We hope the following links, organized by topic, will be helpful in learning about climate change in all its many aspects, including the science, global impacts, the many manifestations of the struggle to stop and reverse global warming, connections to other movements including peace, labor, and civil rights, as well as efforts to transition rapidly to renewable energy economies, sustainable agriculture, and other practices that will align our species with our planet’s living systems.
Needless to say, there is an increasing abundance of information about climate change in the public sphere. This is a very incomplete list of materials, but we believe all of these to be of value. We’ll continue to add links to this page, so please check back frequently. You’ll also find a list of books related to climate change on the BCJN Book Group page.
The following topics (as each relates to the phenomenon of climate change), can be found below, in alphabetical order:
Biodiversity
Black Lives Matter
Capitalism
Climate Education & Literacy
Climate Films & Video
Climate Humor
Climate Justice
Climate Movement
Climate News
Climate Science
Dawning Awareness
Divestment
Eco-psychology
Energy
Fiction
Food/Agriculture
International Climate Negotiations
New York City
Organizing Tools
Poetry
System Change
Transition Movement
War
Water: Pollution & Commodification
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Biodiversity:
- Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, 2015
- Elizabeth Kolbert, Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
- Richard Louv, The new nature movement isn’t about going back to nature, but forward to a nature-rich civilization, March 16, 2015
Black Lives Matter:
- Naomi Klein, Why #BlackLivesMatter should transform the climate movement, December 12, 2014
- Naomi Klein, On the racism that underlies climate inaction, June 25, 2016
Capitalism:
- Naomi Klein, Climate Change is a People’s Shock, The Nation, September 16, 2014
- Naomi Klein interviewed by Bill Moyers, September 16, 2014 about her book This Changes Everything
- Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything, site contains info on her book of the same name, and blog
- Naomi Klein, “I’d rather fight like hell,” Wen Stephenson, The Phoenix, December 12, 2012
- Naomi Klein interviewed by Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report, 2014
- Joel Kovel, The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?, 2007
- Energy Democracy video, Trade Unions for Energy Democracy, February 2015
- System Change Not Climate Change, An Ecosocialist Coalition
Climate Education & Literacy:
- Video, Climate 101, Vimeo, narrated by Bill Nye
- Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, Bill McKibben, 2007
Climate Films & Video:
Climate Humor:
- John Oliver, Climate Change Debate, Last Week Tonight, May 11, 2014
Climate Justice:
- NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program report “And the People Shall Lead: Centralizing Frontline Community Leadership in the Movement Towards a Sustainable Planet”
- “Organizing Cools the Planet: Tools and Reflections to Navigate the Climate Crisis”(check out the website, which has many valuable links, and a free, downloadable pdf of the booklet itself)
- Environmental Support Center, Washington, D.C., “Everybody’s Movement: Environmental Justice and Climate Change”
- First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit, Washington D.C., October, 1991, “Principles of Environmental Justice”
- Climate Justice Alliance, Our Power Campaign
- A Climate of Change: African American, Global Warming, and a Just Climate Policy for the U.S.
- Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative (EJCC)
- Edward W. Said London Lecture 2016, Naomi Klein: “Let Them Drown: The Violence of Othering in a Warming World”
Climate Movement:
- Chris Hayes, The New Abolitionism, The Nation, April 22, 2014
Climate News:
- The Guardian Environment Network, bringing together the world’s best websites focusing on green topics.
- The Guardian on climate change.
- Inside Climate News, a Pulitzer Prize-winning site that provides up-to-the minute news, photographs, and e-books.
- Democracy Now!, the daily independent global news hour, provides in-depth interviews and reporting on climate change in the menu at the top of its homepage.
Climate Science:
- Climate Feedback, Scientific feedback for climate change information online
- NASA, Global Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet
Dawning awareness:
- Bill McKibben’s (co-founder, 350.org) seminal The End of Nature (1996) was one of the first books for laypeople about climate change.
Divestment:
- Bill McKibben, Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math: Three simple numbers that add up to global catastrophe… and that make clear who the real enemy is, Rolling Stone, July 19, 2012
- Bill McKibben, How Mankind Blew the Fight Against Climate Change, The Washington Post, 6/5/15
- FossilFree.org, the global divestment campaign of 350.org
- News and analysis of fossil fuel and carbon divestment from The Guardian
- WeArePowerShift.org
- Naomi Klein, Time for Big Green to go Fossil Free, The Nation, 5/20/13
- Tim Dickinson, The Logic of Divestment: Why We Have to Kiss Off Big Carbon Now, Rolling Stone, 1/14/15
- Alan Rusbridger, The Argument for Divesting from Fossil Fuels is Becoming Overwhelming, The Guardian, 3/16/15
- Unburnable-Carbon: Are the world’s financial markets carrying a carbon bubble?, Carbon Tracker Initiative
Eco-psychology:
- Grist, Climate depression is for real. Just ask a scientist
- Grist, 16 tips for avoiding climate burnout
- National Wildlife Federation report: The psychological effects of global warming on the United States, and why the U.S. mental health care system is not prepared
- Joanna Macy, Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re In Without Going Crazy, 2012
- Joanna Macy, The Work that Reconnects, 2014
- Joanna Macy, Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth, 2014
- Mary Pipher, The Green Boat: Reviving Ourselves in our Capsized Culture, 2013
- Stoknes, Per Espen, What We Think About When We Try Not to Think About Global Warming: Toward a New Psychology of Climate Action
Energy:
- Mark Jacobson, How to power the world without fossil fuels: first stop–New York State, Scientific American, April 15, 2013
- The Solutions Project: 100% Renewable Energy Vision
- Mark Jacobson, Examining the feasibility of converting New York State’s all-purpose energy infrastructure to one using wind, water, and sunlight, Energy Policy, March 13, 2013
- Video, Prof. Mark Jacobson explains how New York could go to 100% renewables by 2030, April 9, 2013
- SolarOne, New York City’s Green Education Center
Fiction:
- Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior, 2012
Food/Agriculture:
- Food Justice/Farm Labor: Rural & Migrant Ministry
- Wendell Berry, For Americans to talk about sustainability is a bit of a joke, The Guardian, March 6, 2014
- Meatless Monday global campaign
- Cowspiracy
- A Farm for the Future, BBC, June 5, 2012
International Climate Negotiations:
- UN Framework on Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC)
- Common Dreams, Youth and Frontline Voices Silenced at Climate Talks, Canadian Youth Climate Delegation, 12/14/14
New York City:
- The Welikia Project
- NASA Science Leads New York City Climate Change 2015 Report
- “OneNYC, The Plan for a Just and Strong City”, the de Blasio administration update of the Bloomberg PlaNYC
- Steven Cohen, Columbia U. Earth Institute, From PlaNYC to OneNYC, New York’s Evolving Sustainability Policy, Huffington Post, 4/27/15
- SolarOne, New York City’s Green Education Center
Organizing Tools:
- Jemez Principles for Democratic Organizing
- Climate Access, a network and resource hub for those engaging the public in the transformation to resilient, low-carbon economies
- Organizing Cools the Planet, an outstanding resource for climate justice activists
Poetry:
- Wendell Berry, A Speech to the Garden Club of America, 2009
System Change:
Transition Movement:
- Transition U.S., the website of the U.S. Transition Movement
- Transition NYC
- Transition Network
- Orion magazine, The Transition Initiative, by Jay Griffiths, 2009
- Blog of Transition Movement founder Rob Hopkins
- The Transition Movement: Questions of Diversity, Power, and Affluence
War:
- Institute for Policy Studies, “Combat vs. Climate: The Military and Climate Security Budgets Compared” 2014
- “Stop the Wars, Stop the Warming,” An Appeal from the Peace & Climate Movements (written during the lead-up to the September 21, 2014 People’s Climate March NYC)
Water: Pollution & Commodification
- Blue Gold: An interview with Maude Barlow, Mother Jones, January 14, 2005
- Blue Gold: World Water Wars, The Action Plan
The lead character of Daniel Quinn’s 1992 philosophical novel, Ishmael.
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