Andrew Boyd is an author, humorist, and activist. His newest book, I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope and Gallows Humor is forthcoming from New Society Publishers and was published in February 2023. He is currently CEO (Chief Existential Officer) of the Climate Clock, a global campaign he co-founded that melds art, science, and grassroots organizing to get the world to #ActInTime. He also co-created the grief-storytelling ritual the Climate Ribbon and led the 2000s-era satirical campaign “Billionaires for Bush.” His previous books include Beautiful Trouble, Daily Afflictions and Life’s Little Deconstruction Book. Unable to come up with his own lifelong ambition, he’s been cribbing from Milan Kundera: “to unite the utmost seriousness of question with the utmost lightness of form.”
Books in order of publication:
The Activist Cookbook: Creative Actions for a Fair Economy – 1997
Life’s Little Deconstruction Book: Self-Help for the Post-Hip – 1998
Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe – 2002
Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution – 2012
I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor – 2023
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