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Not the End of the World

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,...

Categories: Climate Change Anxiety, Hope & Inspiration, Sustainability and Solutions, z-Book By: Hannah Ritchie
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Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable 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...

Categories: Climate Change Anxiety, Climate Change Impacts, Hope & Inspiration By: Hannah Ritchie
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Unbottled Unbottled The Fight against Plastic Water and for Water Justice

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.”

Categories: Climate Justice, Plastics, Sustainability and Solutions, Water, z-Book By: Daniel Jaffee
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The Climate Action Handbook

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.

Categories: Activism, Mitigation, Policy and Politics, Sustainability and Solutions, z-Book By: Heidi Roop
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Film: The Canary

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...

Categories: Climate Change Impacts, Science and Environment, z-Film
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Chasing Carbon Zero, NOVA

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.

Categories: Science and Environment, Sustainability and Solutions, z-Film
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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need

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.

Categories: Policy and Politics, Sustainability and Solutions, Technology Solutions, z-Book By: Bill Gates
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The Carbon Almanac: It’s Not Too Late

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...

Categories: Activism, Climate Change Impacts, Sustainability and Solutions, z-Book By: Seth Godin
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Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis

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.

Categories: Climate Change Anxiety, Hope & Inspiration, Science and Environment, z-Book By: Britt Wray
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What Can I Do?: My Path from Climate Despair to Action

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.

Categories: Activism, Climate Change Anxiety, Environmental Education, Individual Actions, Policy and Politics, z-Book By: Jane Fonda
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All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis

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.

Categories: Activism, Climate Justice, Ethics and Morality, Hope & Inspiration, Sustainability and Solutions, z-Book By: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katherine K. Wilkinson
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Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

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.

Categories: Ethics and Morality, Science and Environment, Technology Solutions, z-Book By: Elizabeth Kolbert
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The Ministry for the Future: A Novel

"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...

Categories: Climate Change Impacts, Climate Fiction (Cli-Fi), Dystopian Futures, Policy and Politics, z-Book By: Kim Stanley Robinson
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