Urth’s Summer Reading List
Book recommendations from our contributors, ambassadors, and team members for you to get lost in over the summer break.
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Art
Rob Woodcox Photographs The Universe He Wants To Live In
Collaborating with dancers, installation artists and body painters, Rob Woodcox creates large scale universes that celebrate our belonging to the natural world.
Photography
Finding Creative Expression and Healing Underwater, with Francesca Owen
After an Olympic career in synchronised swimming, Francesca Owen reincarnated as a photographer but never strayed from the waters edge.
Conservation
Julia Kay on the Power of Design to Drive Positive Change
Great Wrap co-founder Julia Kay shares why she created a bench top worthy dispenser for her home compostable stretch wrap made from potato waste.
Film
Tide In Tide Out is a Mesmerising, Moving Meditation on Breath and Water
Denisse Ariana Pérez invites us to contemplate breath and water through her recent film Tide in Tide Out.
Art
Olive Gill-Hille’s Wooden Sculptures Oscillate Gracefully Between Function and Form
Olive Gill-Hille’s contemporary wooden sculptures exist effortlessly between the art and design world. We talk to Olive about the process and inspiration behind her work.
Conservation
The Psychology That Unlocks Climate Action
It turns out, ignoring our climate fears only breeds more fear. Here’s what psychologists say cultivates the emotional groundedness that inadvertently leads to climate action.
Best of the best
Regenerating the Planet with Damon Gameau
Regenerating Australia visualises the exciting future that is ours if we can take bold action toward personal and planetary regeneration.
Travel
7 Ways to Travel More Sustainably in 2022 with Nina Karnikowski
If a long haul flight produces more CO2 than the average person does in a year, can travel be sustainable? Travel writer Nina Karnikowski believes it can be.
Conservation
5 Exciting Tech Innovations That Could Help Climate Change
In a race to slow down global warming, the world’s brightest minds are innovating with these lesser known solutions.
Conservation
How to Start a Truly Sustainable Business with the Founders of Great Wrap
It turns out that it doesn’t involve being perfect from the start.
Conservation
10 Good Reasons to Become a Climate Optimist
New surveys find that 40% of people feel helpless about climate change. Here's a few good reasons we can swap our helplessness for hope.
Conservation
The 4 Most Common Types of Greenwashing to Look Out For
Learn how to shop for the planet, and your conscience.
Conservation
7 Ideas for How to Live a Sustainable Lifestyle on a Budget
All of these changes are sustainable for your pocket too.
Conservation
Sustainability is Failing Us: Why We Need to Focus on Regeneration Instead
The term regeneration suggests the need to focus on not just sustaining, but replenishing the planet’s resources.
Conservation
How Can We Make Sure Covid-19 Benefits the Environment Long Term?
There’s always the option to return to the same system, but this time our CO2 budget isn’t giving much remaining leeway.
Conservation
One of the Last Remaining Unburnt Koala Sanctuaries is Being Logged
After last summer’s extreme fires, the sacred indigenous Gumbarynggirr territory is set to be logged to make room for 180 housing lots. Here’s how we can help.
Conservation
The Unexpected Global Benefit of Female Empowerment
Climate experts are arguing that female empowerment is more likely to result in lower carbon emissions than a shift to renewables, urban public transport, or any other climate strategy.
Conservation
A Case for Less Consumption and More Citizenship
In a world where GDP has remained the principal measure of success, here are the individuals and businesses prioritising the wellbeing of people and the planet.
Conservation
The Value of Indigenous Wisdom in Protecting the Environment
With eighty percent of the world’s remaining biodiversity on the territories of indigenous people, these communities are more than a source of wisdom, but a source of hope.
Conservation
How Planting Giant Kelp Forests Can Help Save the Planet
Much like planting trees — but this time in the sea — kelp forests are being lauded for their ability to store huge amounts of carbon.
Conservation
To Heal the Planet We Must First Heal Ourselves
A conversation with filmmaker and activist Helena Norberg-Hodge on reconnecting with nature through personal transformation.
Film
Talking to Trees with Jordan Manley
Capturing 3,000-year-old bristlecone trees in his latest film Treeline, Jordan Manly shows the immense power of film to reignite our relationship with nature.
Conservation
Is Reforestation the Solution to Climate Change?
Can large scale reforestation keep up with our current rate of carbon emissions?