Change: How to Make Big Things Happen, by Damon Centola

• Published: Jan 19, 2021
• Page Count: 320 pages
• Publisher: Little Brown Spark
• ISBN-139780316457347

If Degrowth is to happen we need to reach a critical mass of people who care more about the planet remaining hospitable to life, rather than sustaining their own current way of life. This is a brilliant book because it specifically outlines how change happens (based on history), and what role we can each play in making change happen. It covers the myths that people believe are actually preventing change, the “Changemakers Playbook,” the 25% tipping point and more. This book is an empowering read and the missing link in the degrowth literature so far.

About the author, Damon Centola:

“Damon Centola is a Professor in the Annenberg School for Communication and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is Director of the Network Dynamics Group. His widely cited work has been published across several disciplines in the world’s leading journals, including Science, The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Human Behavior, The American Journal of Sociology, and Journal of Statistical Physics. His speaking and consulting clients include Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Cigna, the Smithsonian Institution, the American Heart Association, the National Academies, the U.S. Army and the NBA. Popular accounts of Damon’s work have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, Wall Street Journal, Wired, TIME, The Atlantic, and Scientific American.”

About Erin Remblance, your host during #DegrowthLitMonth:

Erin Remblance established her early career in blue-chip fast-moving consumer goods companies in Sydney & London, but always sensed there was more important work to be done. Having children gave her the space to explore the environmental and cultural crises on the planet that need to be urgently addressed. She shifted her focus to dedicate her life towards educating people on climate change, degrowth, planetary boundaries, modern monetary theory and more. Erin is a writer, researcher, co-creator of (re)Biz, wife, and mother of three children. She lives north of Sydney, Australia with her family, on the occupied ancestral country of the Gayemagal people.

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