We tend to see Climate Change as an overwhelmingly daunting threat that requires challenging sacrifices if we want to do our bit for the environment. But it's time to rethink, say a range of notable experts brought together by New Economics Foundation and the Open University.

Do Good Lives have to cost the Earth brings together household names who share a conviction that leading a sustainable life doesn't have to mean discomfort or compromise. Their collective vision, covering areas from architecture and politics to food and happiness, reframes current thinking about Climate Change and what people are willing to do about it. Far from the usual doom and gloom, many in this book argue that Climate Change presents a once-in-a-century opportunity to address a whole basket of problems with energy and imagination. If we get things right, instead of an environmental apocalypse we could end up in a win-win situation - with both more satisfying lives and robust answers to these pressing and seemingly unsurmountable problems.

The inspiration behind this publication is Andrew Simms and Joe Smith. Andrew is a policy director and head of Climate Change programme at New Economics Foundation, as well as being a board member of Greenpeace UK and The Energy and Resources Institute Europe. Joe is a writer and academic based at the Open University who specialises on the green movement, Climate Change and sustainability. The two of them have brought together a wide range of experts such as Philip Pullman. A C Grayling, Oliver James and John Bird on Love and Happiness Anita Roddick, Adair Turner and Larry Elliott on Good Money Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Rosie Boycott on Good Food Wayne Hemingway, Stephen Bayley and Kevin McCloud  on Good Designs David Cameron and Hilary Benn on Good Politics Tom Hodgkinson on a Good Time and many more....

Only such an important issue could bring so many diverse and influential names together .

ISBN: 9781845296438

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