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Better Things
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How often have you seen a label on a product proclaiming it to be made from 'recycled material', 'bioplastic' or similar, without it giving any details of the concrete environmental benefits? What do these terms really mean? A drive for greater transparency and demonstrable environmental benefits i...
How often have you seen a label on a product proclaiming it to be made from 'recycled material', 'bioplastic' or similar, without it giving any details of the concrete environmental benefits? What do these terms really mean? A drive for greater transparency and demonstrable environmental benefits is happening in product design, through emerging legislation and standards, and consumer demand for more sustainable products and unambiguous marketing. In <i>Better Things: Materials for Sustainable Product Design</i>, Daniel Liden seeks to tackle the lazy 'greenwashing' terminology we see every day and answer these questions, providing a guide for product designers, manufacturers and consumers wishing to make better and more informed decisions about materials. The book comprises six chapters devoted to material categories - plastics, textiles, metals, ceramics and glass, wood and paper - and a seventh chapter covering emerging sustainable technologies. Each chapter includes interviews with industry experts, as well as photos, diagrams, environmental impact data, general material properties and more.
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Underland
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The highly anticipated new book from the internationally bestselling, prize-winning author of Landmarks, The Lost Words and The Old Ways 'You'd be crazy not to read this book' The Sunday Times 'Underland is a magnificent feat of writing, travelling and thinking that feels genuin...
<p>The highly anticipated new book from the internationally bestselling, prize-winning author of Landmarks, The Lost Words and The Old Ways 'You'd be crazy not to read this book' The Sunday Times 'Underland is a magnificent feat of writing, travelling and thinking that feels genuinely frontier pushing, unsettling and exploratory' Evening Standard Discover the hidden worlds beneath our feet... In Underland, Robert Macfarlane takes us on a journey into the worlds beneath our feet. From the ice-blue depths of Greenland's glaciers, to the underground networks by which trees communicate, from Bronze Age burial chambers to the rock art of remote Arctic sea-caves, this is a deep-time voyage into the planet's past and future. Global in its geography, gripping in its voice and haunting in its implications, Underland is a work of huge range and power, and a remarkable new chapter in Macfarlane's long-term exploration of landscape and the human heart. </p>
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Sns Economic Policy Council Report 2020 - Swedish Policy For Global Climate
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Climate policy is a complex area that requires input from many different perspectives. The SNS Economic Policy Council 2020 comprises nine researchers from a range of disciplines, with different backgrounds and with varied opinions on the debate surrounding climate policy. They analyse Swedish clim...
<p>Climate policy is a complex area that requires input from many different perspectives. The SNS Economic Policy Council 2020 comprises nine researchers from a range of disciplines, with different backgrounds and with varied opinions on the debate surrounding climate policy. They analyse Swedish climate policy in a global context, describing the causes and consequences of climate change and focusing on how policy can achieve the desired reductions in carbon emissions. The report also provides answers to questions that are frequently discussed in the Swedish debate, such as the effectiveness of climate aid and whether Sweden should generate a larger surplus of fossil-free electricity for export. </p><p>The members of the SNS Economic Policy Council 2020 are John Hassler (chair), Björn Carlén, Jonas Eliasson, Filip Johnsson, Per Krusell, Therese Lindahl, Jonas Nycander, Åsa Romson, and Thomas Sterner. </p>
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Design For Sustainability Survival Guide
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Design for Sustainability Survival Guide concerns all the details on applying sustainability requirements in design. It is a critical and concise overview of the important facts from all imaginable angles. The book is written and illustrated to inform, support and inspire future designers. The guid...
<p>Design for Sustainability Survival Guide concerns all the details on applying sustainability requirements in design. It is a critical and concise overview of the important facts from all imaginable angles. The book is written and illustrated to inform, support and inspire future designers.<br/><br/>The guide covers everything in sustainability: from personal reader experience to universal guiding principles, from energy use and the flow of materials to the role of time, consumption, use, circularity and reduction.<br/><br/>It includes tips, principles and guidelines to nourish design projects from start to finish. New approaches beyond the conventional are introduced and current assumptions on economics, technology and design are pointed out throughout the book.</p>
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Dust
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DUST is unmistakably a major book in the making. This is a book with an extraordinary global story to tell, but - and - also with an ethical argument to advance. - Robert Macfarlane __________ Four-and-a-half billion years ago, Planet Earth was formed from a vast spinning nebula of cosmic dust, the...
<p><b>DUST is unmistakably a major book in the making. T</b><b>his is a book with an extraordinary global story to tell, but - and - also with an ethical argument to advance.</b> - Robert Macfarlane<br/>__________<br/><br/>Four-and-a-half billion years ago, Planet Earth was formed from a vast spinning nebula of cosmic dust, the detritus left over from the birth of the sun. Within the next hundred years, human life on swathes of the earth's surface will also end, in a haze of heat, drought and, again, dust.<br/><br/>Dust is the legacy of twentieth-century progress and a profound threat to life in the twenty-first. And yet it's something we hardly ever consider - so small and so mundane as to be beyond the threshold of thought.<br/><br/>All of history is recorded in the dust we create: the pollution we make, the fires we start, the chemicals we use, the volcanos that erupt. Now, for the first time DUST will examine this substance and reveal it's importance and the fascinating stories it has.</p>
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Fire Weather
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***AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER*** *Shortlisted for the BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION* 'Astounding on every page. John Vaillant is one of the great poetic chroniclers of the natural world' David Wallace-Wells 'No book feels timelier than John Vaillant's Fire Weather . . . an adrenaline-soake...
<p><b>***AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER***</b><br/><b>*Shortlisted for the BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION*<br/><br/></b><b>'Astounding on every page. John Vaillant is one of the great poetic chroniclers of the natural world' David Wallace-Wells</b><br/><br/>'<b>No book feels timelier than John Vaillant's <i>Fire Weather</i></b> . . . <b>an adrenaline-soaked nightmare that is impossible to put down' Cal Flyn, </b><i><b>The Times</b></i><br/><br/><b>A gripping account of this century's most intense urban fire, and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between humanity and fire's fierce energy.</b><br/><br/>In May 2016, Fort McMurray, Alberta, the hub of Canada's oil industry, was overrun by wildfire. The multi-billion-dollar disaster turned entire neighbourhoods into firebombs and drove 90,000 people from their homes in a single afternoon. Through the story of this apocalyptic conflagration, John Vaillant explores the past and the future of our ever-hotter, more flammable world.<br/><br/>For hundreds of millennia, fire has been a partner in our evolution, shaping culture and civilization. Yet in our age of intensifying climate change, we are seeing its destructive power unleashed in ways never before witnessed by human beings. With masterly prose and cinematic style, Vaillant delves into the intertwined histories of the oil industry and climate science, the unprecedented devastation wrought by modern wildfires, and the lives forever changed by these disasters. <i>Fire Weather</i> is urgent reading for our new century of fire.<br/><br/><b>'</b><b>A</b><b> towering achievement; an immense work of research, reflection and imagination'</b><b> Robert Macfarlane</b></p>
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Living Plantfully
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Lindsey Harrad is the former editor of the UK's bestselling and award-winning vegetarian magazine. In Living PLANTFULLY, she gathers together all the wellness wisdom she has acquired over 20 years of journalistic experience, as well as drawing on the advice and experience of trusted experts in food...
Lindsey Harrad is the former editor of the UK's bestselling and award-winning vegetarian magazine. In Living PLANTFULLY, she gathers together all the wellness wisdom she has acquired over 20 years of journalistic experience, as well as drawing on the advice and experience of trusted experts in food, health, gardening and sustainability to offer ideas, recipes and simple tips that anyone can do to help live a more plant-based, healthy and happy life. Broken into three sections; growing, cooking and living, LIVING PLANTFULLY, is not only a useful guide but also an inspirational journey, combining accessible evidence-based facts with practical, step-by-step ideas that will empower anyone to make changes in their homes and lives. Weaving in colourful facts and figures with the voices of relevant experts - including chefs and nutritionists, wellness experts, bloggers and sustainability heroes - along with plenty of quick-read box outs, clever tips and little nuggets of plant-based wisdom, this will be an informed but accessible guide that explores both why and how to embrace a more sustainable, plant-centred way of eating and living. Living more plantfully will help you save money, be healthier, live longer, connect with nature, all while being more socially responsible.
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A radically thought-provoking account of a major shift in how we understand our Earth, not simply as an inanimate planet on which life evolved, but rather as a planet that came to life, from the hear...
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