Thought leaders in climate change

If you would like to learn more, we have asked the following people to recommend some further reading material, films or clips to watch and some interesting websites worth visiting on climate change.

Dr Chris Tuppen - Director Sustainable Development, BT
Biography

Chris's recommedations include:

• Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
  A man and a great ape conduct a series of philosophical conversations in a work that presents a new vision of evolution and humankind and asks the question: does the Earth belong to humans, or do humans belong to the Earth?.
• Earth from Above by Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  No reading, just look at the photographs!
• Pathways to 2050 - Energy and Climate Change
  The pathways shown illustrate the scale and complexity of the change needed at a global level, as well as the progress that has to be made through to 2050.

In January 2008, Chris Tuppen was named by The Guardian newspaper as one of the 50 people who could save the planet from environmental disaster. You can find further details on their website.

Jonathon Porritt -Founder Director of Forum for the Future
Biography

Jonathon's recommendations include:

• Heat by George Monbiot (Penguin/Allen Lane) - for a really good stirring polemic on why we've got ourselves in such a fix!
• Global Warning by Paul Brown (Guardian Books) - for perhaps the most accessible account of the science and politics of climate change.
• How to Live a Low Carbon Life by Chris Goodall (Earthscan) - a very practical guide!

Ade Thomas - Managing Director of green.tv
Biography


Ade's recommendations include:

• A parody of Star Wars promoting organic food called Store Wars;
• A short viral film written by and starring Alistair McGowan for the Environment Agency;
• An interview with Mikhail Gorbachev, ex-president of the USSR and now Chairman of Green Cross International, an international environmental group;
• A viral video produced by Greenpeace with a cutting take on 4x4 owners;
• An environmental music video for the Pink Floyd remix of 'Another Brick in the Wall'; .

Solitaire Towsend - Managing Director of Futerra
Biography


Solitaire'srecommedations include:

• The Rough Guide to Climate Change - interested level
• Nick Cobbing Climate Change Photos - beginner/artistic level
• Cheat Neutral - fab little fun site on naughty carbon offset - beginner
• ITV's 'the big melt' - interested level
• Fantastic short film called 'proper education' by the Ministry of Sound - for anyone
• Leonardo Dicaprio's eco-site including a short film on the subject - beginner

Tom Delay - CEO of the Carbon Trust
Biography


Tom's recommedations include:

• Stern Review: The economics of climate change by Sir Nick Stern (expert)
• I Count - Your Step-by-Step Guide to Achieving Climate Bliss by Sop Climate Chaos (all)
• The Rough Guide to Climate Change by Robert Henson (All)
• Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Climate Change - Is time running out? By Elizabeth Kolbert (medium/expert)
• The Weather Makers by Tim Flannery (medium/expert)
• Funny Weather: Everything you didn't want to know about climate change but probably should find out by Kate Evans (all)

Prof Mark Maslin
Biography

'Global Warming: A very short introduction, written by Prof Mark Maslin' a pocket sized book which provides a summary of the historical background, scientific debate, future impacts and the politics of global warming. Published by Oxford University Press.

Antony Turner- Managing Director of CarbonSense
Biography

Anthony's recommedations include:

• The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
  My favourite 'bedside book' to dip into. Deeply personal, richly observed narrative of life, philosophy, nature and the seasons observed from a remote Virginia cabin. The best account I know of being ‘in the present’.
• The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken
  Despite being written over ten years ago this is still the best account of the potential of the business community to be at the forefront of solving the ecological crisis.
• Natural Capitalism by Amory Hunter Lovins and Paul Hawken
  A later collaboration with the amazing Amory Lovins, founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute. This book explores what capitalism would look like if it genuinely took account of the natural world.
• The Web of Life by Fritjof Capra
  An understanding of systems thinking is essential to anyone hoping to grapple with climate change issues. This book from today's greatest living systems thinker is for me the most useful insight into systems in nature and human society. Essential reading!
• The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram
  Deeply philosophical account of the human disconnection with the natural world. The chapter 'The Forgetting and Remembering of Air' helped inspire me to start CarbonSense.
• Mid-course Correction by Ray Anderson
  Great story by the CEO of a global corporation (Interface Carpets) waking up to the ecological problems his company was causing and then challenging and inspiring
• Gaia - the practical science of planetary medicine by James Lovelock
  Essential reading.
• Animate Earth by Dr Stephan Harding
  Stephan is a great writer and teacher who argues passionately that human society needs to rekindle its relationship with the living earth. He makes science literally come alive in a most playful way, and articulates clearly the need for a combination of the scientific / rational with the intuitive / qualitative approach in all we do.