Read. Discuss. Learn.
Read: The Future We Choose, the Stubborn Optimist's Guide to the Climate Crisis, either individually or as a small group. Use the discussion guide to reflect on the book or guide a group discussion.
Here’s a brief summary of the book and why it was chosen as the community-read book.
Learn: The issues surrounding trees, climate change and environmental justice are complicated. We’re learning more everyday. Here’s a sampling of issues and complexity:
Tress and cooling
More Trees, Less Global Warming, Right? -- Not Exactly
Planting trees doesn’t always help with climate change
Many benefits of trees, including public health
What Technology Could Reduce Heat Deaths? Trees.
Low-income blocks in 92% of US urban communities have less tree cover and are hotter.
Learn about Lincoln’s tree equity score.
Everyday living
(Thanks to elementary school environmental students at Friends of Bay Minette, AL for suggesting this link)
More Resources
Key: F-Faith C-Climate T-Trees
Books
F, C—Antal, Jim. Climate Church, Climate World: How People of Faith Must Work for Change
F, C—Berndt, Brooks. Cathedral on Fire (Second Printing) | A Church Handbook for the Climate Crisis
F, C—Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life. To Till and to Tend: A Guide to Jewish Environmental Study and Action
C—Doerr, John. Speed & Scale: A Global Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now
F, C—Figueres, Christiana and Rivett-Carnac, Tom. The Future We Choose: The Stubborn Optimist's Guide to the Climate Crisis
C—Hawken, Paul. Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation
F, C—Hayhoe, Katherine and Farley, Andrew. A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-Based Decisions
C—Hayhoe, Katharine. Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World
C—Johnson, Ayana Elizabeth and Wilkinson, Katharine. All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
C—Moore, Kathleen Dean, Nelson, Michael P., et al. Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril
F, C—Richter, Sandra. Stewards of Eden: What Scripture Says About the Environment and Why It Matters
C, T—Simard, Suzanne. Finding the Mother Tree
F, T—Sleeth, Matthew. Reforesting Faith: What Trees Teach Us About the Nature of God and His Love for Us
C, T—Tallamy, Douglas W. The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees
F, C—Tull, Patricia. Inhabiting Eden: Christians, the Bible, and the Ecological Crisis
C—Wise, Carla A. Awake on Earth: Facing Climate Change with Sanity and Grace
Reading lists
Videos
F, C—Hayhoe, Katherine. The most important thing you can do Ted Talk. 17.11
C, T—Tallamy, Doug. Nature’s Best Hope. 1.13.38
C, T—Trillion Trees Campaign. What if there were 1 trillion more trees? 5.43