Take on the challenge of working towards a greener future by checking out these titles! Also, register for Jonathan Foley’s May 3, 2023 presentation, Project Drawdown: Mobilizing Kingston With Action-ready Answers to Create the Climate Future We ALL Want!
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming edited by Paul Hawken
In Drawdown, renowned environmentalist Paul Hawken has assembled a team of over 200 scholars, scientists, policymakers, business leaders and activists to illustrate the hundred most substantive solutions to combat climate change that together will not only slow down the growth of carbon emissions but reverse them altogether.
The Great Regeneration: Ecological Farming, Open-Source Technology, and a Radical Vision of Hope by Dorn Cox with Courtney White
In The Great Regeneration, farmer-technologist Dorn Cox and author-activist Courtney White explore unique, groundbreaking research to reclaim the space where science and agriculture meet as a shared human endeavour.
I Want a Better Catastrophe by Andrew Boyd
With global warming projected to rocket past the 1.5°C limit, lifelong activist Andrew Boyd is thrown into a crisis of hope and 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, asking them: "Is it really the end of the world? And if so, now what?"
Mobilize Food! Wartime Inspiration for Environmental Victory Today by Eleanor Boyle and Tim Lang
This book recounts the dramatic story of World War II Britain, its Ministry of Food, and its millions of citizens who fought for their democracy partly by growing more and wasting less. Mobilize Food! also offers strategies for action and hope in our time. It shows that entire populations can remake food systems to be sustainable, healthy and fair.
How to be a Climate Optimist: Blueprints for a Better World by Chris Turner
This book moves past the despair and futile anger over ecological collapse and harnesses that passion toward building a 21st-century quality of life that surpasses the 20th-century version in every way.
The Big Fix: 7 Practical Steps to Save Our Planet by Hal Harvey and Justin Gillis
This book explores how our political economy really works, revealing who decides everything from what kind of power plants to build to how efficient cars must be before they're allowed on the road to how much insulation a new house requires — and how we can insert ourselves into all these decisions to ensure that the most climate-conscious choices are being made.
