Climate Action Week

This booklist includes books that are written by strong climate voices from different places, fields, and communities in support of climate action advocacy campaigns that focus on the climate change related challenges and emergencies facing our communities. You’ll find books that explore solutions and stories that the expert tell, and the power of action and community.

Updated November 2, 2023
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We are the middle of forever : Indigenous voices from Turtle Island on the changing Earth
Jamail, Dahr
Paper Book
Saving us : a climate scientist's case for hope and healing in a divided world
Hayhoe, Katharine
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER "An optimistic view on why collective action is still possible--and how it can be realized." --The New York Times "As far as heroic characters go, I'm not sure you could do better than Katharine Hayhoe." --Scientific...
Hope in the Dark
Solnit, Rebecca
Digital file
With Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide reading of environmental, cultural, and political history, Solnit argued that radicals have a long,...
The future we choose : surviving the climate crisis
Figueres, Christiana
Paper Book
A cautionary but optimistic book about the world's changing climate and the fate of humanity, from Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac--who led negotiations for the United Nations during the historic Paris Agreement of 2015. The authors outline two possible scenarios for...
Generation dread : finding purpose in an age of climate anxiety
Wray, Britt
Paper Book
"Wray shows finally that meaningful living is possible even in the face of that which threatens to extinguish life itself."--Dr. Gabor Maté, author of When the Body Says No When we're faced with record-breaking temperatures, worsening wildfires, more severe...
The good ancestor : a radical prescription for long-term thinking
Krznaric, Roman
Paper Book
So said Jonas Salk, who developed the polio vaccine in 1953 but refused to patent it--forgoing profit so that more lives could be saved. Salk's radical generosity to future generations should inspire us. But when leading philosopher Roman Krznaric examines society today,...
I Want a Better Catastrophe : Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
Boyd, Andrew
Ebook
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...

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