Being the Change

Peter Kalmus

Description

• National drive-time radio tour
• Featured in author's column at Yes! Magazine
• Excerpts offered to Utne Reader, Spirituality and Health, On Earth, Green America
• Advertising in BtheChange magazine
• Academic mailing to environment and social change courses
• Promotion targeting climate change action groups and not-for-profits
• Galley available on Edelweiss
• Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the author's speaking engagements
• Promotion via New Society Publishers social media platforms.

• The author holds a Ph.D in physics from Columbia and is a climate scientist at NASA
• The author and his family reduced their climate impact to under a tenth of the US average while living a normal suburban existence, becoming happier in the process.
• Being the Change is a thought-provoking synthesis of cutting edge science, spiritual awareness, and detailed, practical knowledge.
• THE NYT bestseller, This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein touches on similar points as Being the Change but Klein fails to offer practical and empowering solutions to global warming
• The author aims to show that burning fossil fuels should be seen as socially unacceptable.
• The author suggests that the biggest threat to our ability to curb climate change is not overpopulation or corporatocracy but our mindsets

Preface

Part I: Predicament
1. Waking Up
2. Beyond Green
3. Global Warming: The Science
4. Global Warming: The Outlook
5. Growth Always Ends
6. Our Mindset

Part II: A Mammal in the Biosphere
7. Trailheads into the Wilderness
8. Like to Bike
9. Leaving Fossil Fuel
10. Slow Travel
11. Meditation, a Foundation of Change
12. Reconnecting with Mother Earth
13. Opting Out of a Broken System
14. Collective Action
15. Community
16. Love

Notes
Index
About the Author
About New Society Publishers

Sujets

• Science
• Body
• Family
• Father
• Journey
• Change the World
• Mind
• Climate change
• Fossil fuel
• Self-help
• Consumerism
• Sustainable living
• Body (disambiguation)
• Global warming
• List of climate scientists
• HOWTO

Informations

• Publié par: New Society Publishers
• Date de parution: 01 janvier 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 8
• EAN13: 9781897408445
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1381 Mo

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