Get The Best Eco Library

The One Nation Magazine’s choice of the best Eco and Ethical books you can lay your hands on.

It’s Easy Being Green

by Mark Mann

101 Ways to Save the Planet. For anxious but not-yet-committed individuals who want to make lifestyle changes to make differences to our environment but aren’t sure where to start. The book points you in a direction of simple changes that can be easily incorporated into your everyday life, from saving water to recycling old clothes, voting green to ethical banking, this is the bible of guilt free living. Paperback. Buy at Amazon

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!: An Easy Household Guide

by Nicky Scott

What do you do with your old mobile phone? Where can you take your old medicines? Which plastic is recyclable? What happens to the stuff you recycle? This easy-to-use guide has the answers to all your recycling questions. Use its A-Z listing of everyday household items to see how you can recycle most of your unwanted things, do your bit for the planet, and maybe make a bit of money while you’re at it. Did you know that: Around 60 per cent of your rubbish can be recycled – but only 11 per cent is recycled (half is sent to landfill) Landfill sites are running out Recycling a one-metre stack of newspaper saves one tree It costs GBP332 million a year to clean up the litter on Britain’s streets A plastic vending cup can be made into a pencil or a pen You can make money recycling your aluminium cans 150 million plastic carrier bags are used in the UK each week – they last up to 500 years in landfill Reduce, Reuse, Recycle is packed with ideas for cutting your consumption, reducing your rubbish, reusing, and recycling. It will also tell you where your old plastic goes to, what happens to your old glass jars, how they handle waste in other countries. With a comprehensive resources section and information on getting more involved, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle is an invaluable guide for anyone who wants to slim their bin and help stop the earth going to waste. Paperback. Buy at Amazon

It’s Not Easy Being Green: One Family’s Journey Towards Eco-Friendly Living

by Dick Strawbridge

Are you aware of your ‘eco-footprint’? Dick Strawbridge and his family decided that they needed to reduce theirs – this meant reducing the amount of land, water and other natural resources required to support their lifestyle. To accompany the BBC2 TV series, this book chronicles the Strawbridge family’s journey from a perfectly normal life and house in the Midlands to a self-sufficient environmentally friendly dream home in the West Country. Written by the flamboyant, mustachioed, eccentric presenter, Dick ‘the Colonel’ Strawbridge, this book is an inspiration to people thinking of becoming eco-friendly – or even just a bit greener. While attractively designed, with specially commissioned color photos and screen grabs, it will also be full of practical advice, with essential addresses and contact details at the end. Handcover. Buy at Amazon

Jamie at Home: Cook Your Way to the Good Life

by Jamie Oliver

The fabulous cookbook from the international No. 1 bestselling chef. It’s about no-nonsense, simple cooking with great flavours all year round. When Jamie began writing it he didn’t really know what recipes he would come up with, but something began to inspire him very quickly… his vegetable patch! Jamie came to realise that it’s not always about looking out at the wider world for inspiration. Being at home, feeling relaxed and open, can also offer this. Spend time at home in the village where he grew up, working with the boss, Mother Nature, in my garden and seeing all my beautiful veggies coming out of the ground is Jamie’s biggest love. Inside you’ll find over 100 new recipes, plus some basic planting information and tips if you fancy having a go at getting your hands dirty as well! Buy at Amazon

The National Trust Handbook for Members and Visitors

by National Trust

For more than a century, Britain’s National Trust has worked for the preservation of places of historic interest and national beauty throughout England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. The National Trust Handbook is a visitor’s guide to the National Trust properties that are open to the public, including stately homes, gardens, castles, barns, and lighthouses. The Handbook lists more than 300 properties, and each, has a brief description, address, telephone number, opening times, admission fee, travel directions, and details of the facilities on site. The National Trust Handbook will open up a world of riches to those traveling in Britain. Buy at Amazon

The Kitchen Gardener: Grow Your Own Fruit and Veg

by Alan Titchmarsh

Allotments with ten-year waiting lists; fruit and veg seeds outselling those of flowers – Britain is growing a passion for home produce and the time is right for the nation’s favourite gardener to provide the definitive book on the subject. Alan’s comprehensive guide will tell you everything you could possibly want or need to know about fruit and veg and how to grow it, including herbs, baby veg, salads, every-day fruits plus gourmet or unusual varieties, and how to fit them into today’s stylish small gardens. As well as providing the key facts needed to yield good results and what to do when things go wrong, the text is sprinkled with Alan’s personal observations, anecdotes, culinary tips and quirky historical uses. The book takes a very practical approach, starting from scratch for the benefit of anyone who’s never grown their own before, but is also ideal for those with some experience who might be growing edibles in a new way – perhaps in a small space that needs to look attractive, or on a new allotment. Lavishly illustrated throughout with over 250 photographs and artworks, this inspirational and authoritative fruit and veg bible from the UK’s best-selling and most influential gardener will become a classic in the genre. Hardcover. Buy at Amazon

Ecoescape: Ireland: Slow Travel, Green Places to Stay, Local Food and Drink, Eco Days Out

by Catherine Mack

Ecoescape is a new way to travel proving that holidaymakers can enjoy the environment but leave no trace behind. This practical guide contains handpicked ecoescapes around Ireland, from North to South and East to West. The experiences are all sustainable from start to finish and the author has included details of cycle, bus and rail routes for the reader to follow. Also contained in the guide is a comprehensive directory of places to stay, eat and visit, all with eco-friendly credentials. This fully illustrated edition is the ultimate handbook to responsible escapism; for those who enjoy slow travel, green places to stay, local food and drink and eco days out. Paperback. Buy at Amazon

50 Quirky Bike Rides… in England and Wales

by Rob Ainsley

50 quirky bike rides for family and friends, free from freightlining juggernauts and white van road rage, in eco-friendly, carbon neutral, naturally blissful, thrills and hills, on a hunch, over lunch, brooks beckon, waves lap, wind whizzes through tunnels and spectacular sweeps of bridges and gorges, the bendiest, whizziest, twistiest, zingiest, prettiest, peakiest, bumpyest, bounciest, hilliest, rockiest, bestest, bestest, bike rides in England and Wales. 50 Quirky Bike Rides… in England and Wales is unlike any other bike book, its a collection of the 50 most bizarre bike rides that guarantees to get the reader cycling! The book includes routes that are suitable for everyone from the casual to the committed cyclist, and broad coverage throughout England and Wales means that there is a ride near you! It also has the longest ever book title! Buy at Amazon

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