Resources

Creative (Climate) Communications

Non-fiction
Publication year: 2019
Author(s): Maxwell Boykoff
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Conversations about climate change at the science-policy interface and in our lives have been stuck for some time. This handbook integrates lessons from the social sciences and humanities to more effectively make connections through issues, people, and things that everyday citizens care about. Readers will come away with an enhanced understanding that there is no 'silver bullet' to communications about climate change; instead, a 'silver buckshot' approach is needed, where strategies effectively reach different audiences in different contexts. This tactic can then significantly improve efforts that seek meaningful, substantive, and sustained responses to contemporary climate challenges.

Hot Mess: What On Earth Can We Do About Climate Change?

Non-fiction
Publication year: 2022
Author(s): Dr Matt Winning
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Written by stand-up comedian, Dr Matt Winning, HOT MESS aims to both lighten the mood and enlighten readers on climate change. This is a book for people who care about climate change but aren't doing much about it, helping readers understand what the main causes of climate change are, what changes are needed, and what they can (and cannot) do about it. But, most importantly, it is book that'll help people find the comedy in climate change, because if we can do that, well, we can do bloody anything.

A Comedian and an Activist Walk Into a Bar: The Serious Role of Comedy in Social Justice

Non-fiction
Publication year: 2020
Author(s): Caty Borum Chatoo, Lauren Feldman
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Through rich case studies, audience research, and interviews with comedians and social justice leaders and strategists, A Comedian and an Activist Walk Into a Bar: The Serious Role of Comedy in Social Justice explains how comedy – both in the entertainment marketplace and as cultural strategy – can engage audiences with issues such as global poverty, climate change, immigration, and sexual assault, and how activists work with comedy to reach and empower publics in the networked, participatory digital media age.

How to Talk to Your Kids About Climate Change

Non-fiction
Publication year: 2020
Author(s): Harriet Shugarman
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This book provides tools and strategies for parents to explain the climate emergency to their children and galvanize positive action.

Green Rising

Fiction
Publication year: 2021
Author(s): Lauren James
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In Green Rising, the characters are teenagers who can grow plants from their skin. They use their powers to rewild the planet, and stand up to the profit-hungry corporations who want climate change to continue (because the end of the world is going to be very profitable to a lot of people). It shows the positive changes we can make to the environment which will help store carbon in huge quantities, often through plants: kelp forests, peatlands, reforestation.

The Parrot and the Igloo Climate and the Science of Denial

Non-fiction
Publication year: 2023
Author(s): David Lipsky
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In this book Lipsky masterfully traces the evolution of climate denial, exposing how it grew out of early efforts to build a network of untruth about products like aspirin and cigarettes. Featuring an indelible cast of heroes and villains, mavericks and swindlers, The Parrot and the Igloo delivers a real-life tragicomedy—one that captures the extraordinary dance of science, money, and the American character.

No More Fairy Tales: Stories to Save Our Planet

Fiction
Publication year: 2022
Author(s): Kim Stanley Robinson, Paolo Bacigalupi, Sara Foster et al.
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A collection of 24 stories are written by a variety of authors, with the aim to inspire readers with positive visions of what a sustainable society might look like and how we might get there. The stories are diverse in style, ranging from whodunnits to sci-fi, romance to family drama, comedy to tragedy, and cover a range of solution types from high-tech to nature-based solutions, to more systemic aspects relating to our culture and political economy.

The Blue, Beautiful World

Fiction
Publication year: 2023
Author(s): Karen Lord
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The world is changing, and humanity must change with it. Rising seas and soaring temperatures have radically transformed the face of Earth. Meanwhile, Earth is being observed from afar by other civilizations . . . and now they are ready to make contact. The Blue, Beautiful World is a thought-provoking work of climate fiction with a fascinating twist on the classic first-contact story.

Gun Island

Fiction
Publication year: 2019
Author(s): Amitav Gosh
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Amitav Ghosh's Gun Island is the story of a world on the brink, of increasing displacement and unstoppable transition. But it is also a story of hope, of a man whose faith in the world and the future is restored by two remarkable women. A hopeful depictions of the climate crisis, with a focus on collective action rather than Darwinian doom.

Mother Nature

Fiction
Publication year: 2023
Author(s): Jamie Lee Curtis
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This comic's central character is Nova Terrell, who after witnessing her father die in mysterious circumstances on one of the Cobalt Corporation's experimental oil-extraction projects, has grown up to despise the company. Nova wages a campaign of sabotage and vandalism against the oil giant, until one night she accidentally makes a terrifying discovery about the true nature of its Mother Nature project and the long-dormant, vengeful entity it has awakened that threatens to destroy them all.