Climate Resources

Blogs + Projects + Podcasts

The Climate Reality Project

https://www.climaterealityproject.org/blog

Project Drawdown

https://drawdown.org/

Podcast recommendation:

The Energy Gang

Personal carbon footprint calculation app: The Commons

Books

The Climate Book: The Facts and Solutions – Greta Thunberg (2023)

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster – Bill Gates (2021)

How to Prepare for Climate Change: A Practical Guide to Surviving the Chaos – David Pogue (2021)

Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? – Bill McKibben (2020)

Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming Paperback – Paul Hawkin (2017)

The Sixth Extinction – An Unnatural History – Elizabeth Kolbert (2015)

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate – Naomi Klein (2015)

The Ministry of the Future – Kim Stanley Robinson (2020)

Books (cont’d)

Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis Hardcover by Britt Wray – 2022

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need – Bill Gates 2021

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things Paperback – William McDonough (Author), Michael Braungart - 2002

The More of Less - Joshua Becker- 2019

Documentaries

Climate Action Film Festival
Brings activists, filmmakers and communities together to witness powerful stories of climate action, and to inspire further action, locally and beyond.

 One Earth Film Festival
Sustainability-themed films and facilitated discussion — educate, raise awareness, and inspire the adoption of solution-oriented sustainable actions.

Fire Season
As wildfires ravage California, bystanders record nature's wrath.

The Diver
“The Diver” profiles a man who has found long lasting contentment in a dirty job: diving into the sewers and water treatment plants of Mexico City to clear blockages and reduce the risk of floods.

Lithium Recycling Video
A short, uplifting video depicting the process by which Lithium batteries are being efficiently recycled by a US company, Li-Cycle.

Ice on Fire
This documentary explores how the world is feeling the effects of climate change, while examining the need to reduce carbon emissions. Through interviews with visionaries and scientists, the film captures the crisis while offering hope that climate change can be mitigated, and global warming reversed.

The Human Element
This HBO documentary, produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, focuses on climate solutions and on the scientists who are tackling climate change.

Climate Change: The Facts
2019 British documentary presented by David Attenborough. It explores the dangers of climate change and possible solutions.

Extinction: The Facts
With a million species at risk of extinction, Sir David Attenborough explores how this crisis of biodiversity has consequences for us all, threatening food and water security, undermining our ability to control our climate and even putting us at greater risk of pandemic diseases.

Can YOU Fix Climate Change?

We WILL Fix Climate Change!

Online Courses

Climate Change: The Science and Global Impact (full class)

Climate Actions: Solutions for a Changing Climate

The International Monetary Fund: Macroeconomics of Climate Change: Science, Economics, and Policies