Resources

Resources For You at Home

• QuitCarbon: QuitCarbon provides free expert guidance to upgrade your home to clean, electric appliances for heating and cooking -- making your home safer & more comfortable while fighting climate change. QuitCarbon is supported by the US Department of Energy and local government initiatives.

• Calculating Your Footprint on Earth:

  • Think You’re Making Good Climate Choices? Take This Mini-Quiz

  • What is a carbon footprint? | Carbon Footprint Calculator 

  • Calculator for Households & Individuals 

• En-ROADS Climate Solutions Simulator: Interactive graphs to see how different solutions would impact global warming

Climate News

• Bloomberg Green

• Canary Media

• Business for Social Responsibility (BSR)

• Clean Edge, Inc.

• Union of Concerned Scientists

• NYT Newsletter - Climate Forward 

• Environment California

• Cal Matters - Environment 

• Grist, Treehugger, Inside Climate News

• Our Changing Climate YouTube Channel

Think Tanks & Policy Primers

• IPCC

• Climate Policy Initiative

• World Resources Institute

• Center for Climate and Energy Solutions

• Climate XChange

• Brookings Institute  

Podcasts

• Climate One

• My Climate Journey

• The Climate Pod

• The Energy Gang  

• Climate Rising

• Degrees Podcast: Real Talk About Planet-Saving Careers

Careers in Climate

College Major Research

• “Turning Green Degrees Into Sustainable Careers”: https://www.affordablecollegesonline.org/college-resource-center/green-degrees/ 

• Look at the list of majors the colleges you are interested in have. More and more colleges are finding value in sustainability-related majors.

Green Jobs Research and Boards

• Job Boards:

• Climatebase 

• Work on Climate 

• Green Jobs Network

• Green Jobs Board

• Climate Corps

• Green Job Search

• NCRA

• USA Jobs

• Green Jobs and Learning Opportunities - Berkeley Student Environmental Resource Center

• Careers - Alliance for Climate Education

• Resources on growing sustainable careers:

• Current Fastest Growing Careers

Look into a career in climate at a public agency, including local, state, and federal agencies, and educational institutions! More private companies are also offering sustainability & climate-focsued jobs.

Consequences on the Planet

Ecological Damage

• Our Planet: Award-winning: Netflix Documentary https://www.ourplanet.com/ 

• Watch on all episodes on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Netflix/search?query=our%20planet 

Coral bleaching 

• Chasing Corals: Netflix Documentary  Chasing Coral | FULL FEATURE | Netflix 

Deforestation

• Tree Mortality can Cause Hazardous Conditions - Yosemite National Park 

• National Geographic - How much are beetles to blame for 2020 fires?

"Cancer Cities": the dark side of pollution

• Inside China's 'cancer villages' | World news 

• Photographs of China's 'Cancer Villages' 

Dive deeper into many climate change-related science topics

• State of Green providing state-of-the-art solutions, as told through informative white papers

• Stockholm Resilience Center

Environmental Racism

• Environmental Racism is the New Jim Crow

• EPA Report with Environmental Racism Statistics

• Resources about All Topics surrounding Environmental Racism

• TED Talk - Van Jones, Environmental Justice

Broad Solutions

What Schools Can Do to Address Climate Change: https://coolcalifornia.arb.ca.gov/schools

Climate Literacy/Resources for schools through Ten Strands

Community Choice Energy Agencies: 

• CalCCA (California): Home - CalCCA

• Silicon Valley Clean Energy (Santa Clara County): Home - SVCE

• San Jose Clean Energy (San Jose City): San Jose Clean Energy

• Peninsula Clean Energy (San Mateo County): Peninsula Clean Energy 

• Silicon Valley Power (Santa Clara): Home - SVP

• Palo Alto Utilities (Palo Alto): Palo Alto Utilities

• CleanPower SF (San Francisco): CleanPower SF

• Sonoma Clean Power (Sonoma): Home - SCP

• East Bay Clean Energy (East Bay): Home - EBCE

San Jose Climate Smart: Climate Smart San Jose 

Advocacy Groups

Make sure to look for (or create!) your school’s environmental clubs or local climate action organizations. 

Leading environmental organizations with extensive information on climate solutions, policy and more: 

• Project Drawdown

• The Climate Reality Project

• Sierra Club California

• The Climate Center

• Electrify America 

Book & Documentary Recommendations

• All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Katharine K. Wilkinson

• The Great Pivot by Justine Burt

• Kiss the Ground (regenerative agriculture): Netflix Documentary

• The Intersectional Environmentalist by Leah Thomas

• The Nature Fix by Florence Williams

• The Hope - documentary about Jane Goodall’s hope and message for the world

• Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science by Dr. Jessica Hernandez