Global Change

The technology of fracking in shale rock - particularly in the Permian Basin in Texas - has transformed America into the world's top producer of both oil and natural gas. The US is expected to be "energy independent" and a "net exporter" in less than a decade, a move that will upend global politics, destabilize Saudi Arabia, crush Russia's chokehold over Europe, and finally bolster American power again. Or will it? Investigative journalist and bestselling author Bethany McLean digs deep into the cycles of boom and bust that has plagued the American oil industry for the past decade....

Renowned investor and climate champion Tom Steyer has been on the forefront of the climate war for well over a decade, leveraging his investment expertise, business knowledge, and community-organizing skills to support sustainable climate solutions. In this accessible book, he explains how capitalism is an effective tool for scaling climate progress, offers his candid take on fossil fuel enablers, and explains why immediate action on the climate front will be an investment in our economy and our key to a healthy and viable future.

Today’s 21st-century leaders face tremendous pressure in an increasingly complex and fast-changing world, where traditional leadership models have become obsolete. To transform and transcend these challenges a new type of leadership is essential. The solution? Systems Inspired Leadership (SIL): a powerful alternative for innovative leaders. Instead of an outmoded and ineffective top-down, leader-knows-all style that results in stress, pressure, and anxiety, SIL offers a fresh proven approach for achieving optimal results for your organization.

Earth’s Sixth Mass Extinction: A Call to Action for Biodiversity A Planet on the Brink We stand at a crossroads in history, facing a challenge of staggering proportions. Earth’s sixth mass extinction is not a distant, abstract threat; it is unfolding around us in real-time. Species are vanishing at an alarming rate, ecosystems are unraveling, and the delicate web of life that sustains us all is fraying under the weight of human activity. Yet within this crisis lies an extraordinary opportunity—a chance to reverse course and become stewards of the living planet, preserving its wonders ...

Morgan Battle grows up in the shadow of the Bastion, the barrier between what remains of civilization and the void. A wall of titanium climbing over four-thousand feet tall, the Bastion is the world’s grandest structure and all that’s left to protect America’s East Coast from the ocean, which has become humanity’s most dreaded monster. Global climate change and fracking have reshaped the Earth’s landscape and raised the Atlantic over a thousand feet. The Bastion has held steady against the abyss for over seventy years. Morgan lives in the slums at the base of the colossal ...

Two years after he rose to the presidency, former General, Steve Hatten, begins unfolding his plan for world domination. Not in a threatening and outright manner, but through a malevolent plan centered in subterfuge.With each unfolding of his machinations, the world powers turn on each other and President Hatten sits the United States on the sidelines, waiting to pick up the pieces in the aftermath. Unbeknownst to him, there is another ambiguous entity in play to foil him, one that he knew well in his old nemesis Pablo Manual...only this time, it’s his son returning to avenge the father ...

In 1994, Patagonia invited representatives from 75 grassroots nonprofit organizations to gather and learn from active experts how to be more effective at what they do. In 2016, Patagonia published Tools for Grassroots Activists, a compilation of presentations from the Tools conferences, accompanied by case studies and inspiring essays from environmental leaders. The world since then has changed in profound ways, and this new edition reflects the world we now occupy.

In Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid, biologist Thor Hanson tells the remarkable story of how plants and animals are responding to climate change: adjusting, evolving, and sometimes dying out. Anole lizards have grown larger toe pads, to grip more tightly in frequent hurricanes. Warm waters cause the development of Humboldt squid to alter so dramatically that fishermen mistake them for different species. Brown pelicans move north, and long-spined sea urchins south, to find cooler homes.

Mimi is a "waste girl". A member of the lowest caste on Silicon Isle, located off China’s southeastern coast, and home to the world’s largest electronic waste recycling center. There, thousands of miles from home, Mimi struggles to earn a living for her family and dreams of a better life. Luo Jincheng is the head of one of three clans who run the island, a role passed down from his father and grandfather before him. As the government enforces tighter restrictions, Luo in turn tightens the reins on the waste workers in his employ. Ruthlessness is his means of survival.

In conversation with social entrepreneur Badr Jafar, philanthropic leaders including Bill Gates, Baroness Valerie Amos, Kristalina Georgieva, David Miliband, Razan Al Mubarak and many more discuss their hopes and priorities for the world of today and tomorrow. Their insights shed new light on the increasingly important role that strategic philanthropy is playing in helping to address some of the world’s greatest challenges.

Are pupils, parents and the public being fed political propaganda on climate change? Now is your chance to find out. Professor Plimer gives 101 simple questions with answers for you to ask teachers, activists, journalists and politicians. The climate industry adjusts the temperature record and withholds raw data, computer codes and information from scrutiny. Computer predictions of a scary future don’t agree with measurements. Past natural climate changes have been larger and more rapid than the worst case predictions yet humans adapted. Is human-induced global warming the biggest ...

REVEALING THE OMEGA KEY: COSMIC LOVE STORY THROUGH END-TIME EARTH-CHANGE PROPHECY TO MODERN GLOBAL CONSPIRACY speaks for so many voices in time and across dimensions, calling us to hear their stories, their realities, their teachings, their discoveries, their sciences, their mythologies -- their prophecies. Are we humans facing extinction, or are we learning vastly expansive ways to survive changes in our environment, our societies, our minds, our souls, our consciousnesses? This epic saga, this interdimensional love and conspiracy story, meets these questions head-on. For more on the ...

Most of us recognize that climate change is real yet we do nothing to stop it. What is the psychological mechanism that allows us to know something is true but act as if it is not? George Marshall’s search for the answers brings him face to face with Nobel Prize-winning psychologists and Texas Tea Party activists; the world’s leading climate scientists and those who denounce them; liberal environmentalists and conservative evangelicals. What he discovers is that our values, assumptions, and prejudices can take on lives of their own, gaining authority as they are shared.

Bill McKibben’s groundbreaking book The End of Nature - issued in dozens of languages and long regarded as a classic - was the first book to alert us to global warming. But the danger is broader than that: Even as climate change shrinks the space where our civilization can exist, new technologies like artificial intelligence and robotics threaten to bleach away the variety of human experience. Falter tells the story of these converging trends and of the ideological fervor that keeps us from bringing them under control.

In a time awash with headlines about melting ice, raging wildfires, and species on the brink, it’s no wonder that many people feel overwhelmed. Rising Above: A Practical Guide to Overcoming Climate Anxiety and Finding Hope in a Changing World helps you navigate the emotional challenges of environmental crises with greater clarity, resilience, and purpose. Rather than offering simplistic fixes or empty platitudes, this guide embraces complexity, showing that facing difficult truths can deepen both your understanding and your moral courage. This book begins by reframing eco-anxiety as a ...

Unless we start addressing the causes of climate change and stop simply navigating its effects, we will be facing a series of unstoppable catastrophes by the time our preschoolers graduate from college. Our world is in trouble - right now. This Is the Way the World Ends tells the real stories of the substantial impacts to Earth’s systems unfolding across each continent.

Take Your Place in the Greatest Revival of All Time Could we be headed for another Azusa Street Revival—only this time with an even greater global outpouring of God’s glory? Diving deep into the extraordinary story of the Azusa Street Revival—and its ongoing impact on the global church—revival experts and bestselling authors Jeff Oliver and Rick Joyner reveal the keys to igniting an even greater movement today. Full of incredible testimonies, biblical teaching, and captivating storytelling, Keys to Experiencing Azusa Fire reveals that this miraculous revival is not just history, but...

The Sustainable Development Goals, adopted by the United Nations in 2015, comprise an ambitious and sweeping agenda that unites economic, social, and environmental aims. What resources do the world's religious and secular traditions offer in support of these objectives? Which principles do these traditions hold in common? This book presents an in-depth and deeply engaged conversation among interfaith religious leaders and interdisciplinary scholars and practitioners in pursuit of an ethical consensus that could ground sustainable development efforts.

In From Ideas to Impact, Michael Sheldrick delivers an inspiring and insightful discussion on how to implement social impact by driving policy change.

This original audiobook considers one of the most extraordinary scientific and political stories of our time: how in the 1980s a handful of scientists came to believe that mankind faced catastrophe from runaway global warming, and how today this has persuaded politicians to land us with what promises to be the biggest bill in history. Christopher Booker interweaves the science of global warming with that of its growing political consequences, showing how just when the politicians are threatening to change our Western way of life beyond recognition, the scientific evidence behind the global warming theory is being challenged like never before.