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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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