BRIGHT GREEN FUTURE
Inspiring true stories to envision the sustainable future of our dreams
“This book is an antidote to despair.”
- Dan Chu, Executive Director of the Sierra Club Foundation
Bright Green Future chronicles a renaissance at the edge of a crisis.
As climate change shifts our planet towards an uncertain future, a movement of unlikely heroes are building a blueprint for a better world.
It’s a world where clean power grows wealth for local communities, resources regenerate themselves, city planning is driven by the people, and healthy soil is our greatest asset.
Inspiring stories in the book:
Lakota community organizers implement a Native American vision for the future of American towns and cities.
A Guatemalan-born farmer draws on the wisdom of rainforest ecosystems to start a bottom-up revolution in agriculture.
Cities in California band together to take over their energy systems charting a course for 100% renewables by 2025.
A Canadian startup harnesses sound energy to re-envision industry where materials cycle like nutrients in an ecosystem.
These are a few of the over 50 changemakers featured in the book. Their practical stories have opened a gateway for ordinary people to begin imagining and building the bright future we deserve.
Authors
Bright Green Future is a collaboration between a professor of environmental science and a journalist. Over the course of 5 years, Gregory Schwartz, PhD and Trevor Decker Cohen travelled the country bringing together the stories of innovators and activists. They combined insights from over 200 interviews to share a collective vision for a sustainable society.
What people are saying about BGF
“This necessary and inspiring book reveals a world of innovators who cultivate seeds of ingenuity into glorious trees of life.”
- Dan Chu, Executive Director of the Sierra Club Foundation.
“Bright Green Future interweaves gripping personal stories with elegant interconnected solutions to the Earth and her people's biggest problems.”
- Sarah Shanley Hope, Executive Director of The Solutions Project
“Change is slow and it’s books like these that open our eyes to what can be accomplished with creativity and dedication.”
- Rosemary Orozco, Meteorologist at KTVU FOX 2 San Francisco
“A rollicking good read.”
- Atul Singh, Editor-in-Chief of the Fair Observer
Envision a sustainable society
Join our thought-provoking discussions on the types of thinking that can help us envision a sustainable society in the places we love.
We collaborate with chapters of Sierra Club, Sunrise, and Citizens’ Climate Lobby, as well as local environmental organization at the forefront of creating a sustainable future in their communities.
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Published stories from the book
How the poorest county in America created a vision for the future of cities
By Trevor Decker Cohen, published on Shareable: People-powered solutions for the common good
How laid-off coal miners are reclaiming their own economy
By Trevor Decker Cohen and Gregory Schwartz, published on GreenBiz Reads
Get in touch
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