BOILING POINT
Leonie Joubert

This excellent book on environmental change in South Africa raises an important point: the discrepancy between the effect that wealthier citizens have on our environment, and the subsequent consequences for the impoverished. We are introduced to individuals already negatively affected by environmental change, such as Hendrik Hesselman, a rooibos farmer; Ernest Titus, a fisherman from Lamberts Bay; and Selina, a sangoma in Limpopo. ISBN: 9781868144679

SMALL WONDER
Barbara Kingsolver

A highly praised collection of essays by the author of ‘Animal, Vegetable, Mineral’ that explores various topics from vegetable gardens to motherhood, from genetic engineering to civil rights. Kingsolver believes that our problems have arisen in the most remote areas of our planet and our own back yards, and that the answers lie in these places too. ISBN: 9780060504076

TEN TECHNOLOGIES TO SAVE THE PLANET
Chris Goodall

This cutting-edge book introduces developments that are meeting the environmental and climate change crises head-on. Goodall profiles ten technologies and the inventors behind them. We may be familiar with the electric car, but how many are aware of algae’s role in absorbing carbon dioxide, or how charcoal made from water vegetable and forestry matter can reduce the need for fertiliser? ISBN: 9781846688683