Penguin Books Australia

'Why don't we experiment on ourselves?'

When leading environmentalists Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie decided to tell the story of pollution in our modern world by using their own bodies as laboratories, they could not have known what they were about to discover.

They ingested and inhaled a host of things that surround us all the time, from mercury-laden tuna to flame-retardant chemicals in clothes and...

'Spencer Wells – explorer, geneticist, geographer and author – takes us on an exciting tour of the last 10,000 years of our history in order to forewarn us of what we shall have to deal with in the next 50 years'  JARED DIAMOND, AUTHOR OF GUNS, GERMS AND STEEL AND COLLAPSE

We have better and more comfortable lives in the Western world than we did a few generations ago. So why aren't...

Big problems call for small solutions.

Climate change, pollution, energy dependence – all big problems.   But if enough of us make lots of little changes in the way we live, we can turn the tide on those problems.

The Green Year is your guide to taking one small step every day toward becoming part of the solution.   For each day of the year it offers one simple inexpensive activity...