Climate Action Week in early November provides an opportunity to focus on climate change related challenges and emergencies facing our communities while situating libraries as places to connect people with resources on climate change.
Check out the selected films and books available to borrow from UBC Library to help inspire action on climate change issues. These titles have been organized into categories though many of these titles fit into several of these categories.
Categories: Choices and Lifestyle, Indigenous Action, Environmental Policy, Personal Action, Advocacy and Civic Engagement, Climate Science, Adaptation, and Films.
Choices and Lifestyle
The book of hope : a survival guide for trying times by Jane Goodall, Douglas Abrams with Gail Hudson
Eco-aesthetics : art, literature and architecture in a period of climate change by Malcolm Miles
Climate justice : hope, resilience, and the fight for a sustainable future by Mary Robinson with Caitríona Palmer
What if we get it right? : visions of climate futures by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
Climate change scepticism : a transnational ecocritical analysis by Greg Garrard, Axel Goodbody, George Handley and Stephanie Posthumus
We are the weather : saving the planet begins at breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer
Not the end of the world : how we can be the first generation to build a sustainable planet by Hannah Ritchie
Not too late : changing the climate story from despair to possibility edited by Rebecca Solnit & Thelma Young Lutunatabua ; with illustrations by David Solnit
Indigenous Action
This place is who we are : stories of Indigenous leadership, resilience, and connection to homelands by Katherine Palmer Gordon
Braiding sweetgrass : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Fresh banana leaves : healing indigenous landscapes through indigenous science by Jessica Hernandez
The right to be cold : one woman’s story of protecting her culture, the Arctic and the whole planet by Sheila Watt-Cloutier
Media and transnational climate justice : indigenous activism and climate politics by Anna Roosvall and Matthew Tegelberg
Asserting native resilience : Pacific rim indigenous nations face the climate crisis edited by Zoltán Grossman and Alan Parker
Held by the land : a guide to indigenous plants for wellness by Leigh Joseph
Environmental Policy
Thirty years of failure : understanding Canadian climate policy by Robert MacNeil
Bright green lies : how the environmental movement lost its way and what we can do about it by Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, Max Wilbert
Life in the city of dirty water : a memoir of healing by Clayton Thomas-Müller
Climate crisis and the global green new deal : the political economy of saving the planet by Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin, with C. J. Polychroniou
Grassroots rising : a call to action on climate, farming, food, and a green new deal by Ronnie Cummins
Drawdown : the most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming edited by Paul Hawken
Personal Action
The seasons alter : how to save our planet in six acts by Philip Kitcher and Evelyn Fox Keller
A field guide to climate anxiety : how to keep your cool on a warming planet by Sarah Jaquette Ray
Turn the tide on climate anxiety : sustainable action for your mental health and the planet by Megan Kennedy-Woodard and Dr. Patrick Kennedy-Williams ; foreword by Arizona Muse
Free the land : how we can fight poverty and climate chaos by Audrea Lim
Food in a just world : compassionate eating in a time of climate change by Tracey Harris & Terry Gibbs
The future we choose : the stubborn optimist’s guide to the climate crisis by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac
How to avoid a climate disaster : the solutions we have and the breakthroughs we need by Bill Gates
#NoFly : walking the talk on climate change by Shaun Hendy
Don’t even think about it : why our brains are wired to ignore climate change by George Marshall
Just cool it! : the climate crisis and what we can do : a post-Paris Agreement game plan by David Suzuki & Ian Hanington
Medicine wheel for the planet : a journey toward personal and ecological healing by Dr. Jennifer Grenz
David Suzuki’s green guide by David Suzuki & David R. Boyd
The citizen’s guide to climate success : overcoming myths that hinder progress by Mark Jaccard, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
Saving ourselves : from climate shocks to climate action by Dana R. Fisher
Universities on fire : higher education in the climate crisis by Bryan Alexander
Advocacy and Civic Engagement
The Winona LaDuke chronicles : stories from the front lines in the battle for environmental justice by Winona LaDuke ; edited by Sean Aaron Cruz
The new climate war : the fight to take back our planet by Michael E. Mann
More powerful together : conversations with climate activists and Indigenous land defenders by Jen Gobby
Commanding hope : the power we have to renew a world in peril by Thomas Homer-Dixon
No one is too small to make a difference by Greta Thunberg
All we can save : truth, courage, and solutions for the climate crisis edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Katharine K. Wilkinson
The intersectional environmentalist : how to dismantle systems of oppression to protect people + planet by Leah Thomas
A bigger picture : my fight to bring a new African voice to the climate crisis by Vanessa Nakate
The ethics of the climate crisis by Robin Attfield
The uninhabitable earth : life after warming by David Wallace-Wells
Consumed : the need for collective change : colonialism, climate change, and consumerism by Aja Barber
Pathways to action : how keystone organizations can lead the fight for climate change by Peter McAteer
Climate hope : stories of action in an age of global crisis by David Geselbracht
Climate change as class war : building socialism on a warming planet by Matthew T. Huber
Imagining the future of climate change: world-making through science fiction and activism by Shelley Streeby
What we’re fighting for now is each other : dispatches from the front lines of climate justice by Wen Stephenson
Our final warning : six degrees of climate emergency by Mark Lynas
The summer Canada burned : the wildfire season that shocked the world by Monica Zurowski
How to blow up a pipeline : learning to fight in a world on fire by Andreas Malm
Before the streetlights come on : Black America’s urgent call for climate solutions by Heather McTeer Toney
Burnt : fighting for climate justice by Chris Saltmarsh
The climate book created by Greta Thunberg
Climate change is racist : race, privilege and the struggle for climate justice by Jeremy Williams
Climate Science
The nature of our cities : harnessing the power of the natural world to survive a changing planet by Nadina Galle
The fragile earth : writing from the New Yorker on climate change edited by David Remnick and Henry Finder
The legacy : an elder’s vision for our sustainable future by David Suzuki
Unsettled : what climate science tells us, what it doesn’t, and why it matters by Steven E. Koonin
Empty cellars, melting ice, and burning tundra : climate change and Native Peoples in the United States and Canada by Bruce E. Johansen
The end of ice : bearing witness and finding meaning in the path of climate disruption by Dahr Jamail
Hot : living through the next fifty years on earth by Mark Hertsgaard
Losing Earth : a recent history by Nathaniel Rich
Adaptation
The waste-free world : how the circular economy will take less, make more, and save the planet by Ron Gonen
Land art as climate action: designing the 21st century city park Land Art Generator Initiative, Mannheim, edited by Elisabeth Monoian, Robert Ferry
The story of more : how we got to climate change and where to go from here by Hope Jahren
The design pathway for regenerating Earth by Joe Brewer
Wine and climate change by L.J. Johnson-Bell
A bright future : how some countries have solved climate change and the rest can follow by Joshua S. Goldstein and Staffan A. Qvist
Films
The hungry tide by Screen Australia
We are all related here an EmpathyWorks Films production
The anthropologist by Ironbound Films
This changes everything (Motion picture) This changes everything by Filmbuff
Climate change I : an uncertain future directed, photographed and produced by Leonard Gilday
The great warming a Stonehaven production in association with Discovery Channel Canada
Chasing ice by Submarine Deluxe ; an Exposure production in association with Diamond Docs
Do the +math a PF Pictures production
The age of stupid presented by Spanner Films in association with Passion Pictures
Inconvenient truth (Motion picture) An inconvenient truth presented by Paramount Classics and Participant Productions ; a Lawrence Bender/Laurie David production
An inconvenient sequel : truth to power Paramount Pictures and Participant Media
The vanishing ice Filmwest Associates
There once was an island = Te henua e nnoho an On the Level production
Food for the rest of us directed by Caroline Cox
The biggest little farm directed John Chester
Saving the life keepers by scenario, Jocelyn Demers