If you're after a good read, some hope in the face of despair and maybe even a last-minute stocking filler, you can't go by Ten Journeys on a Fragile Planet by Canberra author Rod Taylor.
In 2017, Rod threw in his IT consulting job to write the book, which features the stories of Australians "doing something to confront the perilous state of the environment".
The journeys in the book are:
The Activist: Simon Sheikh
The Solar Pioneer: Professor Andrew Blakers
The Maggot Farmer: Olympia Yarger
The Accidental Activist: Charlie Prell
The Thoughtful Salesman: Leonard Cohen
The Politician: Susan Jeanes
The Climate Game Changer: Inez Harker-Schuch
The Advocate: Professor Kate Auty
The Lady with a Laser: Monica Oliphant
A Question of Hope: Dr Siwan Lovett
Rod said the people in the book "make you rethink what is actually possible".
"While the backdrop is climate change, it's really a book about people, what makes them tick, why they are heroes and what does it mean to have 'hope'," he said.
- Ten Journeys on a Fragile Planet is published by Odyssey Books.
