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Global Climate Initiatives

Drawdown, Paul Hawken. The most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming. Buy Borrow
Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World, Katherine Hayoe. How to approach climate conversations. Buy Borrow
Eaarth, Bill McKibben. In this 2010 book, McKibben argues that humanity has fundamentally altered the planet, requiring us to scale back and build localized, resilient communities to survive. Buy Borrow
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, Bill Gates. Describes the solutions we have and the breakthroughs we need. Buy Borrow
The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis, Christiana Figueras and Tom Rivett-Carnac. The stubborn optimist's guide to the climate crisis. Buy Borrow

Looking Toward the Future

The Sixth Extinction, Elizabeth Kolbert. Argues that the Earth is in the midst of a modern, man-made, sixth extinction. Buy Borrow
Under a White Sky, Elizabeth Kolbert. The nature of the future. Buy Borrow

Home, Garden, and Beyond

Bringing Nature Home, Douglas Tallamy. How to sustain wildlife with native plants. Buy Borrow
Nature's Best Hope, Douglas Tallamy. A new approach to conservation that starts in your yard. Buy Borrow
Self Sufficiency for the 21st Century, Dick and James Strawbridge. Learn how to make practice changes for a simpler, greener, and cleaner life. Buy Borrow
Finding the Mother Tree, Suzanne Simard. A scientific memoir which explores how trees communicate, cooperate, and share nutrients through underground fungal networks, with large "mother trees" acting as central hubs. Buy Borrow
The Treeline, Ben Rawlence. Climate change and the boreal forest. Part science and part true adventure story. Buy Borrow

Religion and Science

Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer. Explores the role of Indigenous knowledge as an alternative or complementary approach to Western mainstream scientific methodologies. Buy Borrow
Following Jesus in a Warming World, Kyle Meyaard-Schapp. Steps to turn faith into meaningful action for climate justice. Buy Borrow

For Kids

The Lorax, Dr. Seuss. Teaches kids to treat the planet with kindness and stand up and speak out for others. Buy Borrow
We Are Water Protectors, Carole Lindstrom. An Indigenous-led story that inspires kids to guard and defend Earth's water from harm and pollution. Buy Borrow
Old Enough to Save the Planet, Loll Kirby. Shows real kids from around the world taking action against climate change in their communities. Buy Borrow

Articles and sites on Green Investing

Links to paid services may accompany some of these articles. The articles are provided solely for your education. Our committee does not make endorsements.

"Green Investing," an article from Investopedia, provides a good overview of basic concepts.

CFA Institute has published free articles and podcasts for those who want to dive deeper.

Green America is a website that helps you find ways to take economic action for people and the planet.

Video series and podcasts

Climate Emergency: Feedback Loops is a series of short films narrated by Richard Gere, showing why natural warming loops have scientists alarmed.

Climate Culture has assembled a list of their favorite podcasts about climate Change. Outrage + Optimism and Drilled are especially highly recommended.

Ask MIT Climate is an award-winning podcast that invites scientists and experts to break down the science, technologies, and policies behind climate change.

The Climate Question from the BBC explores the question of why we find it so hard to save our own planet, and how we might change that.

Apps and socials

Shopping

- Hygglo - Rent almost anything.
- Buy Nothing Hopkinton, MA - "Neighbors helping neighbors! Your items sitting in storage may be exactly what another person or family needs."

Eating

- Happy Cow - "The world's largest vegan community and food map."
- Too Good To Go - Reduce food waste! Find places offering surprise bags of unsold food for discounted prices.

Zero waste

- Paperkarma - "Stop junk mail. For good."
- iRecycle - Find out how to recycle just about anything locally.

Environment

- Forest - Plant trees in Africa by cutting down on mindless phone usage.

Transportation

- Bikemap - Find safe biking routes.
- PlugShare - The top crowdsourced app worldwide for finding EV chargers.
- ChargePoint - One of the largest independent public networks. to find EV chargers.
- Electrify America - Focuses on locating level 3 EV fast chargers.

Behavior change