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APRIL'S BOOK: 'Litter: How Other People's Rubbish Shapes Our Lives'by Theodore Dalrymple A witty and brief book examining what the excess of litter in Britain says about our culture as a 'throw-away' society. We enjoyed reading this book, as aside from the environmental implications of littering; Dalrymple philosophically delves into what our behaviour says about who we are as a society and how our exploitative acts declare a decline in moral stature.We recommend this book now more than ever. The rapid increase in littering recently is worrying for the quality of our environment and every living thing that lives within it. We...

MARCH'S BOOK: 'We are the Weather'by Jonathan Safran Foer Foer presents good insight into ways in which we can collectively take positive steps toward helping the environment and what we do to hinder it. This book is particularly aimed at the controversial topic of veganism, our plate's environmental impact and the detrimental, devastating effects the world's factory farming industry has upon the environment.This book offers a personal and informative discussion into why we must stop habitually consuming what we do not need to and change our personal actions to save the planet... and it begins at breakfast. Want to win this book?We're giving it...

OUR ROOT RATING We’ve devised our very own root rating system – an honest scheme in which demands us to review our products carefully in order to give you a straightforward sustainability grade for everything we sell from green to red. Sustainable shopping is confusing at the best of times; with tonnes of terms, many new materials and differing waste-management protocols depending on where you live. That’s why we want to make it easier for you to shop ethically, and for us to find the most sustainable products, to see through greenwashing. As well as our eco stamps, we’re implementing a...

FEBRUARY'S BOOK: 'Braiding Sweetgrass'by Robin Wall Kimmerer Undoubtedly one of the best books that we've ever read here at ROOTSTOCK. As an indigenous woman of North America and a professor of environmental and forest biology, Robin Wall Kimmerer offers an understanding of nature in spiritual and scientific terms. Kimmerer explains her life's work of understanding nature's processes from how mushrooms grow to the intricate life of mosses. Yet, as well as her extensive knowledge of what surrounds us, Kimmerer writes beautifully, detailing how we must take these scientific processes and interpret them as teachings. Teachings of how we can better understand the world for ourselves, by...