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Climate Resources

​There are so many good resources for learning about climate change and its solutions. Here are some we especially like.

Books:  

• Drawdown : The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed To Reverse Global Warming, edited by Paul Hawken (available in library)
• Walkable City, Jeff Speck
• Carbon Zero: Imaging Cities That Can Save The Planet, Alex Steffen (ebook only)
• Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, William McDonough and Michael Braungart 
• Enough is Enough: Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources, Rob Dietz
• A link to a list of climate change books available within the Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library System

Videos:

• 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
• Verge Science: Is it time to say goodbye to the gas stove?

Podcasts:

• How to Save a Planet
• A Matter of Degrees: Stories for the Climate Curious
• Climate Conversations: A Climate Change podcast
• TILclimate from MIT
• The ClimateReady podcast
• Episode: Is Your Carbon Footprint BS? - How to Save a Planet
• Episode: How to decarbonize America - and create 25 million jobs - Vox Conversations
• Episode: Undesigned - 99% Invisible
• Episode: The Devious Plan to Keep Us Hooked on Gas - A Matter of Degrees

Websites

• Project Drawdown
• Yale Climate Connections
• Rewiring America​

Municipal Climate Action Plans

• Corvallis, OR
• Milwaukee, OR
• Salem, OR
• Silverton, OR

Data and Government Plans

• The Oregon Climate Action Plan
• The 4th US National Climate Assessment
• The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

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