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resources for climate action

Resources

books

Alexandrowicz, Conrad and David Fancy. Theatre Pedagogy in the Era of Climate Crisis. Routledge, 2021. 


Daly, Herman E. Steady-state economics: with new essays. Island press, 1991.


DellaSala, Dominick and Michael Goldstein. The Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene. Elsevier, 2017. 


Green, John. The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet. Penguin, 2021. 


Kolbert, Elizabeth. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History. Picador, 2014. 


Kimmerer, Robin Wall. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. Milkweed Editions, 2015.  


Kress, John K. and Jeffrey K. Stine, Living in the Anthropocene: Earth in the Age of Humans. Smithsonian Institute, 2017. 


Leopold, Aldo. "A Sand County Almanac. 1949." New York: Ballantine (1970).  


McKibben, Bill. Deep economy: The wealth of communities and the durable future. Macmillan, 2007.


Ostrom, Elinor. Governing the commons: The evolution of institutions for collective action. Cambridge university press, 1990.


Weisman, Alan. The World Without Us. Thomas Dunne Books: New York, 2007. 


Yusoff, Kathryn. A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None. University of Minnesota Press, 2018.

articles

Anderies, John M., et al. "Aligning key concepts for global change policy: robustness, resilience, and sustainability." Ecology and Society 18.2 (2013).


Brannen, Peter. “The Anthropocene is a Joke: On Geological Timescales, Human Civilization is an Event, not an epoch.” The Atlantic, August 13, 2019.   

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/08/arrogance-anthropocene/595795/


Brannen, Peter. “What Made Me Reconsider the Anthropocene,” The Atlantic, October 11, 2019. 

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/10/anthropocene-epoch-after-all/599863/


Berkes, Fikret, and Carl Folke. "Linking social and ecological systems for resilience and sustainability." Linking social and ecological systems: management practices and social mechanisms for building resilience 1.4 (1998): 4.


Clark, William C. "Sustainability science: a room of its own." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104.6 (2007): 1737-1738.


Clark, Colin W. "The Economics of Overexploitation: Severe depletion of renewable resources may result from high discount rates used by private exploiters." Science 181.4100 (1973): 630-634.


Clark, William C. "Sustainability science: a room of its own." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104.6 (2007): 1737-1738.


Daly, Herman E., and Peter Root Griesinger. "Investing in Natural Capital." Investing in natural capital: The ecological economics approach to sustainability (1994): 22.


Ducan, Claire. "Extinction Rebellion is Creating a New Narrative of the Climate Crisis," New York Times, October 28, 2019. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/28/opinion/extinction-rebellion-london.html


Folke, Carl, et al. "Resilience and sustainable development: building adaptive capacity in a world of transformations." AMBIO: A journal of the human environment 31.5 (2002): 437-440.


Holling, Crawford Stanley. "Theories for sustainable futures." Conservation Ecology 4.2 (2000).


Time Magazine: Special Climate Issue. “2050: How the Earth Survived.” September 2019. 


Kapoor, Maya. “The Most Devastating Harms of the Rush for Electric Cars,” Slate Magazine. June 15, 2021. “


Welcome to the Anthropocene,” The Economist. May 28, 2011. 


Scheffer, Marten. "Critical transitions in nature and society." Critical Transitions in Nature and Society. Princeton University Press, 2020.


Slaughter, Richard A. “Welcome to the Anthropocene,” Elsevier: Futures 44 (2012), pp119-126. 

films

A Plastic Ocean, Craig Leeson, 2016. 


Anthropocene: The Human Epoch, documentary by Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, and Edward Burtynsky. Mercury Films, 2018. 


Manufactured Landscapes, documentary by Jennifer Baichwal. Mercury Films, 2006. Watermark, documentary by Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier. Mercury Films, 2013. 


David Attenborough: A Life on our Planet. Netflix, 2020. 


Samara, a film by Ron Fricke. 2011.


Baraka, a film by Ron Fricke. 1992. 


Koyaanisqatsi, a film by Ron Fricke. 1982. 


Naqoyqatsi, a film by Godfrey Reggio. 2002. 


The Anthropocene, 6th Extinction and Climate Change, Noam Chomsky, 6 May 2018. 


“The Anthropocene.” TED Talk/TEDxCanberra. Will Steffen, 

links

Turn It Around Project

https://turnitaroundcards.org/


Extinction Rebellion

https://rebellion.global/


Jason de Caires Taylor Underwater Sculptures

https://www.artworksforchange.org/portfolio/jason-decaires-taylor/


https://www.underwatersculpture.com/?doing_wp_cron=1653934653.0193119049072265625000


Seeds of Good Anthropocene

https://goodanthropocenes.net/


UN Climate Report 2022

https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/reports?gclid=Cj0KCQjw1tGUBhDXARIsAIJx01l6Rb3kpmNxoXOa_Tc0_bfFujaj0_-jd-_qXqaSBHTRqhR2QYIusmgaAkAjEALw_wcB


UNs 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs),

https://sdgs.un.org/goals


Project Drawn Down

https://drawdown.org/

pod casts

Anthroocene Reviewd by John Green

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-anthropocene-reviewed/id1342003491

additional resources

If you have additional resources: books, articles, films, podcasts that you think would inform this project, please email:

rachel.bowditch@asu.edu


    PROJECT FUNDERS

    This project was made possible with seed grant funding from:  

    Seize the Moment (Leonardo + ASU Humanities Lab + the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Lab) and an Institute for Humanities and Herberger Institute Seed Grant. 

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