- The New York Times has a series entitled The America We Need. This is the lead editorial from that series. You can find the entire series here.
- Drawdown
- New York Times Climate Hub
- How to modernise the power grid – The Atlantic, Aug, 2020
- Article The Climate Crisis is Racist. The answer is anti-racisim.
- ADN opinion piece by Polly Carr and others on 4-2-20: Why we can’t go back to normal.
- MSN article on how air quality is improving in some cities.
- Outrage and Optimism podcast. This is an weekly discussion from stubborn optimists working on climate change. They have been discussing the impact and lessons on this work from the pandemic.
- The founders of that podcast have published a book which suggests actions for individuals: The Future we Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis.
- “Four Climate Crisis Lessons from the Pandemic” on a blog www.adamideas.org
- Impressive community plan – Santa Barbara County
- McKinsey Quarterly: Addressing Climate Change in an post-pandemic world April 2020
- The Ten Fastest Growing Startups in 2019
- Excerpts from Pope Francis encyclical on the environment – Reuters
- http://kenaichange.org/resilience-and-security/ City councils of Soldotna, Seldovia, and Homer all adopted unanimous resolutions asking the borough to form a commission to plan for a changing climate.
- How Can We Build a Hardier World After the Coronavirus? – Bill McKibben
- What is the role of government – April 2020 article in the Washington Post.
- DeGrowth and post-Pandemic – reality check on where we are now and where we will be in 6 months – 2 years.
- Amsterdam is adopting the doughnut model. This is an economic model developed by Kate Raworth that reshapes how we consider economic activity.
- https://enough.scot/2020/04/08/degrowth-and-our-post-covid-future/ (quoting, among others, Arundhati Roy: “Nothing could be worse than a return to normality”)
- The Virus is Not Degrowth This article will consider these three points in further detail: the covid-19 crisis is not degrowth, how covid-19 shows that degrowth is needed, and why covid-19 shows the potential for a societal transformation to a degrowth future.
- How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business Harvard Business Review – -great practical list of ways C-19 will reshape business. Perhaps we could ask the same questions about how C-19 will reshape, e.g. government (at any level), non-profits, conservation, renewable energy
- How C-19 could build pressures on businesses for coherent climate policy
- Creating 8 80 cities https://www.880cities.org/ AARP Alaska is interested in this topic
- Hope Jahren’s book The Story of More. You’ll find a description along with a couple of other recommendations in this NYT article. She asks: Do you want to live in a more equitable world with a brighter future? If yes, then she takes you through a series of steps for individual action.
- There’s an interesting series of conversations called Berkeley Conversations: COVID-19. Of particular interest was Climate change and COVID-19: Can this crisis shift the paradigm? But they are tackling all kinds of topics including mental health.
