Books | John Slade

We the People

An anthology of essays, stories, poems & pictures, a unique book which puts the spotlight on the students, as we piece together a deeply positive Big Picture of their world today and of their world in a healthy, prosperous & peaceful future.

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Adirondack Green

The first volume of a trilogy, this book tells the story of a small American town which decides, after much debate, to put a wind turbine on top of the local ski mountain.

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Global Warming and War

In the second volume of the Adirondack Green Trilogy, the people of a small American town respond to the dying of their lakes, and the death of one of their sons in Iraq.

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Architects of Peace

The third volume of the Adirondack Green Trilogy, this is the story of thirty-two high school seniors who want to do something more than pass their final exams and graduate in June.

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A Letter to the First Global Generation in Human History

The young people of the world are ready to build the Renaissance of the 21st Century, if we would only let them.

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Let’s Talk About Peace

Imagine waking up full of excitement for the day ahead. The Climate Crisis is still real, but at least you are finally doing something about it.

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Cover, A Letter, English, from Helena, 7 mars, 2018

A Letter to the Young People of the World

If we clear away the unrelenting noise, we can discover that we stand together before one of the most important decisions that people have ever faced on their long human journey.

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The New St. Petersburg

From Leningrad to St. Petersburg, from the Soviet Union to Russia, during the cold, dark, dangerous depths of the Russian…

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The New Saint Petersburg: Portraits from the First Five Years, 1991-1996

Russians are great engineers. We need to work together, around the planet, so that together we can build a clean energy Renaissance in the 21st century.

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Rocking the Cradle of Civilization

Prairie Wind is fiercely determined, as a student, as a bride, as a young mother, to restore the health of Mother Earth, and to build a Global Generation unprecedented in human history. She hopes that you will join her. Because she is going to win.

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Springboard: 23 Passages from Rocking the Cradle of Civilization

A companion book to the novel “Rocking the Cradle of Civilization.” May these 23 passages serve as a springboard for the young people today who confront the enormous challenges of the 21st Century.

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On a Starry Night: 56 Poems Waiting to Go for a Walk

Early poems, early yearnings. These poems about loneliness, about nature, about war, begin during high school, and lead through the years…

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The World Was Made For Love

The 85 poems in this collection enable you to reach with your thoughts into your own future. They help you to understand how we together can build a better future, around the entire planet.

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What Kind of a World Do You Want to Live In?

This coloring book, absolutely free, is perfect for schools, birthday parties, and picnics in the sunshine.

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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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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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