Showing 1-19 of 19 Books
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
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
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
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
The Ice at the End of the World
Categories: Biodiversity, Climate Change Impacts, Science and Environment, z-Book
Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency
Categories: Mitigation, Policy and Politics, Science and Environment, z-Book
The Uninhabitable Earth
Categories: Climate Change Impacts, Policy and Politics, Science and Environment, z-Book
The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where We Go from Here
Categories: History, Individual Actions, Science and Environment, Sustainability and Solutions, z-Book
Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
By the founder of 350.org and dean of popular climate writing, this, his most recent book, offers us a perfect storm of the disasters that lie ahead if we don’t pay attention: artificial intelligence, genetic manipulation, and climate meltdown. Read and tremble.
Categories: Climate Change Impacts, Ethics and Morality, Science and Environment, Technology Solutions, z-Book
Going Dark
If you want to know how bad it can get, McPherson’s your man. He has been warning of certain climate doom for decades. This slim volume is only one of many diatribes in which he has predicted climate clamp-down by 2026. Do the arithmetic and weep.
Categories: Dystopian Futures, Science and Environment, z-Book
The Water Will Come
Categories: Climate Change Impacts, Science and Environment, Water, Weather, z-Book
What We Know About Climate Change
Categories: Environmental Education, Policy and Politics, Science and Environment, z-Book
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
The sub-title has it right. If you want a comprehensive selection of countless ways we can address climate change, this is it; includes food, energy, buildings, land use, transportation, and more. Loaded with concrete ideas. Google it to find an array of supportive links.
Categories: Climate Change Impacts, Science and Environment, Sustainability and Solutions, z-Book
Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life by Edward O. Wilson
Categories: Biodiversity, Policy and Politics, Science and Environment, z-Book
Great Tide Rising: Towards Clarity and Moral Courage in a Time of Planetary Change by Kathleen Dean Moore
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.
Categories: Activism, Ethics and Morality, Policy and Politics, Science and Environment, z-Book
The End of Nature
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”.
Categories: Activism, Climate Change Impacts, Ethics and Morality, Nature, Science and Environment, z-Book
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Categories: Biodiversity, Climate Change Impacts, Nature, Science and Environment, z-Book
Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway
Categories: Climate Justice, Ethics and Morality, Policy and Politics, Science and Environment, z-Book
Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit
Here’s the book that “outed” climate change into the public at large. Gore first got religion when he learned of the impact of CO2 on global heating. Scorned by conservatives, he has proven tragically right and remains a key climate pioneer.
Categories: Climate Justice, Policy and Politics, Science and Environment, z-Book