PenguinKind. the book was created by Eco Shepherd and published by Allied Press NZ, as a funding model for Global Penguin Society. The book was designed to change the way we think about the role citizens play in addressing the catastrophe facing Planet Earth – showing us that hundreds of little sustainable actions done together will have a bigger impact than we could ever imagine.
The PenguinKind list of 500 small sustainable actions under $100, challenges preconceptions that leaning into a sustainable lifestyle is inconvenient, quality compromising or expensive. If anything, PenguinKind is the inspiration to be a better version of ourselves, with minimum stress and financial outlay. The 500 practical actions for daily consumption habits focus on what we can actually do to immediately start addressing the problem. Every PenguinKind action can be effortlessly adapted to fit your lifestyle and personal taste, and could even save you money, as proven by author and Eco Shepherd founder, Carolyn Managh who implemented all 501 of the actions into her life.
Peppered among the chapters covering most rooms of the house, special occasions and travelling out and about, are charming character profiles of ten penguin species in New Zealand, prepared by German field scientist, Dr Thomas Mattern. As the indicator species for ocean health, penguins are represented in this book as the ambassadors for all wildlife, to remind us of what’s at risk if humankind does not rapidly start thinking about more than ourselves. With one-third of the world’s penguin population in New Zealand and its Sub-Antarctic Islands, profits from PenguinKind will help fund scientific research and conservation tracking programmes for antipodean penguins through Global Penguin Society and NZ Penguin Initiative.
Woven throughout PenguinKind is stunning penguin photography by Richard Robinson and beautiful illustrations by Italian designer Andrea Tarella. Other contributors to the book include Love Food, Hate Waste NZ; President Global Society, Dr Pablo Garcia Borboroglu; and denim veteran Maurizio Donadi’s Atelier & Repairs.
