By Danielle Nierenberg, Island Press
In Nourished Planet, the Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition offers a global plan for feeding ourselves sustainably. Drawing on the diverse experiences of renowned international experts, the book offers a truly planetary perspective.
By David Hughes, Canada's Energy Outlook
This study analyses Canada’s energy system, and provides an objective assessment of future options to maintain energy security and meet climate commitments.
UNHCR and Land Life Company
Can we rethink how to shelter the world‘s refugees safely and sustainably? It Will Be Green Against is a short documentary through the eyes of a refugee family living on a Green Refugee Camp in Menawoa Camp Cameroon.
By Sue Reed, Ginny Stibolt, New Society Publishers
individuals at a loss, wondering what, if anything, can be done. Sue Reed and Ginny Stibolt offer a rallying cry in response — instead of wringing our hands, let's roll up our sleeves. Based on decades of experience, this book is packed with simple, practical steps anyone can take to beautify any landscape or garden, while helping protect the planet and the species that call it home.
By Chuck Collins, Polity Books
In this book, leading US scholar and activist Chuck Collins succinctly diagnoses the causes and drivers of rampant inequality, and demolishes simplistic theories that hold that current inequalities are primarily the result of technological change and globalization or differences in merit.
By Frank Holzman, Rowman & Littlefield
Radical Regenerative Gardening and Farming informs and inspires gardeners, and farmers, who wish to bring quality and integrity into their work with the land. It is about developing close relationships with land that produces our food.
By Mike Madison, Chelsea Green Publishing
As the average age of America’s farmers continues to rise, we face serious questions about what farming will look like in the near future, and who will be growing our food. Many younger people are interested in going into agriculture, especially organic farming, but cannot find affordable land, or lack the conceptual framework and practical information they need to succeed in a job that can be both difficult and deeply fulfilling.
By Bruce King, New Society Publishers
Like never before in history, buildings can become part of the climate solution. With biomimicry and innovation, we can pull huge amounts of carbon out of the atmosphere and lock it up as walls, roofs, foundations, and insulation. We can literally make buildings out of the sky with a massive positive impact.
By PIRC staff, Public Interest Research Centre
Our Framing the Economy report outlines how the British public think about the economy and offers two new story strategies to bring about change.
Shale gas and tight oil from low permeability reservoirs have provided a new lease on life for U.S. oil and gas production. The question is, how sustainable is shale production in the long term given optimistic forecasts of robust production through 2050 and beyond?
By Joshua Pribanic, Melissa Troutman, Bullfrog Films
This award-winning "bombshell" documentary covers the impact of fracking in one of the country's most pristine watersheds. With exclusive interviews from oil and gas industry leaders, independent experts and impacted residents, TRIPLE DIVIDE [REDACTED] covers five years (2011 - 2016) of cradle-to-grave investigations that reveal how regulators and industry keep water contamination covered up.
By Patrick Whitefield, Permanent Publications
This is low input, year round No Dig gardening that provides your kitchen with delicious fresh food, whilst not breaking your back. Written by an acknowledged expert, this friendly guide will help you grow food in whatever space you have – large or small, rural or urban – with minimal bought in inputs, and maximum satisfaction.
By Mark Kitchell, Bullfrog Films
Evolution of Organic tells the story of organic agriculture, told by those in California who built the movement.
By Denise Fairchild, Al Weinrub, Diego Angarita Horowitz, Island Press
Energy Democracy: Advancing Equity in Clean Energy Solutions brings together racial, cultural, and generational perspectives on issues of energy democracy.
By Douglas Barnes, New Society Publishers
In the face of drought and desertification, well-designed water harvesting earthworks such as swales, ponds, and dams are the most effective way to channel water into productive use. The result can be increased food production, higher groundwater levels, reduced irrigation needs, and enhanced ecosystem resilience.
By Tamra Gilbertson, Climate Justice Alliance
While city, state, and national leaders gather at the UN Climate Talks to launch and implement platforms and agendas that promote carbon trading, carbon offsets, and REDD+, the Indigenous Environmental Network and the Climate Justice Alliance take a bold stance to reject and challenge these so-called innovative solutions by releasing the “Carbon Pricing Report: A Critical Perspective for Community Resistance.”
By Raj Patel, University of California
Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed, governed, and devastated Earth. In A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore present a new approach to analyzing today’s planetary emergencies.
By Thomas Bena, Bullfrog Films
Gentrification comes in many forms. On the tiny island of Martha's Vineyard, where presidents and celebrities vacation, trophy homes threaten to destroy the island's unique character. Twelve years in the making, ONE BIG HOME follows one carpenter's journey to understand the trend toward giant houses.
By Philip Ackerman-Leist, Chelsea Green Publishing
Mals, Italy, has long been known as the breadbasket of the Tyrol. But recently the tiny town became known for something else entirely. A Precautionary Tale tells us why, introducing readers to an unlikely group of activists and a forward-thinking mayor who came together to ban pesticides in Mals by a referendum vote—making it the first place on Earth to accomplish such a feat, and a model for other towns and regions to follow.
By Ed Struzik, Island Press
In Firestorm, journalist Edward Struzik visits scorched earth from Alaska to Maine, and introduces the scientists, firefighters, and resource managers making the case for a radically different approach to managing wildfire in the 21st century.
By Martin Lee Mueller, Chelsea Green Publishing
Being Salmon, Being Human examines Western culture’s tragic alienation from nature by focusing on the relationship between people and salmon—weaving together key narratives about the Norwegian salmon industry as well as wild salmon in indigenous cultures of the Pacific Northwest.
By Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon Institute
In Chapter 11 of the Think Resilience course, Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg challenges us to rewrite our stories for a future within the bounds of nature rather than continue with those that extol the domination of nature.