Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution,...
Vandana ShivaAcclaimed 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...
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...
Limits and Beyond: 50 years on from T...
Ugo BardiIn 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...
Burn: Igniting a New Carbon Drawdown ...
Albert BatesAn 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...
Good News, Planet Earth: What’s Bei...
Sam BentleyJoin 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...
The Unnatural World: The Race to Rema...
David BielloA 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" ...
Climate of Hope: How Cities, Business...
Michael R. BloombergNEW 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...
Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico ...
Yarimar BonillaTwo 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...
Climate Guardians: Thoughts and Actio...
David CainHow 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...
Is Science Enough?: Forty Critical Qu...
Aviva ChomskyWhy 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...
Global Weirdness: Severe Storms, Dead...
Climate CentralGlobal 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...
Cranky Uncle vs. Climate Change: How ...
John CookIt'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...
The Weather of the Future: Heat Waves...
Heidi CullenFrom 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 ...
How to Convert a Climate Change Skept...
Seth DarlingThe 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...
Population Bombed!: Exploding the Lin...
Pierre DesRochersMany 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...
The Attacking Ocean: The Past, Presen...
Brian FaganThe 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...
The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made ...
Brian FaganThe 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...
The Future We Choose: The Stubborn Op...
Christiana FigueresChristiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnacwho led negotiations for the United Nations during the historic Paris Agreement of 2015have written a cautionary but optimistic book about the world's changing climate and the fate ...
Windfall: The Booming Business of Glo...
McKenzie FunkA 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...
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 ...
Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth...
James HansenIn 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 ...
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...
The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and F...
Dahr JamailFinalist 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...
Being the Change: How to Live Well an...
Peter KalmusLife 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...
Hope Matters: Why Changing the Way We...
Elin KelseyFears 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...
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...
Cool IT (Movie Tie-in Edition): The S...
Bjorn LomborgBjorn 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...
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 ...
The Global Warming Reader: A Century ...
Bill McKibbenOur 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 ...
Lukewarming: The New Climate Science ...
Patrick J. MichaelsWith 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...