Recommended Reading & Listening
GOOD READS:
The New Climate War - The Fight to take back our climate by climatologist Michael E Mann and the fossil fuel industry’s campaign to deflect and deceive. by Michael E. Mann
Ministries of the Future - by Kim Stanley Robinson. A cli-fi novel that takes place in the future where an international group of people find ways to conquer the worst impacts of climate change.
All We Can Save : Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis-
Essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward. Edited by Wilkinson &Johnson.
Saving Us - a climate scientist’s case for hope and healing in a divided world by
Katharine Hayhoe.
On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal - by Naomi Klein.
Merchants of Doubt - Disquieting story of how a small group of high-level scientists and advisors with deep connections in politics and industry ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny the truth about studies linking smoking to lung cancer, coal smoke to acid rain nd CFCs to the ozone hole and fossil fuel to Climate chaos by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway
GOOD LISTENS - Podcasts:
How to Save a Planet - Alex Blumberg. Smart, inspiring stories about the mess we are in and how we can get out of it.
Outrage & Optimism - Face the climate crisis head on, but understand that we have the power to solve this. Rom former UN Chief Christiana Figueres and the team who brought you the Paris Agreement.
For What it’s Earth - US version with Ann Oakman. Environmental awareness about current issues and how our role as community members can change things for the better.
GOOD MOVIES & DOCUMENTARIES:
Kiss The Ground - Regenerative Agriculture as viable, healthy climate solution.
This Changes Every Thing - A look at seven communities around the World and with the proposition that we can seize the crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better. Naomi Klein & Avi Lewis.
Poisoning Paradise - Kauai’s story of fighting the big chemical companies.
I Am Greta - Follows teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg’s international campaign to combat the climate crisis.
GOOD ARTICLES & LINKS:
Empire and Capital Set Maui Ablaze, by Andrea Brower:
Intergovermental Panel on Climate Change. The most recent global climate assesment, including future projects as well as other special reports are available through the IPCC’s portal.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency website includes a comprehensive climate science section and provides users information about impacts be region and strategies for mitigating and adapting.
The U.S. Global Change Research Program. conducts comprehensive assessments about the impacts of climate change in the U.S., including regional impacts, both observed and projected.
The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s climate website consolidates U.S. climate trends, data, climate change news, as well as teaching aids and tools to help explain the issues better.
Skeptical Science. Skeptical Science provides its users with the basics of climate change science as well as rebuttals to some of the most common myths perpetuated by climate change deniers.
Climate Central. Climate Central is a credible source of climate change news and analysis, as well as a range of videos, graphics and mapping tools that visualize local impacts like heat, extreme weather, and sea level rise.
Unleashing the Potential of Limestone Calcined Clay Cement (LC3).
Links, Articles and Books on Military & the Climate Crisis:
Maine Natural Guard website to signs up to take the pledge
Link of Neta Crawford report, “Pentagon fuel use, climate change, and the costs of war”
Link to confrontation between Nancy Pelosi and Abby Martin at COP26
Link to study on the environmental impact of emissions from space launches
Ann Wright"s article: A Brief History of US Military Poisoning of Hawaii
Link to Veterans for Peace information on greenhouse gas emission
https://bit.ly/3flcM9j
An informative site on the effects of microwave radiation on humans