UNDER THE SKY WE MAKE

Under the Sky We Make was selected by Stanford University President as the 2022 book sent to Founders’ Circle members, the 1,200 supporters who have donated $1 million or more to Stanford University.

"Nicholas explores finding purpose in a warming world, combining her scientific expertise and her lived, personal experience in a way that seems fresh and deeply urgent: Agonizing over the climate costs of visiting loved ones overseas, how to find low-carbon love on Tinder, and even exploring her complicated family legacy involving supermarket turkeys.

In her astonishing book Under the Sky We Make, Nicholas does for climate science what Michael Pollan did more than a decade ago for the food on our plate: offering a hopeful, clear-eyed, and somehow also hilarious guide to effecting real change, starting in our own lives. Saving ourselves from climate apocalypse will require radical shifts within each of us, to effect real change in our society and culture. But it can be done. It requires, Dr. Nicholas argues, belief in our own agency and value, alongside a deep understanding that no one will ever hand us power–we’re going to have to seize it for ourselves."

Read an excerpt from Under the Sky We Make in The Guardian.

Praise for
UNDER THE SKY WE MAKE

"A beautiful book—wise, painful, transformative—about all that we might still save. Reading it forced me to dig deep within myself, to try to find answers to what I cared about most, what I believed. "
--Jayson Greene, author of One More We Saw Stars

“A crash-course on why climate change is happening and how to fix it, interwoven with beautifully written, witty anecdotes…Under the Sky We Make pushes back—politely, but with science—against the narrative that individual actions make little difference to the climate…A breezy field guide on how to align your lifestyle with your values.”
– Maddie Stone, Grist

“This compelling book about climate change really packs a punch, because climate scientist Nicholas relentlessly brings things down to the personal level….this is a realistic, accessible, and clarion call for change…Students will enjoy Nicholas’s wry observations and appreciate her approachable insights as well as her “key take-aways” from every chapter.”
-Booklist (starred review)

“The move from exploitation to regeneration is indeed critical if we are going to have a chance in the global warming fight–and since this decade is critical, this book comes at the right moment!”
–Bill McKibben, author Falter and founder, 350.org

"Educational and galvanizing, this book is part memoir, part exposé, part warm conversation with a friend–and it is a soul-stirring call to action.”
–Dr. Lucy Kalanithi, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Stanford University, and widow of Paul Kalanithi, author of When Breath Becomes Air

"Lund University climate scientist Nicholas delivers a user-friendly survey of the current state of the knowledge on climate change...she writes with welcome clarity and little partisan cheerleading.
Readers looking to save the world—and humanity—should take an interest in this harm-reducing program."
- Kirkus Reviews

"Thankfully, Kimberly Nicholas' Under the Sky We Make is here to show all of us how we can save the world, just by making meaningful changes in our own lives."
-Bustle, The Most Anticipated Books of March 2021

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