Here are some educational resources to help you get up to speed on climate change.
101s:
Reading suggestions:
Nonfiction:
Climate-adjacent nonfiction:
Videos suggestions:
Podcast Episodes:
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: