UNM LEAF
UNM Leaders for Environmental Action and Foresight
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Books
 Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants - Robin Wall Kimmerer |  The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save our Earth - The Red Nation |  Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in without Going Crazy - Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone |
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 Diet for a Small Planet - Frances Moore Lappe |  Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Nonhuman World - Emma Marris |  A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal - Kate Aronoff, Alyssa Battistoni, Daniel Aldana Cohen, and Thea Riofrancos |
 All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis - Edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katherine K. Wilkinson |  Women Pioneers for the Environment - Mary Joy Breton |  How to Give Up Plastic: A Guide to Changing the World, One Plastic Bottle at a Time - Will McCallum |
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Articles & podcasts
By Ed Yong
Every creature lives within its own sensory bubble, but only humans have the capacity to appreciate the experiences of other species. What we’ve learned is astounding.
From the Ezra Klein Show
A conversation about what meat really costs for humans, animals, and the environment and how that perspective could help us build a healthier relationship to the animals we eat and the world we inhabit.
By Julia Rosen
Preserving the world’s great expanses of grass could be essential to combatting climate change.
From CNN
To understand how best to make use of these calculators when planning our trips, we first need to understand how they work and which sites we can trust.
From Live Kindly
A new study from Oxford University sheds some light on a highly effective (and simple) way for you to personally combat climate change.
From A Matter of Degrees
Despite being roughly half the people on the planet, women rarely have equal representation in critical climate decision-making spaces. This isn’t just bad for women. It’s bad for everyone.
From A Matter of Degrees
The history, present, and future of the long and winding energy transition in the Navajo Nation.
By Sandra Steingraber
Half art piece and half scientific study, this article is "a study of resilience in does and other female creatures."
From ShortWave
For many, recycling feels like a tangible way to personally combat climate change and to positively affect the environment. Investigative journalist Laura Sullivan complicates this narrative so we can all understand the results of our well-intentioned actions.
From Africa Daily
Host Alan Kasujja speaks to concerned citizens across the continent about the realities of climate change in Africa
