| HOW WE CAN TURN CLIMATE CHANGE INTO A CHANCE FOR A BETTER LIFE
We tend to see climate change as an overwhelmingly daunting threat requiring impossible sacrifices. But it's time to rethink say a range of notable experts brought together by nef and the Open University - who share a conviction that living well need not cost the earth.
For a copy of what the Times called an "ace new book" and "one to perk you up", BBC Environment Analyst Roger Harrabin described as "one of the finest essays I have seen on the predicament we are in", and author Philip Pullman said is "full of good things" visit Amazon and all good bookshops.
Do Good Lives Have to Cost the Earth? edited by Andrew Simms, nef policy director and Joe Smith of the Open University, includes among other contributions, an exclusive interview with author Philip Pullman, who champions a new breed of positive environmentalism, and decries the universal acid of the market...
PHILIP PULLMAN, A C GRAYLING, OLIVER JAMES, JOHN BIRD on Love and Happiness, ANITA RODDICK, ADAIR TURNER, LARRY ELLIOTT on Good Money, HUGH FEARNLEY-WHITTINGSTALL, ROSIE BOYCOTT on Good Food, WAYNE HEMINGWAY, STEPHEN BAYLEY, KEVIN MCCLOUD on Good Designs, DAVID CAMERON, HILARY BENN on Good Politics, TOM HODGKINSON on a Good Time.
"Impassable ecological obstacles now lie on the path down which we chase the shadows of conspicuous consumption to deliver our well-being. But another way is not only possible, it is better, richer and more enduring," AC Grayling, Do Good Lives Have to Cost the Earth?
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