Do Good Lives Have To Cost the Earth?

ed Andrew Simms and Joe Smith (Constable, £7.99)

Some good ideas here for people trying to lead greener lifestyles, collected from a wide range of writers, from Oxford's Philip Pullman to foodie Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, David Cameron to Hilary Benn. Pullman is one of the most acopolyptic, but has interesting things to say about polar bears and storytelling. But generally speaking, this is an optimistic book, which grew out of the Interdependence Day project, a partnership between the Open University and the New Economics Foundation.