Menu
— 24 April 2025 —

DAY ZERO

Books | Nonfiction

One City’s Response to a record-breaking drought

 Day Zero is an opportunity to capture some of the perspectives and experiences of the various sectors as the water crisis played out. It explains the different roles, responsibilities, and responses in a way that helps citizens better understand how complex the process of urban water management and climate change adaptation is. The book documents these stories, not only so that Cape Town can better prepare itself for future droughts, but that other cities can learn from this experience.

Leonie Joubert & Gina Ziervogel

Learn more about Day Zero by Leonie Joubert & Gina Ziervogel

More Books

Systems Thinking For Social Change

Systems Thinking For Social Change

A Practical Guide to Solving Complex Problems, Avoiding Unintended Consequences, and Achieving Lasting Results Systems Thinking for Social Change enables readers to contribute more effectively to society by helping them understand what systems thinking is and why it...

After Spaceship Earth

After Spaceship Earth

An expansive look at the contemporary artists confronting, challenging, and reimagining R. Buckminster Fuller's techno-utopianism to envision sustainable futures Architect and designer R. Buckminster Fuller's (1895-1983) concept of "Spaceship Earth," one of the most...

Multisolving

Multisolving

Creating Systems Change in a Fractured World For most of Elizabeth Sawin’s career, she was not a multisolver. Instead, she worked on a single, albeit immensely important problem: climate change. Despite tremendous effort—long hours of teaching, attending conferences,...

The Commune Form: The Transformation of Everyday Life

The Commune Form: The Transformation of Everyday Life

A leading radical historian looks at the global resurgence of the commune and asks how they can become sites of liberationWhen the state recedes, the commune-form flourishes. This was as true in Paris in 1871 as it is now whenever ordinary people begin to manage their...

Reality Blind

Reality Blind

By Nate Hagens A story about Earth’s most successful modern creature – the human being. But Earth’s most successful modern creature is now in a predicament; a predicament brought about by a compelling combination of vital human traits and our (relatively) recent...