Explore over 30 diverse climate change books for kids, spanning various age groups and featuring unique perspectives. Despite challenges such as politicization and book bans, these resources provide valuable insights, offering pathways for children to confront climate challenges through awareness and positive actions. Prepare the next generation for civic engagement through empowering climate literature.

Parking your car has significant social implications that few of us consider. Henry Grabar discusses his latest book, Paved Paradise, where he describes the societal and economic impact of our parking policies, which encompass fines, valets, garages, permits, and more.

Former college president Brian Rosenberg explores the pressing need for change in higher education and why the industry is resistant to even discussing the crisis it faces. He paints a stark picture of an industry at a crossroads, highlighting the urgent need for innovation, adaptation, and a reevaluation of structures and practices to continue fulfilling its essential societal role.

Mental health disorders are costly to society and devasting to the individuals who suffer. By demonstrating that mental disorders are metabolic disorders, Dr. Chris Palmer offers new solutions and hope to address the mental health epidemic.

The Big Myth, by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, makes a compelling and well documented case that under the guise of protecting individual freedom, corporations and influential individuals organized to resist efforts to regulate industry. Oreskes and Conway peel away the cloak to expose concerted efforts across broad spectrums of society to propagandize against government efforts to protect the common good, to a point where any government intervention into the marketplace is labeled anti-capitalist. The book is not an assault on capitalism, but an assault on the myth that equates capitalism with freedom.

Author, immigration reform advocate, and pro bono lawyer, Linda Dakin-Grimm, discusses how her faith influences her work and one of her many successful asylum cases reuniting a family from Guatemala separated at the U.S. border.

Eric Collins, founder of Impact X Capital and host of the UK The Money Maker, discusses how black entrepreneurship and business ownership is a pathway to black empowerment. He gives us his advice on how we can be disruptive visionaries and boldly create the world we want to see.

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Juliette Kayyem, Professor in International Security at Harvard Kennedy School, where she is also faculty chair of the Homeland Security and Security and Global Health Projects, discusses her book, The Devil Never Sleeps: Learning to Live in the Age of Disasters. In this interview, Professor Kayyem discusses the importance of corporate structure in preparing for crises, the preparedness paradox, how human nature makes preparing for crises challenging, and finally how leadership skills are critical in all crises, particularly the current crisis in Ukraine.

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Reparations are not new in this country. Forty years after stripping Japanese Americans of their homes, businesses, property and dignity, the U.S. government paid survivors $20,000 and issued a formal apology. Author Daniel James Brown explores what we can learn from the Japanese-American experience.

In Rebecca Henderson’s new book, Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire, there opens a new path for the future of capitalism, a ‘journey’ that offers rewards, but is demanding.

Fundamentally, self-reliance in the twenty-first century is about thinking for yourself and not becoming paralyzed by the data deluge and overwhelming information we suffer through on a daily basis. Vikram Mansharamani discusses ways to harnesses the power of experts and technologies without giving up autonomy.

Professor Rosabeth Kanter, in her book, counsels that today's challenges - climate change, COVID-19, systemic racism, economic inequality - require a new paradigm of thinking to upend the status quo. “To think outside the building” is a call to action for bold advanced leaders with the mission to tackle the world’s biggest problems when we need social, economic, and environmental solutions more than ever.

A conversation with Howard Gardner, the John H. and Elizabeth A. Hobbs Research Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, who has had a distinguished career as an innovative educator and psychologist.