Here are some educational resources to help you get up to speed on climate change.

101s:

• Global Warming 101 from the Natural Resources Defense Council
• Climate Change 101 with Bill Nye
• Climate Change 101 from the Center for Climate Change and Health

Reading suggestions:

Nonfiction:  

• Walkable City, Jeff Speck
• Walkable City Rules : 101 Steps To Making Better Places, Jeff Speck (available in library)
• Drawdown : The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed To Reverse Global Warming, edited by Paul Hawken (available in library)
• Carbon Zero: Imaging Cities That Can Save The Planet, Alex Steffen (ebook only)
• Street Fight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution, Janette Sadik-Khan
• A link to a list of climate change books available within the Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library System

Climate-adjacent nonfiction:

• Strong Towns: A Bottom Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity, Charles Marohn Jr
• How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built, Stewart Brand
• Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, Michael Braungart 
• The High Cost of Free Parking, Donald Shoup
• Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design, Charles Montgomery
• Enough is Enough: Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources, Rob Dietz
• A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction, Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein

Videos suggestions:

• Climate change is simple: David Roberts at TEDxTheEvergreenStateCollege
• Jeff Speck: The walkable city
• The high cost of free parking
• ​World Scientists Warning of a Climate Emergency

Podcast Episodes:

• Climate Conversations: A Climate Change podcast
• TILclimate from MIT
• The ClimateReady podcast

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