--- title: Climate Activism description: Climate activism covers the history, strategies, and methods of organizing collective action to address climate change. Learners will understand how to build advocacy campaigns, engage communities, influence public policy, and utilize communication tools for environmental advocacy. category: sciences subcategory: climate-action-and-advocacy difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced url: /subject/climate-activism --- # Climate Activism Climate activism covers the history, strategies, and methods of organizing collective action to address climate change. Learners will understand how to build advocacy campaigns, engage communities, influence public policy, and utilize communication tools for environmental advocacy. ## Available Resources 2 Books • 1 Courses • 5 Websites ## Websites ### 1. Fridays for Future The official hub of the student climate strike movement Greta Thunberg started, with strike statistics, local group directories, and organising toolkits. Useful for seeing how a decentralised youth campaign coordinates actions and frames its demands. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://fridaysforfuture.org/ **Tags:** climate-activism, youth-movements, climate-strikes, organizing, climate-action ### 2. Extinction Rebellion The UK arm of the nonviolent direct action movement, publishing its demands, principles, and training materials for civil disobedience. Shows how mass-arrest strategy and decentralised affinity groups are organised in practice, with local branch listings. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://extinctionrebellion.uk/ **Tags:** climate-activism, civil-disobedience, direct-action, organizing, climate-action ### 3. Sunrise Movement The US youth organisation that pushed the Green New Deal into mainstream politics, publishing its theory of change, campaign history, and hub-based organising guides. A concrete case study in linking climate demands to electoral strategy. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.sunrisemovement.org/ **Tags:** climate-activism, green-new-deal, youth-movements, organizing, climate-policy ### 4. 350.org 350.org is a global climate activism organization focused on reducing fossil fuels and building grassroots campaigns for climate justice. The site offers campaign pages, action toolkits, news and blog posts, event listings, and resources to organize protests, petitions, and community actions. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://350.org **Tags:** websites, science-research, climate-action ### 5. greenpeace.org Greenpeace.org is the online home of the international environmental NGO Greenpeace, featuring climate-focused campaigns, news, research, and practical resources to learn about and participate in environmental activism. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://greenpeace.org **Tags:** websites, science-research, climate-action ## Courses ### 1. Climate Change Mitigation in Developing Countries University of Cape Town course on how developing countries pursue economic growth while cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Using cases from Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru and South Africa, it covers facilitated research-policy processes, energy modeling, scenario building and climate policy design. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/climate-change-mitigation **Tags:** climate-policy, climate-mitigation, low-carbon-development, energy-modeling, developing-countries ## Podcasts ### 1. How to Save a Planet **Author:** Alex Blumberg, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson Climate solutions podcast from Gimlet and Spotify, hosted by journalist Alex Blumberg and marine biologist Ayana Elizabeth Johnson. Episodes examine specific solutions such as clean energy policy, carbon removal, electrification and organizing, helping listeners judge which actions and policies meaningfully cut emissions. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://gimletmedia.com/shows/howtosaveaplanet **Tags:** climate-solutions, climate-policy, climate-action, decarbonization ### 2. The Climate Pod **Author:** Brock Benefiel, Ty Benefiel Interview podcast in which two journalist brothers talk with scientists, policymakers, economists and activists about the climate crisis. Episodes cover climate politics, economics, environmental justice and activism, helping listeners follow the policy and social debates surrounding climate change. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://theclimatepod.libsyn.com/website **Tags:** climate-change, climate-policy, environmental-justice, interviews ## Books ### 1. This Is Not a Drill **Author:** Extinction Rebellion A handbook of short essays by scientists, organisers, and writers setting out Extinction Rebellion's case for civil disobedience, alongside practical guidance on affinity groups, arrest, and regenerative culture. Explains the movement's reasoning in its own words. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0141991445?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, science-research, climate-action ### 2. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate **Author:** Naomi Klein Argument that climate change cannot be addressed without confronting deregulated capitalism, drawing on extractive industry case studies, failed carbon markets and grassroots resistance movements. Readers come away with the political and economic critique of mainstream climate policy. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1846145058?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** climate-politics, capitalism, climate-policy, climate-justice, political-economy --- *This content is part of Dantes.io - Your Treasure Map to Knowledge* *Curated by humans at Dantes.io. Personal study use welcome; republishing this curation requires permission (team@dantes.io).* View this page online: https://dantes.io/subject/climate-activism