Girls Who Green the World

Thirty-Four Rebel Women Out to Save Our Planet

by Diana Kapp, Illustrated by Ana Jarén

Delacorte Press (April 5, 2022)

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‘Girls who Green the World’ shows how brave girls who pay attention have launched ideas and organizations that may very well save us all.

JANE FONDA

Actress and Activist

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Emily Stengel
Cofounder & Deputy Director, Greenwave — Training a new generation of regenerative ocean farmers seeding a new blue-green economy that creates jobs and mitigates climate change.

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There is no precise mold you need to fit in to be a changemaker. The powerful and innovative women whose stories are so thoughtfully brought together in ‘Girls Who Green the World’ show that no matter what your background is or what spurs you to action, you can make a difference. I hope readers young and old find inspiration in the work of these 34 incredible leaders and join the fight for a greener and more sustainable planet.

Former Vice President Al Gore

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Rhianna Gunn-Wright
“Architect,” Green New Deal, Director of Climate Policy Roosevelt Institute — The best kind of policy wonk. She was a strategic mastermind that got us to the Green New Deal.

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There is no Plan B for this planet. We all must do our part to stop the disastrous greenhouse effects we’re seeing. Diana’s book provides hope, facilitates learning, and pushes us all to fight for this beautiful earth. We all have a role to play. Fight on!

Megan Rapinoe & Rachel Rapinoe

Soccer Star & Activist | Founder, Mendi

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Mary Anne Hitt
Senior Director of Climate Imperative & Head, Beyond Coal — A girl from coal country who shut down 339 coal plants!

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‘Girls Who Green the World’ is a compelling read about intrepid explorers and solution-seekers, driven by a fierce determination to advance our understanding of the world and change it for the better. They each saw possibilities to make a meaningful difference for our planet and chose to pursue them with fearlessness and fortitude. In doing so, the stories of these remarkable women motivate, educate and inspire.

Jill Tiefenthaler

CEO, National Geographic Society

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Varshini Prakash
Cofounder and Exec Director, Sunrise Movement — The face of the Sunrise Movement, she created the most powerful grassroots youth movement demanding climate action.

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‘Girls Who Run the World’ is exactly the can-do, hopeful book we need right now to promote youth action on our climate crisis. We need this infusion of hopeful, motivating energy because we cannot afford to wait to act. With climate change, we are facing down a dire issue of human rights, justice, gender equity, and the future of our planet.

Mary Robinson

Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and first female president of Ireland

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Nana Britwum and Jannice Newsom
Founders, Lilian Augusta — Turning invasive weeds into Black hair extensions, all while ditching typical plastic braids.

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I’ve had the priviliege of knowing many of these remarkable women, and this book not only tells their remarkable stories, it captures their remarkable spirit. What a wonderful booster shot for anyone who's feeling a bit of despair!

Bill McKibben

founder, 350.org, author The End of Nature, and per Time “the world’s best green journalist

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Nicole Poindexter
Founder & CEO, Energicity — Building solar micro-grids to electrify rural West Africa

We had a summer of climate disaster: Raging wildfires, record high temps, the gravest IPCC report yet—“a code red for humanity,” according to the U.N. chief.

Girls Who Green the World is an oasis of HOPE — a woman-to-woman playbook to the contemporary environmental movement. You’ll meet 34 revolutionaries on the frontlines.

Journalist Diana Kapp has crisscrossed this country writing for and about empowered girls, girls who expect to be leaders, founders and inventors. This book takes it a step further. It says to girls: while you’re striving to be CEOs and world leaders, consider solving the biggest challenge of our lifetime, too—because you can do both at the same time, and here are 34 women doing just that.

These women are turning mushrooms into leather, CO2 into chicken, trashed veggies into pizza and pickles, the earth’s heat into geothermal energy. One closed 354 coal plants; another is extending the life of avocados to keep them out of landfill.

Consider this their battle cry to join them.

Girls Who Green the World will be published by Delacorte Press on April 5, 2022.

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