Climate activists may find inspiration in studying this history of direct action events in the United States starting with the 1971 May Day protests, written by a veteran activist.

A must-read for activists fighting uphill battles. From the book: “Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal."

Botanist, plant ecologist, and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Kimmerer uses both her scientific and indigenous knowledge to urge readers to connect with and listen to plants and animals to awaken our ecological consciousness.

Acclaimed Brooklyn writer Jonathan Safran Foer's latest book is a personal examination of the climate problem with a particular focus on the effects of industrial farming on global warming. He offers up a simple action individuals can take to mitigate the crisis: stop eating meat and dairy for breakfast and lunch. The eAudiobook is read by the author.

Dr. Hanna-Attisha, an Iraqi immigrant and Flint, MI pediatrician, accounts her experience uncovering the lead contamination of the city's tap water and her subsequent fight for justice. The book's been called an important contribution to the literature of environmental activism and environmental racism.

This compelling biography of an environmental champion won the National Outdoor Book Award and was longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography. Grinnell was born in Brooklyn in 1849 and grew up on the estate of ornithologist John James Audubon. He became a fierce advocate for indigenous culture and the natural environment, founding the first Audubon Club, working with Roosevelt to protect big game, and paving the way for the Endangered Species Act.

Author, geologist, and environmentalist Lauret Savoy is a woman of African American, Euro-American, and Native American heritage. In this book, Savoy traces the American landscape, its connection to race, and the memories and histories that have emerged from the land.

A Finalist for the 2019 PEN/ Bograd Weld Award for Biography. An inspiring history of four women working in different fields--primatology, urbanism, the food industry, and biology--that shared a similar view of the need interact with nature in a more sustainable way and created change through their persistent activism.

One cannot tell the history of climate action without detailing the battles fought by indigenous peoples, our first climate activists. Nick Estes examines two centuries of indigenous resistance that led to the #NoDAPL movement.

An expansion of Nathaniel Rich's explosive New York Magazine article about the extent to which climate change was understood by 1979, the maddening politics that have kept the problem from being tackled, and where we are headed due to the inaction.