by NRB | 14 Mar 2024 | Non-fiction |
Renewable energy requires significant quantities of minerals. Can mining companies be trusted to supply them responsibly? Christopher Pollon is a Canadian journalist who has spent the past two decades ‘writing about natural resources, including the environmental and...
by NRB | 20 Jan 2022 | Non-fiction |
In this survey from the ground up, Gabrielle Chan argues we all have a stake in the future of farming. Do you give a f*ck about farming? You’d perhaps be forgiven for a low-energy response to this brusque question. There’s a lot going on at the moment, and you might...
by NRB | 31 Aug 2021 | Non-fiction |
David Lindenmayer’s homage to the beauty of the Victorian Central Highlands and Meg Lowman’s memoir of a career spent among the treetops both explore the importance of our forests. These two books are very different but the purpose of both is the same: to...
by NRB | 3 Aug 2021 | Non-fiction |
Part memoir, part urgent appeal, Claire Dunn’s new book explores how our urban lives can become more intimate with nature. For many of us, the world of lockdown has been about life inside four walls: comfy clothes, home schooling and baking experiments under the...
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