How to Talk to Your Kids About Climate Change

Harriet Shugarman

Description

• Co-op available
• Galleys available to sales reps, trade publications, long-lead media, and Ingram Premium Picks
• Digital galleys on Edelweiss
• National advertising in Green America, Utne Reader, Today's Parent, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Mother Earth News
• National radio campaign
• National print campaign: Yes! Magazine, Sierra, Treehugger, Grist, Today's Parent, Huffington Post, Daily Good, New York Times, Globe & Mail, Sojourners, EcoWatch
• Online/social media outreach: ClimateMama blog, Climate Reality Project, 350.org, Women Eco Warriors, Mamavation, Moms Clear Air Force, BadAss Climate Women, parents.com, parenting blogs
  • Promotion through author's highly active social media channels
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• General eBook marketing plan
  • eBook will be available simultaneously as print publication to maximize sales
  • eBook ISBN will be included on all press materials, author and publisher websites, and whenever print ISBN is listed
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• Excerpts target for first serial rights: Yes! Magazine, Utne Reader, Sierra, Today's Parent, Ecowatch, 350.org, Climate Reality
• Promotion through the author's website: www.climatemama.com
• Bookseller/library promotions: Baker & Taylor Super Annotation, giveaways at ALA*, inclusion at ASSA, ASEH, and ASA academic conferences

• Author is internationally recognized influencer, connector, and trusted messenger on climate crisis through her blog, ClimateMama, and social media platforms
• Nationally recognized voice on climate crisis
• One of the first 1,000 people certified by Al Gore and Climate Reality Project Green Ring Award Recipient
• Regularly featured on national media: New York Times, MSNBC, Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, Huffington Post
• First person in the US to create an online organization in this space
• Timing coincides with lead-up to presidential election
• Author will use media attention to focus on the book as a clear and non-partisan resource to help define the necessary questions to ask elected officials
• Plan to use primary and presidential debates to promote the book and conversations around it
• Student climate strikes result in a call to action for parents. Plan to use these moments to highlight the book as a resource
• A response to the increase in anxiety, depression, and anger plaguing children in the face of the climate emergency
• Learn concrete ways to speak with children
• Moves the conversation forward for parents
• Helps formulate answers for children, friends, and family
• Practical solutions to build hope and find positive paths forward
• Understand feelings of anger, sadness, and frustration in children
• Formulates a plan for making climate action part of everyday family life
• Practical actions that families can take
• Helps children and parents find multiple paths to building a critical mass directed toward change
• Guided Discussions
• Differs from other books on this topic because:
  • The author has a national platform and extensive connections
  • Extensive social media presence: Over 10,000 Twitter followers, 7,800 Facebook followers, 1,300 LinkedIn, 700 Instagram, hundreds of thousands of followers of blog
  • Provides a wider explanation of how we got here, what is already being done, and what can be done to tackle the climate crisis
  • Includes discussion of how industry is trying to refocus the onus onto the individual to take action and is trying to walk away from their culpability
• Endorsements from Al Gore, Ken Berlin, Climate Reality Project; Congresswoman Donna Bullock; Katharine Hayhoe, climate scientist; Christiana Figueres, UNFCCC (COP 21), Vanessa Rule, Mothers Out Front
• New Society Publishers are committed to the highest environmental practices in the industry, including: printing all their books in North America, on 100% post-consumer recycled FSC-certified paper, using vegetable-based, low-VOC inks; and offsetting their emissions to make all of their business operations carbon neutral and is proudly B Corp certified. Their books are so Green you could eat them!

Audience: Parents, particularly urban and suburban; teachers, organizations working with children, educators

Regional: New York/New Jersey – author's home, affiliated with many environmental and climate groups
Washington, DC – national headquarters for many of these groups are there
Utah – author's previous home
California – relatives and work colleagues

International: ClimateMama reaches 110 countries

Canada: author born and raised in Edmonton, relatives in Calgary, attended UBC, grad school, Toronto: author's family and friends

Building grit and hope in the face of the climate emergency

With catastrophic global warming already baked into the climate system, today's children face a future entirely unlike that of their parents. Yet how can we maintain hope and make a difference in the face of overwhelming evidence of the climate crisis?

Help is at hand. Written by Harriet Shugarman – the Climate Mama and trusted advisor to parents – How to Talk to Your Kids About Climate Change provides tools and strategies for parents to explain the climate emergency to their children and galvanize positive action. Coverage includes:

• The unvarnished realities of the climate emergency, where we are at, and how we got here


• Strategies for talking to kids of different ages about the climate crisis, including advice from engaged parents on the ground


• How to maintain our own hope and that of our children


• A list of practical actions families can take to tackle the climate change crisis


• Ideas for helping children follow their passions in pursuit of a livable, just, and sustainable world.

A lifeline for parents who are feeling overwhelmed with fear and grief, this book provides both hope and practical ways to engage children in pursuit of a better world that is still possible.

AWARDS

• SILVER | 2020 Nautilus Book Awards: Parenting & Family


• SILVER | 2020 Benjamin Franklin Awards - Parenting & Family


• FINALIST | 2020 Foreword INDIES: Family & Relationships

Acknowledgments

Dedication

Epigraph

Preface: This Book Is for You
What This Book Does
Timing Is Everything

1. Introduction: Awakening to Our Climate Emergency
Dropping the Climate Change Bomb
Why We Should Be Concerned
The Solutions Puzzle
Climate Awakening: Climate Reality
ClimateMama Beginnings
Memorable Blog Posts

2. Thanks for the Ride, Dinosaurs: Science, Politics, Growth, and Justice
Science
Politics
Growth
Justice

3. Coming to Grips with Climate Change As a Parent: From Grief to Hope to Resolve to Action
Coming to Terms with Reality
Grief
Hope
Resolve
Action
Trusted Messengers

4. Leading by Example
Find Your Superpower
Name What You Are Working to Save and Why
Climate Curriculum
Parent Climate Activists

5. Transitioning from Angst to Action: Preschool through Middle School
The Climate Conversation: Preschool through Middle School
Engaging Your Child on Climate Action: Preschool through Middle School
Keeping Children Involved at All Ages

6. Pursuing Passions through the Lens of Climate Action: High School, College, and Beyond
How to Share the Reality of Our Climate Crisis with Our Grown Children
Supporting Climate Activism

7. Creating a Million Ripples: From Me to We
Thinking in Systems and Channeling Systemic Change
Scaling Solutions
Being the Change We Wish to See
Vote, Vote, Vote
Follow Up: Preparing for Our Climate Emergency
Plant Seeds: Literally and Figuratively
From Me to We

Resources
Youth-Led or Youth-Focused Organizations
Parent-Focused Organizations
Climate Action and Education Websites
Climate News Websites
Climate Justice
Notable Books
Climate Science

Climate Action Organizing and Book Club Guide Guide

Notes

Index

About the Author

About New Society Publishers

Sujets

• Santé et bien-être
• Bien-être émotionnel
• Vie de famille
• Parentalité et Éducation des Enfants
• Change
• General
• Activism
• Climate change
• Parenting
• General officer
• Anthropocene
• Self-sufficiency
• Global warming
• Calentamiento global
• Philosophie et théologie
• Green Lifestyle
• guide

Informations

• Publié par: New Society Publishers
• Date de parution: 12 mai 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781550927290
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 5 Mo

Extrait

How to Talk to Your Kids about Climate Change
A comprehensive description of the climate crisis, how to communicate it to the PARENTING / ENVIRONMENT
children in your life, and how you can work together to be part of its solutions.
— AL GORE
Building grit and hope in the face of
the climate emergency
All the tools we need to arm ourselves and our children who are
literally facing the fght for their future.
Linus Roache, Golden Globe-nominated actor, and climate activist
Essential. Read this insightful guide to why and how we can
“talk climate” with kids!
Raff Cavoukian, C.M., O.B.C., singer, author,
Raff Foundation for Child Honouring
WITH CATASTROPHIC global warming already baked into the climate system,
today’s children face a future entirely unlike that of their parents. Yet how can we
maintain hope and make a difference in the face of the climate crisis?
Help is at hand. How to Talk to Your Kids About Climate Change provides tools
and strategies for parents to explain the climate emergency to their children and
galvanize positive action. Coverage includes:
• The unvarnished realities of the climate emergency
• Strategies for talking to kids of different ages, including advice
from engaged parents on the ground
• How to maintain our own hope and that of our children
• Practical actions for families
• Helping children follow their passions in pursuit of a livable world.
A lifeline for parents who are feeling overwhelmed with fear and grief, this
book provides both hope and practical ways to engage children in pursuit
of a better world that is still possible.
At once ferce and soothing, responding to many questions parents around
the world seek to answer as their children look them in the eye.
Osprey Orielle Lake, Executive Director, Women’s Earth and Climate Action
Network (WECAN) International
Learn how we can speak to our children about climate change in a way
that conveys urgency but maintains agency.
Michael E. Mann, distinguished Professor, Penn State University,
co-author, The Madhouse Effect
HARRIET SHUGARMAN is Executive Director of ClimateMama, professor of Global
Climate Change Policy and World Sustainability, and Chair of The Climate Reality Project,
NYC Metro Chapter. She is a nationally recognized infuencer and trusted messenger
on solutions to the Anthropocene. She blogs and lives in New York, NY.
TURNING ANGST INTO ACTION
www.newsociety.comPraise for How to Talk to Your Kids About Climate Change
In her illuminating new book How to Talk to Your Kids About Climate
Change, Harriet Shugarman provides a comprehensive description
of the climate crisis, how to communicate it to the children in your
life, and how you can work together to be part of its solutions. It’s
work like this book that makes me so incredibly inspired by, and
proud of, our global network of Climate Reality Leaders.
—Al Gore
With all the love and wisdom of a true mother, Harriet takes you
by the hand and fearlessly leads you to face the stark truth about
climate change. Once there she doesn’t let go, but rather uses
that love to encourage us to step forward and become part of the
solution. Harriet’s vast experience, knowledge, and care for our
planet and our humanity, vibrates through every page, giving us all
the tools we need to arm ourselves and our children who are literally
facing the fght for their future.
—Linus Roache, Golden Globe-nominated actor, and climate activist
This book is essential reading. As the global climate emergency
imperils our present and future lives, climate education is vitally
important. Read this insightful guide to why and how we can “talk
climate” with kids!
—Raf Cavoukian, C.M., O.B.C., singer, author ,
Raf Foundation for Child Honouring
Raising kids in a world made uncertain by climate change is a
challenging task. Read Harriet Shugarman’s book, How to Talk to
Your Kids about Climate Change, to learn how we can speak to our
children about climate change in a way that conveys urgency but
maintains agency in the battle to preserve a hospitable future for
us and them.
—Michael E. Mann, distinguished Professor ,
Penn State University ,
co-author The Madhouse Ef, ectHow to Talk to Your Kids About Climate Change is a precious and
necessary book delivered at the perfect moment. Harriet Shugarman
skillfully guides us through this most perilous time by helping us to
look squarely at the climate crisis while simultaneously showing us
how to navigate through the fre. Her words are all at once ferce and
soothing, responding to many questions parents around the world
seek to answer as their children look them in the eye.
—Osprey Orielle Lake, Executive Dir ector,
Women’s Earth and Climate Action
Network (WECAN) International
This book will sustain you in your commitment to protect, empower,
and support your children to act at this defning moment of our
planetary history. Indeed, taking action, together as a family, is the
antidote to fear and demoralization.
—Lynne Cherry, founder, Young Voices for the Planet,
producer, Young Voices for the Planet flms,
author and Illustrator, The Great Kapok T A Ri re veer R, an Wild,
co-author Ho, w We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate
As a mother Ho, w to Talk to Your Kids About Climate Change lifts up
my spirit, at the same time as it reminds me that our children are
demanding the truth about our climate emergency, and that they
are looking to us to help them understand the realities we are facing
and the role they can play. Harriet Shugarman has written a
mustread guide for parents at all stages of climate knowledge. I trust
her to help me fnd new ways to talk to my children, to tell them
the truth, and to empower them to move forward in positive ways.
You should too! After reading this book, when your kids ask you
about the climate crisis and what they can do about it, you will know
what to say.
—Maya van Rossum, Leader, the Delaware Riverkeeper Netw ork,
Founder, the national Green Amendment For The Generations movement,
author The Gr, een AmendmentHarriet is an iconic leader and founding member of the climate and
parenting nexus. Her book expertly navigates the complexities of
climate science, solutions, and the emotions that come with facing
our global climate crisis. Parents and non-parents alike will greatly
beneft from Harriet’s personal journey exploring the hopes, fears,
and realities of the state of our planet.
—Tara DePorte, founder, The Human Impacts Institute
Shugarman reminds us that we can’t know how it will all turn out.
Yet, we can fnd ways of not being alone and ways to navigate this
climate emergency. There are steps parents can take to cope, and
more importantly, cultivate perseverance in their children.
—Lindsay Coulter, David Suzuki’s Queen of Green
From the brutal realities of the mounting threat of climate
disruption comes this extraordinary w — brilliantlork y conceived and
full of the inspiring messages we all need to hear in these fateful
times. How to Talk to your Kids about Climate Change acknowledges
our vulnerabilit— but expertl y redirects us to the connections we
must make with Mother Earth to restore her life-giving bounty.
Sustaining the resolve to do this requires steely commitment to
the job ahead — and t o infusing the efort with purpose, love, and
authenticity. Harriet has brought us a clear-eyed plan to navigate
the journey. Keep this guide at your side— in her hands e ven the
most treacherous shoals can become opportunities.
—Lise Van Susteren, M.D. Board Certifed:
General and Forensic PsychiatryWith fve grandsons, I appreciate Harriet Shugarman’s honest and
sensitive advice to parents and grandparents. Harriet has led the
way outreaching to parents. We must unite to end carbon pollution
while helping our children prepare for the changes already baked
into the climate system. Harriet shows the way.
—Larry J. Schweiger, author, Climate Crisis and Corrupt Politics and
Last Chance, former President National Wildlife Federation
As we live our climate emergency, the impacts of the crisis are not
being felt equally. Being a parent is a delicate dance – preparing and
at the same time protecting our children. I speak honestly with my
son about climate change and show him through my actions how
we all have a role to play. In How to Talk to Your Kids about Climate
Change, Harriet shares messages of hope, the importance of telling
the truth, of taking action, of climate justice, and of facing our fears
head on. Read this book.
—Ambassador Thilmeeza Hussain,
Permanent Representative of the Maldives to the United NationsHow to Talk to
Your Kids
About Climate Change
TURNING ANGST I NTO ACTION
Harriet ShugarmanCopyright © 2020 by Harriet Shugarman. All rights reserved.
Cover design by Diane McIntosh. Cover image: ©iStock
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Title: How to talk to your kids about climate change : turning angst
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Names: Shugarman, Harriet, 1961– author.
Description: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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