COOL
Women Leaders Reversing Global Warming
by Paola Gianturco; Avery Sangster
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Pub Date Sep 06 2022 | Archive Date Sep 12 2022
Girl Friday Productions | powerHouse Books
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Clover Moore, Lord Mayor of Sydney, Australia, who's vowed to reduce city government emissions by 70% by 2030. Already, she's made Sydney the first Australian city to be declared carbon neutral.
Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Inuit activist, who sees her indigenous people as climate change sentinels for the world, and levers their observations, experience, and knowledge of the Arctic to benefit people everywhere.
Fifteen thousand Sri Lankan women who raise and plant "miracle trees," mangroves, which sequester five times more carbon dioxide than tropical trees in the Amazon Rain Forest.
Nelleke van der Puil, Vice President of Materials at LEGO, who is developing plastic made with plants instead of oil, which is transforming her company's products.
Women are especially effective leaders when it comes to combating global warming. Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac, architects of the 2015 Paris Agreement, report that “Nations with greater female representation in positions of power have smaller climate footprints. Companies with women on their executive boards are more likely to invest in renewable energy and develop products that help solve the climate crisis. Women legislators vote for environmental protections almost twice as frequently as men, and women who lead investment firms are twice as likely to make investment decisions based on how companies treat their employees and the environment.”
For this book, Paola Gianturco and her 12-year-old granddaughter and co-author, Avery Sangster, interviewed and photographed heads of grassroots organizations, activists, politicians, corporate executives, scholars, and presidents of nonprofits in the United States, United Kingdom, Sweden, Denmark, Tanzania, Australia, Sri Lanka, India, Canada and Hong Kong. All of them are using intelligence, creativity, and courage.
COOL: Women Leaders Reversing Global Warming tells their important, inspiring stories in their own words and suggests action steps so you can join them on this existential journey.
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Advance Praise
“This remarkable, beautiful book documents the resilience, creativity, and tenacity of women-led initiatives that protect the planet—and people—in ways that ensure survival and solidarity.”—Kavita N. Ramdas, feminist activist
“COOL documents the contributions of women saving the planet. Diverse women are the most powerful force on Earth to create a better future and this book tells their compelling stories with a beauty that gives hope."—Dr. Jackie Bouvier Copeland, founder of The WISE Fund (Women Invested to Save Earth)
“COOL highlights new perspectives coupled with the energy and wisdom of female leaders. The book’s action orientation distinguishes it from other climate books. Fresh perspectives and new vantage points make COOL a page turner.”—Cynthia Eisenberg, World Wildlife Fund's Northern Great Plains Advisory Committee
“It is COOL to see more stories about women taking center stage to combat climate change. We owe it to the determination and commitment of women and girls like Paola and Avery who document the positive impact women contribute.”—Melati Wisjen, founder of Bye Bye Plastic Bags and YOUTHTOPIA
“What a timely and welcome book! The women and girls portrayed in COOL are making a difference combating climate change and we all need to learn about and from them. Once again Paola Gianturco has beautifully surveyed activism across the globe, this time in partnership with her granddaughter Avery Sangster, whose generation inherits this challenge.”—Estelle Freedman, co-founder of the Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Stanford University
“COOL is an utterly gorgeous, playful scrapbook filled with heroines’ stories and recipes, everyday solutions, and bold new ideas. As someone working at the frontlines of the climate crisis and human rights, I know many are asking ‘what else can I do?’ In this essential, hopeful book, you’ll be inspired to create sustainable living with your family and community in joyful ways; these ordinary and extraordinary women leaders show us how.”—Joanna Kerr, former Executive Director of Greenpeace, Canada
“Award-winning photojournalist Paola Gianturco has given us another beautifully illustrated book. This gem takes us to countries where women and girls are reframing our ideas of what it means to take care of the Earth. The stories of women planting mangrove trees, designing vegetable-based-plastic toys, and organizing to limit carbon emissions are inspiring. Gianturco and Sangster encourage us to take small steps to make a big difference, to look toward the future with hope and determination. Bravo!”—Susan Krieger, Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781576879542 |
| PRICE | $39.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 192 |
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Mary P, Reviewer
Thank you NetGalley and Girl Friday Productions (Power House Books) for accepting my request to read and review COOL Women Leaders Reversing Global Warning.
Author: Paola Gianturco.
Published: 09/06/22
Genre: Arts & Photography -- Nonfiction (Adult) -- Science
COOL explains simply how through "intelligence, creativity, energy, and courage" each member of the human race can help reduce global warning. This initiative began using woman and finding different empty pockets across the world where they could make a difference. Building solar lights is life-changing and a section in COOL. The book highlights several women and young ladies. They each had a plan and worked to see it through.
Following each section there is a "What Can You Do" list. I found that when given 3 or 4 suggestions, I could find at minimum one thing I could implement for the rest of my life that would make a difference: Stop using plastic bags at my grocery store and bringing my own reusable cloth bags is one. This requires organizing and planning on my part. No more, I forgot. I will bring them next time. Another, stop using plastic water bottles, oh the convenience. This requires taking global warning seriously, and stopping buying cases with 24 bottles. I will make my public confession, I knew this and I buy water by the case more often than not. I am embarrassed. The three refillable water bottles I bought are nice and cool, empty, in the back of the frig. Did I mention I'm embarrassed? I will begin my changes next trip to the store, no more cases.
There are so many things individually we can do. Loads of ideas in this book. You and I don't have to know the science. Global warming is just not about temperature and weather pattern changes. COOL simplifies the impacts, the effects, and the seriousness.
I was amazed at the few statistics that showed the positive effects women have on decreasing global warning and forced slave labor. They are impressive.
I would gift this to young folks moving into their first place. As well, this would make a great Thanksgiving family gift leading to doable New Years resolutions.
When I was a child I had to write a lot of sentences. If my parents were alive today and I was young I could see myself writing "I will not let the water run while brushing my teeth or doing the dishes (by hand). Please accept the tooth brushing without running the water my contribution to COOL.
