We’ve selected some books for all ages which are highly topical covering everything from recycling and biodiversity to global warming and topical eco-tips, and even measuring your carbon footprint. We’ve also chosen a selection of novels and picture books that have some sort of green strand. We hope you enjoy our selection, which will be expanded throughout 2008 so do come back again to check these out.

You may feel it’s wrong to be promoting books with a green theme because books in themselves are not at first glance exactly green or carbon neutral, for trees are cut down to make them. However, let us assure you that publishers in the UK are all working extremely hard to achieve ethical business practice and some publishers are already achieving zero carbon emissions via carbon offsetting.

Like Egmont (www.egmont.co.uk) for example, who made the decision three years ago to commit to ethical business practices. Their whole manufacturing processes had to change, Greenpeace was consulted and now they use only paper that is approved by the Forestry Stewardship Council. Harper Collins (www.harpercollins.co.uk), one of the largest global publishers has already gone carbon neutral in its commitment to address climate change and at the other end of the size scale there is Meadowside Books (www.meadowsidebooks.com), a small but perfectly formed small children’s publisher who is very proud to use the carbon neutral logo on their books. For more detail on any of these publishers do go to their own websites for more information.

We hope you enjoy the selection of titles and do keep coming back as we will add more on a monthly basis.