Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming

By: Jim Hoggan
Greystone Books, 2009

This book reveals the campaign to discredit scientists, confuse journalists, and deny climate change. Pr expert James Hoggan and investigative journalist Richard Littlemore have compiled a readable, accessible guidebook that begins with leaked memos from the coal industry, the oil industry and the tobacco-sponsored lie-about-science industry. The authors expose the plans to "debunk" global warming; they track the execution of those plans; and they illuminate the results - confusion, inaction, and an epidemic of public mistrust.

Carbon Shift: How the Twin Crises of Oil Depletion and Climate Change Will Define the Future

By: Thomas Homer Dixon
Random House, 2009

The twin crises of climate change and peaking oil production are converging on us. Thomas Homer-Dixon argues that the two problems are really one: a carbon problem. We depend on carbon energy to fuel our complex economies and societies, and at the same time this very carbon is fatally contaminating our atmosphere. To solve one of these problems will require solving the other at the same time. In other words, we still have a chance to tackle two monumental challenges with one innovative solution: clean, low-carbon energy.

Carbon Shift brings together six of Canada's world-class experts to explore the question of where we stand now, and where we might be headed. It explores the economics, the geology, the politics, and the science of the predicament we find ourselves in. And it gives each expert the chance to address what they think are the most important facets of the complex problem before us.

Why your World is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller

By: Jeff Rubin
Random House, 2009

According to economist Jeff Rubin, there will be no energy bailout among other industry bailouts. For generations we have built wealth by burning more and more oil. Our cars, our homes, our whole world has been getting bigger in the cheap-oil era. Now it is about to get smaller.

Rubin posits that the auto industry will never recover from this oil-induced recession, but other manufacturers will be opening up mothballed factories. Distance will soon cost money, and so will burning carbon - both will bring long-lost jobs back home. We may not see the kind of economic growth that globalization has brought, but local economies will be revitalized, as will our cities and neighborhoods.

The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change

By: Tim Flannery
HarperCollins Canada, 2007

Tim Flannery makes the urgent issue of climate change completely accessible. He offers a historical account of climate change over millions of years to help us understand that by burning fossil fuels we are increasing the levels of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere, causing our planet to become warmer. All nations will be affected, and the new climate we are creating threatens the future of our civilization. Tim Flannery shows how we can all help to address these problems.

The Big Picture: Reflections on Science, Humanity, and a Quickly Changing Planet

By: Dr. David Suzuki and Dave Robert Taylor
David Suzuki Foundation and Greystone Books, 2009

David Suzuki and co-author Dave Robert Taylor examine current issues facing the natural world such as suburban sprawl, sustainable transportation, food shortages, biodiversity, technology, and public policy. The two provide solid, science-based solutions to the environmental challenges of the 21st century.

David Suzuki's Green Guide

By: Dr. David Suzuki and David R. Boyd
David Suzuki Foundation and Greystone Books, 2008

Everyone knows that human actions affect our natural environment. This guide outlines how people can consume fewer resources and become part of the solution as stewards of the planet. This book recommends actions for individuals to be more green in the homes where we live, the way we travel, the food we eat, and the things we buy. It also describes how all of us can ensure that governments support sustainable lifestyles.

The Hot Topic: What We Can Do About Global Warming

By: Sir David King, Gabrielle Walker
David Suzuki Foundation and Greystone Books, 2008

Last year, awareness about global warming reached a tipping point. Now one of the most dynamic writers and one of the most respected scientists in the field of climate change offer the first concise guide to both the problems and the solutions. Guiding us past a blizzard of information and misinformation, Gabrielle Walker and Sir David King explain the science of warming, the most cutting-edge technological solutions from small to large, and the national and international politics that will affect our efforts.

Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning

By: George Monbiot
Doubleday Canada, 2007

In his book, Monbiot offers an ambitious program to cut our carbon dioxide emissions to the point where the environmental scales start tipping away from catastrophe. As solutions, he starts with the home and finds ways for us to build, and live, so much better that we can cut emissions at home by the required 90%. He then looks at the source of our electricity and transportation, and offers solutions to trim our consumption. Monbiot argues there is no time to waste. As he has said himself, "we are the last generation that can make this happen, and this is the last possible moment at which we can make it happen."

Good News for a Change: How Everyday People Are Helping the Planet

By: Holly Dressel, Dr. David Suzuki
David Suzuki Foundation and Greystone Books, 2003

Suzuki and Dressel offer a heaping dose of good news in this book by telling the stories of thousands of individuals, groups and businesses are already changing their ways and making a positive impact on the environment and their communities. The authors also reveal hundreds of working solutions that can help all of us to imagine and achieve a new and happier future. There is a spontaneous, global quest for ways to survive sustainably that is opening up a very different planetary future from the one based on endless economic and industrial demands. And, say Suzuki and Dressel, many of the technologies we need to realize our goals—to save species, to conserve soil, to right social wrongs—are already within our grasp.

The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature, Updated and Expanded

By: Dr. David Suzuki
Contributions by: Adrienne Mason, Amanda McConnell
David Suzuki Foundation and Greystone Books, 2002, 2007

In this new and extensively revised and amplified edition of his bestselling book, David Suzuki reflects on these changes and examines what they mean for our place in the world. His basic message remains the same: We are creatures of the Earth, utterly dependent on its elements, which are not just external factors, but incorporated into our very essence.

Greenhouse:The 200-year Story of Global Warming

By Gale E. Christianson
David Suzuki Foundation and Greystone Books, 1999

Dr. Suzuki calls this a “...magnificent book that elucidates the roots of our modern ecological quandary. Human beings are capable of heroic responses to immediate crises but require insight and understanding to act on slow motion catastrophes like global warming. This book is a unique and powerful contribution to that understanding.”