Anna Kelly sat down with solar installers, wind turbine technicians, program evaluators, policy advocates, founders, researchers, grid builders, and efficiency engineers, and asked them to talk about their work.

People told her about jobs they’d stumbled into, mentors who changed their paths, days they wanted to quit, and moments they realized the work mattered.

The people in this book are not famous. They are regular workers. But because they work on climate, they go to bed feeling good every single night.