Time to Think Small: How Nimble Environmental Technologies Can Solve the Planet's Biggest Problems

 This  call to climate action examines ways we can leverage the growing power  of smartphones and other technologies to become effective environmental  stewards to protect threatened species, reduce the risk from climate  change, and stop ocean plastic.

Personal  technologies are creating what the Environmental Defense Fund calls “a  transformational shift” in how we address environmental problems. Time to Think Small explores how these brand-new approaches are already playing a huge role  in winning some of the most difficult and important environmental  struggles of our day–from fighting climate change, to ensuring drinkable  water for everyone, to saving endangered animals, to keeping plastic  out of the ocean.

Learn how these technologies magnify and  multiply the power everyone has as individuals to save our environment  and how this tremendous power is not only growing, but also has the huge  benefit of being independent of sudden shifts in political leadership.

Drawing  on two decades of environmental policy and a career working with  endangered species mixed with his previous career in tech, Myers looks  at the different ways we can be empowered to find environmental  solutions.

"Time to Think Small reminds me of the first words spoken on the moon, about small steps and  giant leaps. Todd Myers does, in fact, describe the giant strides from  accumulated small steps that will help solve THE biggest long-term  problem facing humanity today. If Big Government won’t act, WE CAN, in our own small ways!" --Donald Kroodsma, Author of Birdsong for the Curious Naturalist

"The  future of environmental stewardship depends on technology and  innovation. Todd Myers is a national leader on environmental policy and  technology and understands how to create solutions that sidestep  political gridlock." --John Connors, former Microsoft CFO

"A  much-needed analysis of how we can solve complex global environmental  problems by applying human ingenuity. . . and why every step matters  along the way." --Benji Backer, President, American Conservation Coalition

"Addressing  climate change can be such a polarizing issue. Myers's book has found a  way to cut right through that with practical, applicable actions that  everyone can take to make a difference." --Kevin Wilhelm, CEO, Sustainable Business Consulting

"While  the positions taken by Todd Myers may be disconcerting to an old-school  environmentalist such as myself, his voice is one we need to hear in  the conversation about climate change. Myers makes a compelling argument  that thinking small stimulates creativity, and that nimble, creative  approaches can play a crucial role in achieving sustainability." -- John S. Farnsworth, PhD, Author of Nature Beyond Solitude: Notes from the Field