10. Zero Waste: Simple Life Hacks to Drastically Reduce Your Trash
We have a worldwide trash epidemic. What if there were a simple―and fun―way for you to make a difference? What if you could take charge of your own waste, reduce your carbon footprint, and make an individual impact on an already fragile environment?
9. No. More. Plastic.: What You Can Do To Make A Difference
Start now. All it takes is 2 minutes of your time.
Martin Dorey, anti-plastics expert, has been working to save our beaches from plastic for the past 10 years. His Beach Clean Foundation and global call to arms #2minutebeachclean has been taken up by people all over the world, and has proven that collective small actions can add up to a big difference.
8. Sustainable Home: Practical Projects, Tips and Advice for Maintaining a More Eco-friendly Household
Sustainable lifestyle blogger and professional Christine Liu takes you on a tour through the rooms of your home – the living area, kitchen, bedroom and bathroom – offering tips, tricks and 18 step-by-step projects designed to help you lead a more low-impact lifestyle. Whether its by making your own toothpaste, converting to renewable energy sources, reducing your consumption of plastic, growing your own herb garden or upcycling old pieces of furniture, there are numerous ways – both big and small – to make a difference.
7. Turning the Tide on Plastic: How Humanity (And You) Can Make Our Globe Clean Again
Plastic flows into our lives from every direction and most of it is not recycled. Instead it is incinerated or ends up in landfill, where it will sit for hundreds of years, or enters the world’s seas where it fragments into tiny pieces to become microplastics – the environmental scourge of our times.
So now is the time to speak up, take action and demand the change you want to see in the ocean, in the supermarket aisles and on the streets. It’s time to turn the tide on plastic, and this book will show you how.
6. How to Live Plastic Free: A Day in the Life of a Plastic Detox
Whether you decide to go plastic free for an hour, a day or a year, this book will equip you with little steps we can each take to make a big difference.
Let’s turn the tide on plastic now – our oceans will thank you for it.
5. Live Green: 52 Step For A More Sustainable Life
Live Green is a practical guide of 52 changes – one for each week of the year – you can make to your home and lifestyle to reduce your impact on the environment. Tackling all areas of your life from your cleaning routine, home furnishings, food shopping, fashion choices, natural beauty and Christmas, this book has all the ingredients to help you achieve a more sustainable year.
4. How to Give Up Plastic: Simple Steps to Living Consciously on Our Blue Planet
Around 12.7 million tonnes of plastic are entering the ocean every year, killing over 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals.
This accessible guide, written by the campaigner at the forefront of the anti-plastic movement, will help you make the small changes that make a big difference, from buying a reusable coffee cup to running a clean-up at your local park or beach.
8. The Little Book of Going Green: Ways to Make the World a Better Place
‘The Little Book of Going Green’ aims to shed light on the ways humans are harming the environment, from pollution and deforestation to industrial production and farming methods. Filled with facts, theories and tips on how we can do our bit for the planet, this is your one-stop guide to making every aspect of your life earth-friendly.
9. My Zero-Waste Kitchen: Easy Ways to Eat Waste Free
From a text message to a war, from a Valentine’s rose to a flight or even having a child, ‘How Bad are Bananas?’ gives us the carbon answers we need and provides plenty of revelations. By talking through a hundred or so items, Mike Berners-Lee sets out to give us a carbon instinct for the footprint of literally anything we do, buy and think about. He helps us pick our battles by laying out the orders of magnitude. The book ranges from the everyday (foods, books, plastic bags, bikes, flights, baths…) and the global (deforestation, data centres, rice production, the World Cup, volcanoes, …) Be warned, some of the things you thought you knew about green living may be about to be turned on their head. Never preachy but packed full of information and always entertaining
1. F**k Plastic: 101 Ways to Free Yourself from Plastic and Save the World
Governments, brands and corporations around the globe are on the case to solve the plastic epidemic, but whilst we wait for the effects of those initiatives to trickle through and alternatives to plastic to be found, let’s hit the ground running. In this proactive illustrated book, you’ll find 101 simple ways to cut plastic.
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