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Supplemental Reading to read along with Climate Project curriculum?

Alexandre Scott

Educators,

What books on our climate have you read and loved? I am looking for your recommendations for some selected passages, or an entire novel, to read along with our Climate Project curriculum in my Environmental Science elective course. In my AP Environmental Science course, we are reading Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan. I have inherited a set of books called How To Change Everything by Naomi Klein and it is a "young human's guide to protecting the planet..."  I have not read it yet, but it made me think to reach out to our community and see what you experts may come up with!

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    I'm looking forward to hearing what others suggest! I haven't had time to read a whole book in a long time. I have read a lot of the 'classic' naturalists' writings, though, which have been inspirational and helped shape my love and understanding of the natural world, such as Thoreau, Burroughs, Whitman, Leopold, Carson. I especially like the way Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac makes the point that species are important and worth protecting by simply describing how unique and special they are without beating the reader over the head with it. Bill McKibben is another writer with I'm sure many useful books and articles to check out. 

    I haven't read anything specifically about climate change from Bernd Heinrich but his writing is both scientific and full of wonder and quite entertaining. I'm wondering if Winter World might dabble a bit in how climate is affecting species in colder climates. I read it so long ago that I forget but perhaps it's worth checking out! His book Summer World definitely focuses on adaptations for surviving warmer climates and could be used in a climate course discussion. His books are often broken into distinct chapters which could be read on their own for a shorter unit plan. 

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    Books are great, but I like the wide variety of reads I can get on BlueSky (social app) following "Ecology and Conservation" among other topics. What you get on BlueSky is a varied collection of posts usually linked to in-depth articles on lots of topics.  I'm enjoying the learn-a-little-about-a-lot approach.  BlueSky users are a pretty academic bunch.  Won't find a bunch of random posts (for now) about things we don't care about.

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    Hannah Ritchie, who does great work with Our World in Data, has written two books that offer really level-headed, data-informed outlooks on climate change. I really enjoyed Not the End of the World for additional framing on how far we come and the justification for an optimistic outlook, and am really excited to get into her latest Clearing the Air: A Hopeful Guide to Solving Climate Change over winter break!

    I also follow daily the journalism coming from Heatmap News. Depending on the level of your class, some of those articles could be really timely to share with students!