Flourishing Planet Resource Library

"Becoming the people we've been waiting for..." inspired by Michael Steger

Mission:  MAPPsters For A Flourishing Planet is dedicated to bringing more climate consciousness to the MAPP alumni and positive psychology communities, inspiring pro-environmental behavior change, and exploring how we all, as individuals and as a community, can leverage what we know about well-being to positively impact climate solutions.

Our hope is that these resources will help people understand what actions they can take to preserve our planet, whether that be conserving planetary resources or returning resources to the planet.

The initial list was compiled by Sandy Blaine and Andrew Soren. The MAPP for a Flourishing Planet (M4FP) group welcomes the help of other alumni and students in building a robust resource library. If you have an news article, journal article, assessment, book, podcast, video,  website, or online course that you would like us to consider including, please fill out the submission form (open to MAPP members only). 

We appreciate your interest and welcome your input.

Books

Book Cover	Published	Title	Author
	November 2019	A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal	Kate Aronoff, Alyssa Battistoni, Daniel Aldana Cohen, and more
	June 2023	A Future We Can Love: How We Can Reverse the Climate Crisis with the Power of Our Hearts and Minds Inspired by conversations between The Dalai Lama and Greta Thunberg	Susan Bauer-Wu and Stephanie Higgs
		Moral Ambition (to be released spring 2025)	Rutger Bregman
	June 2020	Humankind: A Hopeful History	Rutger Bregman
	March 2017	Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World	Rutger Bregman
	October 2022	A More Just Future	Dolly Chugh
	November 2013	The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible (Sacred Activism)	Charles Eisenstein
	October 2017	This is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt is Shaping the Twenty-First Century	Mark Engler and Paul Engler
	October 2022	The Climate Optimist: How to Shift the Narrative on Climate Change and Find the Courage to Choose Change	Anne Therese Gennari
	August 2024	Everyday Utopia: What 2000 Years of Bold Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life	Kristen Ghodsee
	February 2015	In Times of Terror, Wage Beauty	Mark Gonzales
	March 2021	Creating the World We Want to Live In: How positive psychology can build a brighter future	Bridget Grenville-Cleave, Dóra Gudõmudsdóttir, Felicia Huppert, Vanessa King, and others
	August 2020	Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World	Jason Hickel
	May 2018	The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions	Jason Hickel
	October 2023	It's Not You, It's Capitalism: Why It's Time to Break Up and How to Move On	Malaika Jabali
	March 2021	Post Growth: Life After Capitalism	Tim Jackson
	July 2021	All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis	Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson (Editors)
	August 2017	Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution	Peter Kalmus
	February 2022	The Art of Insubordination: How to Dissent and Defy Effectively	Todd Kashdan
	September 2019	On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal	Naomi Klein
	April 2024	It's Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World	Mikaela Loach
	September 2023	Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from Earth's Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis	Michael Mann
	June 2004	Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update	Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, Dennis Meadows
	December 2008	Thinking In Systems: A Primer	Donella H. Meadows
	March 2018	Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist	Kate Raworth
	February 2017	Building the New American Economy: Smart, Fair, & Sustainable	Jeffrey Sachs
	May 30, 2023	Facing the Climate Emergency: How to Transform Yourself with Climate Truth	Margaret Klein Salamon
	August 2019	The Optimist's Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age	Bina Venkataraman

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Assessments

Title and Link

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Journal Articles, Fact Sheets, Reports

These are arranged from most to least recent.

Title and Link	Date	Authors and Journal	Description
Regenerative Positive Psychology: A Call to Reorient Wellbeing Science to Meet the Realities of Our World	2023	Michael Steger Journal of Positive Psychology	From the abstract: This paper is a call for a new science of wellbeing, a Regenerative Positive Psychology, that reorients the field toward protecting and expanding the growth and health of the life-sustaining systems necessary for our wellbeing.

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Online Courses and Trainings

For the LinkedIn Learning courses below, the link takes you to an intro and synopsis. If you have access to LinkedIn learning, you can watch the full course. LinkedIn Learning access is provided as a benefit in many companies.  Most courses are also available for individual purchase. 

Course Title	Date	Creator and Site	Description
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Podcasts

More recent podcasts come first.

Title and Link	Date	Creator	Description
What Have We Learned from a Summer of Climate Reckoning?	Sept 2023	Ezra Klein Podcast.	This podcast episode delves into insights gained during a critical summer of climate awareness. It’s a great starting point for discussions on climate-related topics.
Life Beyond the Clock	August 2023	Upstream conversation with Jenny Odell	We learn about the commodification and colonization of time under capitalism, how it happened, when it happened, and how the fungibility of time contributes to human and planetary suffering.
Everyday Utopia and Radical Imagination	June 2023	Kristen Ghodsee	In this podcast, explore utopian visions and radical ideas related to climate change. It sparks creativity and encourages thinking beyond the status quo.
The Value of a Whale	Nov 2022	Upstream conversation with Adrienne Buller	In this Conversation we explore how powerful financial interests curtail the possibilities of our response to climate change, and why, if we’re hoping to survive climate change and ensure a just, livable future for all, we must move beyond capitalism and embrace ecological, social, and economic principles designed to put people and the planet over profit.
The Green Transition Pt. 2: A Green Deal for the People	Oct 2022	Upstream panel	What would truly just climate policy look like? We’ll explore policy proposals, international campaigns, people’s climate agreements, manifestos, and the dreams, visions, and actions of those who are actually serious about equitably achieving the rapid systemic transformations that the climate emergency requires.
The Green Transition Pt. 1: The Problem with Green Capitalism	Sept 2022	Upstream panel	In part 1, we’re going to explore what happens when we simply paint capitalism green without addressing its fundamental global operating principles and processes. What is the dark side of the energy transition — particularly for the Global South and Indigenous communities?
How Degrowth Will Save the World	July 2022	Upstream conversation with Jason Hickel	According to our guest in this week’s Conversation, unless the climate movement centers degrowth in its strategies and policy proposals, nothing will fundamentally change.
A Changing Climate	April 2022	Upstream conversation with Amy Westervelt	Is the fossil fuel industry a demand-driven industry, or has it become a market looking for a product? Are we getting beyond simply calling for individual actions to need to focus heavily on collective and systemic solutions to climate change?
Wage Beauty	2020	Mark Gonzales interviewed by Kerri Kelly	Mark Gonzales talks about reshaping the public imagination and waging beauty on all fronts. He challenges us to ask hard questions of who we are and why we are here. And to be more imaginative, to dream bigger about how we can create new stories and structures that reflect our values: love, beauty and belonging.
Episode 58: The Neoliberal Optimism Industry	Nov 2018	Guest Jason Hickel	We take a look at the ideological project of telling us everything's going swimmingly, how those in power cook the books and spin data to make their case for maintaining the status quo, and how The Neoliberal Optimism Industry is, at its core, an anti-intellectual enterprise designed to lull us into complacency and political impotence.
Doughnut Economics	April 2017	Upstream conversation with  Kate Raworth	Our conversation moves readily from economic history to complexity, from system design to wealth inequality, and from poverty to…doughnuts.

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Videos

Title and Link	Date	Creator	Description
A Message from the Future II: The Years of Repair	Oct 2020	The Intercept and The Leap	A sequel to the 2019 “A Message From the Future,” this film features the art of Molly Crabapple, with the political storytelling of Naomi Klein, Avi Lewis, and Opal Tometi. The cast of narrators from around the world includes Tometi, Emma Thompson, Gael García Bernal, and Nnimmo Bassey.
A Message from the Future with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez	April 2019	The Intercept	What if we actually pulled off a Green New Deal? What would the future look like? The Intercept presents a film narrated by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and illustrated by Molly Crabapple.
A Healthy Economy should be Designed to Thrive, Not Grow	2018	Kate Raworth	Kate Raworth’s TED Talk challenges conventional economic models. She proposes an alternative framework that prioritizes well-being and sustainability over perpetual growth.

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Websites 

Title and Link	Organization	Description
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