How to Talk to Your Kids About Climate Change

Author is internationally recognized influencer, connector, and trusted messenger on climate crisis through her blog, ClimateMama, and social media platforms Nationally recognized voice on climate crisis One of the first 1,000 people certified by Al Gore and Climate Reality Project Green Ring Award Recipient Regularly featured on national media: New York Times, MSNBC, Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, Huffington Post First person in the US to create an online organization in this space Timing coincides with lead-up to presidential election Author will use media attention to focus on the book as a clear and non-partisan resource to help define the necessary questions to ask elected officials Plan to use primary and presidential debates to promote the book and conversations around it Student climate strikes result in a call to action for parents. Plan to use these moments to highlight the book as a resource A response to the increase in anxiety, depression, and anger plaguing children in the face of the climate emergency Learn concrete ways to speak with children Moves the conversation forward for parents Helps formulate answers for children, friends, and family Practical solutions to build hope and find positive paths forward Understand feelings of anger, sadness, and frustration in children Formulates a plan for making climate action part of everyday family life Practical actions that families can take Helps children and parents find multiple paths to building a critical mass directed toward change Guided DiscussionsDiffers from other books on this topic because: The author has a national platform and extensive connections Extensive social media presence: Over 10,000 Twitter followers, 7,800 Facebook followers, 1,300 LinkedIn, 700 Instagram, hundreds of thousands of followers of blog Provides a wider explanation of how we got here, what is already being done, and what can be done to tackle the climate crisis Includes discussion of how industry is trying to refocus the onus onto the individual to take action and is trying to walk away from their culpability Endorsements from Al Gore, Ken Berlin, Climate Reality Project; Congresswoman Donna Bullock; Katharine Hayhoe, climate scientist; Christiana Figueres, UNFCCC (COP 21), Vanessa Rule, Mothers Out Front New Society Publishers are committed to the highest environmental practices in the industry, including: printing all their books in North America, on 100% post-consumer recycled FSC-certified paper, using vegetable-based, low-VOC inks; and offsetting their emissions to make all of their business operations carbon neutral and is proudly B Corp certified. Their books are so Green you could eat them!

Audience: Parents, particularly urban and suburban; teachers, organizations working with children, educators

Regional: New York/New Jersey – author's home, affiliated with many environmental and climate groups
Washington, DC – national headquarters for many of these groups are there
Utah – author's previous home
California – relatives and work colleagues

International: ClimateMama reaches 110 countries

Canada: author born and raised in Edmonton, relatives in Calgary, attended UBC, grad school, Toronto: author's family and friends