Spinifex author, environmentalist and activist Dr Vandana Shiva has been awarded the 2010 Sydney Peace Prize for her commitment to social justice.

Vandana will travel to Australia to deliver the City of Sydney Peace Prize Lecture in November this year.

Vandana's books include: Ecofeminism, Soil Not Oil and the recent re-release of her classic, Staying Alive.

Just released in print

Staying Alive, the 20th anniversary reprint of Vandana Shiva's internationally acknowledged study.

Taking the three related concerns of development, ecology and gender, Staying Alive argues that there is an intimate link between the degradation of women and the degradation of nature in contemporary society. Viewing economic development as more often ‘maldevelopment’, Shiva outlines how science, technology and politics exploit and marginalise both women and nature.

This edition of Shiva’s ecofeminist classic includes a new introduction penned by the author. The introduction highlights the fact that the core message of Staying Alive—the brutalisation of women and nature and how this creates an unsustainable future—is sadly even more urgent today than when it was first written.

Just released eBook

Earth's Breath, Susan Hawthorne's ecopoetry book, is now available in eBook format.

In 2006, the poet, her partner and their dog sat through the extreme winds of Cyclone Larry, a
Category-5 cyclone that hit the coast of Far North Queensland. Located at the southern edge of the
cyclone – the eyewall – with winds at their most ferocious, these poems explore the period before
the cyclone, the event itself and the aftermath.

Earth’s Breath joins other Spinifex titles in the transition to an electronic format, and is among the
fi rst to be released in the industry-created open standard ePub. Earth’s Breath will also be available in
PDF, Mobipocket and Microsoft Reader formats.

Vandana Shiva, author of Soil Not Oil and the upcoming Staying Alive, has an exclusive interview with Ms Magazine online. In 'Copenhagen: A Feminist Response', Vandana Shiva tells Ms. what should have happened at the U.N. climate change conference — and why women's voices are essential to head off a planetary crisis.

Vandana Shiva talks about her latest book, Soil Not Oil , with Phillip Adams on Late Night Live. A podcast has been put up on the Radio National website. You can listen to the program here.