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David Gershon

David Gershon is the author of ten books, including the best-selling Empowerment: The Art of Creating Your Life As You Want It and Low Carbon Diet: A 30-Day Program to Lose 5,000 Pounds, winner of the "Most Likely to Save the Planet" Independent Publisher Book Award. He is founder and president of Empowerment Institute and codirects its school for social change. His clients include cities, governmental agencies, nonprofits, large corporations, and social entrepreneurs engaged in furthering social change. Gershon has lectured at Harvard, MIT, and Duke Universities and served as an advisor to the Clinton White House and United Nations. He lives in upstate New York.

    David's Books

    Empowerment

    The Art of Creating Your Life As You Want It

    Now in its 11th printing, and translated into eight languages, Empowerment: The Art of Creating Your Life As You Want It is widely considered to be a classic in the field of personal empowerment and transformation. Much more than a collection of inspiring principles, the book guides readers step-by-step through a systematic self-transformation program addressing seven key areas of life: relationships, sexuality, money, work, body, emotions and spirituality. Empowerment is based on its authors’ two decades of work helping thousands of people create the life of their dreams. Its simple premise—that our thoughts and beliefs create the conditions of our life—is illustrated with anecdotes from each of the seven areas.

    Water Stewardship

    A 30 Day Program to Protect and Conserve Our Water Resources...One Drop at a Time

    In Water Stewardship: A 30 Day Program to Protect and Conserve Our Water Resources... One Drop at a Time, environmental behavior-change pioneer David Gershon uses his time-tested methodology to empower readers to take an active role in improving the quality and availability of one of our most precious resources. This immensely readable illustrated handbook guides readers through 32 behavior-change actions and action plans for each of three topics: water quality, water conservation and community volunteering/advocacy. Employing Gershon’s acclaimed EcoTeam model—which has helped more than 250,000 people around the world reduce their environmental footprint by 25 percent—Water Stewardship gives readers the concrete tools they need to make a meaningful impact on water preservation and conservation. This book will also be of interest to any watershed organization or local government involved in watershed protection, as it provides an effective and scalable program for reducing household non–point-source pollution. Water Stewardship has the power to move citizens beyond awareness to behavior change, and generate enough participation to make a measurable difference in non–point-source pollution in their watershed.

    Low Carbon Diet

    A 30 Day Program to Lose 5000 Pounds

    Low Carbon Diet is an easy to use guide that will show you, step-by-step, how to dramatically reduce your CO2 output in just a month's time.

    Journey for the Planet

    A Kid's Five Week Adventure to Create an Earth-friendly Life

    Journey for the Planet guides children through a series of action steps that can impact both climate change and the environment as a whole.

    Green Living Handbook

    A 6-Step Program to Create an Environmentally Sustainable Lifestyle

    Green Living Handbook has been driving environmental-behavior change in cities, faith communities, universities, and businesses for over a decade. Much more than another collection of eco-tips for the newly green, this illustrated workbook walks readers step-by-step through a comprehensive lifestyle transformation program that has proven it can get results. Thousands of past participants of the program have reduced their environmental footprint by 25 percent on average.

    Social Change 2.0

    A Blueprint for Reinventing the World

    From his initiation as architect of the United Nations-sponsored First Earth Run—a mythic passing of fire around the world symbolizing humanity's quest for peace on earth that drew tens of millions of participants, the planet's political leaders and, through the media, over a billion people at the height of the cold war—to his recent climate-change work helping citizens, cities, and entire states measurably reduce their carbon footprint (using his book Low Carbon Diet), Gershon offers readers strategies to evolve an effective new model for social change.