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Fighting for Love in the Century of Extinction:
How Passion and Politics Can Stop Global Warming by Professor Eban Goodstein
Unchecked, global warming threatens to destroy one of every two animals, birds, plants, reptiles, forests, fish and other creatures alive today on the earth. This looming ecological collapse will only be arrested if we can articulate and embrace what the natural world means to each of us, and then fight a series of hard political battles to preserve creation. On a subject about which it is easy to feel despair, Goodstein offers a realistic, ambitious, and hopeful political solution to avoid a century of mass extinction, a vision grounded in a moral view that embraces the interconnection of all life forms on the planet. [more...]
Ignition: What You Can Do to Fight Global Warming and Spark a Movement Edited by Professor Jon Isham and Sissel Waage
The evidence is irrefutable: global warming is real. While the debate continues about just how much damage spiking temperatures will wreak, we know the threat to our homes, health, and even our way of life is dire. So why isn’t America doing anything? Where is the national campaign to stop this catastrophe?
It may lie between the covers of this book. Igntion brings together some of the world’s finest thinkers and advocates to jump start the ultimate green revolution. Including celebrated writers like Bill McKibben and renowned scholars like Gus Speth, as well as young activists, the authors draw on direct experience in grassroots organization, education, law, and social leadership. Their approaches are various, [more...]
upcoming events
Here are some upcoming events that will build momentum towards Focus the Nation
- Campus Climate Challenge
Youth Climate Change
MTV's Climate Challenge
Step It Up
It's Getting Hot in Here
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