Response-able Book

RESPONSE-ABLE
How to Live Well Overtime on Planet Earth

What We All Need To Know and Be Able to Do to Make The Shift Towards a Sustainable Future

About My Book
Response-able: How to Live Well Overtime on Planet Earth

This book is for young people. Young in age, and young at heart.  It can be read in class with a teacher’s support and guidance, and it can be read individually and in community.  The goal of the book is to inspire, motivate and prepare young people to think about the world, their relationship to it, and their ability to influence it in an entirely new way.

The book is divided into three sections:

1. The first section is about the importance of being able to envision a preferred future and navigate towards it, i.e., to invent the kind of future that is possible. I begin with visions of many of us who have been at this for a while and invite my readers to envision the future they want. I explain that it's not what the vision is, it's what the vision does…  and I emphasize that this is “game on” not “game over”.

2. In the second section, I discuss the mindsets that got us into the unsustainable situation in which we find ourselves (and that are still wreaking havoc on our lives) and then I explore the kinds of unsustainable designs and lifestyles that followed suit.

3. In the third and last section, I explore the mindsets of sustainability and discuss what we need to know, do and be like individually and collectively, if we want to thrive over time on this planet. Physical laws and ecological principles (the operating instructions for life on Earth), scientific and media literacy, systems thinking, creative thinking, thinking about thinking, making and adapting to change, and the value of recognizing and protecting the commons.  Making choices, taking actions and anticipating the need to read the feedback and self correct, are all attributes of the thinking, doing and being for a sustainable future. Included in this last section is an invitation to “Find Your Compelling Purpose” a new tool that will help young people find their super power, their “ikigai”, their niche,  and join others with similar and diverse unique contributions to accelerate the course correction we need to make to head towards the future we want.

What the Revenue for the Pre-Sale Campaign Covers

My publisher (Manuscripts Press) gave me a publishing team to help me produce and launch my book. I am working with...

• A revisions editor, copy editor, and proofreader this Spring to further hone my book

• A marketing specialist to coach and support me in marketing efforts, and help me reach new audiences

• A cover artist and layout editor will be designing my book. (The mockups you see currently are a placeholder!)

Other Ways You Can Support Me

Please share my pre-sale campaign on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn with your friends, family and network. Please use #response-able and tag me as well as my publisher, Manuscripts Press, so we can help amplify your efforts.

Please recommend my book to at least five (5) friends, family members, or co-workers who you think would enjoy it via text or direct message on social media, or the old-fashioned way, just tell them about it over a delicious farm-to-table meal! 

Thank you so much for all of your love and support!

Thanks again,
Jaimie P. Cloud

Ticket Options

• Pre-sale book launch Event + 1 ebook - $15.00
  You will receive a Digital Copy of my book when I publish. You'll be invited to join my pre-sale book launch event.

• Pre-sale book launch Event + 1 paperback copy of book - $20.00
  You will receive 1 Paperback edition of my book when I publish. You'll also be invited to join my my pre-sale book launch event.

• Pre-sale book launch Event + 1 signed copy of the book - $30.00
  You will receive 1 signed Paperback edition of my book when I publish (the additional cost will offset the costs of printing for students). You'll also be invited to join my pre-sale book launch event.

• Pre-sale book launch event + Class sets of books (20 books) - $300.00
  If you buy a class set of 20 books or more, the price of the Paperback book or ebook is $15 each. You will also be invited to join my pre-sale book launch event.

• Pre-sale book launch event + Class sets of books (30 books) - $450.00
  If you buy a class set of 30 books or more, the price of the Paperback book or ebook is $15 each. You will also be invited to join my pre-sale book launch event.

• 1 Day Intro to EfS + 1 signed copy of the paperback book + Pre-sale book launch event - $150.00
  You will receive a signed paperback edition of my book when I publish. You will be invited to join our one day Introduction to Education for Sustainability (virtually or in-person at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY) on August 11, 2025. You'll also be invited to join my my pre-sale book launch event.

• Curriculum Design Studio + 1 signed copy of the paperback book + pre-sale book launch event - $499.00
  You will receive a signed paperback edition of my book when I publish. You will be invited to join our Curriculum Design Studio (virtually or in-person at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY) from August 11 to August 15, 2025. You'll also be invited to join my pre-sale book launch event.

• Donate to the publishing and printing of the book - $100.00
  You will receive1 signed Paperback edition of my book when I publish. You'll also be invited to join my my pre-sale book launch event. Your name will appear in the Acknowledgments section of my book and on the Cloud Institute website.