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message 1: by Pam (last edited Nov 05, 2021 12:11PM) (new)

Pam | 1101 comments Mod
Here is the full list of books distributed by the Book Fairies at the COP26 event. This list is chock full of unique perspectives and different forms of environmental activism.

Have you read any?
What would you add to the list?


101 Ways to Go Zero Waste by Kathryn Kellogg
101 Ways to Go Zero Waste

A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings by Helen Jukes
A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings

The Future We Choose Surviving the Climate Crisis by Christiana Figueres
The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis

Dr. Wangari Maathai Plants a Forest by Rebel Girls
Dr. Wangari Maathai Plants a Forest

Unbowed by Wangari Maathai
Unbowed
an OSS Eco-Feminism recommendation

No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

Weather by Jenny Offill
Weather

The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1) by N.K. Jemisin
The Fifth Season
an OSS Sci-Fi recommendation

Why We Swim by Bonnie Tsui
Why We Swim

The End of the Ocean (Klimakvartetten, #2) by Maja Lunde
The End of the Ocean

Digging Our Own Graves Coal Miners and the Struggle Over Black Lung Disease by Barbara Ellen Smith
Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle Over Black Lung Disease

Recovering the Sacred The Power of Naming and Claiming by Winona LaDuke
Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming

No Planet B A Teen Vogue Guide to the Climate Crisis by Lucy Diavolo
No Planet B: A Teen Vogue Guide to the Climate Crisis

The Sixth Extinction An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
Salvage the Bones

Climate Justice Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future by Mary Robinson
Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future
an OSS Eco-Feminism recommendation

Ecofeminism Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth by Carol J. Adams
Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth

How to Change Everything The Young Human's Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other by Naomi Klein
How to Change Everything: The Young Human's Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other

This Changes Everything Capitalism vs. The Climate by Naomi Klein
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

Hot Money by Naomi Klein
Hot Money

On Fire The Burning Case for a Green New Deal by Naomi Klein
On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

The World We Once Lived In by Wangari Maathai
The World We Once Lived In

A Terrible Thing to Waste Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind by Harriet A. Washington
A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind

The Mushroom at the End of the World On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

Farming While Black Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land by Leah Penniman
Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land

Waste One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret by Catherine Coleman Flowers
Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Silent Spring

Braiding Sweetgrass Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
an OSS Eco-Feminism recommendation

Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1) by Octavia E. Butler
Parable of the Sower
an OSS Sci-Fi recommendation

I Belong Here A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain by Anita Sethi
I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain

Who Cares Wins Reasons For Optimism in Our Changing World by Lily Cole
Who Cares Wins: Reasons For Optimism in Our Changing World

All We Can Save Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis

Emergent Strategy Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree Brown
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

Black Nature Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry by Camille T. Dungy
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry

Erosion Essays of Undoing by Terry Tempest Williams
Erosion: Essays of Undoing

As Long as Grass Grows The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock by Dina Gilio-Whitaker
As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock


message 2: by Elena (new)

Elena (helen2u) Thank you Pam!


Carolina Ibanez (caroibanez) | 3 comments That’s amazing. How can I see them? I don’t see a link or anything 😶


message 4: by Pam (last edited Nov 05, 2021 12:36PM) (new)

Pam | 1101 comments Mod
Carolina Ibanez wrote: "That’s amazing. How can I see them? I don’t see a link or anything 😶"

You should be able to click on the cover of the book or the title. Either should take you to the Goodreads summary page.

If you are looking for the Book Fairies; I recommend visiting them on Instagram or checking out this link: https://ibelieveinbookfairies.com/


message 5: by Silvia (new)

Silvia Cebrian | 5 comments Thank you very much Pam!


message 6: by Justine (new)

Justine Hinz | 1 comments Thanks Pam! I can’t see the list though x


message 7: by Jillian (new)

Jillian | 2 comments Thank you!!


message 8: by Paul (new)

Paul Ehara | 1 comments Thank you, it's nice to see this collection.


message 9: by Tikka Nikky (new)

Tikka Nikky | 2 comments nice books


message 10: by Marie (new)

Marie | 1 comments For reducing fossil fuels I recommend: 1) Radiation and Reason by Professor Wade Allison 2) Without Hot Air by Prof David MacKay


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