PUSHING THE LIMITS OF STRATEGY
What do we do when we feel overwhelmed? Where do we go when we can’t see a place to turn?
This themed kit encourages your group to explore the concept of STRATEGY in solving big challenges
such as climate change, armed conflict, or homelessness. Working together, communities can
strategize imaginative and creative solutions.
Read the featured book
Watch the strategy-themed featured video
Jumpstart your group conversation with our discussion questions
Pick a new themed topic, and repeat!
FEATURED BOOK
Hornet Flight
It is June 1941 and the war is not going well for England. Across the North Sea, eighteen-year-old Harald Olufsen takes a shortcut on the German-occupied Danish island of Sande and discovers an astonishing sight that will change the momentum of...
Available In English & Spanish
Discussion Questions
FLOR
Community Activist
FEATURED VIDEO
Pushing the Limits
of Strategy
Flor Morales is always looking for ways to improve the lives of those around her. These days, she focuses a lot of her time on helping Tucson families cope with the extreme heat and lack of water they face in the desert city...
Watch In English
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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.
Forty Signs of Rain
It’s an increasingly
steamy summer in the
nation’s capital as Senate environmental staffer Charlie Quibler cares for his young son and deals with the frustrating politics of global warming… While Charlie struggles to play politics, his wife, Anna, takes a more rational approach...
Available In English and Spanish
Discussion Questions
Nature’s Confession
Available In English
Discussion Questions
This talk comes to you from a (nearly) lifelong resident of the famous ecological paradise, the Galápagos Islands. It remains a paradise because 97% is protected while 3% is inhabited, but living in this kind of territory comes with its own challenges. When she moved to the islands with her family more than two decades...
Watch In Spanish w/ English Subtitles
The Boy Who Harnessed
the Wind
William Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, a country where magic ruled, and modern science was a mystery. It was also a land withered by drought and hunger. But William had read about windmills, and he dreamed of building one that would bring to his small...
Available In English & Young Reader’s Edition
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The Stone Gate
Available In English
A strange rock in the forest. A mysterious crystal. A full moon. An ancient secret. How do you find your way home when you've never left? When Jack and Kaya see a dazzling white light shining from a giant rock in the forest, it takes them on an adventure to a place both familiar and yet like nowhere they know. But where exactly
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Tipping Point
Available In English and Spanish
The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend, the popularity of a of a new product, or a drop in...
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“Baby Boomers, consider this your call up. We need an army of Rebel Retirees”. So says Fi Radford as she invites her fellow septuagenarians to channel their fear, despair, and inertia of climate breakdown into positive, tangible action. The word ‘retirement’ usually...
What Did you Do in the Climate Crisis, Grandma?
Watch in English
Heavy Weather
Available In English
It’s 40 years from now. The planet reels under heavy weather — with rampant tornadoes caused by a runaway greenhouse effect. These massive storms are devouring the landscape, leaving human and ecological wreckage in their wake.
And on their trail are the Storm Troupers: a ragtag band of...
Discussion Questions