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Activism/Service & global challengesbooks

Below are the best books we could find on Activism/Service and global challenges.

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Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development

Inspired by women’s struggles for the protection of nature as a condition for human survival, award-winning environmentalist Vandana Shiva shows how ecological destruction and the marginalization of women are not inevitable, economically or scientifically.

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Falter

Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out. Falter is a powerful and sobering call to arms, to save not only our planet but also our humanity.

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Speak Peace in a World of Conflict: What You Say Next Will Change Your World

Speak Peace is filled with inspiring stories, lessons and ideas drawn from over 40 years of mediating conflicts and healing relationships in some of the most war torn, impoverished, and violent corners of the world.

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Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects

Coming Back to Life has helped people transform denial, despair and grief in the face of the social and ecological challenges of our time.

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Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World

Many of us feel called to respond to the ecological destruction of our planet, yet we feel overwhelmed, immobilized, and unable to deal realistically with the threats to life on Earth.

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Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in without Going Crazy

The challenges we face can be difficult even to think about. Climate change, the depletion of oil, economic upheaval, and mass extinction together create a planetary emergency of overwhelming proportions.

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Savage Grace: Living Resiliently in the Dark Night of the Globe

In the boldest and most daring book either author has ever written, Andrew Harvey and Carolyn Baker confront us with the life and death reality of the global crisis and the fact that four crucial strategies must be employed not only to survive the dark night, but to inhabit our bodies and our lives...

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A Wild Love for the World: Joanna Macy and the Work of Our Time

A leading figure in Buddhist-informed social and ecological activism since the 1980s, Joanna Macy's life work is rooted in a profound study of the parallels between Buddhist and scientific worldviews.

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The New Possible: Visions of Our World beyond Crisis

The year 2020 upended every aspect of our lives.

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Pass it On: Five Stories that Can Change the World

Eco-philosopher and best-selling author Joanna Macy, Ph.D., shares five stories from her more than thirty years of studying and practicing Buddhism and deep ecology.

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