by Jane Goodall

In this urgent book, Jane Goodall explores - through intimate and thought-provoking dialogue - one of the most sought after and least understood elements of human nature: hope. Looking at the headlines -- the worsening climate crisis, a global pandemic, loss of biodiversity, political upheaval -- it can be hard to feel optimistic. And yet hope has never been more desperately needed.

by E. J. Dionne

Will progressives and moderates feud while America burns? Or will these natural allies take advantage of the greatest opportunity since the New Deal Era to strengthen American democracy, foster social justice, and turn back the threats of the Trump Era?

by Samantha Montano

With temperatures rising and the risk of disasters growing, our world is increasingly vulnerable. Most people see disasters as freak, natural events that are unpredictable and unpreventable. But that simply isn't the case -- disasters are avoidable, but when they do strike, there are strategic ways to manage the fallout.

by Peter Zeihan
 

Geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan maps out the next world: a world where countries or regions will have no choice but to make their own goods, grow their own food, secure their own energy, fight their own battles, and do it all with populations that are both shrinking and aging.

Erosion : Essays of Undoing
 

by Terry Tempest Williams

Williams explores the concept of erosion: of the land, of the self, of belief, of fear. She wrangles with the paradox of desert lands and the truth of erosion: What is weathered, worn, and whittled away through wind, water, and time is as powerful as what remains.

Five stunningly large forests remain on Earth: the Taiga; the North American boreal; the Amazon; the Congo; and the island forest of New Guinea.  These megaforests are vital to preserving global biodiversity, thousands of cultures, and a stable climate.

by Diana Kapp

An inspired collection of profiles, featuring environmental changemakers, social entrepreneurs, visionaries and activists.  Part biography, part guidebook to the contemporary environmental movement, this book ... features the inspiring stories of 34 revolutionaries fighting for our future!

by Jeremy Rifkin

The Green New Deal, now spearheading the national conversation, is setting the agenda for a bold political movement with the potential to revolutionize society. The concept has inspired the millennial generation, now the largest voting bloc in the country, to lead on the issue of climate change.

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster : the Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
 

by Bill Gates

Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, and sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions.

by Daniel Yergin

Yergin delivers a fascinating and meticulously researched page-turner. He maintains that an energy revolution has transformed the world to America's benefit. However, it's not wind and solar but fracking. American oil production had been dropping since 1970, but after 2000, fracking changed the game. Yergin accepts that humans have dramatically affected the climate, but he doubts the practicality of proposed solutions

by Greta Thunberg

In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not to go to school one day in order to protest the climate crisis. Her actions sparked a global movement, inspiring millions of students to go on strike for our planet, forcing governments to listen, and earning her a Nobel Peace Prize nomination.

On Fire: the (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal
 

by Naomi Klein

For more than twenty years, Naomi Klein has been the foremost chronicler of the economic war waged on both people and planet--and an unapologetic champion of a sweeping environmental agenda with justice at its center. In lucid, elegant dispatches from the frontlines of contemporary natural disaster, she pens surging, indispensable essays for a wide public: prescient advisories and dire warnings of what future awaits us if we refuse to act, as well as hopeful glimpses of a far better future.

by Anuradha S. Rao

Profiles Black, Indigenous and People of Color who live and work as environmental defenders. Through their individual stories, the book shows that the intersection of environment and ethnicity is an asset to achieving environmental goals. 

by Charlotte Alter

Alter gives the big-picture look at how this generation governs differently than their elders, and how they may drag us out of our current political despair. Millennials have already revolutionized technology, commerce, and media and have powered the major social movements of our time. Now government is ripe for disruption. 

by Bstan-'dzin-rgya-mtsho, the Dalia Lama XIV

In this new book, the Dalai Lama, one of the most influential figures of our time, calls on political decision makers to finally fight against deadlock and ignorance on this issue and to stand up for a different, more climate-friendly world and for the younger generation to assert their right to regain their future.

for a more light-hearted (but still serious) message from the Dalai Lama (along with the creator of MUTTS), try Heart to Heart: a Conversation on Love and Hope for Our Precious Planet 

by Ian Bremmer

Faced with dysfunction at the heart of American politics, poisoned relations between America and China, a broken global system, and with vitally important questions to answer, where is the way forward? ... "We need crises scary enough to make us forge a new international system that promotes effective cooperation on a few crucial questions."  Bremmer finds three that qualify: pandemics, climate change, and the ubiquity of digital technology. 

by Katharine Hayhoe

Hayhoe argues that when it comes to changing hearts and minds, facts are only one part of the equation. We need to find shared values in order to connect our unique identities to collective action. This is not another doomsday narrative about a planet on fire. It is a multilayered look at science, faith, and human psychology

by David Wallace-Wells
It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible -- food shortages, refugee emergencies, climate wars and economic devastation.

 

by Charles C. Mann

An incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped our ideas about the environment, laying the groundwork for how people in the twenty-first century will choose to live in tomorrow's world.