightly during frequent hurricanes; and how the 'plasticity' of squid has allowed them to change their body size and breeding habits to cope with altered sea temperatures. Plants and animals have a great deal to teach us about the nature of what comes next, because for many of them, and also for many of us, that world is already here.
Author: Hanson, Thor
Published: London : Icon, 2022.
Published: ©2021
xvii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Environment - 577.22 HAN - Available - 010739012

Art+Climate=Change II / edited by Bronwyn Johnson and Kelly Gellatly.

Published: Melbourne : Melbourne University Publishing, 2021.
192 pages : chiefly colour illustrations ; 28 cm.

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Art and Craft - 700.103 ART - Onloan - Due: 10 May 2024 - 010376187
Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Art and Craft - 700.103 ART - Available - 010376194
Hampton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Art and Craft - 700.103 ART - Available - 010376170
Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Art and Craft - 700.103 ART - Available - 010376200

How do we stop climate change? / written by Tom Jackson ; illustrated by Dragan Kordić ; foreword by Dr. Marianna Linz, Harvard University.

Climate change is an important, yet complicated, subject. Beautiful illustrations from noted picture book illustrator Dragan Kordic combine with a straightforward narrative from science writer Tom Jackson to make this an enticing, fascinating, and illuminating read.
Author: Jackson, Tom, 1972-
Published: San Rafael, California : EarthAware Kids, [2021]
Published: ©2021
69 pages : colour illustrations ; 20 x 26 cm
Mind mappers

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Junior Non-Fiction Environment - J 577 JAC - Available - 010572411

How to garden the low carbon way : the steps you can take to help combat climate change / Sally Nex.

Packed with practical advice on what you can do in your garden to tackle climate change. Is it okay to use potting compost? Which plants are best for absorbing pollution? What's the alternative to carbon-packed fertilizers? How can I cut out single-use plastics? Aspects of gardening can actually be bad for the environment. But make a few changes and you can significantly reduce the carbon imprint of your outdoor space, and even use it to lessen the impact of your other activities. How to Garden the Low Carbon Way offers clear, practical guidance on how and where to start. Packed with advice, backed by the latest scientific research, it helps you turn your outdoor space into a carbon-absorbing sink, explore the benefits of no-dig gardening, switch fences for hedges, coppice shrubs to support wildlife, learn to love weeds, and much more. Printed locally in the most environmentally friendly way possible, as a 1-colour paperback on FSC paper, this is essential reading for everyone who has a garden and wants to do what they can to protect our planet.
Author: Nex, Sally
Published: London : Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2021.
Published: ©2021
191 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - House and Garden - 635 NEX - Available - 010426172

A brief history of the Earth's climate : everyone's guide to the science of climate change / Steven Earle, PhD.

"A Brief History of the Earth's Climate is an accessible, illustrated, myth-busting guide to the natural evolution of the Earth's climate over 4.6 billion years, how and why human-caused global warming and climate change is different and more dangerous, and how to counter sceptics and deniers with sound science."-- Provided by publisher.
Author: Earle, Steven
Published: Gabriola Island, BC, Canada : New Society Publishers, [2021]
Published: ©2021
xvi, 189 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Environment - 363.738 EAR - Available - 010621508

Climate change / Peter Turner.

Climate Change is one of Australia's biggest environmental problems. Why is climate change occurring and how does it affect Australia? Climate Change explores the problem as well as explaining the steps that need to be taken to combat it.
Author: Turner, Peter
Published: Frenchs Forest, NSW : Redback Publishing, [2021]
Published: ©2021
32 pages : colour illustrations ; 28 cm.

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Junior Non-Fiction Environment - J 363 TUR - Available - 010562436

Our world out of balance : understanding climate change and what we can do / Andrea Minoglio ; Laura Fanelli ; translated by Emma Mandley.

This guide for children details how humans have thrown the planet off-balance and ways we can work to create a healthier world. This illustrated nonfiction guide introduces children ages eight to twelve to the important topic of climate change with tips on "How You Can Help" and citizen scientist activities. Filled with engaging big ideas that will inspire children to think about their role in keeping our world healthy, Our World Out of Balance details how humans have thrown the planet off-balance and ways we can work together to be part of the solution and create a healthier world.
Author: Minoglio, Andrea
English language edition.
Published: San Francisco : Blue Dot Kids Press, 2021.
Published: ©2021
66 pages : colour illustrations ; 31 cm

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Junior Non-Fiction Environment - J 363 MIN - Onloan - Due: 16 May 2024 - 010496632

Dr Karl's little book of climate change science / Dr Karl Kruszelnicki.

Australia's favourite science guru explains the facts about climate change - and how we can fix it. Is the planet reeeeeally warming up? But carbon's natural, isn't it? How could planes fly without fossil fuels? What's a pteropod and why should I care? Kelp? How can it help? One of Dr Karl Kruszelnicki's jobs as Australia's most popular science communicator is to answer people's questions about climate change. Now, in this never dull, easy-to-understand guide Dr Karl explains the science of climate change and how we can fix it (we can!). So when your uncle says (again) that it's a load of hooey (or an illuminati conspiracy), you can keep your cool and talk like a boss about why it's getting hotter and what we can do about it. Contains bonus augmented reality - mini Dr Karls pop up with even more info!
Author: Kruszelnicki, Karl, 1948-
Published: Sydney : ABC Books, 2021.
Published: ©2021
159 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Environment - 363.738 KRU - Available - 010447177

How to talk about climate change in a way that makes a difference / Rebecca Huntley.

A self-help book for the climate era, for readers of Ross Garnaut, Tim Flannery, Hugh Mackay Why is it so hard to talk about climate change? Perhaps no other issue today is as confronting as our warming earth. But while scientists double down on the shocking figures, we still find ourselves unable to discuss climate change meaningfully among friends and neighbours - or even to grapple with it ourselves. The key to progress on climate change is in the psychology of human attitudes and our ability to change. Whether you're already alarmed and engaged with the issue, concerned but disengaged, a passive skeptic or an active denier, understanding our emotional reactions to climate change - why it makes us anxious, fearful, angry or detached - is critical to coping on an individual level and convincing each other to act. This book is about understanding why people who aren't like you feel the way they do and learning to talk to them effectively. What we need are thousands - millions - of everyday conversations about the climate to enlarge the ranks of the concerned, engage the disengaged and persuade the cautious of the need for action.
Author: Huntley, Rebecca
Published: Crows Nest, NSW : Murdoch Books, 2020.
291 pages ; 24 cm.

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Environment - 363.7387 HUN - Available - 010238751

Industrial-strength denial : eight stories of corporations defending the indefensible, from the slave trade to climate change / Barbara Freese.

This book tells the stories of eight major campaigns of corporate denial-the lies, delusions, and rationalizations that emerge when people working in competitive, profit-driven group enterprises are faced with powerful evidence that they are causing harm. Tobacco is the poster-child of this phenomenon, but denial comes from people selling many other risky products, creating workplace hazards, or releasing dangerous pollutants. In almost every case, the story begins with an exciting discovery-of, for example, a New World, a new element or chemical, a new means of mass production, or a new way of packaging financial risk. An industry races to exploit that discovery and succeeds, sometimes changing society along the way. And in each case this commercial activity causes a grave harm, to other people or the planet. Those outside the industry find evidence of this harm, raise the alarm, and a public debate ensues. Corporate representatives offer a flurry of denials, perpetuating the harm by blocking policies that would reduce it. The specific denials-which are the focus of this book-vary, but the themes echo from campaign to campaign. The stories in this book stand as a reminder of why corporate activity needs to be monitored, challenged, and regulated.
Author: Freese, Barbara (Barbara E.)
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]
Published: ©2020
346 pages ; 24 cm

Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Computers and Business - 338.7 FRE - Available - 010355120

False alarm : how climate change panic costs us trillions, hurts the poor, and fails to fix the planet / Bjorn Lomborg.

Hurricanes batter our coasts. Wildfires rage across the American West. Glaciers collapse in the Artic. Politicians, activists, and the media espouse a common message: climate change is destroying the planet, and we must take drastic action immediately to stop it. Children panic about their future, and adults wonder if it is even ethical to bring new life into the world. Enough, argues bestselling author Bjorn Lomborg. Climate change is real, but it's not the apocalyptic threat that we've been told it is. Projections of Earth's imminent demise are based on bad science and even worse economics. In panic, world leaders have committed to wildly expensive but largely ineffective policies that hamper growth and crowd out more pressing investments in human capital, from immunization to education. This book will convince you that everything you think about climate change is wrong and points the way toward making the world a vastly better, if slightly warmer, place for us all.
Author: Lomborg, Bjørn, 1965-
Published: New York : Basic Books, 2020.
Published: ©2020
vi, 307 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Environment - 363.7387 LOM - Onloan - Due: 11 May 2024 - 010217381
Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Environment - 363.73874 LOM - Available - 010356561

Body count : how climate change is killing us [eBook] / Paddy Manning.

Suddenly, when the country caught fire, people realised what the government has not: that climate change is killing us. But climate deaths didn?t start in 2019. Medical officers have been warning of a health emergency as temperatures rise for years, and for at least a decade Australians have been dying from the plagues of climate change - from heat, flood, disease, smoke. And now, pandemic. In this detailed, considered, compassionate book, Paddy Manning paints us the big picture. He revisits some headline events which might have faded in our memory - the Brisbane Floods of 2011; Melbourne?s thunderstorm asthma fatalities of 2016 - and brings to our attention less well-publicised killers: the soil-borne diseases that amplify after a flood; the fact that heat itself has killed more people than all other catastrophes put together. In each case, he has interviewed scientists to explore the link to climate change and asks how - indeed, whether - we can better prepare ourselves in the future. Most importantly, Manning has spoken to survivors and the families of victims, creating a monument to those we have already lost. Donna Rice and her 13-year-old son Jordan. Alison Tenner. The Buchanan family. These are stories of humans at their most vulnerable, and also often at their best. In extremis, people often act to save their loved ones above themselves. As�Body Count�shows, we are now all in extremis, and it is time to act.
Author: Manning, Paddy
Published: [Sydney, N.S.W.] : Simon & Schuster Australia, 2020.
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Net zero : how we stop causing climate change / Dieter Helm.

"The inconvenient truth is that we are causing the climate crisis with our carbon intensive lifestyles and that fixing -- or even just slowing -- it will affect all of us. But it can be done. In Net Zero the economist Professor Dieter Helm addresses the action we would all need to take, whether personal, local, national or global, if we really wanted to stop causing climate change. Net Zero is Professor Dieter Helm's measured, balanced view of how we stop causing climate change by adopting a net zero strategy of reducing carbon emissions and increasing carbon absorption. It is a rational look at why the past 30 years efforts has failed and why and how the next 30 years can succeed. It is a vital book for anyone who hears the clamour of Extinction Rebellion and other ecological activists, but wonders what they can actually do."-- Provided by publisher.
Author: Helm, Dieter
Published: London : William Collins, 2020.
Published: ©2020
xviii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Environment - 363.7387 HEL - Onloan - Due: 24 May 2024 - 010217664

Tales of two planets : stories of climate change and inequality in a divided world / edited by John Freeman.

"Building from his acclaimed anthology Tales of Two Americas, beloved writer and editor John Freeman draws together some of our greatest writers from around the world to help us see how the environmental crisis is hitting some of the most vulnerable communities where they live. In the past five years, John Freeman, previously editor of Granta, has launched a celebrated international literary magazine, Freeman's, and compiled two acclaimed anthologies that deal with income inequality as it is experienced, first in New York and then throughout the United States. In the course of this work, one major theme has come up repeatedly: how climate change is making already dire inequalities much worse, devastating further the already devastated. The effects of global warming are especially disruptive in less well-off nations, sending refugees to the US and elsewhere in the wealthier world, where they often encounter the problems that perennially face outsiders: lack of access to education, health care, decent housing, employment, and even basic nutrition. But the problems of climate change are not restricted to those from the less developed world. American citizens are suffering too, as the stories of distress resulting from recent hurricanes testify: People who can't sell their home because the building is on a flood plain, people who get displaced and cannot find work, and more. And this doesn't even take on board the situation in much of the Caribbean, or south of the Rio Grande in Mexico and Central America. Galvanized by his conversations with writers and activists around the world, Freeman has engaged with some of today's most eloquent writers, many of whom hail from the places under the most acute stress. The response has been extraordinary: a literary all-points bulletin of fiction, essays, poems, and reportage. Margaret Atwood conjures with a dystopian future in three remarkable poems. Lauren Groff takes us to Florida; Edwidge Danticat to Haiti; Tahmima Anim to Bangladesh. Valeria Luiselli probes the refugee crisis at the US-Mexico border, while Tash Aw takes us to Indonesia, Chinelo Okparanta to Nigeria, and Arundhati Roy to India. As the anthology unfolds, clichés fall away and we are brought closer to the real, human truth of what is happening to our world, and the dystopia to which we are heading. These are news stories with the emphasis on story, about events that should be found in the headlines but often are not, about the most important crisis of our times. LITERATURE'S BIGGEST STARS: TALES OF TWO PLANETS features work from some of the most important writers working today including Arundhati Roy, Edwidge Danticat, Margaret Atwood, and Lauren Groff. NEW WORK, NEW VOICES: All but two of the pieces in this collection of fiction, essays, and poems were commissioned by John Freeman exclusively for this book, and he presents some of the world's most exciting young voices including Daisy Johnson, Valeria Luiselli, Kayo Chingonyi, and Sayaka Murata. A GLOBAL VIEW OF OUR EXISTENTIAL CRISIS: Freeman brings together an international cast of brilliant writers to give readers a globe-spanning view of the climate crisis. Whether it's Sayaka Murata in Japan, Sjon in Iceland, Yasmine El Rashidi in Egypt, or Eka Kurniawan in Indonesia, we get an exhilarating range of experiences"--
Published: New York : Penguin Books, 2020.
xxv, 290 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21cm.

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Environment - 808.83 TAL - Available - 010356868

The best of times, the worst of times : futures from the frontiers of climate change / Paul Behrens.

The environmental emergency is the greatest threat we face. Preventing it will require an unprecedented political and social response. And yet, there is still hope. Academic, physicist, environmental expert and award-winning science communicator Paul Behrens presents a radical analysis of a civilisation on the brink of catastrophe. Setting out the pressing existential threats we face, he writes, in alternating chapters, of what the future could look like at its most pessimistic and hopeful. In lucid prose, Behrens argues that structural problems need structural solutions, and examines critical areas in which political will is required, including women's education, food and energy security, biodiversity and economics. The author is an Assistant Professor at Leiden University and is both a highly-qualified scientist and an award-winning educational communicator.
Author: Behrens, Paul
Published: London : The Indigo Press, 2020.
346 pages ; 22 cm.

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Environment - 363.7 BEH - Available - 010156567

Body count : how climate change is killing us [Paperback] / Paddy Manning.

When the country caught fire, people realised what the government has not: that climate change is killing us. But climate deaths didn't start in 2019. Medical officers have been warning of a health emergency as temperatures rise for years, and for at least a decade Australians have been dying from the plagues of climate change - from heat, flood, disease, smoke. And now, pandemic. In this detailed, considered, compassionate book, Paddy Manning paints us the big picture. He revisits some headline events which might have faded in our memory - the Brisbane Floods of 2011; Melbourne's thunderstorm asthma fatalities of 2016 - and brings to our attention less well-publicised killers: the soil-borne diseases that amplify after a flood; the fact that heat itself has killed more people than all other catastrophes put together. In each case, he has interviewed scientists to explore the link to climate change and asks how - indeed, whether - we can better prepare ourselves in the future. Most importantly, Manning has spoken to survivors and the families of victims, creating a monument to those we have already lost. Donna Rice and her 13-year-old son Jordan. Alison Tenner. The Buchanan family. These are stories of humans at their most vulnerable, and also often at their best. In extremis, people often act to save their loved ones above themselves. As Body Count shows, we are now all in extremis, and it is time to act. Respected journalist Paddy Manning tells these stories of tragedy and loss, heroism and resilience, in a book that is both monument and warning.
Author: Manning, Paddy
Published: Cammeray, NSW : Simon & Schuster (Australia), 2020.
xxvi, 323 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.

Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Environment - 363.73874 MAN - Available - 010293132

The story of more : how we got to climate change and where to go from here / Hope Jahren.

This is an impassioned open letter to humanity as we stand at the crossroads of survival and extinction. Jahren celebrates the long history of our enterprising spirit--which has tamed wild crops, cured diseases, and sent us to the moon--but also shows how that spirit has created excesses that are quickly warming our planet to dangerous levels. In short, highly readable chapters, she takes us through the science behind the key inventions--from electric power to large-scale farming and automobiles--that, even as they help us, release untenable amounts of carbon dioxide. She explains the current and projected consequences of greenhouse gases--from superstorms to rising sea levels--and the science-based tools that could help us fight back. At once an explainer on the mechanisms of warming and a capsule history of human development, The Story of More illuminates the link between our consumption habits and our endangered earth. It is the essential pocket primer on climate change that will leave an indelible impact on everyone who reads it.
Author: Jahren, Hope
Published: London : Fleet, 2020.
208 pages ; 20 cm.

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Environment - 363.73874 JAH - Available - 010213116

Solar guerrilla : constructive responses to climate change / book editor and exhibition curator, Maya Vinitsky ; text editing and Hebrew translation, Daphna Raz ; English editing, Talya Halkin.

The Tel Aviv Museum of Art has sought to contribute to the public discourse on this subject [climate change] through an exhibition and book. This book presents new activist developments and innovations in the fields of architecture and design.This project partakes of the museum's larger commitment, in parallel to both global and local discourses, to exploring our relationship to the environment through a series of projects in the fields of architecture and design, art and craft. The current exhibition showcases a series of interdisciplinary collaborations with a range of public and private institutions, commercial companies, and professionals around the world.
Published: Tel Aviv, Isreal : Tel Aviv Museum of Art ; Munich, Germany : Hirmer, 2019.
339 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 22 cm.

Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - House and Garden - 720.47 SOL - Available - 010364429