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Climate Resilience
How We Keep Each Other Safe, Care for Our Communities, and Fight Back Against Climate Change
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Artikel-Nr:
9781623179021
Veröffentl:
2023
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.08.2023
Seiten:
352
Autor:
Kylie Flanagan
Gewicht:
567 g
Format:
226x152x25 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Kylie Flanagan is a climate communicator and the Executive Director of a small, climate justice-focused foundation. Originally from Miwok lands in the California Bay Area, she currently resides on Munsee Lenape lands in New York City. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College and received a Master s in Sustainability Solutions from Presidio Graduate School. She has dabbled in goat midwifery, cheesemaking, tiny house architecture and construction, supper club hosting, edible landscaping, and sustainable business consulting, always driven by a desire to make the world more delicious, beautiful, joyous, and just. Climate Resilience is her first book.
An intersectional primer for saving the planet: place-based perspectives and community-led tools for fighting climate change for readers of The Intersectional Environmentalist and All We Can Save
"An essential, inspired chorus of voices echoing the urgency of action in the fight against climate change." Kirkus Reviews
In Climate Resilience, climate justice and resilience strategist Kylie Flanagan invites us to see and act beyond status-quo solutions, Big Tech promises...and everything we re usually told about how to save the planet.
Centering the voices of Native Rights activists, queer liberation ecologists, youth climate-justice organizers, Latinx wilderness activists, and others on the front lines, Climate Resilience urges us toward a vision of climate care that invests in place-based, community-led projects focused on:
Each section offers practical blueprints for engaging with different aspects of climate-change action through mutual aid, seed-saving, community-owned energy, community safety plans, and more, and includes a range of ideas for readers to apply these strategies in their own communities.
"An essential, inspired chorus of voices echoing the urgency of action in the fight against climate change." Kirkus Reviews
In Climate Resilience, climate justice and resilience strategist Kylie Flanagan invites us to see and act beyond status-quo solutions, Big Tech promises...and everything we re usually told about how to save the planet.
Centering the voices of Native Rights activists, queer liberation ecologists, youth climate-justice organizers, Latinx wilderness activists, and others on the front lines, Climate Resilience urges us toward a vision of climate care that invests in place-based, community-led projects focused on:
- Relationship Repair
- Ecological Restoration
- Economic Regeneration
- Collective Care
- Community Adaptation
- Cultural Strategy
- People Power
Each section offers practical blueprints for engaging with different aspects of climate-change action through mutual aid, seed-saving, community-owned energy, community safety plans, and more, and includes a range of ideas for readers to apply these strategies in their own communities.