Eco Living
These cheese knives have been made from recycled timber from demolished houses, bridges and other...
These cheese knives have been made from recycled timber from demolished houses, bridges and other structures, as well as reclaimed timber from felled garden and street trees. Available in assorted timbers: If you would like a specific timber, please let us know your preference in the 'Add a note to your order' box at the bottom of your cart. If your preferred timber is not currently available, we will contact you with alternative options.
$39.00
Soil: The incredible story of what keeps the earth, and us, healthyMatthew Evans What we do to th...
Soil: The incredible story of what keeps the earth, and us, healthyMatthew Evans What we do to the soil, we do to ourselves. 'Soil' is the unlikely story of our most maligned resource as swashbuckling hero. A saga of bombs, ice ages and civilisations falling. Of ancient hunger, modern sicknesses and gastronomic delight. It features poison gas, climate collapse and a mind-blowing explanation of how rain is formed. For too long, we've not only neglected the land beneath us, we've squandered and...
$34.95
Treading Lightly: The hidden wisdom of the world's oldest peopleKarl-Erik Sveiby and Tex Skuthorp...
Treading Lightly: The hidden wisdom of the world's oldest peopleKarl-Erik Sveiby and Tex Skuthorpe We are consuming more than our earth can provide. In Australia, cities and towns struggle to maintain a reliable water supply, climate change triggers droughts which devastate farmland, and fish stocks are running low. It is increasingly clear that we are heading towards collapse if we don't change direction. Aboriginal people taught themselves thousands of years ago how to live sustainably in A...
$35.00
Wild Mushrooming: A Guide for ForagersAlison Pouliot and Tom May Fungi are diverse, delicious and...
Wild Mushrooming: A Guide for ForagersAlison Pouliot and Tom May Fungi are diverse, delicious and sometimes deadly. With interest in foraging for wild food on the rise, learning to accurately identify fungi reduces both poisoning risk to humans and harm to the environment. This extensively illustrated guide takes a 'slow mushrooming' approach – providing the information to correctly identify a few edible species thoroughly, rather than many superficially. ‘Wild Mushrooming: A Guide for Forage...
$49.95
The Bee Friendly Garden: Easy ways to help the bees and make your garden growDoug Purdie A grower...
The Bee Friendly Garden: Easy ways to help the bees and make your garden growDoug Purdie A grower's handbook to attracting bees and other beneficial insects. Bees are our most important pollinators and they are in decline the world over. They love to live in urban environments, where it's a short flight path from one type of plant to the next. But conventional gardens that favour lawns and pesticides over flowers and edible plants are scaring the good bugs away. 'The Bee Friendly Garden' is a...
$39.95
The Waterwise Australian Native Garden
The Waterwise Australian Native Garden: A practical guide to garden design, plant selection and m...
The Waterwise Australian Native Garden: A practical guide to garden design, plant selection and much moreAngus Stewart and AB Bishop First published as 'The Australian Native Garden' There's never been a more crucial time to droughtproof your garden and to consider Australian native plants as a key component in your outdoor space. This award-winning practical volume, from two of the country's foremost horticultural experts, offers everything you need to know about designing and growing a gard...
$45.00
Full Circle: A search for the world that comes nextScott Ludlam A visionary book for our wild tim...
Full Circle: A search for the world that comes nextScott Ludlam A visionary book for our wild times. In 'Full Circle', Scott Ludlam draws on his unique experience as senator and activist to capture our world on a precipice and explore what comes next. We are now in the Anthropocene - humans are changing the earth's climate irreversibly, and political, human and natural systems are on the cusp of collapse. Ludlam shines a light on the bankruptcy of the financial and political systems that have...
$36.95
The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and NaturePeter Wohlleben Bestsel...
The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and NaturePeter Wohlleben Bestselling author and forester Peter Wohlleben reveals the hidden interactions between humans and trees, and how reconnecting with the natural world is the key to our survival. From the New York Times bestselling author of 'The Hidden Life of Trees' comes a powerful return to the forest, where trees have heartbeats and roots are like brains that extend underground. Where the colour green calms us, and t...
$36.95
Use it All: The Cornersmith guide to a more sustainable kitchenAlex Elliott-Howery and Jaimee Edw...
Use it All: The Cornersmith guide to a more sustainable kitchenAlex Elliott-Howery and Jaimee Edwards Buy less, buy whole, use it all This practical handbook is an invitation to reduce food waste while eating generously. It's a book for people juggling real life and trying to make better choices in their kitchens. For years Alex Elliott-Howery and Jaimee Edwards, from boundary-breaking food community Cornersmith, experimented in their home kitchens to figure out how to feed their families ef...
$39.95
This One Wild and Precious Life
This One Wild and Precious Life: A hopeful path forward in a fractured worldSarah Wilson Will you...
This One Wild and Precious Life: A hopeful path forward in a fractured worldSarah Wilson Will you sleep through the revolution? Or do you want to wake up and reclaim your one wild and precious life? We live in truly overwhelming times. The climate crisis, political polarisation, racial injustice and coronavirus have left many of us in a state of spiritual PTSD. We have retreated, morally and psychologically; we are experiencing a crisis of disconnection - from one another, from our true value...
$34.95
The Southwest: Australia's Biodiversity HotspotVictoria Laurie Victoria Laurie offers us in words...
The Southwest: Australia's Biodiversity HotspotVictoria Laurie Victoria Laurie offers us in words and pictures the southwest of Australia, a land triangle that encompasses a multitude of natural worlds. One third of all known Australian plant species is found growing in the southwest, and the region has been designated 'Australia's Global Biodiversity Hotspot,' one of only thirty-four such hotspots in the world and the only one on this continent. Driven by her own passion for this country, La...
$45.00
Nandi Chinna The poems in The Future Keepers honour ecosystems and the custodians of future ecolo...
Nandi Chinna The poems in The Future Keepers honour ecosystems and the custodians of future ecologies. They navigate the poet's own embodied experiences of change and succession - of family, community and place. From the research scientists, gardeners, birds and plants of Kings Park, to the activism and ecosystems of the Beeliar Wetlands, to the poet's own inherited landscapes, these poems evoke mutuality and exchange in speaking of the gifts we receive from being open to encounters with othe...
$24.95