Earth Day is an annual opportunity to reflect on personal environmental goals and how we, the reader, interact with the world around us. This Earth Day, we focus on the hope of change, love of nature, and the power of individual action to manifest climate-conscious behaviour and give the reader the tools to improve their patch of Earth.
Why I Wake Early: New Poems by Mary Oliver
In this collection, award-winning poet Mary Oliver utilizes her signature style to emphasize the small details of living within the natural world. Oliver provides the reader with an intimate opportunity to sit in the sun, at the edge of a pond, with the crickets and birds to see the beauty and responsibility of our positions as humans. She will inspire the reader to closely examine how the ecosystem, creatures and humans interact.
The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times by Jane Goodall, Gail E. Hudson, and Douglas Carlton Abrams
In the resonating waves of the COVID-19 pandemic and worsening climate crisis, Jane Goodall opens this book with a simple invitation to the reader: to hope. As a prolific environmental activist, she centres the work to consist of a combination of her charming anecdotes and profound wisdom which will challenge the reader to see that amongst the fear, anger and apathy in the world, there is a choice to act with hope.
The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth by The Red Nation
The Red Deal is more than an environmental treatise; it is a systematic call to action by a coalition of activists which encompasses nearly all aspects of the politics of life and living to work towards restoring the liberty and dignity of all peoples to create a new world order. It promotes decolonization and various additional responses to capitalism in a direct attempt to heal our bodies and planet.
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, And Solutions for the Climate Crisis edited by Katharine Keeble Wilkinson and Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
This cumulation of works that vary in style and format is the product of the vast medley of feminist voices promoting societal change amid the developing climate crisis. The editors are clear: to counter catastrophe, we must look to new leaders in all sectors while maintaining a more accessible, representative and compassionate program of action.
Return to Nature: The New Science of How Natural Landscapes Restore Us by Emma Loewe
In an intellectual and accessible format, Emma Loewe takes command of the page, formulating discussions and favouring facts to present the reader with a genuine argument for the mental and physical benefits of re-embracing dedicated time to an exploration of natural spaces and the development of the knowledge to care for these places.
Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World: Essays by Barry Lopez
This collection of essays, written in the months preceding Barry Lopez’s passing, reflects on the lessons in the resilience of existence conveyed to him about the wide variety of landscapes and experiences he has been able to confront through travel and an openness to adventure, as well as the ongoing threat climate change poses to it all. It is a shining love letter to his intimacy with the Earth.
Six Weeks to Zero Waste: A Simple Plan for Life by Kate Arnell and Abi Read
Minimizing overconsumption is a developing trend of the individual action movement. In this book, Kate Arnell offers a feasible how-to guide divided into comprehensible sections to reduce personal waste output while adding quirky commentary on normalizing and adopting the lifestyle.
We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth edited by Stan Rushworth and Dahr Jamail
We Are the Middle of Forever centres the climate crisis within the conversations and the perspectives of North American indigenous peoples. This deeply moving work focuses on planting the reader among cultures that have withstood a rapid collapse of an intentional and conscience relationship with the Earth while maintaining a distinct sense of courage and wisdom.
A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet by Sarah Jaquette Ray
Responding directly to the growing insistence among Millennials and Gen Z for climate action among government agencies, environmental studies professor Sarah Jaquette Ray produced an outspoken and candid guide to resilience in activism to provide readers with the tools necessary for withstanding adversity and promoting radical change.
