Eco-Anxiety
Discover Your Hidden Power to Help Save the Planet
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
Your non-overwhelming, down-to-earth guide for daily climate action…personalized to your unique strengths.
The climate crisis is the biggest challenge of our time. But the urgency of a warming world creates anxiety and can sometimes cause us to throw our hands in the air and think, How can I possibly make a difference?
Heather White—known as "the Brené Brown of the environmental movement"—will show you how to contribute to the green lifestyle movement through self-discovery and joy. Your personality, interests, and strengths give you a unique role to play in the climate movement. Are you the Influencer? the Beacon? the Spark? the Sage? Once you identify your Service Superpower Profile, it's time to dive into the action and track your progress.
One Green Thing is this generation's definitive climate action handbook. In it you'll:
Learn your unique strengths of climate service and how to focus those strengths into specific actions.Log the mental health benefits and measure your progress.Reflect on your journey and your "why" for taking action with exercises and journal prompts.Commit to being an awesome ancestor for future loved ones as you inspire your family, friends, and community to work toward a regenerative, sustainable world.
Embark on the journey and find your ONE GREEN THING—your personal action that will contribute to climate healing, ease your eco-anxiety, and create a sense of hope—without becoming overwhelmed.
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"The climate emergency is the biggest challenge of our time, and we all have a unique role to play. My mission is to help you find yours," writes White, founder of the OneGreenThing nonprofit, in her incisive debut. The author lays most of the blame for climate change on large corporations, but nonetheless notes that individual actions can create real and beneficial change. Her plan for doing so consists of "laws of change"—these include the Law of Simplicity & Consistency, which holds that simple daily habit changes are "more likely to stick," and the Law of Amplification, which explains that "sharing experiences makes change reverberate." She then lays out "service superpowers," which take into account one's strengths, and suggests actions for various personality types: there's the "adventurer," for example, who can go fishing with friends, as well as lobby Congress, and "the sage," who can encourage their faith community to install solar panels. It's a fun conceit, and each chapter features a summary of takeaways and journal prompts; the bite-sized profiles of "eco-heroes" sprinkled through, including those of Mustafa Santiago Ali, Kristal Ambrose, and Gigi Lee Chang, are a nice touch. Readers just starting to think about their role in mitigating climate change should take a look.