Resources for Climate Action
Organizations
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MN350 (part of 350.org) takes climate action with the goal of returning our atmosphere's carbon level to the safe 350-ppm threshold.
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Climate Generation empowers people, especially youth, to engage in solutions to climate change.
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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.
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Citizens Climate Lobby advocates in the political realm.
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Join The Climate Mobilization for action "at wartime speed."
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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.
Books
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The Essential Guide to Doing Transition (downloadable PDF)
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From What Is to What If by Rob Hopkins
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Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed for Reversing Global Warming by Paul Hawken
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On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal and This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, both by Naomi Klein
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Plan C: Community Survival Strategies for Peak Oil & Climate Change by Pat Murphy
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The Post Carbon Reader, edited by Richard Heinberg and Daniel Lerch
Movies and Videos
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (based on Naomi Klein's book)
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Kilowatt Ours: A Plan to Re-energize America
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Passive House: A Building Revolution
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Years of Living Dangerously, Emmy-winning multi-episode TV series