Bookshelf
We have a few books about the Climate Crisis on our bookshelf, and on various aspects of Biodiversity, which you would be welcome to borrow or to take, read and pass on. Let us know if there is something here you would like to read.
Given Half a Chance:
Ten ways to save the world
Ed Davey, 2019. Unbound, London. 210pp. Paperback
"How to address the world’s environmental challenges and make life better and more peaceful for people, nature, and the planet"
https://www.wri.org/profile/edward-davey
No, Not that Ed Davey. This Ed Davey is ...
Policy and International Engagement Director of the Food and Land Use Coalition (FOLU) where he advocates for global policy change on food and land use systems, working with national governments, international institutions and FOLU's Ambassadors.
In this role, he served as an adviser to the UK government during its Presidency of COP26 and was involved in the preparation of the Glasgow Leaders Declaration on Forests and Land Use.
39 Ways to Save the Planet:
Real world solutions to Climate Change - and the people making them happen
Tom Heap, 2021. BBC Books, London. 260pp. Hardback
https://www.goodreads.com (review)
"We got ourselves into this. Here's how we can get ourselves out.
We know the problem: the amount of biodiversity loss, the scale of waste and pollution, the amount of greenhouse gas we pump into the air... it's unsustainable. We have to do something."
Tom Heap is the Rural Affairs Correspondent of BBC News and a presenter best known for his contributions to the BBC One programmes Countryfile and Panorama, and the BBC Radio 4 programme Costing the Earth.
Fire, Storm & Flood:
The violence of Climate Change
James Dyke, 2021. Head of Zeus, London. 318pp. Hardback
https://www.goodreads.com/ (review)
"Fire, Storm & Flood is an unflinching photographic record of the epic effects of a violent climate, from the earliest extinction events to the present. Violent geologic events have ravaged the Earth since time began, spanning the vast eons of our planet's existence; in which we witness climate chaos forced by unnatural global warming.
It uses often emotional and moving imagery to drive home the enormity of climatic events, offering a sweeping acknowledgment of our crowded planet's heartbreaking vulnerability and show-stopping beauty."
James Dyke is an academic, writer, and author. He is an Associate Professor in Earth System Science, and Assistant Director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter
Wilding:
The return of Nature to a British farm
Isabella Tree, 2018. Picador, London. 362pp. Paperback
https://www.theguardian.com/books/ (review)
Wilding: the return of nature to a British farm describes the creation of Knepp Wildland, the first large-scale rewilding project in lowland England.
"The extraordinary rewilding of the Knepp Castle estate in West Sussex. Conservation pioneers Isabella Tree and Charlie Burrell have abandoned industrial farming practices and allowed nature to take over their 3,500-acre estate, with remarkable results."
Isabella Tree is a British author and travel journalist.
On Gallows Down:
Place, protest and belonging
Nicola Chester, 2021. Chelsea Green, London. 244pp. Hardback
https://www.goodreads.com/ (review)
"Part nature writing, part memoir, On Gallows Down is an essential, unforgettable read for fans of Helen Macdonald, Melissa Harrison and Isabella Tree."
Nicola Chester won the BBC Wildlife Magazine's Nature Writer of the Year Award - this is her first book: the story of a life shaped by landscape; of an enduring love of nature and the fierce desire to protect it - living as part of the rural working class in a 'tied cottage' on a country estate - and what it takes to feel like you belong.
On Gallows Down is a book about hope - from the rewilding of Greenham Common after the missiles left to how, as a new mother, Nicola walked the chalk hills to give her children roots, teaching them names and waymarks to find their way home. It is about the songs of the nightingale and cuckoo - whose return she waits for - the red kites, fieldfares, skylarks and lapwings that accompany her, the badger cubs she watches at night and the velvety mole she finds in her garden."
Nicola Chester is a writer, school librarian and tenant on a farm estate in the North Wessex Downs
The Overstory (a novel)
Richard Powers, 2018. Penguin, London. 625pp, Paperback
https://www.goodreads.com/ (review)
"The Overstory is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of - and paean to - the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond."
Richard Powers is an American novelist who writes modern technology and science-themed stories
"There was something fitting about hearing the news that Richard Powers’s The Overstory had been awarded the Pulitzer prize just as Extinction Rebellion activists took to the streets of London."
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/
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