Eco-anxiety Response
Empowerment Through Education
Eco-anxiety can feel isolating, overwhelming, and hopeless. Utilizing education for yourself, your children, and your loved ones can reduce feelings of helplessness and loneliness. We have curated a list of books for all ages to help you and the people around you cope with eco-anxiety.
Children & Teens
Our Cleaner, Greener Planet
Lindsey Coker Harris
Perfect for ages 4-8, this book has lessons to help children become more environmentally conscious.
How to Manage Your Eco-Anxiety
Anouchka Grose & Lauriane Bohémier
This fantastic workbook gives kids ages 12-16 tools to manage their eco-anxiety while encouraging reflection, self-care, and social-emotional learning.
A Guide to Eco-Anxiety: How to Protect the Planet and Your Mental Health
Anouchka Grose
Written by a psychoanalyst, this book offers emotional tools and strategies to ease anxiety associated with climate change and environmental stressors.
Rewild the World at Bedtime: Hopeful Stories from Mother Nature
Emily Hawkins and Ella Beech
Soothe little ones with 20 calming stories about wildlife and learn about hopeful rewilding projects that aim to create a brighter future for all.
Haven Jacobs Saves the Planet
Barbara Dee
This is a middle-grade novel about a young girl who unites her local community to save a local river by channeling her anxiety about climate change.
Something Happened to our Planet: Kids Tackle the Climate Crisis
Marianne Celano PhD, Marietta Collins PhD, and Bhagya Madanasinghe
This book aims to help parents begin to discuss challenging topics such as climate change with their children.
Harold the Iceberg Melts Down
Lisa Wyzlic and Rebecca Syracuse
This book aims to show young readers the importance of self-care and friendship when one is worried about their planet's future.
Happy Stories for Nature Lovers
Perfect for young readers who are interested in stories about the resiliency of our planet. We can help nature heal!
Butterfly Wings: A Hopeful Story About Climate Anxiety
This book acts as a social-emotional learning tool for for parents and teachers to talk about anxiety related to climate change. It also provides a safe space for children to process their feelings about climate change.
Young Adults & Adults
Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Anxiety
Britt Way
This thought-provoking novel gives inspiration and encourages the reader to find meaning and inspiration by challenging the underlying meaning of eco-anxiety.
The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World
Christine Rosen
Rosen examines how the trends in today's world threaten what it means to be human. This novel identifies what we need to recover our humanity.
Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet
Sarah Jaquette Ray
Combining insights from psychology, sociology, social movements, mindfulness, and the environmental humanities, Ray explains why and how we need to let go of eco-guilt, resist burnout, and cultivate resilience while advocating for climate justice.
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
Edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Katharine K. WIlkinson
A collection of stories, poetry, and art, All We Can Save examines the connection between environmental advocacy and feminism. This national best-seller combines the voices of climate change activists around the globe to instill hope in it's readers.
​Climate Optimism: Celebrating Systemic Change Around the World
Zahra Biabani
This uplifting novel changes how we think about climate change highlights solutions for climate change and encourages readers to stay optimistic.
Emotional Resiliency in the Era of Climate Change: A Clinician's Guide
Leslie Davenport
This novel is perfect for climate-aware therapists or clinicians who want to support their clients' feelings of eco-anxiety. Davenport presents comprehensive theories, strategies, and resources for addressing key clinical themes specific to the psychological impact of climate change.
Self-care for Eco-Anxiety: 52 Weekly Practices for Positive, Personal Change Through the Power of Nature
Rachael Cohen
This book includes 52 self-care practices that benefit people and the planet.
The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism
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