We're thankful for our home, Earth, and we know that one way to give thanks this Earth Day is to learn more about nature, climate, and the environment. These books will help you celebrate and honour our planet.
Fresh Air, Clean Water: Our Right to a Healthy Environment by Megan Clendenan
Fresh Air, Clean Water: Defending Our Right to a Healthy Environment explores the connections between our environment and our health, and why the right to live in a healthy environment should be protected as a human right. Ages 9-12.
How To Change Everything: The Young Human's Guide To Protecting The Planet And Each Other by Naomi Klein
Temperatures are rising all over the world, leading to wildfires, droughts, animal extinctions and ferocious storms -- climate change is real. But how did we get to this state, and what can we do next? What if we could work to protect the planet, while also taking action to make life fairer and more equal for the people who live on it? We can -- if we're willing to change everything.
In her first book written for young readers, internationally acclaimed, bestselling author and social activist Naomi Klein, with Rebecca Steffof, lays out the facts and challenges of climate change and the movement for climate justice. Ages 10+.
A Good War Mobilizing Canada For The Climate Emergency by Seth Klein
A bold blueprint to retool our economy and transform our politics for a zero-carbon future.
Thirty Years Of Failure: Understanding Canadian Climate Policy by Robert MacNeil
A look at how Canada went from being a leader in the fight to slow climate change thirty years ago to rejecting global attempts to do so in more recent years, as well as ways the country can become a leader once again.
Living The 1.5 Degree Lifestyle: Why Individual Climate Change Matters More Than Ever by Lloyd Alter
Stop thinking about efficiency and start thinking about sufficiency. Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle reveals the carbon cost of everything we do, identifying where we can make big reductions, while not sweating the small stuff. The international scientific consensus is that we have less than a decade to drastically slash our collective carbon emissions to keep global heating to 1.5 degrees and avert catastrophe.
The Red Deal: Indigenous Action To Save Our Earth by The Red Nation
The Red Deal is a call for action beyond the scope of the U.S. colonial state. It's a program for Indigenous liberation, life, and land--an affirmation that colonialism and capitalism must be overturned for this planet to be habitable for human and other-than-human relatives to live dignified lives. The Red Deal is not a response to the Green New Deal, or a "bargain" with the elite and powerful. It's a deal with the humble people of the earth; a pact that we shall strive for peace and justice and a declaration that movements for justice must come from below and to the left.
Hot, Flat, And Crowded: Why We Need A Green Revolution-- And How It Can Renew America by Thomas L. Friedman
Friedman takes a fresh and provocative look at two of the biggest challenges we face today: America's surprising loss of focus and national purpose since 9/11; and the global environmental crisis, which is affecting everything from food to fuel to forests. In this groundbreaking account of where we stand now, he shows us how the solutions to these two big problems are linked--how we can restore the world and revive America at the same time.
Full Spectrum Resistance: Volume One, Building Movements And Fighting To Win by Aric McBay
In Full Spectrum Resistance, Volume 1: Building Movements and Fighting to Win, readers learn why we need resistance movements, how movements--such as the Deacons of Defense of the American Civil Rights Movement--fight when they want to win, and what makes movements effective.