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Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution,...

Vandana Shiva

Acclaimed author and award-winning scientist and activist Vandana Shiva lucidly details the severity of the global water shortage, calling the water crisis "the most pervasive, most severe, and most invisible dimension of the eco...

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Published: Jul 2016

Supercharge Me: Net Zero Faster

Almost everyone has a target for reducing CO2 emissions. Not just governments in Europe, the United States, China and India, even the largest businesses in the world have joined the club. The goal is to prevent the earth’s tempe...

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Published: Apr 2022

Limits and Beyond: 50 years on from T...

Ugo Bardi

In 1972, a book changed the world. The Club of Rome commissioned a report that shifted how we see what humans are doing to the planet. Looking back five decades later, what happened next, what did we do and not do, what did we lear...

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Published: May 2022

Burn: Igniting a New Carbon Drawdown ...

Albert Bates

An 800-CEO-READ "Editor's Choice" March 2019 How We Can Harness Carbon to Help Solve the Climate Crisis In order to rescue ourselves from climate catastrophe, we need to radically alter how humans live on Earth. We h...

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Published: Apr 2020

Good News, Planet Earth: What’s Bei...

Sam Bentley

Join sustainability enthusiast and climate activist Sam Bentley as he shares the hopeful developments combating climate change! Do you feel like climate change is just getting worse and there's nothing you can do to stop it? Good new...

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Published: May 2023

The Unnatural World: The Race to Rema...

David Biello

A brilliant young environmental journalist argues that we must innovate and adapt to save planet Earth in this enlightening "trip around the world to meet people working out new ways for humanity to live as well as survive" ...

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Published: Dec 2017

Climate of Hope: How Cities, Business...

Michael R. Bloomberg

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former head of the Sierra Club Carl Pope comes a manifesto on how the benefits of taking action on climate change are concrete, immediate, and immense. They explore climate cha...

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Published: Apr 2018

Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico ...

Yarimar Bonilla

Two years after Hurricane Maria hit, Puerto Ricans are still reeling from its effects and aftereffects. Aftershocks collects poems, essays and photos from survivors of Hurricane Maria detailing their determination to persevere. The c...

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Published: Sep 2019

Climate Guardians: Thoughts and Actio...

David Cain

How can people of faith respond to the worsening crisis of climate change? How—in the words of Pope Francis's recent encyclical "Care of Our Common Home"—can we learn "to live wisely, to think deeply, and to love ge...

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Published: Jan 2018

Is Science Enough?: Forty Critical Qu...

Aviva Chomsky

Why social, racial, and economic justice is just as crucial as science in determining how humans can reverse climate catastrophe. We are facing a climate catastrophe. A plethora of studies describe the damage we’ve already do...

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Published: Apr 2022

Global Weirdness: Severe Storms, Dead...

Climate Central

Global Weirdness summarizes everything we know about the science of climate change, explains what is likely to happen to the climate in the future, and lays out, in practical terms, what we can do to avoid further shifts. In fifty eas...

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Published: May 2013

Cranky Uncle vs. Climate Change: How ...

John Cook

It's Not Just the Facts When it comes to climate change, this truly is a golden age—of fake news, post-truths, pluralistic ignorance, conspiracy theories, a willfully ignorant administration, and the Cranky Uncle. You know him. We a...

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Published: Feb 2020

The Weather of the Future: Heat Waves...

Heidi Cullen

From Heidi Cullen, one of America's foremost experts on weather and climate change and a senior research scientist with Climate Central, comes The Weather of the Future, a fascinating and provocative book that predicts what different ...

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Published: Jul 2011

How to Convert a Climate Change Skept...

Seth Darling

The essential climate-debate handbook—everything you need to know about climate science to change mindsHave you ever heard someone say that climate change is simply the result of natural cycles? Or that there can't be global warming...

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Published: Jul 2014

Population Bombed!: Exploding the Lin...

Pierre DesRochers

Many scholars, writers, activists and policy-makers have linked growth in population to environmental degradation, especially catastrophic climate change. In the last few years, however, a number of writers and academics have document...

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Published: Sep 2018

The Attacking Ocean: The Past, Presen...

Brian Fagan

The past fifteen thousand years—the entire span of human civilization—have witnessed dramatic sea level changes, which began with rapid global warming at the end of the Ice Age, when coastlines were more than seven hundred feet be...

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Published: Aug 2014

The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made ...

Brian Fagan

The groundbreaking history of how climate change transformed Europe and the world, from a renowned archaeologist -- updated with a new preface on the latest climate researchThe Little Ice Age tells the fascinating story of the turbule...

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Published: Nov 2019

The Future We Choose: The Stubborn Op...

Christiana Figueres

Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac—who led negotiations for the United Nations during the historic Paris Agreement of 2015—have written a cautionary but optimistic book about the world's changing climate and the fate ...

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Published: Feb 2021

Windfall: The Booming Business of Glo...

McKenzie Funk

A fascinating investigation into how people around the globe are cashing in on a warming worldMcKenzie Funk has spent the last six years reporting around the world on how we are preparing for a warmer planet. Funk shows us that the be...

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Published: Jan 2015

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The ...

Bill Gates

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical—and accessible—plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a ...

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Published: Aug 2022

Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth...

James Hansen

In his Q&A with Bill McKibben featured in the paperback edition of Storms of My Grandchildren, Dr. James Hansen, the world's leading climatologist, shows that exactly contrary to the impression the public has received, the science of ...

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Published: Dec 2010

The Story of More: How We Got to Clim...

Hope Jahren

"Hope Jahren is the voice that science has been waiting for." —Nature"A superb account of the deadly struggle between humanity and what may prove the only life-bearing planet within ten light years, written in a brill...

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Published: Mar 2020

The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and F...

Dahr Jamail

Finalist for the 2020 PEN / E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Acclaimed on its hardcover publication, a global journey that reminds us "of how magical the planet we're about to lose really is" (Bill McKibben) Wi...

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Published: Mar 2020

Being the Change: How to Live Well an...

Peter Kalmus

Life on 1/10th the fossil fuels turns out to be awesome.We all want to be happy. Yet as we consume ever more in a frantic bid for happiness, global warming worsens.Alarmed by drastic changes now occurring in the Earth's climate system...

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Published: Aug 2017

Hope Matters: Why Changing the Way We...

Elin Kelsey

Fears About Our Planet are fueling an epidemic of despair: adults worry about their children\'s future, while many young people honestly believe they have no future at all. As Elin Kelsey argues, this hopelessness-while an underst...

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Published: Oct 2020

The Physics of Climate Change

Lawrence M. Krauss

The first book to briefly and clearly present the science of climate change in a way that is accessible to laypeople, providing the perspective needed to understand and assess the foundations and predictions of climate change. &ldq...

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Published: Mar 2023

Cool IT (Movie Tie-in Edition): The S...

Bjorn Lomborg

Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and staggeringly expensive actions now being considered to meet the challenges of global warming ultimately will have little impact on the world's temperature. He suggests that rather th...

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Published: Oct 2010

False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic...

Bjorn Lomborg

“A very important and superbly argued book” (Matt Ridley) by the bestselling “skeptical environmentalist” argues that panic over climate change is causing more harm than good  Hurricanes batter ...

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Published: Sep 2021

The Global Warming Reader: A Century ...

Bill McKibben

Our most widely respected environmental writer brings together the essential voices on global warming, from its 19th-century discovery to the present With the rise of extreme weather events worldwide--witness the devastation wrought ...

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Published: Mar 2012

Lukewarming: The New Climate Science ...

Patrick J. Michaels

With the U.N. Paris Climate Conference (December 2015) in the headlines, and climate policy a hot topic in the election cycle, it has become increasingly difficult to differentiate the climate science from the rhetoric. In Lukewarming...

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Published: Sep 2016
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