Raw Foundation Publications

Books

The Toxic Consumer
Silent Spring
An Inconvenient Truth
Bottled and Sold
The Secret Life of Stuff
Affluenza
The High Price of Materialism
No Logo
When Corporations Rule The World
The Vanishing Face of Gaia
The Limits TO Growth
How One Shop Came Out On Top...
Slow Death by Rubber Duck
State Of The World 2009

Ashton, K. and Salter Green, E. (2006)
The toxic consumer.
Bath: Impact Publishing Ltd.
The number of man-made chemicals in everyday consumer products is on the increase and it is no longer controversial to claim that many are toxic and compromise our health and yet we are unwittingly and constantly exposed to them. All of us have toxic chemicals in us, even new-born babies. The Toxic Consumer presents the facts about the chemicals that surround us in our 21st Century lifestyles, and provides easy-to-follow practical advice on how to minimise your exposure.
www.amazon.co.uk/toxic-consumer-chemicals-Chemicals-Essentials/dp/1904601421

Carson, R. (1962)
Silent Spring.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Now recognised as one of the most influential books of the Twentieth Century, Silent Spring exposed the destruction of wildlife through the widespread use of pesticides. Despite condemnation in the press and heavy-handed attempts by the chemical industry to ban the book, Rachel Carson succeeded in creating a new public awareness of the environment which led to changes in government policy and inspired the modern ecological movement.
www.amazon.co.uk/Silent-Spring-Rachel-Carson/dp/0618249060

Gore, A. (2009)
An Inconvenient Truth
London: Bloomsbury Publishing
The truth about the climate crisis is an inconvenient one that means we are going to have to change the way we live our lives. Our climate crisis may at times appear to be happening slowly, but in fact it has become a true planetary emergency and we must recognise that we are facing a crisis. So why is it that some leaders seem not to hear the clarion warnings? Are they resisting the truth because they know that the moment they acknowledge it, they will face a moral imperative to act? Is it simply more convenient to ignore the warnings?
www.amazon.co.uk/Inconvenient-Truth-Planetary-Emergency-Warming/dp/0747589062

Gleick, P (2010)
Bottled and Sold
Island Press.
Have we simply been hoodwinked by corporate executives or are there legitimate reasons to buy all those bottles? Gleick exposes the true reasons we've turned to the bottle, from fear-mongering by business interests and our own vanity to the breakdown of public systems and global inequities. Jewel-encrusted 'designer' H2O may be laughable, but the debate over commodifying water is deadly serious. It comes down to society's choices about the human right to water, the role of government and free markets, the importance of being 'green', and fundamental values. Gleick gets to the heart of the bottled water craze, exploring what it means for our most basic necessity to become a luxury. www.amazon.co.uk/Bottled-Sold-Story-Behind-Obsession/dp/1597265284

Hill, J. (2011)
The Secret Life of Stuff
London: Vintage Books.
How we use the earth's resources - whether a slice of bread or a cargo ship, a cotton shirt or a nuclear reactor - effects our environment. In The Secret Life of Stuff Julie Hill takes a journey through everything around us and how we use it. She uncovers the true origin and cost of stuff and, while her inventory will shock, it is the first step towards overcoming waste. Over-consumption is not your fault, but it is not something you can ignore either. Hill shows how politicians, business people and we, as consumers and citizens, together can create a new, and better, material world. www.amazon.co.uk/Secret-Life-Stuff-Manual-Material/dp/0099546582

James, O. (2007)
Affluenza,
London: Vermillion
Oliver James explores some key theories in here - mainly that chasing money doesn't ultimately make us happy. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Affluenza-Oliver-James/dp/0091900115

Kasser, T (2002)
The High Price of Materialism,
London: Allen and Unwin
Tim Kasser offers a scientific explanation of how our contemporary culture of consumerism and materialism affects our everyday happiness and psychological health. He shows that people whose values center on the accumulation of wealth or material possessions face a greater risk of unhappiness, including anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, and problems with intimacy--regardless of age, income, or culture. Kasser not only defines the problem but proposes ways we can change ourselves, our families, and society to become less materialistic.
www.amazon.co.uk/High-Price-Materialism-Tim-Kasser/dp/026261197X

Klein, N. (2000)
No Logo,
London: Flamingo.
No Logo is packed with mind-blowing facts about a culture most of us accept as part of our daily life.
www.amazon.co.uk/No-Logo-Naomi-Klein/dp/000734077X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1295563207&sr=1-1

Korten, D. C. (2001)
When Corporations Rule the World,
London:Kumarian Press.
Korten explains how economic globalization has concentrated the power to govern in global corporations and financial markets and detached them from accountability to the human interest. It documents the devastating human and environmental consequences of the successful efforts of these corporations to reconstruct values and institutions everywhere on the planet to serve their own narrow ends. It also reveals why and how millions of people are acting to reclaim their political and economic power from these elitist forces and presents a policy agenda for restoring democracy and rooting economic power in people and communities.
www.amazon.co.uk/When-Corporations-World-David-Korten/dp/1887208046/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_2

Lovelock, J. (2010)
The Vanishing Face of Gaia
London: Penguin Books.
James Lovelock's final word on the terrifying environmental problems we will confront in the twenty-first century. The earth as we know it is vanishing. It is moving inexorably to a new, hot state. The idea that we can "save the planet" by reducing carbon emissions is, Lovelock writes, nothing but a sales pitch. The earth, as it always has done, will save itself. It is up to us to save the human race.
www.amazon.co.uk/Vanishing-Face-Gaia-Final-Warning/dp/0141039256/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1287006479&sr=1-1

Meadows, D. H., Randers, J. and Meadows, D. L. (2004)
The Limits to Growth: The 30-year Update,
London: Chelsea Green
In 1972, Limits to Growth shocked the world and forever changed the global agenda by demonstrating that unchecked growth on our finite planet was leading the Earth towards ecological 'overshoot' and pending disaster. This substantially revised, expanded and updated edition follows on from Limits to Growth and its sequel Beyond the Limits, which raised the alarm that we have already overshot the planet's carrying capacity. Marshalling a vast array of new, hard data, more powerful computer modelling and incorporating the latest thinking on sustainability, ecological footprinting and limits, this new book presents future overshoot scenarios and makes an even more urgent case for a rapid readjustment of the global economy toward a sustainable path. This is compelling, essential and, indeed, essential reading for all concerned with our common future.
www.amazon.com/Limits-Growth-Donella-H-Meadows/dp/193149858X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1295563292&sr=1-1

Simms, A. (2007)
Tescopoly
London: Constable & Robinson
"Simms shows the creeping, invading unsustainable world of the supershop, its tentacles strangling the life out of our communities. Read it." - John Bird
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tescopoly-How-Shop-Came-Matters/dp/1845295110

Smith, R. and Lourie, B. (2011)
Slow Death by Rubber Duck: The Secret Danger of Everyday Things,
Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint. Rick Smith
"This book is a powerful reminder that what we do to Mother Earth, we do to ourselves. Read it to see why we have to change the way we live and get off our destructive path." - David Suzuki, environmental activist and host of The Nature of Things
www.amazon.com/Slow-Death-Rubber-Duck-Everyday/dp/1582435677

Worldwatch Institute (2009)
State of the World 2009: Confronting Climate Change.
London: Earthscan.
As scientists warn that we have only a few years to reverse the rise in greenhouse gas emissions if we are to avoid abrupt and catastrophic climate change, the world community has agreed to finalize negotiations on a new climate agreement in Copenhagen in late 2009.
www.earthscan.co.uk/?tabid=27739

Actionaid (2010) Asda: poverty guaranteed. Why Asda should pay women clothing workers a living wage.
www.actionaid.org.uk/doc_lib/asda-poverty-guaranteed.pdf

Alam, K., and Hearson, M. (2006).
Fashion Victims: The true cost of cheap clothes at Primark, Asda and Tesco.
London: War on Want.
This report by War on Want uncovers evidence of workers in Bangladesh regularly working 80 hours a week for just 5p an hour, in potential death trap factories, to produce cheap clothes for British consumers of Primark, Tesco and Asda's 'George' range. www.labourbehindthelabel.org/news/item/586-fashion-victims-the-true-cost-of-cheap-clothes-at-tesco-asda-and-primark

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Cras accumsan leo a est gravida vestibulum. Fusce suscipit elit a odio tempor eget pretium nunc laoreet. Vestibulum nulla dui, molestie vitae pretium eu, tincidunt ac lorem. Aenean eget risus euismod turpis tincidunt vehicula vel at arcu. Vivamus ac arcu metus. Fusce et lacus neque. Nunc pretium eros eu enim imperdiet commodo. Praesent volutpat aliquam rutrum. Duis venenatis pharetra congue. Morbi pellentesque imperdiet lobortis. Nullam gravida tortor eget dolor elementum euismod. Aenean vel libero a velit fringilla tristique. Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Aliquam id nisl nec libero varius dictum eget in magna. In quis nibh eget arcu accumsan cursus eu imperdiet odio.

Raw Foundation

search

Books

Reports/Articles

Raw Foundation

search Go

Books

Reports/Articles

search