52 Weeks to Change Your World by Allan Shepherd and Caroline Oakley

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An innovative little book that gives us a programme of achievable targets that will help us reduce our impact on the environment and the causes of global climate change. And it's not all about sacrifice: the book's message is, 'being "green" doesn't mean giving up on life's little luxuries'. Find out what you can do to make a difference...

Plan your year with a difference – contains new ideas for each week

Includes all the reasons why we need to change our habits

Includes contacts and internet links for where to find out more

52 Weeks to Change Your World has fifty-two positive and practical actions that will improve our day-to-day lives and reduce the environmental impact of our habits.


It's great if you're feeling lost and don't quite know what you can do about the most urgent issue facing the global community today. CAT's Allan Shepherd and Caroline Oakley know that feeling, but here are some of the things they can recommend - there's bound to be something you haven't thought of...

Tasks range from changing to green electricity, buying organic chocolate and recycling domestic waste to the bigger challenges of ditching your wheels and setting up an eco-business. The book also comes with loads of useful links to how to do that little bit extra and all the reasons why changing your world a little will help make a bigger difference for the planet.

If you want a down-to-earth light-hearted guide to everyday green living buy this pocket-size paperback. It's crammed with gentle DIY greenness for beginners...consumer addicts need not despair, because amazing compromises are possible... Planet: The Welsh Internationalist

From tree planting to changing your energy supplier, a series of once weekly initiatives to improve your life and reduce your environmental impact. The Ecologist

Recommended - a pocket-sized antidote to environmental disaster despair... The Spark

ISBN 1-90217-518-2 Paperback
Publication date 2004
Format Paperback - 100 x 130 mm
Extent 112 pages
Illustrations b&w photographs throughout


Allan Shepherd
Allan Shepherd has been working for environmental campaigns since 1989. He has an MA in International Relations and has lived in the Dyfi Valley for ten years (where he has worked on various projects, including a season with one of the UK's first organic box schemes and seven years with CAT's Publications department). As a freelance writer he has worked for the Guardian, the Express, the Garden, Geographical magazine and publishers Kogan Page.
Author of Curious Incidents in the Garden at Night-time.
Author of The Little Book of Garden Villains.
Co-author of 'The Sustainable Careers Handbook'
Co-author of 'The Little Book of Slugs'.
Author of 'How to make soil and save Earth'
Co-author of '52 Weeks to Change Your World'

Caroline Oakley
Caroline Oakley has worked in publishing for 20 years, latterly as Editorial Director at Orion Books, and for the last five years has been Publisher at the Centre for Alternative Technology.
Co-author of '52 Weeks to Change Your World'