Climate Champions
15 Women Fighting for Your Future
Chicago : Chicago Review Press, [2023]
Format: Book
Description: 209 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Sarah reached out to women around the world who are tirelessly working to repair our climate. They are scientists, policymakers, journalists, lawyers, activists, professors, researchers, and organizers. Their lives are absorbed in seeking solutions. Here they walk readers through the steps to change. They show us what we can-- and must-- do for our future. Their advice? Do the work. Join an organization. Ask for help. And most important, get into nature. -- adapted from Introduction.
Series: Women of power (Chicago, Ill.) ; 10.
Contents:
Introduction -- Challenge the system. Molly Kawahata: keep on climbing ; Amy Westervelt: calling out the system one podcast at a time ; Wanjiku "Wawa" Getheru: black girl environmentalist ; Trimita Chakma: rising up in the global south ; Tori Tsui: bad activist -- Hold fast to science. Katharine Hayhoe: the science mom who's saving us ; Jacquelyn Gill: lost in the ice age ; Brigitte Baptiste: queering ecology ; Jeanette David: just keep swimming ; Nikki Roach: a day in the life of a conservation biologist -- Take a stand for justice. Amy Cardinal Christianson: burning good fires ; Anna Jane Joyner: flipping the script on climate ; Jennifer Uchendu: sustainability vibes ; Tessa Khan: keep it in the ground ; Anushka Sai Braskar: no justice, no peace.
Subjects:
Women environmentalists -- Juvenile literature.
Climatic changes -- Juvenile literature.
Environmental protection -- Juvenile literature.
Women environmentalists.
Climatic changes.
Environmental protection.
Women environmentalists -- Juvenile literature.
Climatic changes -- Juvenile literature.
Environmental protection -- Juvenile literature.
Women environmentalists.
Climatic changes.
Environmental protection.
ISBN:
9781641607001
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
T SCIENCE Sar | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Teen Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographic references and notes.