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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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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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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 By: Bill McKibben
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Plastic: A Toxic Love Story

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,...

Categories: Activism, History, Plastics, Technology Solutions By: Susan Freinkel
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