The Joyful Environmentalist (fully revised guide to a more sustainable, green life) How to Practise without Preaching

by Losada, Isabel

• ISBN13: 9781786789792
• ISBN10: 1786789795
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2025-04-08
• Publisher: Watkins Publishing
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Summary

Fully updated and revised edition of Isabel Losada's highly endorsed, feel-good guide to sustainable, green living. Accessible, funny and practical steps to saving the planet that will encourage readers to take action.

"This is the joy we need in our lives." – George Monbiot.

"This book, practical and realistic as well as visionary, will keep that positive message before the reader’s eyes. Joy is after all one of the best motivations we can have for change." – Dr Rowan Williams.

Finally! A book about saving our planet that is fast, funny and inspiring too. Written in short chapters for busy people, Isabel doesn’t bother with an examination of the problem but gets right on with the solutions. Her aim: to look for every single way we can take care of the planet; how we live and work, travel, shop, eat, drink, dress, vote, play, volunteer, bank – everything. And to do this wholeheartedly, energetically and joyfully.

Beginning with losing her cool in a restaurant that will only provide plastic cutlery, Isabel journeys through native tree planting in the Highlands of Scotland, playing Samba drums with Extinction Rebellion, interviewing in person the people that supply her energy and food – through every solution she can find – until both narrator and reader are fully equipped to be part of the pollution solution.

"She gave my spirit a lift and my feet somewhere to stand." – Sir Mark Rylance

Author Biography

Isabel is the bestselling author of five previous books including Battersea Park Road to Enlightenment, which has sold over 100,000 copies. Isabel has worked as an actress, singer, dancer, researcher, TV producer, broadcaster, public speaker, comedian and author. She remains firmly committed to narrative non-fiction and swimming against the tide.