Editor’s note: This reading list serves as a supplement to The Dialogue Podcast episode 29, Climate Action and Sustainability. In that episode, ALFSV CEO Suzanne St. John-Crane is joined by our guest contributors, Senior Fellows Jayne Battey (Class XXIV) and Mark Bauhaus (Class XX). The group discusses what we can all do in the face of a changing climate. Listen here. or via the player below.
Greetings ALF readers and listeners.
We recommend picking one of these materials to read and talk about with family and friends, depending upon what perspective you feel you need now. Don’t try to read them all unless you want to become a quasi-expert. If you only have time for two, read the first two.
Best Regards,
Mark Bauhaus and Jayne Battey,
ALF Senior Fellows
CLIMATE ACTION & SUSTAINABILITY READING LIST
Women authors write beautifully and hopefully across disciplines about Climate:
All We can Save: Truth, Courage, And Solutions For the Climate Crisis by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katherine Wilkinson (2020)
Excellent research-based climate solution prioritization and action rubric for home /work/ school/ policy including “Climate Solutions At Work” handbook:
drawdown.org (2021)
Consensus Climate science was updated August 2021 – read the policy-maker or technical summary for the data view. Due to peer pressures, the reality is probably worse than this:
ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/#SPM (2021)
A well-written piece on the history and science of climate change. The lost opportunity of the last 40 years or more is unsettling but a need-to-know.
Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change (subscription required)
Children’s Trust expert chronicles US administrations inaction on Carbon/Climate:
They Knew: The US Government’s Fifty Year Role In Causing The Climate Crisis by James Gustave Speth (2021)
Overview of our predicament and what it’ll really take to resolve it:
The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet by Michael E. Mann (2021)
Helpful geek’s take on Climate innovation/economics:
How To Avoid A Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have And the Breakthrough’s We Need by Bill Gates (2021)
Local Organizations with Tools and Tips on How You Can Help
brightaction.app
smcsustainability.org
sustainability.sccgov.org
theclimatecenter.org
Credible Climate News Resources:
nytimes.com/section/climate
theatlantic.com/projects/planet
canarymedia.com
bloomberg.com/green
thirdact.org
andrewgunther.com
Jayne Battey is the founder and owner of Miramar Farms, a leadership development center north of Half Moon Bay. Jayne provides senior leadership coaching and facilitation for organizations working primarily on environmental, health, housing, and education work. She is vice-chair the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board and previously served on the boards of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Youth Outside, and Cabrillo Education Foundation. Jayne is a member of the ALF National Board of Trustees.
Mark Bauhaus is a market-oriented systems thinker, Environmental Entrepreneur, Partner @JustBusiness, Mentor to purpose-driven startups, Senior Advisor to Joint Venture Silicon Valley, and an American Leadership Forum Senior Fellow. He served 35+ years as a technology EVP / General Manager building global businesses up to $5 Billion revenue in internet consulting, software, hardware and networking products at Juniper Networks, Sun Microsystems, and Hewlett-Packard. Mr. Bauhaus graduated with a B.S. degree in “Business Management and Environmental Systems Analysis” with high honors from the University of California at Davis.
