Book Category: Climate Change and Clean Energy
John Slade weaves 20 years of international research on the twin themes of Climate Change and Clean Energy into vibrant novels. The characters, young people from around the world, will soon inherit the great challenges of a changing planet. They rise to meet these challenges with courage, intelligence, and hope.
The chapters are short, the writing is crystal clear. Slade’s books encourage readers to stretch their minds around the entire world, and to the end of the century. Slade also offers a book of poems, and a book of short essays. Both invite readers to address the Big Questions. Shall we continue taking baby steps toward a global catastrophe, or long bold strides into the Renaissance of the 21st century?
Slade’s books are unique and powerful. Spend one hour on a Sunday evening with “Invitation to a Renaissance,” and you will have launched on an extraordinary journey.
The Cathedrals of the 21st Century
An unprecedented novel which takes us from “the world as it is”—battered by the climate crisis, devastated by unrelenting war—to “the world as it could be”—green and peaceful, as the world was meant to be.
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A Journey Out of Darkness
Sometimes we need someone to step into our lives, as a guide who takes us on a journey. With courage, with hard work, and with a heart that gradually opens, we become a better person in a better world.
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We the People
The Founding Fathers, and their wives, return to America today and are stunned by the shabby state of the nation which they had created with such care. Can their experiment in democracy be salvaged?
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The Climate Classroom, Volume I: The Climate Crisis
The Climate Classroom asks students to reach with their minds around the entire planet… and to reach with their minds to the end of the 21st Century, at least. Volume I explores the complex problems which students how inherit.
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The Climate Classroom: Volume II: The Clean Energy Renaissance
The Climate Classroom asks students to reach with their minds around the entire planet… and to reach with their minds to the end of the 21st Century, at least. Volume II explores solutions which are rapidly developing around the world.
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Rise Up and Roar
The peoples of the world are standing now at two major tipping points. If the Arctic tipping point comes before the human tipping point, then we will be too late. And we are very, very close to too late, now.
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Leif the Believer
A viking who sailed to America with Leif Eriksson in the year 1000 A.D. returns to the world today. He finds much that is good, but he is stunned by the twin evils of global warming and modern warfare. In this unusual and powerful story, Leif the Believer changes the course of history.
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Invitation to a Renaissance
Invitation to a Renaissance, a collection of short essays, is essential to every Environmental Studies program, because it provides the…
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Melting at One End, Bleeding at the Other
This unique and powerful novel brings our contemporary world into the classroom. It is not Science Fiction Fantasy, and it…
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Climate Change and the Oceans
Why I wrote this book: How do we tap the enormous energy waiting to spring to life? As a teacher…
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