One Green Thing: Discover Your Hidden Power to Help Save the Planet

by Heather White, Erin Brockovich (Foreword by)

Overview

Your non-overwhelming, down-to-earth guide for daily climate action…personalized to your unique strengths.

The climate crisis is the biggest challenge of our time. But the urgency of a warming world creates anxiety and can sometimes cause us to throw our hands in the air and think, How can I possibly make a difference?

Heather White—known as "the Brené Brown of the environmental movement"—will show you how to contribute to the green lifestyle movement through self-discovery and joy. Your personality, interests, and strengths give you a unique role to play in the climate movement. Are you the Influencer? the Beacon? the Spark? the Sage? Once you identify your Service Superpower Profile, it's time to dive into the action and track your progress.

One Green Thing is this generation's definitive climate action handbook. In it you'll:

• Learn your unique strengths of climate service and how to focus those strengths into specific actions.
• Log the mental health benefits and measure your progress.
• Reflect on your journey and your "why" for taking action with exercises and journal prompts.
• Commit to being an awesome ancestor for future loved ones as you inspire your family, friends, and community to work toward a regenerative, sustainable world.

Embark on the journey and find your ONE GREEN THING—your personal action that will contribute to climate healing, ease your eco-anxiety, and create a sense of hope—without becoming overwhelmed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780785291299
Publisher:	Harper Horizon
Publication date:	04/19/2022
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	1,079,675
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 5.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Heather White, the woman Erin Brockovich calls the "Brene Brown of the environmental movement," brings two decades of environmental advocacy work and national nonprofit leadership to life with her joyful and practical book, One Green Thing: Discover Your Hidden Power to Help Save the Planet. The CEO & Founder of the nonprofit OneGreenThing.org, Heather was named "One of the Top 15 Women Leaders in Sustainability" by Green Building & Design Magazine and "100 Women to Watch in Wellness" by mindbodygreen. Her trademark intelligence and accessibility on climate and environmental issues has been featured on CBS, PBS, ABC, NBC, Fox News, Dr. Oz, and cited in The Washington Post, New York Times, and The Guardian.

In her book, Heather weaves together research-backed strategies for personal climate action with stories from her childhood in East Tennessee, career in Washington, DC and Yellowstone, and life with her family - including two GenZ daughters - in Bozeman, Montana. Her goal each day - through seminars, leadership training, consulting, social media, and now her book - is to create culture change that will lead to climate policy solutions. She helps individuals tackle the overwhelm of the climate crisis through identity & action. Her Service Superpower is Philanthropist-Wonk.

To learn how you can get involved in the climate movement and find your Service Superpower, visit www.OneGreenThing.org.

VISIT www.heatherwhite.com

INSTA: @heatherwhiteofficial

TWITTER: @heatherwhiteofficial

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Take action via @onegreenthing

Table of Contents

Foreword Erin Brockovich ix

Introduction xiii

Part 1 The Laws of Change

Chapter 1 Get to Know the Laws 3

Chapter 2 Find Your Service Superpower Profile and Your Why 12

Chapter 3 The Adventurer 19

Chapter 4 The Beacon 32

Chapter 5 The Influencer 46

Chapter 6 The Philanthropist 60

Chapter 7 The Sage 74

Chapter 8 The Spark 88

Chapter 9 The Wonk 100

Chapter 10 Future 2030: Apply Your Superpower Through Visualization 112

Chapter 11 Rally for the Planet with Your One Green Thing Tools 118

Part 2 The Seven Areas to Effect Change

Chapter 12 Know You Can't Go It Alone 127

Chapter 13 Think Beyond Your Age 140

Chapter 14 See Energy in a New Light 154

Chapter 15 Understand That You Are What You Eat 171

Chapter 16 Protect the Source 187

Chapter 17 Vote with Your Wallet 202

Chapter 18 Love Your Mother (Earth) 217

Part 3 How it Ends

Chapter 19 It's Up to You 235

Acknowledgments 239

Notes 243

Appendix 263

Eco-Action Plan 264

Eco-Impact Top Ten 266

Joy Tracker 268

Organizations to Explore by Service Superpower Profile 270

Organizations to Explore by Area of Change 272

Index 275

About the Author 285

Editorial Reviews

03/07/2022

“The climate emergency is the biggest challenge of our time, and we all have a unique role to play. My mission is to help you find yours,” writes White, founder of the OneGreenThing nonprofit, in her incisive debut. The author lays most of the blame for climate change on large corporations, but nonetheless notes that individual actions can create real and beneficial change. Her plan for doing so consists of “laws of change”—these include the Law of Simplicity & Consistency, which holds that simple daily habit changes are “more likely to stick,” and the Law of Amplification, which explains that “sharing experiences makes change reverberate.” She then lays out “service superpowers,” which take into account one’s strengths, and suggests actions for various personality types: there’s the “adventurer,” for example, who can go fishing with friends, as well as lobby Congress, and “the sage,” who can encourage their faith community to install solar panels. It’s a fun conceit, and each chapter features a summary of takeaways and journal prompts; the bite-sized profiles of “eco-heroes” sprinkled through, including those of Mustafa Santiago Ali, Kristal Ambrose, and Gigi Lee Chang, are a nice touch. Readers just starting to think about their role in mitigating climate change should take a look. (Apr.)

Publishers Weekly