Hell in a handbasket..?

Your library strives to include resources that approach current thinking on the global stage. Sustainability and environmental issues are forefront at this time - politically, economically and socially - and continue to impact on classroom education. These books and DVDs encourage debate whilst offering an informed grounding in an ongoing international discussion.

Small Fortunes: Microcredit and the Future of Poverty (DVD)

Small Fortunes explores microcredit as a growing answer to poverty Borrowers from around the world tell their own stories, while microfinance luminaries share perspectives about this important new movement. Find it: Sale campus 332.1091724 SMA

Climate Change: What is the future of our world? (DVD)

Sir David Attenborough undertakes a personal journey to discover how global warming is changing the planet he knows so well. Examining the evidence for this confusing phenomenon, Sir David finds out what’s causing it and whether mankind is to blame. Find it: Sale Campus 551.6 CLI

147 Practical Tips for Teaching Sustainability: Connecting the Environment, the Economy, and Society

Exploring ideas about sustainability, the authors of this volume demonstrate exciting situations in which sustainability is critical. Find it: Sale campus 338.927071 ONE

Sustainability Education: Perspectives and Practice across Higher Education

This book maps out the ground, both for those already some way down the sustainability road and those wanting to take first steps, whether policy makers and senior managers or curriculum developers and deliverers. Find it: Sale campus 338.43378 SUS

An Inconvenient Truth(DVD)

Former US Vice President Al Gore presents a compelling view of the future of our planet. Find it: Bairnsdale and Sale campus 363.738 INC

The Story of Stuff (DVD)

From the time we arise in the morning until after we fall asleep, we participate in a continuous cycle of using stuff that affects ourselves, other people, animals and the planet. Find it: Bairnsdale and Sale campus 339.47 STO

e2 Energy (DVD)
e2 Transport (DVD)
e2 Design (DVD)

e2 is a series which systematically examines the environmental viability of all aspects of modern living. Whether it is where we live and play, what we eat and drink, how we travel, the air we breathe or how we clothe ourselves.

Also on DVD: Climate Wars, The Greenhouse Effect: Climate Change and Global Warming, Clean Energy – Clean Nature: a Climate Friendly Region, Recipes for Disaster.

Thoughts from the famous, not so famous, the wise, and almost forgotten

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"Information is the currency of democracy." Thomas Jefferson