Books

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 Edited by Paul Hawken  

 “Project Drawdown conducts an ongoing review and analysis of climate solutions—the practices and technologies that can stem and begin to reduce the excess of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere. Each solution reduces greenhouse gases by avoiding emissions and/or by sequestering carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere.”

 Edited by Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Dr. Katharine K. Wilkinson (2020)

“Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward.” 

Project All We Can Save aims, “to rapidly, radically reshape society this decade...We need an upwelling of transformational climate leadership that is more characteristically feminine and more faithfully feminist, rooted in compassion, connection, creativity, and collaboration. Many of today’s most compelling climate leaders are women, specifically women of color, and this community of transformational leadership is undoubtedly on the rise.”

 Andreas Karelas, Foreword by Katharine Hayhoe (2020) 

“Climate Courage shows us how we can move past our collective inaction on climate change and work together in our communities to create a more sustainable, just, clean energy–powered economy that works for everyone. To engage people in the climate fight requires that we tell new stories that are empowering, inclusive, and solutions-oriented, not based in fear. By emphasizing the rate of job creation in clean energy and the inspiring efforts of climate heroes on both sides of the aisle—including Republican mayors and governors, the military, faith communities, businesses, and community groups—Karelas shows us that climate solutions need not be polarizing and that citizens can drive the shift to clean energy.”

 Edited by the Sunrise Movement’s Varshini Prakash and Guido Girgenti (2020)

An urgent and definitive collection of essays from leaders and experts championing the Green New Deal—and a detailed playbook for how we can win it—including contributions by leading activists and progressive writers....Presents a clear roadmap for what the Green New Deal is, why it’s important, and how to win it. The book is a succinct and valuable guide for our own organizing–-as both a refresher for movement leaders and an introductory text for those we welcome to the movement.” 

 Dr. Michael E. Mann (COMING 2021) 

“A renowned climate scientist shows how fossil fuel companies have waged a thirty-year campaign to deflect blame and responsibility and delay action on climate change, and offers a battle plan for how we can save the planet...outlines a plan for forcing our governments and corporations to wake up and make real change, including: a common-sense, attainable approach to carbon pricing- and a revision of the well-intentioned but flawed currently proposed version of the Green New Deal; allowing renewable energy to compete fairly against fossil fuels debunking the false narratives and arguments that have worked their way into the climate debate and driven a wedge between even those who support climate change solutions combating climate doomism and despair-mongering.

 Dr. Michael E. Mann and Tom Toles (2016)

“Portrays the intellectual pretzels into which denialists must twist logic to explain away the clear evidence that man-made activity has changed our climate. Toles’s cartoons collapse counter-scientific strategies into their biased components, helping readers see how to best strike at these fallacies. Mann’s expert skills at science communication aim to restore sanity to a debate that continues to rage against widely acknowledged scientific consensus.”

Dr. Michael E. Mann (2012)

This book, “shares the real story of the science and politics behind this [Hockey Stick] controversy. He introduces key figures in the oil and energy industries, and the media front groups who do their bidding in sometimes slick, bare-knuckled ways to cast doubt on the science.”

 Hal Harvey, Robbie Orvis, Jeffrey Rissman (2018) (Provided by Energy Innovation: Policy and Technology LLC)

“...the first such resource, combining the latest research and analysis on low-carbon energy solutions from electric vehicles to renewable energy. It is the first book to identify which specific policies, applied to the top 20 most-emitting countries, can have the largest potential impact to reduce emissions enough for a 50% chance of keeping global warming to a safe level.”

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  Sir David Attenborough (2020)

“In this scientifically informed account of the changes occurring in the world over the last century, award-winning broadcaster and natural historian shares a lifetime of wisdom and a hopeful vision for the future. See the world. Then make it better…”

 Greta Thunberg (2019)

“Greta in her own words, for the first time. Collecting her speeches that have made history across the globe, from the United Nations to Capitol Hill and mass street protests, her book is a rallying cry for why we must all wake up and fight to protect the living planet, no matter how powerless we feel. Our future depends upon it.”

  David Wallace-Wells (2019)

“…It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible—food shortages, refugee emergencies, climate wars and economic devastation.” This book is, “a travelogue of the near future and a meditation on how that future will look to those living through it—the ways that warming promises to transform global politics, the meaning of technology and nature in the modern world, the sustainability of capitalism and the trajectory of human progress.”

  Naomi Klein (2019) 

“Reporting from the frontlines of climate breakdown, and pairs it with new material on the high stakes of what we choose to do next...Explains how the bold ideas and action within the Green New Deal could avert climate catastrophe and become a blueprint for a just and thriving society.”

 Naomi Klein (2014)

“Forget everything you think you know about global warming. The really inconvenient truth is that it’s not about carbon—it’s about capitalism. The convenient truth is that we can seize this existential crisis to transform our failed economic system and build something radically better...We have been told the market will save us, when in fact the addiction to profit and growth is digging us in deeper every day. We have been told it’s impossible to get off fossil fuels when in fact we know exactly how to do it—it just requires breaking every rule in the “free-market” playbook: reining in corporate power, rebuilding local economies, and reclaiming our democracies.” 

 Daniel Yergin (2020) 

“Daniel Yergin, global energy expert and master story-teller, draws the new map of energy and geopolitics. Controversial fracking technology has enabled the “shale revolution” in oil and gas which almost overnight has made the United States the world’s number one energy powerhouse. Simultaneously, concern about climate change is driving an energy transition in the search for a low-carbon future.”

 Daniel Yergin (2012)

“Presents a gripping account of the ongoing quest for the energy that our world needs. Daniel Yergin continues the story of oil begun in The Prize, and brings the reader into the turbulent choices about the future of energy…offers context and insight into what it takes to fuel life in the twenty-first century, the struggles among nations, the energies on which our society has been built, and the new resources that  are competing to replace them. Essential for anyone seeking to understand today’s energy world and the future of energy – and the people who will shape it.”

 Daniel Yergin (2008)

“...recounts the panoramic history of the world’s most important resource: oil....the struggle for wealth and power that has surrounded oil for over a century and continues to fuel global rivalries, shake the world economy, and transform the destiny of men and nations….proves the unwavering significance of oil throughout the modern era by capturing the great economic and political clashes over precious “black gold.”

 Elizabeth Kolbert (COMING 2021)

 “In The Sixth Extinction, she explored the ways in which our capacity for destruction has reshaped the natural world. Now she examines how the very sorts of interventions that have imperiled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation. By turns inspiring, terrifying, and darkly comic, Under a White Sky is an utterly original examination of the challenges we face and takes a hard look at the new world we are creating.” 

 Elizabath Kolbert (2014)

“Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us... A major book about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes.”