PUSHING THE LIMITS OF CHANGE
When devastating developments force us into a corner, we have to choose. Will we give up or push back? If we expand our thinking — imagine a new reality for ourselves — we might just find ourselves embracing a CHANGE that allows us to thrive in that new space.
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FEATURED BOOK
Cod: A Biography Of The Fish That Changed
the World
Winner of the 1999 James Beard Award, this is the biography of a single species of fish, but it may as well be a world history with this humble fish as its recurring main character. Cod, it...
Available In English & Spanish
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BREN
Sea Change Agent
FEATURED VIDEO
Pushing the Limits
of Change
Bren sees every impossible situation as a creative challenge. A puzzle to be solved. So when environmental factors ravaged his commercial fishing business — and then a second career endeavor — he invents a brand new way to farm the ocean...
Watch in English
w/ Spanish Subtitles
Take a look at the other offerings below, curated for this theme. How do people push the limits of change in each book or video? The joy is in the discovery! Making those connections as you read will enrich your follow-up conversations.
Climate Changed:
A Personal Journey through the Science
What are the causes and consequences of climate change? When the scale is
so big, can an individual
make any difference? Documentary, diary, and masterwork graphic novel, this up-to-date look at our planet and how we...
Available In English and Spanish
Discussion Questions
Why Journalists Have
An Obligation To Challenge Power
You can kick Jorge Ramos out of your press conference (as Donald Trump infamously did in 2015), but you can never silence him. A reporter for more than 30 years, Ramos believes that a journalist's responsibility is to question and challenge those in power
Watch In Spanish with English Subtitles
Seven Elements that Changed the World
Available In English
Our use of the Earth's mineral resources is not always for the benefit of humankind--our relationship with the elements is one of great ambivalence. Uranium is both productive (nuclear power) and destructive (nuclear bombs); iron is the bloody weapon of war, but also the economic tool of...
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The Day the Tide Kept Rising
Available In English
A thrilling tale filled with action, adventure, intrigue and a pleasant pinch of romance the book…follows the lives of four different people in their struggles to survive after a huge tsunami…sweeps across the Pacific. The tsunami leaves a trail of death and...
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When Breath Becomes Air
Available In English and Spanish
At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's
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Lawrence Pick, engineer, gathers startling evidence that the world’s weather may be rapidly changing…In a secret underground laboratory, he and a team of equally skilled scientists learn that the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere…will ascend to the point where no living thing
Available In English
Heat
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Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938
Available In English
Using the stories of dozens
of eyewitnesses as well as documented reports from local newspapers, libraries and archives, author and former journalist R.A. Scotti weaves a thrilling, chilling tale of a day that would
go down in infamy
for thousands of...
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make
a Big Difference
Available In English and Spanish
This first-person narrative ranges from hush puppy shoes to Sesame Street characters, examining the magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just...
The Water Knife
Available In English and Spanish
In a future hammered by climate change and drought, mountain snows have turned to rain, and rain evaporates before it hits the ground. In a fragmenting United States, the cities of Phoenix and Las Vegas skirmish for a dwindling share of the Colorado River. But it is the Las Vegas Water Knives...