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
Don't Think of an Elephant
by George Lakoff - a simple introduction to framing in (American) politics
Free to be Human
by David Edwards - good but heavier going
Social Issues
Flat Earth News
by Nick Davies - about the press
The Energy Glut
by Ian Roberts - for different ways of thinking about obesity
The Story of Stuff
by Annie Leonard - on consumerism: an expanded version of the famous online film
The Spirit Level
by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett - on inequality
Whose Crisis, Whose Future?
by Susan George - on social justice
Growth
Limits to Growth
by Donella Meadows et al - the influential book which first popularised a finite Earth (30-year update published in 2004)
The Growth Illusion
by Richard Douthwaite - on the costs of economic growth
Enough
by John Naish - on attitudes to 'having enough'
Planetary Problems
The God Species
by Mark Lynas - a survey of planetary problems
The Burning Question
by Mike Berners-Lee & Duncan Clark - a good recent summary of climate change and the 'carbon bubble'
Responses
Carbon Detox
by George Marshall - a punchy book on responding to climate change (but largely confined to individual action)
The End of the Long Summer
by Dianne Dumanoski - a look at honest hope
Cancel the Apocalypse
by Andrew Simms - covers several topics from Framespotting in more detail
The Great Disruption
by Paul Gilding - looks at the possibility of action being driven by a crisis
Moral Ground
edited by Kathleen Dean Moore and Michael Nelson - an evocative call to arms
New Economics
The New Economics
by David Boyle and Andrew Simms - what economics needs to be like
Steady-State Economics
by Herman Daly - by the pioneer of SSE, who formerly worked at the World Bank
Prosperity Without Growth
by Tim Jackson - recent and deservedly influential
The Story
The Universe Story
by Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry - for perspective (see also the recent film Journey of the Universe)
What on Earth Happened
by Christopher Lloyd - an accessible account of 'Big History' (history as part of the wider story of the universe)
Maps of Time
by David Christian - a comprehensive account of 'Big History'
The Great Turning
by David Korten - for the sense of a 'transition' or turning point in the story
The Future
The World We Made
by Jonathon Porritt - an illustrated vision of how the world could be in 2050 and 'how we got there'