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"Regeneration is a response to the urgency of the climate crisis, a what-to-do manual for all levels of society, from individuals to national governments and everything and everyone in between. This four-color illustrated work describes a system of interlocking initiatives that aim to stem the climate crisis in one generation"--

This book presents an accessible and easy-to-follow argument that the climate crisis is a side effect of inequality and injustice, and demonstrates how strategies such as large-scale social investment will prove far more effective in reducing greenhouse gas pollution than cap-and-trade or other forms of free-market environmentalism

This article discusses three problems that need to be tackled when the climate crisis becomes 'a sustainability issue' to be taught in schools. The article highlights, first, how knowledge concerning sustainability in schools risks being reduced and made into knowledge about 'things'. Secondly, it also discusses how students in such a context risk being treated as instruments for ways of being in the world, rather than being subjects with ethical and political concerns for the world in which they live 'here and now'. Thirdly, as we explore through some empirical examples, such reduction and instrumentalism objectifies both students and nature, which makes an adequate response to the crises obsolete. As an alternative, the article develops a notion of grievability and its importance for adequately responding to all living beings within a project of sustainability. To this end, it develops suggestions for a transactive teaching approach in a time of climate crisis.

Several strands of green thinking maintain that capitalism is incapable of a sustainable relationship with non-human nature because, as an economic system, capitalism has a growth imperative while the earth is finite. All this may be true. Capitalism, a system in which privately owned firms must continuously out-produce and out-sell their competitors, may be incapable of accommodating itself to the limits of the natural world. However, that is not the same question as whether capitalism can solve the more immediate climate crisis. Adapted from the source document.

The thirty years crisis -- Ecomodernism and its critics -- Assessing the technological challenge -- The politics of low-carbon innovation -- Human flourishing amid climate harms -- Global social democracy and geoengineering justice.

Intro -- Contents -- Dedicated -- Introduction, by Jame Schaefer -- Biblically Inspired Perspectives -- 1 Sophia Wisdom & Climate Change, by Suzanne Franck, C.S.J. -- 2 Creation & Covenant in the Theology of the Apostle Paul, by Annemarie S. Kidder -- 3 An Ecological Hermeneutic of Col 1:15-20: A Panentheistic Proposal, by Vincent A. Pizzuto -- Perspectives Inspired by Medieval theologians -- 4 Bonaventure's Franciscan Christology: A Resource for Eco-Conversion toward Halting Human-forced Global Change, by Dawn M. Nothwehr, O.S.F. -- 5 Thomas Aquinas, the Cosmic Common Good, & Climate Change, by Daniel P. Scheid -- 6 On Knowing Oneself in an Age of Ecological Concern, by William C. French -- 7 Catholic Theology, International Law, & the Global Climate Crisis, by William P. George -- Perspectives Inspired by 20th-Century Theologians -- 8 A Teilhardian Value-Supportive World View, by Robert Faricy, S.J. -- 9 Teilhard & the Limits to Growth: The Evolutionary Dynamic toward "Ultra-Humanity," by Richard W. Kropf -- 10 Climate Change & the Theology of Karl Rahner: A Hermeneutical Dialogue, by Denis Edwards -- 11 Changing Our Minds: Bernard Lonergan & Climate Change, by Richard M. Liddy -- 12 Hans Urs von Balthasar & Deep Ecology: Towards a Doxological Ecology, by Anthony C. Sciglitano -- 13 Thomas Berry as the Groundwork for a Dark Green Catholic Theology, by Peter Ellard -- Feminist Perspectives -- 14 Rushing Winds & Rising Waters: Seeking the Presence of God in a Radically Changing World, by Colleen Mary Carpenter -- 15 Trees, "Living Symbols of Peace & Hope: "Wangari Maathai & Ecofeminist Theology, by Anne M. Clifford, C.S.J. -- Catholic Social Teaching Perspectives -- 16 "With Generous Courage": Promise & Poignance in the Legacies of Pope John Paul II & Pope Benedict XVI, by Connie Lasher & Charles M. Murphy.

The climate crisis is proving to be antithetical to the neoliberal machines that define current forms of social organization. Reducing fossil fuel consumption, the largest contributor to climate change, requires collaborative efforts. These efforts must take into consideration the foundational role of fossil fuels in modern economies. Yet, renewables lack many of the characteristics that have made fossil fuels so desirable in production processes, limiting their ability to expropriate human labor. At the same time, climate catastrophes, such as wildfires and hurricanes, disrupt the infrastructural momentum of fossil fuel economies, destabilizing the mechanisms of capital accumulation that derive from the production and consumption of these fuels. All of these problems have come to a head in the recent crises in Chile and California.

With the climate crisis and its repercussions becoming more and more tangible, games are increasingly participating in the production, circulation, and interrogation of environmental assumptions, using both explicit and implicit ways of framing the crisis. Whether they are providing new spaces to imagine and practice alternative forms of living, or reproducing ecomodernist fantasies, games as well as player cultures are increasingly tuned in to the most pressing environmental concerns. This book brings together chapters by a diverse group of established and emerging authors to develop a growing body of scholarship that explores the shape, impact, and cultural context of ecogames. The book comprises four thematic sections, Today's Challenges: Games for Change, Future Worlds: New Imaginaries, The Nonhuman Turn, and Critical Metagaming Practices. Each section explores different aspects of ecocritical engagement in and through games. As a result, the book's comprehensive scope covers a variety of angles, methodologies, and case studies, significantly expanding the field of green media studies

"This book connects climate research to a deep, futures-informed analysis of academia. It starts with a small focus, a given campus, then gradually expands its view to the level of how academia as a whole interacts with civilization's broadest movements. Each chapter is powered by real world examples and current research"--