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Dive into powerful books that spark ideas, fuel hope, and inspire change for a sustainable future—and support local bookstores while you’re at it! Your next climate action starts here.

Featured books

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

Naomi Klein

Klein exposes the myths that are clouding the climate debate: that the market will save us, when in fact the addiction to profit and growth is digging us in deeper every day; that it’s impossible to get off fossil fuels when in fact we know exactly how to do it.

In Our Hands: A Handbook for Intergenerational Actions to Solve the Climate Crisis

Wilford H. Welch

A handbook that looks at the individual and collective actions we must take to shape our future and avoid environmental and societal collapse. Packed with information, ideas, and resources, this book inspires us to move from concern to action.

The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World

Amanda Little

An environmental journalist and professor asks the question: Is the future of food looking bleak — or better than ever? and takes the reader on a trip through 11 countries and 13 states, meeting people working various angles of our food supply.

The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet

Dr. Michael Mann

This book outlines a plan to force governments and corporations to make real change. With immensely powerful vested interests aligned in defense of the fossil fuel status quo, this book from renowned climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann, informs and enables citizens everywhere to join this battle for our planet. The societal tipping point won't happen without the active participation of citizens everywhere aiding in the collective push forward.

The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis

Christiana Figueres & Tom Rivett-Carnac

Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivet-Carnac make the compelling case for confronting the climate crisis head-on, with determination & optimism, a cautionary but optimistic book about the world’s changing climate and the fate of humanity.

Rewiring America

Saul Griffith

Reaching net-zero is critical and achievable. How? By replacing or installing one billion American-made machines: furnaces, water heaters, cars, clothes dryers, and infrastructure machines. Here's the math and the strategy behind this urgent opportunity, that adds jobs and will help keep global warming below pre-industrial levels.

The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

Jeff Goodell

Acclaimed environmental journalist and author, Goodell decries the term "global warming as sounding gentle and soothing, as if the most notable impact of burning fossil fuels will be better beach weather". "Global warming" fails to convey the urgency associated with the climate crisis, which the author eloquently describes.

Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World

Dr. Katharine Hayhoe

Renowned climate scientist and Evangelical Christian, Hayhoe brings a fresh and compelling message about the science of climate change and the moral imperative to act on "global weirding".

The No-Nonsense Guide to Climate Change: The Science, the Solutions, the Way Forward

Danny Chivers

This is an accessible and friendly pocket-sized overview of this complex mega-subject, combining all the basics with facts and analysis.

Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive By Giving More Than They Take

Paul Polman & Andrew Winston

This is no utopian fantasy. Courageous leaders are already making it real - and the stakes couldn't be higher. With bold and compelling stories, Net Positive sets out principles and practices that will deliver the scale of change and transformation that the world so desperately needs.

Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming

Paul Hawken

Published in 2017, this comprehensive guide to 80 existing solutions, backed up by science and data from a worldwide team of over 200 scholars, scientists, policy-makers, business leaders, and activists who modeled solutions, ranking them by their on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and restoring the earth's climate.

What If We Get It Right? Visions of Climate Futures

Ayala Elizabeth Johnson

Sometimes the bravest thing we can do while facing an existential crisis is imagine life on the other side. This provocative and joyous book maps an inspiring landscape of possible climate futures. With clear-eyed essays, vibrant interviews, data, poetry, and art, Ayana guides the reader through solutions and possibilities at the nexus of science, policy, culture, and justice.

Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth

Mark Hertsgaard

From a renowned journalist, a view of how other countries have approached preparing for and slowing climate change; an informative and vividly reported book that goes beyond the politics of climate change to explore practical ways we can adapt and survive.

We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast

Jonathan Safran Foer

By beginning with WWII, and demonstrating the collective effort to win the war, the author sets down the parameters that, for us to do anything about climate change, we must do it collectively.

Designing Climate Solutions: A Policy Guide for Low-Carbon Energy

Hal Harvey

A small set of energy policies, designed and implemented well, can put us on the path to a low-carbon future. Energy systems are large and complex, so energy policy must be focused and cost-effective.

Speed & Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now

John Doerr

A launch pad for those who are ready to act now, this book is geared to leaders in every walk of life. With a definitive action plan, the latest science, and a rising climate movement on our side, we can still reach net zero before it's too late. But as Doerr reminds us, there's no time to waste.

Cheaper, Faster, Better: How We'll Win the Climate War

Tom Steyer

Just as World War II raised an existential threat that united Americans in a common cause, the dangers of climate change are similarly challenging all of our previously held notions of the future —and our only hope, as Tom Steyer sees it, is to unite together to take action in a collective movement akin to a war effort.

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