Resources

Books available on loan from Sustainable Sherston Members (email Sustainablesherston@gmail.com)

SuS Members recommendation - Material World: A substational story of our past and future, Ed Conway, Ebury Publishing

The Joyful Environmentalist , Isabel Loisada

The Good Ancestor, Roman Krznavic

The Book Of Hope, Jan Goodall

Hope in Hell, Jonathan Porritt

Doughnut Economics, Kate Raworth

What Can I Do?  Jane Fonda

How To Avoid A Climate Disaster, Bill Gates

Soil, Soul, Society, Satish Kumar

Small Is Beautiful, E E Schumacher

Everyday Ways to Save Our Planet, Laura Tobin

Other Suggested Books and Reports:

Martin Dorey 'No More Plastic', 2018, Ebury Press. 

Natalie Fee 'How to Save the World for Free',  2019, Laurence King Publishing.

Mike Berners-Lee ‘How Bad are Bananas: The Carbon Footprint of Everything’, 2020, Profile Books limited.

 'There is no Planet B: A handbook for the make or break years', 2019, Cambridge University Press.

Paul Hawken ‘Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming’, 2018, Penguin.

Nathaniel Rich, ‘Losing Earth: The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change’, 2019, Panmacmillan.

Greta Thunberg ‘No one is too small to make a difference’, 2019, Penguin. She gets right to the point, listen to the scientists!

David Wallace-Wells, ‘The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future’, 2019, Penguin. Very thorough and a wake up call.

Isabella Tree, 'Wilding', 2019, Picador.

Mark Lynas 'Our final warning, Six degrees of climate emergency', 2020, 4th Estate.

Chris Goodall 'What we need to do how, for a zero carbon future', 2020, Profile Books.

‘Keeping it Cool: How the UK can end it’s contribution to climate change’ WWF report, 2018: https://www.wwf.org.uk/sites/default/files/2018-11/NetZeroReportART.pdf

The Paris Climate Agreement: https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/the-paris-agreement/the-paris-agreement

IPPC reports (summaries for policy makers are good unless you really love science!): https://www.ipcc.ch/reports/

Websites and Social Media :

This website has the counter arguments to all the denialists questions and theories: https://skepticalscience.com/

Great UK based website with lots of videos and info: https://www.carbonbrief.org/

Energy Saving Trust: https://energysavingtrust.org.uk/  

Films:

'Six Inches of Soil'  2024, Colin Ramsay.  "The inspiring story of British farmers standing up against the industrial food system and transforming the way they produce food - to heal the soil, benefit out health and provide for local communities.  (Recommended viewing if there is a local showing, now also streaming)

2040, film 2019, Damon Gameau (Australia).  "Concerned about his young daughter's future, filmaker Damon Gameau travels the world in search of new approaches and solutions to climate change.  He meets with innovators and changemakers in many fields to draw on their expertise.

‘Climate Change: The Facts’, 2019 BBC documentary with David Attenborough. No longer on the iplayer but full film is on youtube and free to watch. Really good overview.

‘Before the Flood’, 2016 documentary with Leonardo di Caprio. Good overview. Available on Netflix.

‘Ice on Fire’, 2019 documentary with Leonardo di Caprio focusing on bio- and geo-engineering solutions to drawing carbon out of the atmosphere. Full film on youtube.

‘Chasing Ice’, 2012 documentary of photographer recording melting glaciers. Available on youtube, amazon, google play.

‘An Inconvenient Truth’, 2006 and ‘An Inconvenient Sequel’, 2016. Al Gore films. Available on youtube, amazon, google play.

There are loads of fantastic talks on youtube, I would recommend James Hansen amongst others (one of the first scientists to warn about climate change, he worked for NASA).