Library references

The reason for reading is learning
SEED: The untold story Few things on Earth are as miraculous and vital as seeds,

For the eyes and the ears
Making a Nest Places to call home and raise a family. These apply to the

Reading, watching and listening
The Book of Nature Connection is packed with fun activities for using all our senses

Brainfood books
How To Raise Outdoor Kids builds on the rose-tinted idyllic childhoods of the 70s and

Books for grown ups and children
They All Rain Wild: The animals and plants that plague Australia Interesting book, especially as

What values do we attach to nature
Sensory Studies Manifesto DAVID HOWES challenges the assumptions of mainstream Western psychology by foregrounding the

Earth is home for all of us
Earth Is My Home For humans and other life on this planet Earth is the

Sustainable House Handbook by Josh Byrne
The Sustainable House Handbook A comprehensive guide to building an affordable, energy and water-efficient green home. Gardening

All about the Earth
The Upcycle – Beyond sustainability, designing for abundance For McDonough and Braungart, the questions of

Different ways of thinking
The Green Bible Is God green? Did Jesus have anything to say about nature? With

Half Earth
Half Earth: Our planets fight for life We are blindly ignoring the histories of millions

Sustainable living books
The Sustainable(ish) Living Guide This is a book for all of us who are making

The Future is Fungi
The Future is Fungi The kingdom of fungi has survived all five major extinction events.

Books, glorious books
Out of School and into Nature Naturalist and artist Anna Comstock (1854-1930), defied social conven-tions

Crimes against nature
No such place as away. This children’s book offers an opportunity for children (and their

Waste Free Living and other titles
A Family Guide to Waste Free Living by Lauren and Oberon Carter. An Australian publication

We Are Nature
Four books this month … We are Nature, by Ray Mears (see main image). Also,

Pollinators and Pollination
The pollination of flowers by insects, birds and other animals is a fundamentally important ecological

Tree partners
Trees grow and change so slowly that it’s hard to tell how busy they really

A Home Among the Gum Trees
Give Me a Home Among the Gum Trees follows the words of the song made popular

A story of cooperation
Nema and the Xenos is the story about Nema (a Steinernema nematode and the hero in

Change Our Stories
We need new stories. The ancient traditions and narratives under which we still operate have

Rewilding the Urban Soul
Join us for July’s Living Smart Book Club featuring Claire Dunn’s brand new book Rewilding the Urban

Life in the trees
Trees are tall, strong, ancient, and easily thought of as silent statues. Tree Beings challenges

Biophilia
Biophilia is the love of living things and nature. Biophilic Cities Australia advocates for, and

Skills for raising children
Nature teaches four core life skills for raising children In Wildhood, Harvard evolutionary biologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz

Animal Consciousness
In his new book, ‘Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind’, Australia’s ‘scuba-diving

We’re on a collision course with the planet
Larry Elliott, The Guardian, 10 February 2021 It is easy to see how the review

Paintings and stories from the wild
A skilled falconer and artist, Richard Weatherly has spent more than fifty years observing birds

The healing power of nature
A reflection on the solace brought by nature and her power as a balm for stressed-out

Shortcomings of the human mind
Uncommon Sense delves into the shortcomings of the human mind for dealing with big-picture, long-term problems such as

Earth walks
This book aims to connect visitors to the earth and her life, beyond the typical “follow

Miniature Lives
Simple explanations, amusing analogies, quirky facts and detailed illustrations make this an easy to use

Songlines
The First Knowledges series offers an introduction to Indigenous knowledge in vital areas and their

Why nature makes us happier
Since we are creations of nature, the earth being our ancestral mother, it seems like a

Wild Child
This ecological love affair is not for adults only. What a wonderful story, told from

River people
A story that echoes across the land Aboriginal people had been living around the river

The Bird Way to wisdom
Having a bird brain was once an insult. But not anymore. Despite their small size,

Two feet away from bliss
Travelling Australia on foot – The Ways of the Bushwalker – some would say the

Forest full of fungi
Shining a light on life underground. For healthy animals, we need healthy plants, and for

River gets legal personhood
Hills and rivers. Our role is one of caretaker. Rivers are ancestors, they are kin.

First Naturalists
WE KNOW THE names of early European naturalists John Gould, Joseph Banks and Carl Sofus

Getting to zero
Anita Vandyke wants to show us that by living a zero waste life, we actually

Tree talk
Peter Wohlleben has done it again, with this delightful book. Written for children by the

Bird Names
Behind every name there’s a story. This book helps us connect with how the birds

Making friends with fungi
The Allure of Fungi. Although little known, fungi provide the links between the terrestrial organisms and

Coming to terms with cats
Cats in Australia. Companion and friendship animals they may be for humans, but they are

Bird Bonds
Birds apart from being able to fly have many other fascinating features that we perhaps

The Ecology of Commerce
This book has played an important part in broadening the outlook of many a CEO

Fantastic Fungi, directed by Louie Schwartzberg, is a consciousness-shifting film that takes us on a journey

Making friends with nature
In Friendship, journalist Lydia Denworth visits the front lines of the science of friendship finding it

Number 10 yet again
In Surviving and Thriving in the 21st Century, ten threats are identified by the UN

Nature Play film was a hit
Nature Play: Take Childhood Back brings a new perspective to teaching by showcasing the Scandinavian

A big picture view of Lake Macquarie
Scott Bevan is no stranger to the water, having written about his travels down the

The ‘elegance of nature’s recipe book’
“We’re awake now, and the question is how do we stay awake to the living

History of the World
What is the earth worth? This is a new approach to analysing today’s planetary emergencies.

Wild Law and The Rights of Nature
Bibliotherapy: books that have the power to enchant, enrich and inspire; books that offer hopeful

Phantasmagorical – time to make friends with fungi
There’s a little known Australian produced feature film – THE KINGDOM* – about fungi that

Inspiring Earth Ethics: Linking Values and Action
This publication is the first produced by the Australian Earth Laws Alliance’s “Earth Ethics Program”, which offers

Mid-course Correction
A spear in the chest epiphany, was how Ray Anderson (Founder and Chairman of Interface Inc.) described