Book Category: Activism

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.

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...

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.

Offering a readable and ultimately hopeful map of “Climate Wisdom,” Ray builds on a decade of experience teaching college students the realities of climate deterioration even as she builds on psychology, mindfulness, and humanities to offer and “existential tool kit” for confronting the anguishing challenge of finding hope in a...

Truly one of my favorite people, Moore gave up an endowed chair in Moral Philosophy to combat climate change for the duration. Here she offers a luscious set of essays poignant and hefty, anguished and icy, passionate and inspiring. Read them and sing.

In this, the first book about climate change, McKibben argues that “Nature,” to which we have always been subordinate, has now become subordinate to us, and that we are not exercising this power wisely. The book paved the way for the term, “Anthropocene”.

Klein really means what her title says. In this searing critique of our current economic arrangement, she connects the dots among capitalism, racial justice, economic inequality, and climate. She also devastates the idea that dimming the sun will somehow save us.

Arguing that more than even a scientific or technical challenge, climate change is a moral challenge, and that moral arguments are a primary necessity. This staggering collection brings us Thomas Berry, Desmond Tutu, Sally McFague, Robin Kimmerer, Brian Doyle and dozens of others.

Recommended by Beyond Plastics Plastic built the modern world. Where would we be without pacemakers, polyester, computers, cellphones, sneakers or chewing gum. (Plastic in gum? Yep!) But a century into our love affair with plastic, we’re starting to realize it’s not such a healthy one.  Plastics draw on dwindling fossil fuels,...