Climate Change (old guide)

Source: Project Drawdown,  a nonprofit organization that seeks to help the world reach “Drawdown”— the future point in time when levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere stop climbing and start to steadily decline.

Solutions to climate change come in two forms:  mitigation, or efforts to reduce the emission of greenhouse gasses, and adaptation, or making preparations to adjust to life on a hotter, more turbulent planet.  Resources for exploring both of these are below.  

Big picture climate change solution resources

• Responding to Climate Change, from NASA (web page)
• Drawdown 2020:  The World's Leading Resource for Climate Solutions (website); Drawdown : the most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming, by Paul Hawken (book); Climate Solutions 101 (six-part streaming video series)
• NASA Technologies Spin off to Fight Climate Change (NASA blog)
• Net Zero by 2050 - A Roadmap for the Global Energy Sector ( from the International Energy Agency, report and website)
• The Future We Choose - Surviving the Climate Crisis, by Christiana Figueres (book) 
• A bright future : how some countries have solved climate change and the rest can follow, by Joshua Goldstein (book)
• 5 ways to curb climate change, from National Geographic (website)
• Here's What Humanity Must Do Immediately to Prevent Catastrophic Climate Change, According to the New U.N. Report, from Time Magazine (article)
• Where to find upbeat news about climate change, from Yale Climate Connections (website)

Personal lifestyle changes

• How to stop freaking out and tackle climate change, from the New York Times (commentary news article)
• Top 10 things you can do about climate change, from  David Suzuki (web article)
• The UN Campaign for Individual Action, from the United Nations (website)
• 10 simple ways to act on climate change, from the BBC (web article)
• "I'm Just One Person, What Can I Do?", from PBS Digital Studies (7 minute video)
• "The most important thing you can do to fight climate change: talk about it",  TED Talk from climate scientist Katherine Hayhoe (17 minute video) 

Systemic change

• "The Question I Get Asked Most" by Bill McKibben (web article)
• "Neoliberalism has conned us into fighting climate change as individuals" from the Guardian (commentary news article)
• Think Resilience, from the PostCarbon Institute, an online course focused on building community resilience

Carbon tax

• Carbon Tax Center (advocacy website)
• Paying for pollution : why a carbon tax is good for America, by Gilbert Metcalf, (ebook)
• Implementing a US carbon tax : challenges and debates, by Ian W.H. Parry (ebook)

Laws and lawsuits

• Our Children’s Trust  -Youth v. Gov (website)
• A Surge of Climate Lawsuits Targets Human Rights, Damage from Fossil Fuels (web article)

Food 

• Food and Climate Change (PCC Library guide)
• Diet for a hot planet : the climate crisis at the end of your fork and what you can do about it, by Anne Lappe (book)

Transportation

• Carbon Pollution from Transportation, from the EPA (website)
• Driving the future : combating climate change with cleaner, smarter cars, by Margo Oge (book)
• Transport and climate change, by Tim Chapman (ebook)  

High tech hopes and geoengineering

• Climate change: Scientists test radical ways to fix Earth's climate, from the BBC (web article)
• Geoengineering, from Harvard's Solar Geoengineering Research Program (website) 
• Billion-dollar polar engineering ‘needed to slow melting glaciers’, from the Guardian (web article)

Adaptation

• U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit,  from climate.gov (web site)
• 6 of the World's Most Extensive Climate Adaptation Plans, from Inside Climate News (web article)
• Strategies for Climate Change Adaptation, from the EPA (website) 
• Adapting to Climate Change: A Guide for State Coastal Managers, from NOAA (government document)