Book selections and using words to achieve change!

Your ideas are always welcome! Suggestions can include books, journals, poetry or any other ways to harness the power of words.

Previous titles and other recommended ClimateReads:

• Five Times Faster, by Simon Sharpe
• Positive Tipping Points: how to fix the climate crisis by Tim Lenton OBE
• Lie of the Land by Guy Shrubsole
• Rebirding by Benedict Macdonald (combines well with Wild Fell by Lee Schofield)
• Hidden Universe by Alexandre Antonelli
• Our Fragile Moment by Michael Mann
• Green bans, Red unions* by Meredith Burgmann and Verity Burgmann (*part 3)
• New Internationalist (bimonthly magazine, article here) - 'Climate Capitalism, Exploitation in the Green Transition'
• Ending Fossil Fuel Subsidies by Neil McCulloch
• A planet to win: why we need a green new deal by Kate Aronoff, Alyssa Battistoni, Daniel Aldana Cohen and Thea Riafrancos
• Ending Fossil Fuels: Why Net Zero is Not Enough by Holly Jean Buck
• Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist by Kate Raworth
• Paint Your Town Red: How Preston Took Back Control and Your Town Can Too by Matt Brown and Rhian Jones
• Rules for Revolutionaries

Plus two pretty fundamental reads to help protect our planet:

THE LAST HOURS OF ANCIENT SUNLIGHT: the Fate of the World and what we can do before it's too late (Thom Hartmann, Harmony Books) 3rd Edition (2018).

"Thom Hartmann's comprehensive book is one of the fundamental handbooks of the environmental activist movement [...] helps us understand and heal our relationship to the world, each other and to our natural resources."

INHERITANCE: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World (Harvey Whitehouse, Hutchinson Heinemann)

"Whitehouse rightly argues that when it comes to the climate crisis, our greatest and most neglected obstacles are psychological."

What's the purpose of the ClimateReads group?

• create a forum for discussion, gaining information and new ideas
• provide supporters with the opportunity to draw on powerful new ideas and arguments
• help us all gain confidence when engaging in the broader debate and policy development not only in our own campaigns but more widely with other groups, our local communities, the media etc.

Get involved!

If you’d like to find out more or help make this happen, we’d love to hear from you - please email Helen

Ways you can be involved include;

• suggest titles for the group to read (we share these in our regular newsletters as well)
• take part in group chats (not vital to be available for them all) – let Helen know if you prefer in-person or zoom
• receive the notes, with feedback, from the group
• help with practicalities (e.g. checking resource availability; occasional author involvement; looking into venues including those supporting hybrid participation)
• suggest other groups that might like to be partner groups