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"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. Through clear-eyed essays and vibrant conversations, infused with data, poetry, and art, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson guides us through solutions and possibilities at the nexus of science, policy, culture, and justice. Visionary farmers and financers, architects...

Award-winning climate journalist Eduardo Garcia offers a deeply researched and user-friendly guide to the things we can do every day to fight climate change. Based on his popular New York Times column “One Thing You Can Do,” this fully illustrated book proposes simple solutions for an overwhelming problem. No lectures in Things You Can Do—just accessible and inspiring ideas to slash emissions and waste in our daily lives, with over 350 explanatory...

Provides practical advice anyone can use to decrease their environmental impact while saving money. About 70 percent of the book is drawn from articles Wheaton has written, as well as podcasts he's hosted and presentations and interviews he's given. Wheaton, a former software engineer, is an advocate for permaculture-a set of design principles inspired by natural systems that can help people take care of the earth and take care of each other. He...

"An existential manual for tragic optimists, can-do pessimists, and compassionate doomers With global warming projected to rocket past the 1.5°C limit, lifelong activist Andrew Boyd is thrown into a crisis of hope, and off on a quest to learn how to live with the "impossible news" of our climate doom. He searches out eight of today's leading climate thinkers ― from activist Tim DeChristopher to collapse-psychologist Jamey Hecht, grassroots strategist...

"A unique and beautiful approach to understanding climate change with practical actions to help protect the planet"-- Provided by publisher.

In UNSTOPPABLE, Bill Nye crystallizes and expands the message for which he is best known and beloved. That message is that with a combination of optimism and scientific curiosity, all obstacles become opportunities, and the possibilities of our world become limitless. With a scientist's thirst for knowledge and an engineer's vision of what can be, Bill Nye sees today's environmental issues not as insurmountable, depressing problems but as chances...

A businessman argues that the world will undergo serious damage from climate change and greenhouse gas emissions, even in the unlikely event that governments meet their pledges, and suggests ways to use the techniques of business leadership to employ what is known and develop new ways to make the economic and social changes necessary to mitigate the coming crisis.

"In 2006, the documentary An Inconvenient Truth set off a heated political debate when it threatened that inaction on climate change would lead to a dark and frightening future by 2016. Well, that ten year window has closed--and we have neither resolved the threats to our climate, nor gone past the point of no return. To Mayor Bloomberg and Carl Pope, it's clear that to treat climate change as either a lost cause or a non-issue is the wrong approach....

Instructs readers on how to make a difference by engaging in practices to reduce global warming, from repurposing used materials to participating in eco-friendly activities at school.