Climate Resources
Below is a list of resources to learn more about the climate & ecological emergencies and ways to take action.
Education
Books
A Brief History of the Earth's Climate: Everyone's Guide to the Science of Climate Change by Steven Earle.
The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells.
Losing Earth: The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change by Nathaniel Rich.
Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet by George Monbiot.
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming by Paul Hawken.
The Big Fix: 7 Practical Steps to Save Our Planet by Hal Harvey and Justin Gillis.
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis edited by Ayana Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson.
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer.
The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions by Greta Thunberg.
The End of Nature by Bill McKibben.
Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? by Bill McKibben.
The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell.
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert.
The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson.
Books on Degrowth
List of books on Degrowth
Post Growth: Life After Capitalism by Tim Jackson.
Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don’t Know You Have by Tatiana Schlossberg.
This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs The Climate by Naomi Klein.
Documentaries
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet by Alastair Fothergill, Jonathan Hughes, and Keith Scholey. Attenborough has seen more of the natural world than any other. This unique feature documentary is his witness statement.
Breaking Boundaries by Jonathan Clay. David Attenborough and scientist Johan Rockström examine Earth's biodiversity collapse and how this crisis can still be averted.
Powerlands by Camille Manybeads Tso. A young Navajo filmmaker investigates displacement of Indigenous people and devastation of the environment caused by the same chemical companies that have exploited the land where she was born. On this personal and political journey, she learns from Indigenous activists across three continents.
Inconvenient Truth by Davis Guggenheim. Former presidential candidate, Al Gore, campaigns to raise public awareness about global warming and calls for immediate action to curb its destructive effects,
Kiss the Ground by Rebecca Harrell Tickell and Joshua Tickell. A revolutionary group of activists, scientists, farmers, and politicians band together in a global movement of "Regenerative Agriculture" that could balance our climate, replenish our vast water supplies, and feed the world.
Cowspiracy by Kip Anderson and Keagun Kuhn. Follow the shocking, yet humorous, journey of an aspiring environmentalist, as he daringly seeks to find the real solution to the most pressing environmental issues and true path to sustainability.
Seaspiracy by Ali Tibrizi. Passionate about ocean life, a filmmaker sets out to document the harm that humans do to marine species - and uncovers alarming global corruption.
Utama by Alejandro Loayza Grisi. In the Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living the same daily life for years. During an uncommonly long drought, Virginio and Sisa face a dilemma: resist or be defeated by the environment and time itself.
Thank You for the Rain by Julia Dahr. Five years ago Kisilu, a Kenyan farmer, started to use his camera to capture the life of his family, his village and the damages of climate change. When a violent storm throws him and a Norwegian filmmaker together we see him transform from a father, to a community leader and activist on the global stage.
The Boy who Harnessed the Wind by Chiwetel Ejiofor. Against all the odds, a thirteen-year-old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine.
How to blow up a pipeline by Daniel Goldhabber. A crew of environmental activists plot a daring plan to disrupt an oil pipeline.
Gather by Sanjay Rawal. An intimate portrait of a growing movement amongst Indigenous Americans to reclaim their spiritual and cultural identities through food sovereignty.
2040 by Damon Gameau. Practical solutions to environmental concerns are addressed with the hope that the filmmaker's daughter, 21 years old in the year 2040, will face a hopeful future.
A Plastic Ocean by Craig Leeson. Journalist Craig Leeson teams up with diver Tanya Streeter and an international team of scientists and researchers, and they travel to twenty locations around the world over the next four years to explore the fragile state of our oceans.
Chasing Ice by Jeff Orlowski-Yang. Follow National Geographic photographer James Balog across the Arctic as he deploys time-lapse cameras designed for one purpose: to capture a multi-year record of the world's changing glaciers.
Chasing Coral by Jeff Orlowski-Yang. Coral reefs around the world are vanishing at an unprecedented rate. A team of divers, photographers and scientists set out on a thrilling ocean adventure to discover why and to reveal the underwater mystery to the world.
Why Big Oil Conquered the World by James Corbett. The 20th century was the century of oil. From farm to fork, factory to freeway, there is no aspect of our modern life that has not been shaped by the oil industry. But as the "post-carbon" era of the 21st century comes into view, there are those who see this as the end of the oiligarchy. They couldn't be more wrong. This is the remarkable true story of the world that Big Oil is creating, and how they plan to bring it about.
Anthropocene by Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky, and Nicholas de Pencier. Third in a trilogy that includes Manufactured Landscapes and Watermark, the film follows the research of an international body of scientists, the Anthropocene Working Group who, after nearly 10 years of research, are arguing that the Holocene Epoch gave way to the Anthropocene Epoch in the mid-twentieth century, because of profound and lasting human changes to the Earth.
Podcasts
Hot Farm. Climate change is coming for your food. A podcast from the Food & Environment Reporting Network hosted by Eve Abrams, we travel across the Midwest, talking to farmers about what they are doing, or could be doing, to combat climate change.
Drilled. A true-crime podcast about climate change.
The Climate Question. A podcast by the BBC about why we find it so hard to save our own planet, and how we might change that.
The Climate Pod. A Weekly Conversation On Environmental and Climate Issues.
Indigenous Climate Action Pod. For many Indigenous Peoples, access to internet is often limited and resources such as videos and websites can be difficult to access, and books can be difficult to obtain due to costs. Our hope is that this podcast will offer a more accessible form of media for many people.
How to Save a Planet. Climate change. We know. It can feel too overwhelming. But what if there was a show about climate change that left you feeling... energized? One so filled with possibility that you actually wanted to listen? Join us, journalist Alex Blumberg and a crew of climate nerds, as we bring you smart, inspiring stories about the mess we're in and how we can get ourselves out of it.
Newsletters
Heated by Emily Atkin. A newsletter for people who are pissed off about the climate crisis.
The Crucial Years by Bill McKibben. Working on Winning the Climate Fight.
Social Media
Take Action
Donate
Donate to environmental organizations you feel passionate about. Here are some options:
Sierra Club, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Extinction Rebellion, 350, Sunrise, Fridays For Future, The Black Hive, Indigenous Climate Action, Amazon Watch, Women’s Earth Alliance, Mothers Out Front, Stop the Money Pipeline, National Resources Defence Council, Lakota Law, the Nature Conservancy, Stand.earth, Elders Climate Action.
Sign Petitions
Join a Group
Contact media outlets
Contact your reps