Amory Lovins' new book, Reinventing Fire provides a credible solution to negating the impact of fossil fuels.

Transport and Neighbourhoods reveals the surprising influence of town planning on our green behaviour and the significance of transport strategy in reducing carbon emissions.

These days, concerns about chemical-based agriculture are enormous. So Michael Phillips’s new book The Holistic Orchard, in which he explains how to grow orchards ‘the holistic way’, couldn’t have arrived at a better time.

Readers of Resource will be more than aware of the problems that the world is currently facing: overpopulation, unsustainable growth, inequality, species extinction, global warming, peak oil...

Samantha MacBride has written a highly specialised, incredibly dense book that argues: ‘Recycling as we know it today generates the illusion of progress while allowing industry to maintain the status quo and place responsibility on consumers and local government.’

In this age of ‘going green’, many consumers opt for natural or organic products in their kitchens, and this is extending to the bathroom. Deborah Burnes’s Look Great, Live Green is a detailed analysis of the ‘$60 billiona- year Goliath’ that is our cosmetics industry.

Every year, we Britons throw away 4.4 million tonnes of food and drink, an amount that apparently equates to a £480 loss for the average household.

To begin with, Love Earth doesn’t really look like a book.

Launched at the Bywaters recycling facility in March, this ‘lift the flap’ book comes with great credentials: the University of Northampton’s Dr Margaret Bates, waste expert and Resource Hot 100 favourite, was a consultant on the content and it’s an Usborne title.

Some of us in the Resource office face a dilemma when it comes to fashion – we love having new clothes and looking fashionable, but don’t want them to cost the earth or a textile worker’s dignity or health.