External Resources
Carbon Footprint of Bottled Water
A thorough educational & analytical tool for calculating the impacts of bottled water on global carbon pollution. Includes a recorded synopsis of the carbon footprint…
Plastics Pollution
These two websites support materials for children and adults to take action based upon the excellent documentary, “The Story of Plastic” and an animated short…
Breaking the Plastic Wave
Extensive and positive research.
TED Ed | What Really Happens to the Plastic You Throw Away
What really happens to the plastic you throw away (Apr 21, 2015) We’ve all been told that we should recycle plastic bottles and containers. But…
Algalita.org
An environmental science and research platform with over 25 years of experience and ground- breaking global field studies and research from all 5 plastic gyres…
CarbonTracker.org
Carbon Tracker is an independent financial think tank that carries out in-depth analysis on the impact of the energy transition on capital markets and the…
The CLEO Institute
The CLEO Institute is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, non-partisan organization exclusively dedicated to climate crisis education and advocacy. Founded in 2010, we work with communities across…
CIEL- Center for International Environmental Law
More than just a legal resource, CIEL supports advanced scientific reporting, policy research & support, legal counsel and advocacy for 3 main areas: climate &…
Project Drawdown
Founded in 2014, Project Drawdown is a nonprofit organization that seeks to help the world reach Drawdown – the future point in time when levels…
Inside Climate News
“Founded in 2007, Inside Climate News is a Pulitzer Prize-winning, nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization that provides essential reporting and analysis on climate change, energy and…
Seaspiracy
How our seafood industries and uninformed appetites have decimated ocean animal species, plunged the ocean environments toward irreversible harm and already caused species extinctions with…
Orb Media
Orb Media unearths global insights on how our world can forge a more sustainable future. We use journalistic craft, data analysis and networks to transform…
The Beauty
Simultaneously stunning and filthy is how director Pascal Schelbli describes his 2019 short film, The Beauty, a cautionary reimagining of the world’s rampant plastic pollution,…
Pangaia
A fashion company with a creative stand in support of climate change education and science. “From exciting developments around how to deal with plastic waste,…
Wasteland
Filmed over nearly three years, WASTE LAND follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil…
Resurgence Trust | Resurgence & Ecologist Magazine
From their website: Resurgence & Ecologist Magazine was founded in the U.K. by Satish Kumar in 1966, a Peace-pilgrim, life-long activist and former monk. The…
Water Footprint Network | Clean drinking water
The water footprint is a measure of humanity’s appropriation of fresh water in volumes of water consumed and/or polluted. A plentiful educational support regarding conservation…
All We Can Save – Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
Ed. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Katharine K. Wilkinson, 2020 There is a renaissance blooming in the climate movement: leadership that is more characteristically feminine and…
DRAWDOWN: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
In the spring of 2017, Project Drawdown released its inaugural body of work on climate solutions with the publication of the New York Times bestselling…
Enviromedics
By Jay Lemery, MD & Paul Auerbach, MD, 2017 Many of us have concerns about the effects of climate change on Earth, but we often…
The Future Earth – A Radical Vision for What is Possible in the Age of Warming
By Eric Holthaus, 2020 The first hopeful book about climate change, The Future Earth, shows readers how to reverse the short- and long-term effects of…
The Great Derangement – Climate Change and the Unthinkable
From their website: By Amitav Ghosh, 2016 Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How…
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
From their website: By Bill Gates, 2021 In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical and accessible plan for how the…
Silent Spring
By Rachel Carson, 1962 Long interested in the delicate balance between man and nature, Carson in her next book examined man’s destruction of his environment…