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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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 : untold histories, wild possibilities
Solnit, Rebecca
Ebook
"[A] landmark book . . . Solnit illustrates how the uprisings that begin on the streets can upend the status quo and topple authoritarian regimes" (Vice).   A book as powerful and influential as Rebecca Solnit's Men Explain Things to Me<...
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 crisis
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...

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