Selected Climate Change Book titles and Authors
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Pope Francis – Encyclical Letter Laudato Si of the Holy Father Francis on Care for our Common Home
Understanding the global situation
Mark Hertsgaard – Hot: Living through the next 50 years on Earth . Bay Area writer with children!
Naomi Klein – This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
Anna Lappe – Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About it
Bill McKibben – The Comforting Whirlwind: God, Job, and the Scale of Creation (2005)
Christian Parenti – Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence (2011) Includes chapters explaining how the unrest in Syria began as climate change brought by a 2005 drought to the region.
Michael Pollan – Omnivore’s Dilemna
Changing ourselves
Doris Janzen Longacre – Living More with Less –Mennonite Brethren. A classic on the subject of clearing clutter and living with less!
Lani Muelrath – The Plant-Based Journey . Hear Lani speak on Sunday, April 10 speaker at DCC, 3pm.
William Powers – New Slow City: living simply in the world’s fastest city – scaling back consumption
Making a new way to live: a new economy and sustainability
David Korten – Change the Story, Change the Future: A Living Economy for a Living Earth – (2015) People wonder what we can do if we give up the growth economy; here’s a solution.
David C. Korten – When Corporations Rule the World, 20th Anniversary Edition (2015)
Bill McKibben – EAARTH: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet (2010)
Asher Miller and Rob Hopkins – Climate After Growth: Why environmentalists must embrace Post-Growth Economics and community Resilience, 2013 Post Carbon Inst and Transition Network . Another new book on what besides growth can work!)
Asher Miller is the Executive Director of Post Carbon Institute. Post Carbon Institute leads the transition to a more resilient, equitable, and sustainable world by providing individuals and communities with the resources needed to understand and respond to the interrelated economic, energy, and ecological crises of the 21st century. Its thirty Fellows are among the most well-respected sustainability experts in the world.
Rob Hopkins is one of the UK’s most influential environmentalists. He is co-founder of Transition Network and Transition Town Totnes, and a founder of the Transition movement, once described by the BBC as “the biggest urban brainwave of the century.” Transition Network was set up in 2007 to promote and respond to the rapid spread of Transition initiatives around the world, which number more than 1,400 in 44 countries
Kathleen Dean Moore – GREAT TIDE RISING: Finding Clarity and Moral Courage to Confront Climate Change. New book by last year’s keynote speaker!
Even as seas rise against the shores, another great tide is beginning to rise – a tide of outrage against the pillage of the planet, a tide of commitment to justice and human rights, a swelling affirmation of moral responsibility to the future and to Earth’s fullness of life.
James Gustave Speth – America the Possible: Manifesto for a New Economy (2012) System change, not climate change…a serious look at where we are and radical ways out of our predicament by changing our economic system.
Finding Moral Ground and Seeking Comfort and Inner peace; A New World Waiting to be Born
Compiled by Lorraine Anderson, Photographs by Bruce Hodge – Earth & Eros: A Celebration in Words and Photographs (2015)
Let this book open your eyes to the possibilities for deep pleasure everywhere around you. Read it out loud to yourself, to your lover. Let the words inspire you to infuse your wild, precious life with the primal gifts of love offered by the earth and to honor the earth in all your actions. Lorraine Anderson
Marcus Aurelius – Meditations
Leonardo Boff – Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor. Influential to Pope Francis
Thich Nhat Hanh and Nguyen Anh-Huong – Walking Meditation with an instructional DVD and 5 guided meditations on CD.
Kathleen Dean Moore – Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril
Kathleen Dean Moore – Wild Comfort: The Solace of Nature . A beautiful book on nature and the stages of grieving.