Climate Book Contest During SF Climate Week!

Interested in winning a copy of the hottest new climate read? Keep reading.

Follow ClimateVoice on Bluesky during SF Climate Week between Monday, April 21, 2025 at 12:01am Central Time (CDT) Zone in the United States and ending at 11:59 P.M. Central Time (CDT) on Sunday, April 27, 2025 to be entered to win 1 of 5 copies of Terrible Beauty: Reckoning with Climate Complicity and Rediscovering Our Soul by Auden Schendler.

** Each participant is only entitled to a single submission. Full contest rules can be found at the bottom of this page.

A firsthand, trench-view story of the failure of the modern environmental movement—and an inspiring prescription for change.

Something’s gone badly awry with environmentalism. We faithfully separate our waste into different streams, but wonder whether it really makes a difference. Global companies announce their commitment to carbon negativity while simultaneously sponsoring oil conferences. American businesses, communities, and individuals assiduously measure their carbon footprints, then implement voluntary emissions-reduction programs, all while trumpeting their do-gooderism.

The problem is, none of this—whether individual efforts or corporate sustainability tactics—will make a dent in solving the civilizational threat of climate change. We only pretend it will, at our peril.

As sustainability veteran Auden Schendler argues in this provocative, powerful book, we’re living a big green lie. The hard truth is that much of the modern environmental road map could have been written by the fossil fuel industry specifically to avoid disrupting the status quo. We have become somehow complicit.

But there is another truth: while ineffective or duplicitous environmentalism has become standard practice, we all have friends and family we love and care about, whose future depends on solving the problem of climate change. Conscience tells us we have an obligation to repair the world. How can our common dreams be so at odds with our daily practice? And how might we meld our spirit and our passion to create a better future?

Schendler meets this profound contradiction head-on—with a bracing critique, moving personal stories of parenthood and service, and innovative, real-world methods to tackle climate change at the corporate, community, and individual levels.

Terrible Beauty is a unique and inspiring call for a new environmentalism, showing us that the key to saving the planet is to tap into our own humanity.

Contest Terms and Conditions

ClimateVoice, a fiscally sponsored project of Tides Center, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization (“Promoter”), is hosting a Climate Book Contest (the “Contest”) in accordance with these Terms and Conditions (“Terms”). See below for complete details. All applicable laws and regulations apply.

BINDING AGREEMENT: By participating in the Contest, you (“Participant”) hereby agree to these Terms. Please do not participate in the Contest if you do not agree. These Terms form a binding legal agreement between each Participant and ClimateVoice, a fiscally sponsored project of Tides Center, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization (“Promoter”).

COMPETITION PERIOD: The Contest begins at 12:01am Central Time (CDT) in the United States on Monday, April 21, 2025 and ends at 11:59 P.M. Central Time (CDT) on Sunday, April 27, 2025 (“Contest Period”). Participants are responsible for determining the corresponding time zone in their respective jurisdictions. Promoter reserves the right to modify Contest dates and times, and to cancel, terminate, modify, suspend or extend the Contest.

ELIGIBILITY: To be eligible to participate in the Contest, a Participant must: (1) be at least 18 years old; (2) be a resident of the 50 states of the United States of America, the District of Columbia, or Puerto Rico; and (3) have access to the Internet (for purposes of contest entry). Participants agree that if selected as a winner they will provide any information or consents necessary to verify eligibility. Contest is void in Excluded Countries and where prohibited by law. Employees, interns, contractors, and official office-holders of Promoter, its affiliates, and its and their respective directors, officers, employees, representatives, and agents (collectively, “Contest Entities”), and the Contest Entities’ immediate families and member of household (whether related or not) are ineligible to participate in this Contest.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE: Participants must follow ClimateVoice’s Bluesky account (@climatevoice.bsky.social) during the Competition Period in order to participate in this Contest (“Submission”). Each Participant is only entitled to a single Submission. Alternately, participants may submit a request via the ClimateVoice contact form at https://climatevoice.org/about/#contact during the Competition Period requesting Contest entry.

DETERMINATION OF AWARD FINALISTS & RECIPIENTS: Promotor will track Participants who follow the ClimateVoice Bluesky account or submit an entry via the ClimateVoice contact form. The sole factor for determining the Winners shall be a random drawing of names from the list of eligible Participants added during the Competition Period. Five randomly (5) drawn Participants shall be deemed as the Winners of this Contest (“Winners”). Promoter reserves the right not to provide any awards (or fewer than the quantity of awards identified above) if there are an insufficient number of qualified Submissions received. Participants acknowledge that the determination of Winners by Promoter are final and binding. The provision of any award is subject to verification of eligibility and compliance with these Terms. Winners will be notified via Bluesky direct message or tagged public post by May 2, 2025.

AWARDS: Each Winner will receive a hardcover copy of Terrible Beauty: Reckoning with Climate Complicity and Rediscovering Our Soul (ISBN:9781647829759) with an estimated MSRP of $32 (USD) + sales tax + shipping & handling (or a gift card in the amount of U.S. $35 to purchase the same, to be determined at Promoter’s sole discretion). Bookshop.org will be used as the fulfillment provider.

PRIVACY: Participant acknowledges and agrees that Promoter may collect, store, share and use any personally identifiable information provided to Promoter throughout the Contest. Promoter will use this information in accordance with its Privacy Policy at https://climatevoice.org/privacy-policy/, including without limitation for administering the Contest.

INDEMNITY AND RELEASE: To the maximum extent permitted by law, each Participant agrees to defend, indemnify and hold harmless the Contest Entities from and against any and all claims, actions, suits or proceedings, and all injuries, losses, liabilities, damages of any kind to persons or property, including costs and expenses (including reasonable attorney’s fees) arising out directly or indirectly from participant’s participation in the Contest or any Contest-related activity.

Participant acknowledges that Bluesky, Instagram, LinkedIn, Bookshop.org, and all other platforms (“Platforms”) are not a party to this Contest and release Platforms from any and all liability, claims, and causes of action related to this Contest.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY: Promoter and the Contest Entities are not responsible for any malfunction, late, lost, damaged, misdirected, incomplete, undeliverable or destroyed Submission, or limitations on a Participant’s ability to participate due to technical failures of any kind. Participants agree that any and all claims, judgments, and awards shall be limited to actual out of pocket costs incurred in participating in the Contest (but in no event attorneys’ fees); and Participants waive all rights to claim any punitive, incidental, consequential, and any other damages, to the maximum extent permitted by law.

NATURE OF RELATIONSHIP/WAIVER OF EQUITABLE RELIEF: Under no circumstances shall any Submission into the Contest, the provision of any award, or anything in these Terms be construed as an offer or contract of employment with either Promoter, or the Contest Entities. Participant acknowledges that no confidential, fiduciary, agency, or other relationship now exists between Participant and Promoter or the Contest Entities and that no such relationship is established by Participant’s Submission. Participant’s rights and remedies in the event of any breach of this Agreement are strictly limited to the right, if any, to recover damages in an action at law, and Participant acknowledges that the remedy of money damages is adequate. Participant will not be entitled by reason of any such breach, and may not seek any equitable relief, whether injunctive or otherwise.

CHOICE OF LAW & DISPUTE RESOLUTION: To the extent permitted by law, these Terms shall be governed by, subject to and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of California, USA, excluding all conflict of law rules. All disputes between Participant and Promoter of whatsoever kind or nature arising out of these Terms, shall be subject to Promoter’s standard Terms of Service available at https://climatevoice.org/terms-conditions/ (the “TOS”).

MISCELLANEOUS: If any provision(s) of these Terms are held to be invalid or unenforceable, all remaining provisions hereof will remain in full force and effect. This Contest is provided by ClimateVoice, a project of Tides Center, 1012 Torney Ave., San Francisco, CA 14129-1704. For any questions, please contact us.

Last Modified April 18, 2025.

Want to write about ClimateVoice?