There has been an unmistakable boom in parks in Europe since the 1990s. This richly illustrated book discusses what role parks may play in promoting sustainable development.

There has been an unmistakable boom in parks in Europe since the 1990s. This richly illustrated book discusses what role parks may play in promoting sustainable development.

This book outlines a politics of sufficiency that will make it easier to live with fewer resources but with stronger relationships, enabling us to reduce the speed, complexity, clutter and commercialization currently blighting our lives.

 Nobel Peace Laureate Muhammad Yunus and founder of Grameen Bank proposes a route out of poverty in this insightful work.

This Handbook is an essential guide to realising a supremely comfortable, healthy and durable home with exceptionally low energy costs.

This book looks at all aspects of polytunnel use from planning your purchase to harvesting the rewards. It includes a detailed guide on how polytunnels are put up and maintained.

Shows how permaculture is practised in four very different settings: a Hampshire back garden; a City Challenge project in Bradford; a community co-op in Devon; and a small farm in the Forest of Dean.

With the charm of Beryl Cook and the quirkiness of Stanley Spencer, Ben Hartley's childlike drawings of everyday country life are accompanied by wry and witty comments.

At great personal risk and with forged travel documents, George Monbiot bluffed, cheated and forced his way into the remotest tropical place in the world Ñ the forbidden territories of Irian Jaya, Indonesia Ñ home to tribes who are now, along with their forest land, being systematically obliterated.