You Want To Listen

A lot of people are afraid of the subject matter: climate change. It seems depressing and hopeless. This book will give you joyful concrete steps of building community and taking inspirational action by raising your voice. No matter how small, everyone’s climate justice actions and involvement will create, mitigate, and help with adaptation for a better world. Global cooperation, inclusivity, organizing, ingenuity, elbow grease, celebration, singing and dancing are all part of the solutions!

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Essential, educational, empowering

The essays in this book are beautifully written and an important reminder of how critical community and diversity are in our ecosystems (whether in “nature” or in human institutions, as well as in their interplay). We need to pay attention to these leaders and do our own part to bring ourselves and our communities back into equilibrium with the natural world we depend on. We must become citizen lobbyists for this crisis!

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clear voices inform and inspire

Hearing these voices is a powerful way for us, men and women, to inform ourselves and steal ourselves to action. thank you to those who wrote, assembled, read and produced this wonderful and diverse content. I heard voices that I will follow up with as I engage more fully in right climate action.

Thank you.

This opened my eyes to so much that I had not thought of before. I am so grateful that all the contributors to this book shared their knowledge and offered ways to help with this crisis.

This is a great book.

If you are look for a better understanding of how you can contribute to the solution of climate change this is the book for you. You are not alone.

Changed my world

This connected with me reply and has changed my actions for the better. I was someone who thought that all this climate change would fix itself. Not a denier, but not a believer in our involvement in climate change. Specifically the Beyond coal story struck me, as someone who lives in Central Pennsylvania. Where coal was king and still is in certain counties In drive through. Every story gave me room to reflect and research how I could change. I wanted to share everything. I shared this book both in the beginning and halfway through to social media and people directly who I felt would benefit from it. I found the related articles, organizations, etc and shared those too. I am actively working to improve my company's business to be more intentional with how we can do better for the environment.

This book is a game changer for me.

An inspiring journey that felt like an in-person retreat

Breathtakingly inspiring. I listened on the edge of my seat to hear voices I had never heard from before, essays which were divided by thoughtfully-selected poems. The celebrity voices revealed real friendships between the reader and writer. It was a joy and a much needed jolt of inspiration for the years of hard work ahead!

Essential to Spread Awareness and Inspire Action

This beautifully curated collection of essays and literary art is an essential read for anyone to better understand the past, present, and future of climate change. It is both educational and empowering listening to and reading all the various perspectives of the climate crisis, and at times a visceral experience to be transported to that author’s life story. The collection of stores is a representation of the collective efforts and life experiences that fellow humans have gone through, are going through, and may go through in our embattled planet. In essence, it’s evidence that, although daunting, solutions to combatting the effects of the climate crisis are conceivable and achievable.

What we need to hear right now

As an environmental scientist working on Climate Change for the past 2 decades I needed this book. I needed it for the inspiration from all these great women of all races and ages, I needed the optimism and the frustration. We have so far to go, it would be a miracle to see a solution in my lifetime. But the most important thing to do now is set the right course. All we CAN save.

Amazing

Wow this was incredibly awesome! I enjoyed and learned and will be turning my friends and family on to this excellent brilliant book!!!