Climate resilience : how we keep each other safe, care for our communities, and fight back against climate change / Kylie Flanagan.
Material type: TextPublisher: Berkeley, California : North Atlantic Books, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Description: 341 pages ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781623179021
- 1623179025
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Adult Book | Main Library | NonFiction | New | 363.7387 F583 | Available | 33111011307002 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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-
Relationship RepairEcological RestorationEconomic RegenerationCollective CareCommunity AdaptationCultural StrategyPeople 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.
"In conversation with 39 women, nonbinary, and gender-expansive climate leaders."
"A primer in understanding the climate crisis informed by interviews with the women, non-binary, and gender-expansive climate leaders and community members who have been fighting for the health, wellbeing, and liberation of their communities for decades"-- Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Relationship repair -- Ecological restoration -- Economic regeneration -- Collective care -- Community adaptation -- Cultural strategy -- People power.