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Get Off the Grass ... and win a copy of the book

Win a copy of Get Off the Grass, the prescription for the economy by the late Sir Paul Callaghan and Professor Shaun Hendy, launched in Wellington last night.

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We're giving away a copy of Ecoman, the story of a sustainable business

Ecostore founder Malcolm Rands has written a book to explain how he built a successful, sustainable international business.

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She'll be reading Ecoman ...

Jane O'Loughlin of Wellington is the winner of Ecoman, the story of how Ecostore founder Malcolm Rands developed an international business out of eco-friendly cleaning products.

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Take a searching look at our rivers ... and be in the draw to win a copy of...

This year DAVID YOUNG updated his 1986 historical geography Faces of the River. His new book is entitled, Rivers: New Zealand's Shared Legacy, from Random House. In the politically and ecologically...

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Wildlife writer wins our book draw

Veteran environmentalist Julian Fitter will be able to spend his Christmas break reading about rivers ... not birds.

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We're giving away a copy of Dirty Politics

Missed out on a copy of Dirty Politics, the book which uses private emails between politicians, bloggers and PR people to shine a little light on the murkier side of our politics? We've got a copy to...

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Worth reading ... a lucky winner

Our free copy of Dirty Politics, Nicky Hager's expose of how politics is practised in New Zealand, at least by some, goes to Amelia Guy-Meakin. Congratulations - your book is on its way.

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Worth listening to ... The Nukes

New Zealand band The Nukes captures the essence of the country's environmental problems in Last Kauri found on their just-released album Lucky Ones.

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Worth reading ... we're giving away a copy of MiStory

With talk of mass surveillance of New Zealanders dominating the news, Philip Temple's new novel is timely.

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And the winner is ...

The winner of a copy of MiStory, Philip Temple's cli-fi story set in a futuristic New Zealand, is the out-going Labour MP and climate change spokesperson Moana Mackey.

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WORTH SEEING … Thin Ice

New Zealand scientist Simon Lamb's award-winning film Thin Ice will have a public screening in Hamilton next week. Lamb, a geologist, filmed the documentary himself, with a view to finding out whether...

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Worth listening to ... Naomi Klein on climate change

In her latest book, This Changes Everything, Canadian writer and activist Naomi Klein tackles the issue of climate change through a familiar prism: capitalism.

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Tim Flannery gives us hope ... and we're giving away a of copy of his new book

Tim Flannery says he's more hopeful now than he has been in years, thanks to the carbon-storing potential of technologies being developed by businesses all over the world. Email your name and address...

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Lucky Lotte wins Professor Tim's new book

Lotte Blair of Wellington is the winner of Professor Tim Flannery's new book, Atmosphere of Hope.  

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How we see ourselves in the year 2100

Most books report on what has already happened. John O'Brien has written one that describes the future.

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FREE! A Kiwis' view of climate change

If you want to understand climate change and what we need to do about it, two new Bridget Williams Books Texts will help.

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Climate world behind the wall

The US-Mexico border wall in Arizona WHAT WOULD it be like to live behind a barrier built to keep the world out? The Wall explores a post-climate change world.

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NEW READ: Only a revolution can cool the world

Fossil fuels make the world's wheels go round - for much longer? AN ACADEMIC book on fossil fuel consumption reaches a startling conclusion: only a climate revolution can force governments to act to...

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Net Zero: How we stop causing climate change

Climate change won't be tackled until the world stops consuming vast amounts of imported goods  THE WORLD is nowhere near tackling the climate crisis, says a new book by an Oxford scholar, Net Zero:...

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To win the new climate war, we need a new strategy: book review

  THE well-known US climatologist Michael E. Mann is no pussyfooter. He likes to provoke, which makes his new book downright entertaining.

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New book tells 1,001 firsthand stories of climate change from around the world

 '1,001 Voices on Climate Change' aims to humanise the issue and inspire action

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The Lorax is Rod Carr's pick for best climate change related fiction book of...

The Lorax by Dr Seuss is Climate Change Commission chair Rod Carr's choice for the best fiction book relating to climate change in the inaugural Carbon News Climate Change Summer Reading list.

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