If you want a warm welcome and support in navigating the crisis...
All We Can Save is an anthology of essays and poetry from the women leading the climate movement. The book’s content timelessly honors the complexity of the crisis in a manner that is forward thinking and justice-centered.
Edited By: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson
If you need a little anti-capitalist push...
Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything frames climate change as a wake up call to our broken system of capitalism and racism, showing readers how the crisis of our lifetime is also our best shot at equity and justice.
Written By: Naomi Klein
If you're looking for an all encompassing book of solutions...
Drawdown is the most comprehensive guidebook out there. Throughout the book, Hawken leads readers through practical, economically viable and existing solutions to the climate crisis.
Edited By: Paul Hawken
If progressive policy fires you up...
Naomi Klein’s On Fire is a collection of essays that emphasize the urgency of the climate crisis and the political need for a Green New Deal. In a passionate call to action, Klein makes a case against market capitalism as a climate solution.
Written By: Naomi Klein
If you're wondering why climate change is missing from our current culture...
In The Great Derangement, Amitav Ghosh explores the role of literature in the climate crisis and questions why climate change is not the central focus of literature today.
Written By: Amitav Ghosh
If you want a deeper understanding of the Indigenous relationship to the environment…
As Long as Grass Grows covers the history of Native environmentalism from colonization to Standing Rock.
Written By: Dina Gilio-Whitaker
If you’re interested reducing fossil fuels in your own life…
Being the Change explores how making small life changes to reduce our individual footprints can be a fulfilling way to opt out of our broken system. Kalmus, a scientist himself, takes hard data and makes it accessible and relatable.
Edited By: Peter Kalmus
If the spirituality of the natural world gets you hooked…
Braiding Sweetgrass is a book that blends indigenous ways of knowing with western science through the story of Robin Wall Kimmerer, a Native American botanist.
Written By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
If you're looking for something more kid-friendly...
Our House is on Fire is a great way to introduce young children to the concept of climate change. The picture book follows Greta Thunberg’s journey from a concerned student to a globally admired climate activist.
Written By: Jeannette Winter
If you’re into speculative fiction…
Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower is a vision of what might result if the forces of late-stage capitalism, climate change, mass incarceration and the tech industry continue unhampered. Set in Los Angeles in 2024, the novel hits close to home. If you dig it, check out the sequel Parable of the Talents.
Written By: Octavia Butler
If you want to change the world but don’t know where to begin...
Emergent Strategy is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help designed to shape the futures we want to live. It advises readers on how to join in the flow of change instead of pushing against it.
Written By: adrienne maree brown
