Resources for Climate Action

Organizations

• MN350 (part of 350.org) takes climate action with the goal of returning our atmosphere's carbon level to the safe 350-ppm threshold. 

• Climate Generation empowers people, especially youth, to engage in solutions to climate change. 

• Honor the Earth and the Indigenous Environmental Network are Minnesota-based action groups organizing for native rights, care for the environment, pipeline resistance, and more.

• Citizens Climate Lobby advocates in the political realm.

• Join The Climate Mobilization for action "at wartime speed."

• Consider divesting from fossil fuels. We can't offer financial advice, but see Fossil Free USA's Roadmap to Divestment, Green America's Portfolio Guide, and Divest-Invest's Institutional and Personal Resources.

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Books

• The Essential Guide to Doing Transition  (downloadable PDF)

• From What Is to What If by Rob Hopkins

• Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed for Reversing Global Warming by Paul Hawken

• On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal and This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, both by Naomi Klein

• Plan C: Community Survival Strategies for Peak Oil & Climate Change by Pat Murphy

• The Post Carbon Reader, edited by Richard Heinberg and Daniel Lerch

Movies and Videos

• This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (based on Naomi Klein's book)

• Kilowatt Ours: A Plan to Re-energize America

• Passive House: A Building Revolution

• Years of Living Dangerously, Emmy-winning multi-episode TV series