Recommended Reading
Recommended Reading
Below, you will find a long list of books recommended by SSAFE members. To make finding your next book to read easier, we have provided a search tool by title, ISBN, category, or author. Browse all books or narrow your choices by using the options below.
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Showing 21-40 of 48 Books
Can You Hear the Trees Talking? Discovering the Hidden Life of the Forest
(Ages 14-20)
Categories: Children's and Young Adult, Nature, z-Book
On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal
Categories: Activism, Climate Justice, Environmental Economics, Policy and Politics, z-Book
Losing Earth: A Recent History 
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 Death and Life of the Great Lakes
Categories: Biodiversity, History, Nature, Policy and Politics, Water, 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
Intrinsic Hope: Living Courageously in Troubled Times
Climate disruption. Growing social inequality. Pollution. We are living in an era of unprecedented crises, resulting in widespread feelings of fear, despair, and grief. Now, more than ever, maintaining hope for the future is a monumental task. Intrinsic Hope offers a powerful antidote to these feelings. It shows how conventional...
Categories: Hope & Inspiration, Nature, 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
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
I loved this book for its utterly fresh angle on climate disaster as well as Bengal-born Ghosh’s quiet, erudite reflection on why it is so difficult for Americans even to conceive of the reality of what is facing us. It is devastatingly revelatory.
Categories: Climate Justice, Ethics and Morality, History, z-Book
Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution
Categories: Activism, Individual Actions, 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
Natural Capital: Valuing the Planet
Categories: Biodiversity, Environmental Economics, Sustainability and Solutions, z-Book
Don’t Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change by George Marshall
If you are looking for ways to convince people that addressing climate change is urgent, or that it’s even real, this book is one of the best. Marshall shows how peer pressure, trusted communicators, social norms, and in-group loyalty can make a real difference.
Categories: Climate Change Anxiety, Individual Actions, z-Book
This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs The Climate
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.
Categories: Activism, Climate Justice, Environmental Economics, Policy and Politics, z-Book
Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home
You don’t have to be a Catholic to love this book! Francis goes for broke, giving us the most comprehensive integration of climate science, Christian ethics, and broad social invocation that you will find anywhere. If you want to go big on climate, this is it.
Categories: Climate Justice, Ethics and Morality, Hope & Inspiration, Sustainability and Solutions, z-Book
Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt
(Ages 4-8)
Categories: Children's and Young Adult, Nature, z-Book
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History Do you have a book to recommend or feedback about this page?
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