Books and Films

Recommended books

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History  (2014), by Elizabeth Kolbert

Fire Weather by John Vaillant

Embers: One Ojibway's Meditations by Richard Wagamese, 2016

Saving Us by Katharine Hayhoe

Boiling Point by Maude Barlow

Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard

The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate by Peter Wohlleben, 2015

The Insect Crisis by Oliver Milman 

What Can I Do About the Climate Emergency? by Rebecca Solnit, 2024, (online pamphlet)

Plastics Free: The Inspiring Story of a Global Environmental Movement and Why it Matters by Rebecca Prince-Ruiz and Joanna Atherfold Finn, 2020

Hope Matters by Elin Kelsey, 2020

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, 2020

The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac, 2020

Climate Justice by Mary Robinson, 2019

Films and video recordings to watch

Plastic People: The Hidden Crisis of Microplastics

The Story of Stuff: video series

Patagonia films, such as We The Power: The Future of Energy is Community-Owned (accessible on YouTube)

Jane (2017) National Geographic documentary about Jane Goodall

Call of the Forest:  The Forgotten Wisdom of Trees (2016)

The Magnitude of All Things (2020) — accessible on the National Film Board website