advertising. See corporate marketing.
advocacy, 21, 138, 268, 276. See also Citizens’ Climate Lobby.
aerosol pollutants, 49, 61, 71
agriculture, forestry, and other land-use sectors (AFOLU), 44
agriculture. See also Green Revolution; industrial food system.
and carbon sequestration, 71–72
and carrying capacity, 106–107
and global warming, 63, 66, 92–93
and nitrous oxide, 38
air pollution, 135, 267, 286. See also aerosol pollutants.
air travel, 21, 143, 147, 151–152, 159, 161–163, 166, 167
albedo changes, 48, 70. See also surface albedo.
American Legislative Exchange Council, 99
anapana, 198
Asch conformity experiments, 119
asymmetric economy, 281
atmosphere, and carbon system, 53
atmospheric circulation patterns, 47–48, 65
atmospheric CO2 fraction, 32, 41–44, 61, 68, 78–79
Awakin Circles, 284
awareness, and community, 281–282
Barthes, Roland, 110
becycling, 8
bed, building plan, 239
for long-distance travel, 171–174
biodiversity, 32, 52, 64, 65, 69, 105, 107, 274
biosphere, 102, 103, 107, 120–121
biospherism, 18–19, 83, 108, 132, 256–257, 268–269
bipartisan support, and CFAD, 265–266
birth rates, 81
black carbon, 49
Blinder, Alan, 266
bodily sensations, observations of, 196–200, 297, 299. See also breath awareness.
breath awareness, 196, 289, 297
buses, and emissions, 159, 162
California, 75, 90, 118, 139–141, 285–286. See also Los Angeles.
Campbell, Adam, 241
candles, 241
cap-and-auction schemes, 263
cap-and-trade schemes, 262–264
capitalism, 98–99, 100, 123, 236, 249
carbonate rocks, 55, 56–57, 70
carbon capture, 70
carbon dioxide (CO2), 40–44, 49
carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2e), 38, 151. See also emissions, estimation of.
carbon fee and dividend (CFAD), 264, 265–266, 267, 268, 276
carbon footprints, 19, 117, 167
carbon-free energy, 72,75, 154, 252, 266, 269. See also renewable electricity.
carrying capacity, of the Earth, 103, 105–106
car travel, and emissions, 152–153, 162, 164
cash, versus credit, 250
CFC-12, 39
chickens, 208, 223–228, 244, 256, 283
church communities, 285
Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL), 131, 268, 282, 286
Citizens United, 99
civil unrest, 67
climate agreements, 259–260, 270. See also by name.
climate change, 26, 60–61. See also carbon cycle; carbon fees; global warming; mass extinctions; PETM; wildfires.
climate deniers, 118, 260, 266
Climate Solutions Caucus, 265–266
clouds, 36, 49, 51–52, 151, 188
cognitive dissonance, 146
colony collapse disorder (CCD), 232–233
community, 113, 131, 205, 277–293. See also advocacy; connections; local economies.
community choice aggregation (CCA), 285–286
community gardens, 284
compassion, 205
computers, and emissions, 165
confirmation bias, 118
conflict, 8–9, 115, 205. See also wars.
connections, 8, 11, 146, 200, 203, 297–299
consumerism, 161, 163. See also stuff.
corporations, and influence, 99–100, 272. See also Big Oil.
crop swapping, 283
crop yields, 66, 84, 85, 86, 88, 90, 92
cultural norms, 138, 146, 149, 185, 256, 269
deforestation, 41, 48, 49, 51, 54, 58, 92, 168
De Hartog, Jeroen Johan, 135
Diamond, Jared, 106
divesting, from fossil fuels, 251
driving, versus bicycling, 135–136, 138–139
Earth system, 35–44, 47–48, 50–52, 61, 70
ego-excitation, versus happiness, 27
egos, 27, 28, 115, 121, 148, 192, 198, 205, 276, 289–290
Ekins, Paul, 94
electric cars, 161
electricity, 156–157, 163, 240–241, 269
emissions, estimation of, 130, 147–148, 151–165
energy returned on energy invested (EROEI), for energy sources, 97–98
environment, as a term, 17, 18
environmentalism, 19
equality, in society, 102, 273, 286–288
equanimity, 200
European Union emissions trading system (EU ETS), 263
exponential growth, 23, 29, 36, 42, 56, 66, 73, 77–79, 101
fear, 8, 19, 108, 115, 117, 169, 202, 299–300
fertilizers, 38, 85–86, 91, 93, 105, 156
foam food containers, 130
food, homegrown. See gardening.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 88
food production, 84–89, 103, 273–274. See also agriculture; crop yields; industrial food system.
foraging, 246
forests. See deforestation; reforestation.
fossil fuel subsidies, 270
freeganism, 144, 156, 223, 243–244, 248, 254
frozen ocean methane, 55
fuel prices, 86, 94, 95–97, 105, 261, 263, 270
Gandhi, 12
gardening, 93, 129, 131, 207–216, 283, 284. See also composting; humanure.
gas leakages, 154
genetically modified organisms (GMOs), 85, 92, 213, 232
gifting, 208, 248, 279, 283, 288–289
global cooperation, 275
global warming potential (GWP), 38
gratitude, 11, 27, 169, 171, 200, 203, 208, 244, 279, 281, 288
green, as a term, 21
greenhouse gases, 22, 33–34, 36–40, 44. See also human emissions; and by name.
Greenland, 47
groundwater, pollution, 85, 216, 219, 220
guilt, 19, 21–22, 118, 131, 146, 168
half-Earth, as a policy, 274–275
Hannover, and biking, 136
happiness, 8, 15–16, 27, 121–123, 169, 193, 198, 205, 299
helping, in community, 25, 27, 123, 251, 257, 281, 290
high-yielding crops, 84, 85, 93
home construction, and emissions, 158
home heating, and emissions, 164
hot water, and emissions, 165
Hughes, Ethan and Sarah, 241
human emissions, of greenhouse gases, 37–41, 44, 48–49, 52, 53, 56, 58, 78–79
human interaction, 12, 113, 114, 205, 281–282
Humanure Handbook, 217
hunger, and food supply, 86, 87–88
hydrologic cycle, 65
ice sheets, 34, 36, 47, 51, 66–67
independence, 25
indigenous peoples, 116, 279–280, 291
individual actions, 9–10, 11–12, 21, 22, 107–108, 149, 267–269, 276
industrial food system, 84–86, 89, 90, 91, 156, 213, 243. See also factory farming.
infrared light, 35, 36, 38, 51
immediacy, and global warming, 117–118, 119
intelligence, nonhuman, 116–117
international action, 267, 270. See also climate agreements; global cooperation.
International Monetary Fund (IMF), 272–273
IPPC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), 72
Jenkins, Joseph, 217
Jondai, Jon, 243
jun tea, 248
kerogens, 56
kindness, 115, 123, 131, 198, 206, 289
land, as carbon reservoir, 54–55
landfills, 158, 159, 210–211, 236, 237, 243, 261
land-use changes, and emissions, 41, 44, 48, 51
laundry, and emissions, 155, 164, 165
leadership, versus supporting, 290–291
legal system, and biospherism, 256–257
limits, personal, 12
listening, and connection, 290
livelihoods, 249
livestock, 38, 40, 116, 156. See also chickens.
Los Angeles, and biking, 136–137, 140
love, 9, 132, 205, 206, 234, 256, 295–300
low-energy, as a term, 22
low-energy lifestyle, 160–161, 169, 237–238, 280–281
mass extinctions, 52, 64, 69, 105, 106, 107, 274
Mauna Loa records, 41, 42, 43, 58, 59
McGlade, Cristophe, 94
Meadows, Donella, 110, 273, 280
meat consumption, 91, 93, 131, 138–139, 156, 162, 245, 274
medicine, 115
meditation, 6, 7, 124, 131, 132, 191–206, 284, 289, 299–300
methane (CH4), 38, 39–40, 48–49, 55, 153–155, 162. See also frozen ocean methane.
metta bhavana, 198
mind, and habits, 192–193, 199, 299
mindfulness, 26–27, 131, 199, 244, 299
mindsets, 8, 10, 22, 26, 28, 69, 91, 102, 109–124, 137, 169, 254
mitigation pathways, 72–73, 75
money economy, 98–100, 101, 114, 127, 248–254, 272, 288
Mongolia, 253
myth of progress, 110–111, 112, 113, 119–120
natural gas. See methane.
as a term, 17
negative feedbacks, 51
negativities, 8–9, 148–149, 192, 197, 200, 203, 289
neighbors, 114, 130, 131, 156, 167, 208, 224, 227, 256, 281–282. See also community.
Netherlands, and biking, 137
NGOs, 287
nitrogen fertilizers, 38, 85–86
nitrogen oxide (NOx), 49
nonviolent protest, 291
ocean acidification, 64–65, 68
ocean floor sediments, 56, 57–58
ocean heat content, 47
oceans, and carbon system, 53–54, 68
ocean surface temperature, 44–48
onset, of global warming, 30–32
optimism bias, 118
partners, and biospherism, 132
peak food, 84, 93–94. See also food production.
peak fuel, 94
peak temperature, and mitigation, 32–35
permafrost, and greenhouse gases, 40, 55
personal change, 10–12, 143–144, 146
pesticides, 39, 85, 86, 91, 228, 232
PETM (Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum), 64, 68, 69
phone chargers, and emissions, 165
plant cycle, and carbon dioxide, 41–42
political system, 272
population growth, 23, 77, 81–84, 86–87, 102, 273. See also carrying capacity.
positionality, and climate action, 286–288
positive feedbacks, 51
Possibility Alliance, 241
precipitation, 65, 70–71, 93. See also rain; snow.
predicaments, versus problems, 25–26
privilege, and climate action, 287–289
quality of life, 102
quantification, of emissions, 143–144
Quinn, Daniel, 107
racial diversity, and climate action, 286–288
radiative forcings, 37, 48, 49, 59
Ramos-Stierle, Pancho, 167
reaction habit, 192–193, 196–197
reduction, of emissions, 143, 146–148
reforestation, 168
renewable electricity, 75, 98, 156, 285. See also solar energy.
representative concentration pathways (RCPs), 33–34, 72–73
residence time, 38
revenue-neutral carbon fees, 75, 261–262, 264–265
RIPE (residential in-season produce exchange), 283
roads, and emissions, 153, 159–160, 177
rocket mass heaters, 243
root beer, recipe, 247
science, and culture, 112
SCOBY (symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast), 248
scientists, as advocates, 276
seeds, 89, 211, 213, 215, 232, 281
self-reliance, 25
self-sufficiency, 257
separation, in society. See myth of separation.
slow travel, 190. See also bicycling; boats; busses; trains; waste vegetable oil.
social changes, 11, 83, 102, 108, 116–117, 118, 276
social systems, 102
soccer, 286
soil, and carbon sequestration, 71–72
spiritual community. See sangha.
steady-state economy, 102, 271–272
stillness, 193
storytelling, 293
surface temperature, 30, 33–35, 44–48, 60
technology, 111–113, 237–238, 272
temperature trajectories, 33–34
The One-Straw Revolution, 213
Thoreau, Henry, 279
trains, and emissions, 159, 162, 185–186
Transition Towns movement, 284–285, 286
transportation systems, 44, 94, 159, 267, 269. See also by type.
trees, and drought, 85
uncertainties, 33, 34, 39, 40, 41, 44, 49, 55, 71, 75–76, 93
United Nations, 81–83, 88, 100, 266
upstream emissions, 151
urban sprawl, 137
vegetable oils, as fuel, 177. See also waste vegetable oil.
vegetarianism, 106, 131, 138–139, 156, 162–163, 245
vipassana, 198, 199–200, 203–206
wanting, as a drive, 121, 123–124, 299
wars, 67, 75, 115, 226, 251–253
waste vegetable oil (WVO), as fuel, 153, 174–185
wealth, 98–99, 102, 120, 271–272, 274–275
weather, 47–48, 63, 65–66, 92, 105. See also precipitation.
weathering, of rocks, 56, 57, 68, 70
wetlands, and methane, 40
wild plants, 246
women, empowerment of, 81, 83, 273
wood-fired earth oven, 241