Author, Speaker, Workshop Leader

About Mary DeMocker

Mary DeMocker helps people fight effectively for a thriving future while deepening family and community connections. Her book, The Parents’ Guide to Climate Revolution: 100 Ways to Build a Fossil-Free Future, Raise Empowered Kids, and Still Get a Good Night’s Sleep (foreword by Bill McKibben) is a 2019 Oregon Book Award finalist. It been featured on Yale Climate Connections, praised by Dr. James Hansen, former director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and recommended by NPR and in The New York Times.

DeMocker is the co-founder and former creative director of 350.org’s Eugene chapter, with whom she designed and co-led youth-centered climate rallies featured on PBS NewsHour, ArtCOP21, and in an Avaaz video shown to world leaders at Paris climate talks. She speaks regularly about creative climate justice advocacy on podcasts and radio, at rallies, conferences, universities, and literary centers, and to parents, faith communities, environmental justice groups, and students from elementary to graduate schools across North America.

Winner of the 2008 Kay Snow Award for Nonfiction, DeMocker has written for many publications, including The Sun, Spirituality & Health, Mothering.com, The Oregonian, USA TODAY Magazine, Common Dreams, Mother Earth Living, Oregon Quarterly, ISLE, EcoWatch, and Sierra. She lives with her family in Oregon’s Willamette Valley.

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Email: marydemocker@gmail.com

For interview and media requests, please contact Mary at marydemocker@gmail.com or Monique Muhlenkamp, 
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Literary representation: Jennifer Unter, www.theunteragency.com

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Want climate justice? The *most important* thing you can do right now is to get out the vote in swing states.

We can't let polls comfort us when DT has called for his "army" to show up at polling places. The GOP, aware it is losing, is using every trick in the book to suppress votes & tie this election up in courts.

So: Write voters. Make calls. Donate to GOTV groups. Repeat. And hang in there -- people power works. 

October public speaking calendar:

10/3: Keynote, Families for a Livable Climate benefit: “Why Parents are Key to the Climate Movement”
10/17: Mothers Out Front California Convening: “Deploying Mother Power in Tumultuous Times”
10/20, LitQuake- San Francisco’s Literary Festival, 7 pm PT: “The Daily Dose: Feminist Writers Respond to the Climate Emergency”
10/24: Keynote, 350.org Sacramento 10th anniversary
10/29 TEDx talk, Portland State University: “Re-Storying Our Future with Your Creativity”: Event 4 - 7pm PST. Mine is 4th, ~ 5pm; live Q&A with speakers ~ 5:45 pm PT 

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The Parents' Guide
to Climate Revolution:

100 Ways to Build a Fossil-Free Future, Raise Empowered Kids, and Still Get a Good Night's Sleep

"This is a book for anyone, of any age, who believes in the power of human creativity, or anyone who needs a dose of hope. It’s not too late to seek a newer world."

— Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods

"Trust me, most of this is going to be fun."

— Bill McKibben, cofounder of 350.org and author of The End of Nature

“Mary DeMocker’s new book is an essential resource for parents . . . incredibly refreshing.”

— Sierra Magazine

"A treat to read. I couldn’t put it down."

— Mary C. Wood, author of Nature’s Trust

"I love this book . . . wonderful, inspiring . . . brimming with ideas"

— Scott D. Sampson, PhD, author of How to Raise a Wild Child and host of PBS Kids Dinosaur Train

"At last, genuinely practical and powerful answers to the question, what can I do to push back against fossil fuels and promote climate sanity? The book is brilliant. It’s honest. It’s funny. Here’s what you can do—right now."

— Kathleen Dean Moore, author of Great Tide Rising

"Wise, subtle, fun, and informative — this is a book to savor, dog-ear, bookmark, highlight, and press into another person’s hands."

— Peter Hoffmeister, author of Too Shattered for Mending

"This book will empower you and your children to walk hand in hand to turn the tides, gently but effectively, on the biggest issue we face."

— Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, youth director of Earth Guardians and author of We Rise: The Earth Guardians Guide to Building a Movement that Restores the Planet 

"Encouraging, entertaining and, most of all, deeply empowering."

— Catia Juliana, climate activist and mother of Kelsey Juliana, youth plaintiff in the Juliana v. U.S. climate lawsuit against the federal government

". . .an invaluable handbook. . ."

— Jeremy Brecher, author of Against Doom: A Climate Insurgency Manual

"Mary DeMocker . . . makes it easy for us to create a better future for all children."

— Kitty Piercy, three-term mayor of Eugene, Oregon voted “Most Valuable Local Official” (the Nation, 2010)

"This is a guilt-free roadmap to saving ourselves in order to save the planet."

— Stephanie LeMenager, author of Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century

"For the love of children and our planet, devour this essential book . . ."

—Julia Olson, Executive Director of Our Children’s Trust and Lead Counsel in Juliana v. U.S.

" ...includes resources, tools, and projects to engage kids on climate change."

—The New York Times