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The mainstream media likes to pretend that living a more ecologically responsible life is expensive, time-consuming and inconvenient. The editors of this book disagree fundamentally: they believe that a more environmentally responsible and sustainable lifestyle is not only less expensive in most regards, but also more enjoyable!

To this end, they’ve compiled this pocket guide packed with over 500 practical and useful tips on how we can all take daily actions that will benefit out environment, ecology and community. The tips have been collated with the kind help of hundreds of excellent ethically aware companies, organisations, movements and charities. And for each tip there’s a straightforward reason as to why they are so important.

The first edition of Go Mad! has sold 45,000 copies nationwide. This second edition has been revised and updated, and retains its ‘pocket-sized’ format. 
 
ISBN: 0954136322
Format: paperback
Publisher: Think Publishing

SEEDS OF DECEPTION
by Smith, Jeffrey M
£9.95 
 
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Exposing Corporate and Government Lies about the Safety of Genetically Engineered Food

"Seeds of Deception lays bare the complex world of genetically modified foods. In my opinion, Smith's book is the next Silent Spring. The facts included in Seeds of Deception devastate the vacuous arguments laid out by biotechnology industry proponents, their hirelings, and government officials who supposedly protect the safety of our nation's food supply."—Pete Hardin, The Milkweed (US Dairy Industry newspaper)

Seeds of Deception reveals how worldwide industry manipulation and political collusion—not sound science —have forced genetically engineered food into our daily diet. Rigged research, cover-ups of health dangers, and political and corporate bullying form the seedy background to the spread of GM across the planet. The facts are alarming: a top UK scientist who tried to alert the public about his discoveries was sacked and threatened with a law suit; other scientists have been bribed or threatened; evidence has been stolen, data omitted or doctored; employees who complain have been harassed, fired or stripped of responsibility; laboratory rats fed a GM crop developed stomach lesions and seven of the forty died within two weeks—the crop was approved without further tests.

· Read the actual internal memos by US scientists, which warn of toxins, allergies, and new diseases—all ignored by their superiors, including a former lawyer for Monsanto.
· Discover how industry studies are designed to avoid finding problems.
· Learn why the FDA withheld information from Congress after a genetically modified supplement killed nearly a hundred people and disabled thousands.

If you think GM food is safe, this book will change your mind.

Edition: Paperback
ISBN: 1903998417
Format: 304 printed pages
Publisher: Green Books

Global Spin examines the way that corporations use their financial resources and power to counter gains made by environmentalists, to reshape public opinion and to persuade politicians against increased environmental regulation.

Corporate activism, ignited in the 1970s and rejuvenated in the 1990s, has enabled a corporate agenda to dominate most debates about the state of the environment and what should be done about it. This situation poses grave dangers to the ability of democratic societies to respond to environmental threats. In response to government regulations, brought on by the activities of environmentalists and public interest groups, businesses now cooperate with each other in a way that was previously unprecedented, building coalitions and alliances and putting aside competitive rivalries.

Some corporations now employ specialised public relations firms to set up front groups that promote the corporate agenda but pose as public interest groups. Public relations firms also have become adept at creating the impression of grassroots support for corporate causes so as to convince politicians to oppose environmental reforms. As many of the largest multinational corporations are headquartered in the US, it is not surprising that the strategies they have been pioneering there to combat environmental regulations are being used in other countries. This book examines this second wave of corporate activism that has emerged in the US, Canada, UK and Australia and elsewhere.

Edition: Paperback
ISBN: 1903998093
Format: 192 printed pages
Publisher: A Resurgence Book 

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Today, as more companies shift to being all about brand meaning and image, the more vulnerable they are to attacks on that image. At the same time, corporations are becoming as powerful as governments.

Battling Big Business reveals how corporate giants attempt to control their ‘enemies’—and how groups and individuals can fight back.
Part One of this book analyses a wide range of corporate counter-strategies, varying from relatively innocent PR measures to complete intelligence operations. Part Two offers tactical tools to help activists and concerned citizens to recognise manipulative strategies, and shows how they may be countered by a variety of techniques which use the power of creativity and the new media tools available. The keywords are being original, playful, unexpected, small, fast, irresistible, but also decisive, clear—and unstoppable!

Edition: Paperback
ISBN: 190399814
Format: 224 printed pages
Publisher: Green Books

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HOW TO STORE YOUR GARDEN PRODUCE
by Warren, Piers
£4.95

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“Every serious gardener should have a copy.”—Organic Gardening magazine
“Entertaining and very practical. A great gift for any gardener.”—Centre for Alternative Technology
“Practical, useful, good recipes and wonderful illustrations”—éco-logic books
“A veritable Tardis of tips on how to preserve the harvest glut. A perfect present.”—The Organic Way magazine

How to Store Your Garden Produce by organic smallholder Piers Warren shows how to store and preserve your garden produce, enabling you to eat home-grown goodness all year round. The easy to use reference section enables you to quickly look up applicable storage and preservation techniques for the majority of plant produce grown commonly in gardens and allotments.

The techniques include • freezing • clamping • hanging • drying • bottling • pickling • and fermenting.

Edition: Paperback 
ISBN: 1903998255
Format: 104 printed pahes wih 43 cartoons 
Publisher: Green Books

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