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Dive into powerful books that spark ideas, fuel hope, and inspire change for a sustainable future—and support local bookstores while you’re at it! Your next climate action starts here.
Featured Books
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Carbon: The Book of Life
Paul Hawken
In this book, Paul Hawken looks at the flow of life through the lens of carbon. Embracing a panoramic view of carbon’s omnipresence, he explores how this ubiquitous and essential element extends into every aperture of existence and shapes the entire fabric of life. Hawken charts a course across our planetary history, guiding us into the realms of plants, animals, insects, fungi, food, and farms to offer a new narrative for embracing carbon’s life-giving power and its possibilities for the future of human endeavor.
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
Naomi Klein
Klein exposes the myths that are clouding the climate debate: that the market will save us, when in fact the addiction to profit and growth is digging us in deeper every day; that it’s impossible to get off fossil fuels when in fact we know exactly how to do it.
The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
Jeff Goodell
Acclaimed environmental journalist and author, Goodell decries the term "global warming as sounding gentle and soothing, as if the most notable impact of burning fossil fuels will be better beach weather". "Global warming" fails to convey the urgency associated with the climate crisis, which the author eloquently describes.
Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth
Mark Hertsgaard
From a renowned journalist, a view of how other countries have approached preparing for and slowing climate change; an informative and vividly reported book that goes beyond the politics of climate change to explore practical ways we can adapt and survive.
In Our Hands: A Handbook for Intergenerational Actions to Solve the Climate Crisis
Wilford H. Welch
A handbook that looks at the individual and collective actions we must take to shape our future and avoid environmental and societal collapse. Packed with information, ideas, and resources, this book inspires us to move from concern to action.
The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World
Amanda Little
An environmental journalist and professor asks the question: Is the future of food looking bleak — or better than ever? and takes the reader on a trip through 11 countries and 13 states, meeting people working various angles of our food supply.
The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet
Dr. Michael Mann
This book outlines a plan to force governments and corporations to make real change. With immensely powerful vested interests aligned in defense of the fossil fuel status quo, this book from renowned climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann, informs and enables citizens everywhere to join this battle for our planet. The societal tipping point won't happen without the active participation of citizens everywhere aiding in the collective push forward.
Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive By Giving More Than They Take
Paul Polman & Andrew Winston
This is no utopian fantasy. Courageous leaders are already making it real - and the stakes couldn't be higher. With bold and compelling stories, Net Positive sets out principles and practices that will deliver the scale of change and transformation that the world so desperately needs.
Speed & Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now
John Doerr
A launch pad for those who are ready to act now, this book is geared to leaders in every walk of life. With a definitive action plan, the latest science, and a rising climate movement on our side, we can still reach net zero before it's too late. But as Doerr reminds us, there's no time to waste.
The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
Christiana Figueres & Tom Rivett-Carnac
Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivet-Carnac make the compelling case for confronting the climate crisis head-on, with determination & optimism, a cautionary but optimistic book about the world’s changing climate and the fate of humanity.
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
Paul Hawken
Published in 2017, this comprehensive guide to 80 existing solutions, backed up by science and data from a worldwide team of over 200 scholars, scientists, policy-makers, business leaders, and activists who modeled solutions, ranking them by their on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and restoring the earth's climate.
Cheaper, Faster, Better: How We'll Win the Climate War
Tom Steyer
Just as World War II raised an existential threat that united Americans in a common cause, the dangers of climate change are similarly challenging all of our previously held notions of the future —and our only hope, as Tom Steyer sees it, is to unite together to take action in a collective movement akin to a war effort.
Rewiring America
Saul Griffith
Reaching net-zero is critical and achievable. How? By replacing or installing one billion American-made machines: furnaces, water heaters, cars, clothes dryers, and infrastructure machines. Here's the math and the strategy behind this urgent opportunity, that adds jobs and will help keep global warming below pre-industrial levels.
What If We Get It Right? Visions of Climate Futures
Ayala Elizabeth Johnson
Sometimes the bravest thing we can do while facing an existential crisis is imagine life on the other side. This provocative and joyous book maps an inspiring landscape of possible climate futures. With clear-eyed essays, vibrant interviews, data, poetry, and art, Ayana guides the reader through solutions and possibilities at the nexus of science, policy, culture, and justice.
How to Talk About Climate Change in a Way That Makes a Difference
Rebecca Huntley
Understanding our emotional reactions to climate change—why it makes us anxious, fearful, angry or detached—is critical to coping on an individual level and convincing each other to act. This book is about understanding why people who aren't like you feel the way they do and learning to talk to them effectively. What we need are thousands—millions—of everyday conversations about the climate to enlarge the ranks of the concerned, engage the disengaged and persuade the cautious of the need for action.
No Miracles Needed: How Today's Technology Can Save Our Climate and Clean Our Air
Mark Z. Jacobson
We still have time to save the planet without resorting to 'miracle' technologies. We need to wave goodbye to outdated technologies, such as natural gas and carbon capture, and repurpose the technologies that we already have at our disposal. We can use existing technologies to harness, store, and transmit energy from wind, water, and solar sources to ensure reliable electricity, heat supplies, and energy security. Find out what you can do to improve the health, climate, and economic state of our planet. Together, we can solve the climate crisis, eliminate air pollution and safely secure energy supplies for everyone.
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