10 children’s books about climate change
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 19, 2022
These titles explore the impact of climate change for young listeners and readers. Want to cultivate the next Greta Thunberg?
20 must-read books about food systems
GreenBiz
JULY 10, 2020
20 must-read books about food systems. With record high unemployment , a reeling global economy and concerns of food shortages , the world as we know it is changing. Focusing on the concept of dude foods, the book follows the evolution of food marketing for men. Danielle Nierenberg. Fri, 07/10/2020 - 00:50.
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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization
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Teaching Our Young About Environmental Stewardship And Climate Change
Jim Conca
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
The meme of environmental stewardship and the concept of climate change can be taught to our children through well-written books for all ages. Humans pass on critical information through what are called memes, the sentient version of the biological gene.
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Why We Need to, Have to, Want to Act on Climate Change
Andrew Winston
APRIL 22, 2024
Need to explain the “why” of climate change action? Even ExxonMobil, a company that has spent decades muddying the science on climate change, wrote in a recent report : “[On] a list of the biggest challenges facing humankind … addressing poverty and climate change would be at the top.”)
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Liz Truss Book Calls for Climate Laws to be Abolished and Boasts of Effort to Cancel UK COP Summit
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 18, 2024
The new book by former Prime Minister Liz Truss urges the UK, U.S. and EU to drop their landmark climate change laws, spreads falsehoods about green policies, and fondly recalls an attempt to cancel a major climate conference. She adds that “the U.S. is beyond reach.
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Is the golf industry doing enough to combat climate change?
GreenBiz
APRIL 9, 2021
Is the golf industry doing enough to combat climate change? Sports leagues are seeing the impacts and the surge of climate-responsible athletes using their platforms to promote positive environmental and social impact — it’s something for the history books. Aubrey McCormick. Fri, 04/09/2021 - 02:00.
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Kids are hungry for books about eco-activists, in what publishers call 'the Greta effect'
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 14, 2019
Publishers coin the new trend the “Greta Thunberg Effect” and are turning around children’s book about climate change in record time. Publishers have pumped out books across a range of topics related to the environment, from endangered species to climate change, and sales have doubled in the last year, according to Nielsen.
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Positive Climate Change Narratives – WCS Book Club • 8/26/21
Women in Cleantech and Sustainability
JULY 6, 2021
Join the WCS LA Chapter for a stimulating conversation about Kim Stanley Robinson’s book “The Ministry for the Future”. Join the WCS Los Angeles Chapter’s discussion on Kim Stanley Robinson’s novel, “The Ministry for the Future” and why optimistic climate change narratives about the future are important in the fight against climate change.
Positive Climate Change Narratives – WCS Book Club • 8/27/21
Women in Cleantech and Sustainability
JULY 6, 2021
Join the WCS LA Chapter for a stimulating conversation about Kim Stanley Robinson’s book “The Ministry for the Future”. Join the WCS Los Angeles Chapter’s discussion on Kim Stanley Robinson’s novel, “The Ministry for the Future” and why optimistic climate change narratives about the future are important in the fight against climate change.
Climate Change and Other Frights: 13 Environmental Books to Scare You Into Action
DeSmogBlog
OCTOBER 15, 2019
Topics like climate change and pollution. As we approach the Halloween season, let’s dive into those fears with a batch of new books about those most fright-inducing of environmental topics. Tags: climate change books environment books Christopher Leonard Rachel Maddow
Book Review: Net Zero: How we stop causing climate change by Dieter Helm
Terra Infirma
JUNE 20, 2022
I haven’t read a Sustainability book for some time, so when my partner handed me a copy of Dieter Helm’s Net Zero at an Alpkit outdoors store of all places, I thought, yes, I really should give this a go. We have failed. The most important element is a tax on imported carbon.
Climate change author to deliver keynote at water technology event
Envirotec Magazine
DECEMBER 6, 2021
A respected global voice on environmental sustainability and climate change, Hawken has consulted with heads of state and industry leaders and has spoken about his work on media platforms worldwide. He has written eight books that have been published in 50 countries, selling more than two million copies.
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How climate change is muting nature’s symphony
Grist
AUGUST 3, 2022
This story is part of Grist’s Coming to our Senses series, a weeklong exploration of how climate change is reshaping the way we see, hear, smell, touch, and taste the world around us. But loons, like so many other birds, are threatened by climate change.
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Book Club: Speed & Scale by John Doerr • 4.6.23
Women in Cleantech and Sustainability
JANUARY 13, 2023
Speed & Scale by John Doerr April 6 | 5:30pm Register Here BOOK OF THE MONTH Speed & Scale by John Doerr Join the WCS Book Club discussion on John Doerr’s book Speed & Scale. Speed & Scale is a tactical plan for what solving climate change actually entails. #1
Study: The public is pretty confused by your climate change jargon
Grist
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Many people don’t understand key terms experts use to talk about climate change, according to a recent study from researchers affiliated with the United Nations Foundation and the University of Southern California. He said he’s heard the terms tipping point , carbon-neutral , and adaptation in the context of climate change.
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How to build a flood resilient future
GreenBiz
MARCH 14, 2020
A new book shows how we can adapt the built and natural environment to be more flood resilient in the face of climate change.
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SAVE THE DATE: LA Chapter Book Club: Uninhabitable Earth • 12/1/22
Women in Cleantech and Sustainability
OCTOBER 17, 2022
Join the WCS LA Chapter Book Club discussion on David Wallace-Wells’ book The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming. Termed this generation’s Silent Spring, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming is a no fluff, harrowing account of what will happen to our planet if the current pace of climate change continues.
Former Climate Change Denier Now Leading BC’s Top Business Lobby Group
DeSmogBlog
JUNE 29, 2023
A business lobby group that regularly meets with top elected officials and policymakers in British Columbia is now being led by someone who once argued that human-caused climate change is an “untested proposition.” The post Former Climate Change Denier Now Leading BC’s Top Business Lobby Group appeared first on DeSmog.
New books on the new rules for a new era of business
Impact Alpha
JANUARY 19, 2021
19 – From the COVID pandemic and climate change to the racial justice uprising and assaults on democracy, the tumultuous events. The post New books on the new rules for a new era of business appeared first on Impact Alpha. ImpactAlpha, Jan.
books about a planet in peril
Fairsnape
OCTOBER 9, 2019
Within FutuREstorative I included a list of books that have inspired me on my sustainability journey. We need and we have, an updated library of climate change sustainability texts and novels. To this list I would add: Climate Justice , Mary Robinson A Man-Made Problem With a Feminist Solution.
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How climate change has altered cocoa farming in Ivory Coast
GreenBiz
JANUARY 25, 2020
Severe droughts have caused soil fertility to decline and therefore, yields hampered.
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Exxon Could Have Helped Stop Climate Change 30 Years Ago, ‘Proprietary’ Docs Show
DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
org founder Bill McKibben argues in my new book entitled The Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy To Cover Up Climate Change. Read a Q&A with Geoff Dembicki, author of the book The Petroleum Papers. We’d be headed down the backside,” environmental writer and 350.org Credit: TheKurgan , CC BY–SA 3.0.
The new vocabulary of climate change was written in Icelandic
Grist
MARCH 26, 2021
For most people, what climate change really means for humanity’s future hasn’t sunk in yet; otherwise, he reasons, everyone would be clamoring for action. Magnason’s book On Time and Water , recently released in the United States, is his attempt to answer that question. What if the world will be saved before the book comes out?”
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A common talking point about climate change gets it all wrong, new study says
Grist
APRIL 21, 2023
Common wisdom says that the average person doesn’t care about climate change because they think its effects will unfold in the far-off future or in faraway places. This point is repeated ad infinitum in tips about how to talk about the climate crisis, in books, articles, and guides for public officials. One problem?
1963 Conference Put Carbon Dioxide and Climate Change in the Spotlight
DeSmogBlog
JANUARY 30, 2024
Concerned by potential climatic consequences, the foundation had proposed a conference on the “ Carbon Dioxide Content of the Atmosphere ” — an informal symposium that would allow a selected panel of experts to clarify their thinking and crystallize their ideas for “future scientific research” on the topic. Government.
All that plastic in the ocean is a climate change problem, too
Grist
OCTOBER 17, 2022
Matt Simon, a science journalist for Wired, details the danger in his forthcoming book on microplastics, A Poison Like No Other. It helps the mitigation of climate change.”. Matt Simon’s book, A Poison Like No Other, details the many dangers of microplastics. Left: Milan Bozic, Right: Jenna Garrett.
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What you can do to fight climate change
GatesNotes
FEBRUARY 14, 2021
This excerpt from my book includes several ideas for how you can help move us closer to a zero-carbon future.
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The conventional wisdom on how to talk about climate change? It’s wrong.
Grist
MAY 4, 2021
Kearns’ new book, Getting to the Heart of Science Communication: A Guide to Effective Engagement , out this month, argues that there’s no one “right” approach to talking about the climate crisis and other contentious scientific issues. Sometimes, climate scientists are like doctors delivering bad news to patients.). It’s wrong.
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Not me guv, or why Climate Change is always someone’s fault
Terra Infirma
JUNE 19, 2023
He cited research that, if my memory serves, could be summarised as “Everybody wants something done about climate change, but are not so keen on the idea of doing something themselves. The post Not me guv, or why Climate Change is always someone’s fault appeared first on Terra Infirma.
Did climate change cause societies to collapse? New research upends the old story.
Grist
APRIL 6, 2021
If you’re under the impression that climate change drove ancient civilizations to their demise, you probably haven’t heard the full story. Of course, the idea that a changing climate can drive collapse isn’t wrong. Even modest changes in the climate have caused problems. It’s just not the whole story.
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Want to solve climate change? Here’s the key…
Terra Infirma
OCTOBER 19, 2020
So if we have the technology we need, why are we still on a dangerous climate trajectory? In other words, beating climate change is largely a change management challenge. My advice to the environmental movement is to read some psychology books. Then we can work out how to effect change. So what should we do?
How to/not to communicate Sustainability pt 387
Terra Infirma
APRIL 4, 2024
The walk I went on last Sunday was one chosen from a book of walks in the Cheviots I had been given as a birthday present. This small book demonstrated exactly how to communicate Sustainability – and how not to. As we proceeded on the walk, I realised the book also contained the ‘right’ way of communicating Sustainability.
Cicadas like to be on time. But are they getting confused by climate change?
Grist
MAY 10, 2021
He would know: Kritsky is a kind of entomologist-historian, writing books and articles with such tantalizing titles as The Tears of Re: Beekeeping in Ancient Egypt or “The Insects and Arthropods of the Bible.”. But are they getting confused by climate change? Joseph University in Cincinnati. on May 10, 2021.
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Why Words Matter in the Fight Against Climate Change
DeSmogBlog
JANUARY 19, 2022
Your answer could say a lot about your views on climate change, explains Genevieve Guenther. But a growing concern about the climate crisis caused her to switch gears — and her research — to climate communication. How did you go from being an English professor to a climate activist?
How Covid-19 hurts climate change
Christopher Kemper
MARCH 29, 2020
There’s one image that comes to mind when people talk about climate change and Covid-19. Most people are ‘thinking ‘climate advocates must be celebrating this as victory’. The big problem in this logic is simple: the general public is incorrectly linking economic loss with climate change gain.
How Covid-19 hurts climate change
Christopher Kemper
MARCH 29, 2020
There’s one image that comes to mind when people talk about climate change and Covid-19. Most people are ‘thinking ‘climate advocates must be celebrating this as victory’. The big problem in this logic is simple: the general public is incorrectly linking economic loss with climate change gain.
How Covid-19 hurts climate change
Christopher Kemper
MARCH 29, 2020
There’s one image that comes to mind when people talk about climate change and Covid-19. Most people are ‘thinking ‘climate advocates must be celebrating this as victory’. The big problem in this logic is simple: the general public is incorrectly linking economic loss with climate change gain.
In 2020, Make Climate Change Personal
AGreenLiving
JANUARY 8, 2020
Author of award-winning book, The Four Sacred Gifts: Indigenous Wisdom … The post In 2020, Make Climate Change Personal appeared first on Earth911.com. Here is the original post: In 2020, Make Climate Change Personal.
Gas Utility Sends Kid-Friendly Activity Books to Oregon Schools
DeSmogBlog
MAY 25, 2022
and to “make a poster, rap song, mini-book, or oral presentation” about one of the booklet’s “natural gas science facts or safety tips.”. The post Gas Utility Sends Kid-Friendly Activity Books to Oregon Schools appeared first on DeSmog. NW Natural activity booklets sent to schools in the utility’s service area.
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The 101 on Climate Change
Christopher Kemper
JUNE 20, 2020
CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION I have a deep love for the environment at all levels?—?not climate change is among the largest issue that our generation faces. About Climate Change In this world, all things are connected; as such, each and every thing has an impact on each and every thing else. my brand?—?is
Fire Weather by John Vaillant — on the frontline of climate catastrophe in Canada
Financial Times: Energy
OCTOBER 6, 2023
A disaster book of epic proportions should shake us out of our climate-change stupor
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Teaching Small Children About the Importance of Sustainable Living
The Environmental Blog
JUNE 23, 2021
Read Storybooks on Climate Change. Reading books can be filled with lots of education. This is a great way to show your child the issue of climate change. Talk about living sustainably like in the books Charlotte’s Web or Where The Wild Things Are. It’s a time to bond while you learn.
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Paul Polman on his new book and 'courageous companies'
Business Green
OCTOBER 8, 2021
Joel Makower talks to the former Unilever boss about his new book, 'Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take'. An icon of sustainable business has a new book. Joel Makower: So, Paul, this is your first book. What inspired you to write a book? Does net positive help get us there?
What If … book review & notes
Fairsnape
OCTOBER 18, 2019
Fast forward to Rob’s latest book, What If …From What Is To What If … What if we had undertaken that construction re-skilling back then?
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