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3 weeks ago | 
yaleclimateconnections.org | Michael Svoboda
From the seeds planted by the first Earth Day celebrated over 50 years ago, an astonishing variety of environmental shoots have sprouted and spread. As a result, an eclectic mix of titles is required to celebrate Earth Month in 2025. This month’s bookshelf offers four different but related takes on the environmental holiday. The first take updates readers on the top priorities of the first Earth Day: clean air, clean water, and clean, as in litter-free, land.
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1 month ago | 
yaleclimateconnections.org | Michael Svoboda
Environmental journalist Mike Tidwell had traveled the world, witnessing the deadly impacts of a changing climate. Then he saw that climate change was threatening the life he had made for himself and his family in an idyllic town on the District of Columbia’s northeast border.
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2 months ago | 
yaleclimateconnections.org | Michael Svoboda
The Yale Climate Connections bookshelf for March, also known as Women’s History Month, began to take shape when I saw the announcement for “Mother Creature Kin: What We Learn from Nature’s Mothers in a Time of Unraveling” by Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder. The early April release, I realized, would be the sixth title published on motherhood and climate change in the last two years.
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2 months ago | 
corporateknights.com | Michael Svoboda
Yale Climate Connections’ bookshelf for February begins with a title that beautifully captures the mission of climate activism during Black History Month. “People the Planet Needs Now” tells the stories of 25 scientists and activists working to protect and support their Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities in a changing climate.
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2 months ago | 
yaleclimateconnections.org | Michael Svoboda
Yale Climate Connections’ bookshelf for February begins with a title that beautifully captures the mission of climate activism during Black History Month. “People the Planet Needs Now” tells the stories of 25 scientists and activists working to protect and support their Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities in a changing climate.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
yaleclimateconnections.org | Michael Svoboda
Even in death, former President Jimmy Carter added to his legacy of public service. His example fortified us for the challenge of standing up for climate action in the face of Trump’s swift moves to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Agreement, again. Through the many tellings of his life story, as he lay in state in Plains, Atlanta, and Washington, D.C., Americans relearned two important lessons from Jimmy Carter.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
yaleclimateconnections.org | Michael Svoboda
Trump 2.0, the second presidential administration headed by Donald Trump, could pose unprecedented challenges not just for climate action but also for social justice and democratic governance. Successfully meeting these challenges will require the cultivation of distinctly different skills and practices – and critically reviewing what we think we know. Not unlike meeting the challenges of a changing climate.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
yaleclimateconnections.org | Michael Svoboda
All of the work presented in the 12 books and reports assembled here was completed before Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election. In other words, the problems addressed by these studies predate Trump 2.0. In this fact one might see a silver lining in the dark clouds on the horizon: A second Trump administration could force hard looks and, possibly, hard choices on pressing problems we’ve repeatedly put off. These books are aimed at academics and climate professionals.
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
yaleclimateconnections.org | Michael Svoboda
What connects an iconic 19th-century painter with a contemporary photographer? A shared inspiration: nature’s beauty – and its vulnerability to human activity. Two new books feature artists whose work, done centuries apart, helps demonstrate the profound impacts of humans on the environment. In “Van Gogh and the End of Nature,” author Michael Lobel traces evidence of environmental destruction across the acclaimed painter’s body of work.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
yaleclimateconnections.org | Michael Svoboda
This year, the holidays (Chanukah, Christmas, Kwanza, and New Year) fall between a sobering election, a disappointing climate conference, and an ominous inauguration. To get a recipient’s attention amid these worrying times, a gift book must offer information, perspective, hope, or distraction. A bit of dazzle might help, too.
