BOOKS
Eleven recently published books that you might want to check out, read, and/or give to others:
Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility, short essays by a bunch of great climate experts and authors, edited by Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua
No Miracles Needed: How Today’s Technology Can Save Our Climate and Clean Our Air, by Mark Z. Jacobson
At Home on an Unruly Planet: Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth, by Madeline Ostrander
Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from Earth’s Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis, by Michael Mann
The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet, by Jeff Goodell
The Regenerative Materials Movement: Dispatches from Practitioners, Researchers, and Advocates, edited by the International Living Future Institute
Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden, by Camille T. Dungy
Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe, by Carl Safina
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America, by Heather Cox Richardson
Saving Democracy: A User’s Manual for Every American, by David Pepper
Fiction: The Lost Cause, by Cory Doctorow
Also check out the books published by New Society Publishers and Chelsea Green Publishing and Island Press, for a wide selection of titles on sustainability topics.
FILMS
Four new documentary films that you might want to watch and/or mention to others (note: some of these might not be widely distributed via theaters or streaming until 2024):
The Last of the Nightingales (32 min.; featuring Bernie and Katherine Krause; view trailer here)
Radioactive: The Women of Three Mile Island
The Need to Grow: Save the Soil, Save the World
I continue to add books and films to this list as the year goes on and I learn about new ones. Do you have favorite books or authors or films to recommend? Please mention them in the Comments.
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- Books, Films and TV, TED Talks, and other Educational Resources
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- Recent Films (2016-2021)
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Hello!
Great lists provided here.
We’d like to suggest the newly released How to live in a Chaotic Climate: 10 Steps to Reconnect with Ourselves, Our Communities, and Our Planet.
Thanks for your consideration.
Thanks, Tor!
I agree. I listed each of those books in my previous years’ book lists (in 2021 and 2022).
Cheers.
Two books that I’m reading that I’d recommend.
1. The Climate Book, Greta Thunberg (Feb. 2023). Very good! ~ 30 experts contributing short 3-4 page chapters, with Greta’s insight linking the topics. https://theclimatebook.org/en-us/
2. The Ministry of the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson. 2020, a fictional tale of how our future plays out, in the not too distant future. Starts grim, then shines a light on many, perhaps radical, steps toward reversing global warming, and adapting to the changes taking place.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ministry_for_the_Future