Summer Reading List 📚
Book recommendations collected and originally posted by Amber Riedl of Climate Changemakers Europe.
SUMMER is here and summer reading is calling. Whether you are chilling at the beach, the lake, the couch or the balcony, it's the perfect time to grab some engaging books and see what's happening in climate.
We've rounded up the top 10 recommendations from our team and larger community!
1. "Net Positive" b Paul Polman & @Andrew Wintson - it gives actual corporate examples of sustainability efforts, explaining how to solve challenges and why partnerships and advocacy are imperative (Johann Jones)
2. "We are the Weather" by @Jonathan Safran Foer - it’s a great starting point for understanding climate change and why people find it difficult to take action (Andra Nuta)
3. "Tomorrow" by @Cyril Dion and @Mélanie Laurent. It a film documentary that is available in several languages as well as in a book format. What I love about it is that while it accurately depicts the urgency of the situation, it focuses on solutions that exist to remedy it (Marie Bos)
4. "Doughnut Economics" by @Kate Raworth because it shows how we need to change our economic models going forward to reach a sustainable and equitable future (Amber Riedl)
5. "Entangled Life" by Merlin Sheldrake which is all about the vast, largely unknown and unappreciated, world of fungi and everything they do to make life on earth possible and so fantastically magical (Arjun SriHari)
6. "All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis" a series of hopeful essays and poems, edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson (Emma Harrison Beesley )
7. "Climate Change Coaching: The Power of Connection to Create Climate Action" by Charly Cox and Sarah Flynn - teaches non-coaches how to use coaching skills to effectively and compassionately influence for change. (Megan F.)
8. "How to Avoid a Climate Disaster" by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - it shares the most impactful and feasible efforts we need to focus on now (Johann Jones)
9. "The Hidden Life of Trees" by @Peter Wohlleben which talks extensively about mycorrhizal network of fungi or the woodwide web! (Arjun SriHari)
10. "The Overstory" by @Richard Powers which is a fictional novel that shares a lot of the same insights as the Hidden Life of Trees, but as a novel. Highly recommend! (Amber Riedl)
Have you read any of these? Who did we miss? What you would recommend to others? Let us know in the comments here!
