Environment

A journey through time and around the world to uncover water's true nature, and how it can help us adapt to climate change.

Climate change is the greatest challenge of our generation - we hear it all the time. It has almost become a refrain. But do we really believe it? What if we were to let those words settle a little, penetrate minds and hearts deeply, and accept their troubling, terrifying truth? What if we were to understand that climate change isn’t something far away out there in space and time, but something that affects us here and now?

A really useful introduction to tackling climate change, for young children. The Arctic ice is melting and the polar bears need our help. They come to Warmland to explain what's really going wrong. Luckily they find a group of lively, sparky kids who jump into action and draw up a BRILLIANT PLAN.

People hunting monkeys in the jungle once devised a simple yet effective trap: When the creature found a banana in a large jar with a narrow neck, it would plunge its paw in to retrieve it. But it couldn t let go. And unless the monkey released the banana, it was stuck.

What can we really do about the climate emergency? 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.

It draws on the experience of dozens of activists, organisers and researchers across every habitable continent - from radical psychiatrists and youth organisers to co-operative builders in flooded Pakistan, activists in Nigeria and earth defenders in indigenous Mexico - to outline models for recovery and post-traumatic growth.

Dare To Be Great explores how anyone can open pathways for themselves and for our society as a whole to become truly great. This book is a call to arms for the changing world in which we live - a world that needs our greatness now more than ever.