Resources
Books
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.
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/9783319289519Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life, E.O. Wilson, W.W. Norton & Co., 2016
http://www.half-earthproject.orgBraiding 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.orgStreet Fight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution, Janette Sadik-Khan and Seth Solomonow, Viking, 2016
http://www.jsadikkhan.com/streetfight-the-book.htmlEnviromedics: 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-comeFactfulness: 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
Government Resources
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/
Organizations
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.
Finance
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.
Academia
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.
Thought Leaders
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 Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. 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 ArticleDr. 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/
Others
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/
Grass Roots
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.
