In "Not the End of the World", data scientist Hannah Ritchie presents an optimistic perspective on environmental challenges, showing that significant progress is already being made toward sustainability. Contrary to the usual doomsday predictions, Ritchie uses data and practical advice to help readers understand what actions truly impact the planet,...
If you are wondering which issues to prioritize to save the planet, this book has the answers. The author, who is Lead Researcher at the highly-regarded website Our World in Data, brings an analytical approach to assessing which actions are the most critical to take right now. You will find that...
Dive into the world of drinking water from historical struggles to current ecological and social crises caused by the commodification of water. “Unbottled examines the vibrant movements that have emerged to question the need for bottled water and challenge its growth in North America and worldwide.”
Lists 100 “actions” people can take, under such categories as Energy, Travel and Work, Food and Farming, Shopping and Consumer Choices, Actions around the Home and more.
Witness the extraordinary life of Dr. Lonnie Thompson, an explorer who went where no scientist had gone before and transformed our idea of what is possible. Daring to seek Earth’s history contained in glaciers atop the tallest mountains in the world, Lonnie found himself on the frontlines of climate change—his...
Can the U.S. reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and avoid the biggest impacts of climate change? Experts say it can be done. Here’s the technology that could get us there.
Although it never plumbs the depths of worthy of a full understanding of the climate challenge, this book is well worth reading, and will elevate public awareness as fully as its own position on the Times best-seller list. Hopeful, coolly nerdy, and useful.
This large-format, 300+ page paperback makes an excellent, encyclopedic contribution to the latest information, including a comprehensive discussion of the causes and consequences of climate change. With illustrated articles on 50 Impacts and 59 Solutions, it makes a superb addition to the library of anyone who is serious about communicating...
A leader among those working with climate despair, Britt Wray melds science and emotional insight to walk us down the pathway to hope. Rich with stories, her book is both readable and practical—a balm for those who have stared into the darkness and are seeking a realistic way through.
Inspired by Greta Thunberg and informed by Naomi Klein’s new book, On Fire, about the Green New Deal, Fonda has produced a readable, practical book filled with ideas for how each of us can make a difference before it’s too late.
This remarkable collection brings over sixty scientists, poets, philosophers, artists and writers—all female—together in a chorus of inspiring calls for addressing climate change. Includes Janine Benyus, Mary Oliver, Katharine Hayhoe, Naomi Klein and more.
Having detailed the coming man-made climate disaster in her Pulitzer-winning The Sixth Extinction, Kolbert explores the costs of trying to repair the mess by more manipulation of Mother Nature. “By turns inspiring, terrifying, and darkly comic,” says the jacket.
"The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate, postapocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us. Chosen by Barack Obama as one of his...
This book is recommended by Third Act in their 2023 Public Utilities Commission Teach-In Webinar.