Resources

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  • BBC’s Coverage of Climate

    Bloomberg Green covers a broad range of topics, including Energy, ESG Investing, Weather & Science, Cleaner Tech, Climate Politics, Greener Living and Big Plastic.

    Carbon Brief is a UK-based website covering the latest developments in climate science, climate policy and energy policy, including daily and weekly email summaries of newspaper and online coverage.

    Canary Media is an independent, nonprofit newsroom covering the transition to clean energy and solutions to the climate crisis. They report on how the world is decarbonizing — from electricity to transportation, buildings and industry — with a critical focus on finding out what works and what doesn’t.

    Cipher by Breakthrough Energy is published most Wednesday mornings, and covers the technological innovations needed to get to net-zero emissions and solve climate change.

    Climate Forward is a newsletter for New York Times Subscribers

    Climate Home News provides global climate coverage, delivering original reporting that informs and inspires action to tackle the global climate crisis.

    Climate Tech VC is a leading source on the new climate economy, providing data-driven perspectives for investors and operators working to innovate on climate.

    Energy & Environment News provides essential energy and environment news through five publications: Energywire, Climatewire, E&E Daily, Greenwire and E&E News PM.

    GreenBiz provides 8 free weekly newsletters providing news, trends and analysis on each of these topics: Carbon, Circularity, GreenFin, ClimateTech, Energy, Food, GreenBuzz, Transport.

    Inside Climate News provides Pulitzer Prize-winning, nonpartisan reporting on the biggest crisis facing our planet.

    Inside the Movement collects stories from a wide variety of sources, updated regularly.

    McKinsey & Company Sustainable and Inclusive Growth: A Weekly Briefing

    My Climate Journey (MCJ) Climate Voices newsletter is a weekly deep dive into topics relevant to climate solutions for and by the climate community. Subscribers receive a weekly email on Tuesdays.

    Nexus Media News is a website and newsletter dedicated to climate change.

    Rewiring America’s newsletter provides the latest updates on what they and others are doing to electrify everything, along with practical resources to help electrify your home and community.

    RMI Spark Newsletter, delivered weekly to your inbox and featuring the latest news, insights, and developments as we drive toward a clean energy future.

    In her Talking Climate Newsletter, Katherine Hayhoe provides a clear-eyed and hopeful look at climate science and solutions. Receive weekly climate updates, good climate news, event information, ideas on things to do and ways to join the conversation.

    The Atlantic’s The Weekly Planet Newsletter, published on Wednesday mornings, focuses on the biggest ideas and most vital information to help you flourish on a changing planet.

    The Carbon Copy is a weekly newsletter from Carbon180, dedicated to carbon removal solutions.

    The Carbon Fix is the newsletter of the Carbon Business Council, working to support the growing carbon removal industry.

    The Crucial Years is Bill McKibben’s newsletter.

    The DAC Coalition Newsletter provides updates on the latest in the direct air capture space.

    The Long Game is newsletter from POLITICO for leaders building a sustainable future.

    The Waggle is a weekly offering of compelling and inspiring stories about the regeneration and restoration of life on Earth, solutions to the climate crisis curated and authored by writers and researchers at Project Regeneration. 

    Yale Climate Connections is a website and newsletter covering a broad range of timely climate-related topics.

  • Sustainable Electricity: A Conversation on Tradeoffs Vol. II, Editors, Jessica Fox and Morgan Scott of EPRI, Springer 2018. Chapter 9 includes 5 case studies on Silicon Valley Innovation, written by Marianna Grossman.
    https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319956954

    Sustainable Electricity: Case Studies from Electric Power Companies in North America, Vol. I, Editor, Jessica Fox of EPRI, Springer 2016
    https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319289519

    Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life, E.O. Wilson, W.W. Norton & Co., 2016
    http://www.half-earthproject.org

    Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, 2013, 2015
    http://www.esf.edu/faculty/kimmerer/

    Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming, Ed. Paul Hawken, 2017
    http://www.drawdown.org

    Street Fight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution, Janette Sadik-Khan and Seth Solomonow, Viking, 2016
    http://www.jsadikkhan.com/streetfight-the-book.html

    Enviromedics: The Impact of Climate Change on Human Health, Jay Lemery, MD and Paul Auerbach, MD, Roman and Littlefield, 2017

    Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes, Bloomsbury, 2011 Merchants of Doubt

    The Water will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World, Jeff Goodall, Little Brown, 2017 The Water Will Come
    https://climateone.org/events/jeff-goodell-water-will-come

    Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World Flatiron Books, 2018 Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think, by Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund

    Laudato Si by Pope Francis, May, 2015 Laudato Si

    Thank You for Being Late: An Optimists Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations, Thomas Friedman, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016 Thank You for Being Late: An Optimists Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations

    Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows, edited by Diana Wright, Chelsea Green, 2008 Thinking in Systems

    Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Robert Bly, Harper Perennial, 1981 Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke

  • Federal Government - Opportunities to Enhance the Nation’s Resilience to Climate Change by the Council on Climate Preparedness and Resilience

    State of California/California Natural Resources Agency - Safeguarding California http://resources.ca.gov/climate/safeguarding/

  • CDP https://www.cdp.net/en runs the global disclosure system for investors, companies, cities, states and regions to manage their environmental impacts.

    BSR BSR is a global nonprofit that works with its network of more than 250 member companies and other partners to build a just and sustainable world.

    Bioneers http://www.bioneers.org/ is an educational organization that highlights breakthrough solutions for restoring people and planet.

    Ceres http://ceres.org/ is a non-profit organization advocating for sustainability leadership. They mobilize a powerful network of investors, companies and public interest groups to accelerate and expand the adoption of sustainable business practices and solutions to build a healthy global economy.

    Ellen MacArthur Foundation https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/ Their mission is to accelerate the transition to a circular economy. They work with business, government and academia to build a framework for an economy that is restorative and regenerative by design.

    New Buildings Institute http://newbuildings.org/ assesses technologies, promote design approaches, and help guide policies and programs that will significantly improve the energy efficiency of commercial buildings. Good resources for NZE buildings.

    Rocky Mountain Institute http://www.rmi.org/ whose mission is to transform global energy use to create a clean, prosperous and secure low carbon future by focusing on unlocking market-based solutions that can be replicated and implemented now.

    SPUR (San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association) http://www.spur.org brings people together from across the political spectrum to develop solutions to the big problems our cities face.

  • Urban Footprint https://urbanfootprint.com/ sustainable planning software. Free for California cities.

    Carbon Tracker Initiative http://www.carbontracker.org/ provides analysis on the impact of climate change on capital markets and investment in fossil fuels, mapping risk, opportunity and the route to a low-carbon future.

    DivestInvest Philanthropy http://divestinvest.org/philanthropy/ is a platform for institutions that follows the lead of student and community-driven fossil fuel divestment and new energy reinvestment.

    Oil Change International http://priceofoil.org/ is a research, communication, and advocacy organization focused on exposing the true costs of fossil fuels and facilitating the coming transition towards clean energy.

    Alternative Energy Stock http://www.altenergystocks.com/ provides high-quality, original research into alternative energy, renewable energy, and clean technology companies.

    Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) http://www.sasb.org/ whose mission is to develop and disseminate sustainability accounting standards that help public corporations disclose material, decision-useful information to investors.

  • Stanford Precourt Institute for Energy https://energy.stanford.edu/

    Pacific Institute http://pacinst.org/ is a global water think tank that provides science-based thought leadership with active outreach to influence local, national and international efforts in developing sustainable water policies.

  • Benyus, Janine, Biomimicry Institute Janine is a biologist, author, innovation consultant, and self proclaimed “nature nerd.” She may not have coined the term biomimicry, but she certainly popularized it in her 1997 book https://biomimicry.org/janine-benyus/. She is also the co-founder of the world’s first bio-inspired consultancy, Biomimicry 3.8, bringing nature’s sustainable designs to 250+ clients including Boeing, Colgate-Palmolive, Nike, General Electric, Herman Miller, HOK architects, IDEO, Interface, Natura, Procter and Gamble, Levi’s, Kohler, and General Mills. https://biomimicry.org/janine-benyus/

    Fiekowsky, Peter of the Healthy Climate Alliance is working towards a 300 PPM world.
    300x2050 Climate Restoration Foundation
    Forbes Article

    Dr. Hansen, James of Columbia University and colleagues have published a new paper with a detailed analysis of how to achieve negative CO2 emissions. https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.05878 He is also supporting a lawsuit being brought by children through Our Children's Trust. Here is a video with his granddaughter Sophie, explaining the lawsuit and its rationale.

    Hawken, Paul, Drawdown describes a comprehensive set of solutions for attaining a habitable planet with a goal of reversing global warming in 30 years.

    Holmes Hummel, founder Clean Energy Works visionary solutions inventor for equitable access to clean energy systems and financial tools to accomplish significant results.

    Lovins, Hunter, Natural Capitalism Solutions https://natcapsolutions.org/ L. Hunter Lovins is the President and Founder of Natural Capitalism Solutions(NCS). She is a champion of sustainable development in many domains. She believes that citizens, communities and companies, working together within the market context, are the most dynamic problem-solving force on the planet. She builds teams that create and implement practical and affordable solutions that will create a sustainable future.
    Hunter has co‐authored fifteen books and hundreds of articles, and was featured in the award‐winning film, Lovins On the Soft Path. Her best‐known book, Natural Capitalism is summarized in Harvard Business Review. Its sequel, The Way Out: Kickstarting Capitalism To Save Our Economic Ass, won the Atlas Award. Her latest, Creating a Lean and Green Business System also won the Shingo Prize. Watch for her forthcoming book, A Finer Future.

    McDonough, William, innovative architect and author, recently published in the journal Nature a new framework for managing carbon as an asset. Instead of considering carbon as something to eliminate, he recommends improving our designs by thinking about carbon in different ways. http://www.mcdonoughpartners.com/william-mcdonough-offers-new-language-carbon/

  • Climate Leader Interview Series - A series of interviews with Today’s Climate Leaders by Matt Schlegel of Evolutionary Teams

    Leading With Self-Awareness: An Interview With Marianna Grossman - with Matt Schlegel of Evolutionary Teams (January 2022): “Action is the antidote to anxiety. Marianna Grossman, founder and managing partner of Minerva Ventures, shares how she uses her concern for the climate to spur her leadership focused on solutions for a resilient future.”

    Climate Risk: Predicting, Planning, and Thriving in an Era of Disruption - A joint presentation of USAsia Ventures and the German American Business Association (March 31, 2022)

    Silicon Valley Simulation Center (what if we could test ideas for complex innovations before implementing them?)

    The Story of Stuff (there are other insightful Stories, including on plastics and other topics)

    A Message from the Future by Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (visualizing the Green New Deal)

  • 350.org https://350.org/ mobilizes climate-focused campaigns, projects and actions in 188 countries. Co-founded by Bill McKibben. Find a Climate March near you on Saturday, April 29, 2017. http://www.theclimatemobilization.org/

    Environmental Working Group http://www.ewg.org empowers people to live healthier lives in a healthier environment and drives consumer choice and civic action with breakthrough research.

    Story of Stuff http://www.storyofstuff.org its San Francisco Bay Area based team inspires and encourages the civic engagement of more than 1 million people by inviting them to share their movies, participate in their study programs and take part in campaigns on the environmental and social issues.

  • ClimateOne at the Commonwealth Club https://climateone.org/ offers a forum for candid discussion among climate scientists, policymakers, activists, and concerned citizens.

    Yes! Journalism for People Building a Better World yesmagazine.org positive stories of action for community resilience and planetary restoration.

    Koyaanisqatsi, Directed by Godfrey Reggio, 1982Movie to make you open your view of the world
    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085809/