Treading Softly - Environmentally considerate living in a rural english home and garden

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• "Hard Rain"
    Mark Edwards(2009)
• "The Urgency of Now",
    Lloyd Timberlake (2009)
• "Heat",
    George Monbiot (2006)
• "The Revenge of Gaia",
    James Lovelock (2006)
• "How many lightbulbs does it take to change a planet?",
    Tony Juniper (2007) Signed!
• "Silent Spring",
    Rachel Carson (1962)
• "Unbowed",
    Wangari Maathai (2007)
• "Capitalism as if the World matters",
    Jonathan Porritt (2005)
• "Eden",
    Tim Smit (2005)
• "The Secret Life of Trees",
    Colin Tudge (2005)
• "Rubbish",
    Richard Girling (2005)
• "Enough",
    John Naish (2008)
• "The Great Food Gamble",
    John Humphrys (2001)
• "Not on the Label",
    Felicity Lawrence (2004)
• "The Good Shopping Guide",
    Ethical Marketing Group (2004)
• "The Green Consumer Guide"
    Elkington & Hailes (1988) Foreword by Anita Roddick
• "How Bad are Bananas? - The Carbon Footprint of Everything"
    Mike Berners-Lee (2010)
• "The Garden Jungle"
    Dave Goulson (2019).
• "Wilding"
    Isabella Tree (2018).
• "Rewild Yourself"
    Simon Barnes (2018)
• "The Accidental Countryside"
     Stephen Moss (2020)
• " Manifesto"
    Dale Vince (2020)
• " ReBirding"
    Dominic MacDonald (2020)
• "The Joyful Environmentalist"
     Isabel Losada (2020)

Bibliography - Newspaper Columns

• "Eco Worrier"
    Anna Shepard, The Times. (Noughties). Sadly no longer happening but absolutely inspirational at the time.

Bibliography - Films and Documentaries

• BBC Natural History Unit TV film
  "Message in the Waves" (2 min trailer) about global plastic pollution.
  
  
• "An Inconvenient Truth" Al Gore (10 min trailer).
  
  
• "The Age of Stupid" (2 min trailer) - Climate Change from a Future Perspective.
  
  
• "A Farm for the Future" BBC Natural World - (5 x 10 mins) -
   Rebecca Hosking on low energy farming in Devon in the future.(49 minutes).
  
  
• "Life after Growth" (25 mins) by Leah Temper and Claudia Medina. "Work Less. Consume Less. Live More." ...........but only if you live in a developed country in the northern hemisphere.
  
  
• The Gulf Stream and the Next Ice Age". (51mins) by Nicolas  Koutsikas. An explanation of the colder British winters.
  
  
• "Food Inc" (2008) (2 min trailer) by Robert Kenner. A depressing, sad  and blood boiling account of America's corporate controlled food  industry.
  
  
• "Cowspiracy" (2014) (90 mins) Documentary by Leonardo di Caprio. US focussed documentary about the massive impact that the Agriculture and Livestsock industries are having on climate change and the huge suppression of the subject in the USA by all parties.
  
  
• "What the Health" (2017) the link between diet and disease, and the billions of dollars at stake in the healthcare, pharmaceutical and food industries.