BRIGHT GREEN FUTURE

In their upcoming book, Gregory Schwartz, PhD and Trevor Decker Cohen explore the revolution in sustainability happening in our own backyards.

It feels like everything we hear about the planet focuses on our impending doom. We see a thousand ecological nightmares in front of us: rising seas, growing deserts, and mass extinctions - to name a few. We talk a lot about the many worlds we don’t want.

But what about the one we deserve?

Bright Green Future is the true story of innovators overcoming immense challenges to build a brighter future for the next generation.

They’re ordinary people building small pieces of a more sustainable, just, and prosperous whole.

They’re creating a world powered by clean energy that grows wealth for all, industry fueled by resources that never run out, walkable towns and cities designed by and for the people, and farms that revive soil and soul.

From their work we can find inspiration to build a better world in our own backyard.

“This necessary and inspiring book reveals a world of innovators who cultivate seeds of ingenuity into glorious trees of life.”
- Dan Chu, Executive Director, Sierra Club Foundation
“A rollicking good read.”
- Atul Singh, Editor-in-Chief, Fair Observer

What you’ll learn in this book:

How to use renewable energy as a pathway out of poverty.
How electric cars can make wind and solar more reliable.
How we can transform greenhouse gasses into plastic that can biodegrade in the ocean.
How towns and cities can be built by and for the people who live there.
How to use “tactical urbanism” to make a better main street.
How farmers and ranchers are growing fertile soil out of carbon in the air.
How a farm in every community can heal the land, grow nutritious food, and provide opportunities for the next generation.
How people are creating a new economy that empowers rather than exploits.
What we can do in our own backyard.

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About the authors

Gregory Schwartz, PhD is an author, speaker, and professor of environmental science who is published in academic journals, mainstream periodicals, and trade books. His research explores the relationship between humans and the natural environment, and shows how the causes and solutions to climate change are as much cultural as technological. A father of two, Greg has lived and worked on four continents as a researcher, translator, and educator. He now resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Trevor Decker Cohen is a writer who’s passionate about a better future for the planet, and seeks to move beyond doom and gloom. He’s worked as a content strategist, marketer, and has edited two books. Healthcare without Corruption provides a non-profit vision for the US healthcare system. Thermoinfocomplexity establishes a new theory on the way evolution works.