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Finding out more

Cap & Share

The website for the Cap & Share campaign, which ran from 2006 to 2014, used to be located at www.capandshare.org, and is now archived here.

350 ppm

For more about 350 ppm see the website of the international campaigning group 350.org

Books

Frames

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Don't Think of an Elephant

by George Lakoff - a simple introduction to framing in (American) politics

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Free to be Human

by David Edwards - good but heavier going

Social Issues

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Flat Earth News

by Nick Davies - about the press

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The Energy Glut

by Ian Roberts - for different ways of thinking about obesity

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The Story of Stuff

by Annie Leonard - on consumerism: an expanded version of the famous online film

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The Spirit Level

by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett - on inequality

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Whose Crisis, Whose Future?

by Susan George - on social justice

Growth

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Limits to Growth

by Donella Meadows et al - the influential book which first popularised a finite Earth (30-year update published in 2004)

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The Growth Illusion

by Richard Douthwaite - on the costs of economic growth

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Enough

by John Naish - on attitudes to 'having enough'

Planetary Problems

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The God Species

by Mark Lynas - a survey of planetary problems

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The Burning Question

by Mike Berners-Lee & Duncan Clark - a good recent summary of climate change and the 'carbon bubble'

Responses

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Carbon Detox

by George Marshall - a punchy book on responding to climate change (but largely confined to individual action)

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The End of the Long Summer

by Dianne Dumanoski - a look at honest hope

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Cancel the Apocalypse

by Andrew Simms - covers several topics from Framespotting in more detail

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The Great Disruption

by Paul Gilding - looks at the possibility of action being driven by a crisis

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Moral Ground

edited by Kathleen Dean Moore and Michael Nelson - an evocative call to arms

New Economics

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The New Economics

by David Boyle and Andrew Simms - what economics needs to be like

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Steady-State Economics

by Herman Daly - by the pioneer of SSE, who formerly worked at the World Bank

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Prosperity Without Growth

by Tim Jackson - recent and deservedly influential

The Story

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The Universe Story

by Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry - for perspective (see also the recent film Journey of the Universe)

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What on Earth Happened

by Christopher Lloyd - an accessible account of 'Big History' (history as part of the wider story of the universe)

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Maps of Time

by David Christian - a comprehensive account of 'Big History'

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The Great Turning

by David Korten - for the sense of a 'transition' or turning point in the story

The Future

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The World We Made

by Jonathon Porritt - an illustrated vision of how the world could be in 2050 and 'how we got there'