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The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. You can find out more and link to a recording of the talk on YouTube here. You can watch the YouTube recording here.Ĥ February 2021 – Charles Dowding on No Dig Gardening If you are interested in learning more about this topic, take a look at our Beginners Guide to Green Investing.Ĥ March 2021 – Dave Goulson on The Garden Jungleįor our second Green Books event we had the wonderful Dave Goulson talking about his latest bestselling book “The Garden Jungle – Gardening to Save the Planet.” She spoke eloquently and explained how investing responsibly can be one of the most powerful ways that you can fight climate change.
If you missed it live, you can see the recording on YouTube here.ġ April 2021 – Alice Ross on Investing to Save the Planetįor the third in our Green Books series, Financial Times journalist Alice Ross spoke about her new book, “Investing to save the planet: How your money can make a difference”. – Chris Goodall on What We Need to Do Nowįor our fourth Green Books event we spoke to leading environmental author, Chris Goodall, about his new book “What We Need To Do Now – for a Zero Carbon Future.” This urgent, practical and inspiring book signals a green new deal for Britain.
You can see the recording on YouTube here. How can gardening relieve stress and help us look after our mental health? What lies behind the restorative power of the natural world? For our fifth Green Books talk, Sue Stuart-Smith spoke with Paul Hannam about her new book “The Well Gardened Mind.” The book investigates the magic that many gardeners have known for years – working with nature can radically transform our health, wellbeing and confidence.
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Henry Mance spoke about his journey exploring our relationship with animals and would take not just to think like animal-lovers, but to act like animal-lovers.ġ July 2021: Green Books with Rob Hopkinsįor the last in the spring series of Green Books, we were lucky enough to have Rob Hopkins along to speak about his new book “ From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want” Rob was one of the founders of the Transition Town movements, and the book challenges us all to re-imagine what the future could be like and we need.ģ June 2021 – Sue-Stuart Smith on “The Well Gardened Mind” Charles's book is a comprehensive, practical and inspiring guide.With factory farming, deforestation and climate change, this is not a great time to be a non-human animal. “Winter with your own vegetables is a much better place to be. Green Books also distributes selected titles from Chelsea Green Publishing Company of White River Junction, Vermont, who specialise in books on renewable energy, organic gardening and ecological building. They are all available at significant discounts from the Green Books website, or through good bookshops and online retailers. Many of our titles are also available as eBooks.
We also publish books with Transition Network – The Transition Companion by Rob Hopkins, founder of the Transition movement, being the most recent.Īll our recent books are printed on FSC or recycled paper, within 150 miles as the crow flies from our offices in Devon – thus reducing ‘book miles’ and our carbon footprint. We’re a member of the Schumacher Circle we publish the Schumacher Briefings, and we brought out Alias Papa, a life of Fritz Schumacher by his daughter Barbara Wood in Summer 2011. The Breakdown of Nations by Leopold Kohr has recently leapt to the top of our bestseller list due to an article by Paul Kingsnorth in The Guardian.
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Our bestselling titles include How to Grow Winter Vegetables by organic ‘no-dig’ expert Charles Dowding, Building with Straw Bales by Barbara Jones, Grow Your Food for Free (well, almost) by Dave Hamilton, and Martin Crawford’s Creating a Forest Garden. We want our books to reach many kinds of people – not only those who are already convinced that we need to change our ways of thinking and living, but also those who are looking for new ideas, approaches and practical information about how to live a more ecological lifestyle. GREEN BOOKS is the UK's largest independent environmental publishing company, producing books on a wide range of ecological and cultural issues, from eco-building and organic gardening to philosophy and green economics.
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