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I started Fairpoint because I wanted to make the kinds of books I often wished I could reach for. Something that helps you understand a subject you’re new to, or find the words for a conversation you’ve been putting off.
Browse the shelfOn the shelf · Last updated October 2026
The launch collection
No. 01 · Worksheets · Available now · Free
Sustainability Claim Review Worksheets
These free worksheets help you work out whether the evidence supports an environmental claim. You’ll have somewhere to keep track of the sources you check and the questions that still need answers. Use them on their own or alongside Before You Call It Sustainable.
You don’t have to know where to start.
A guide to awkward conversations · Available now
What do I say?
For when you’ve typed a reply three times and still haven’t sent it. This guide offers wording for uncomfortable everyday conversations with room to make it sound like you.
- 11Decline without an excuse
- 02Ask where this is going
- 14Tell them a joke hurt
- 61Reply after a long silence
A guide to place and power
Before You Call It Sustainable.
“I grew up on Grand Bahama. In 2019, I moved to Florida two weeks before Hurricane Dorian destroyed my family's home.”
Inside the book
“Present and future needs also belong to the same people. A child living in that room needs a habitable climate as an adult. She needs somewhere safe to sleep tonight.”
— A window and a rent notice, p. 10
“It is worth beginning there because much environmental advice meets us at the point of purchase. A label offers to simplify a decision. The price decides whether we can act on it. By then, other people have already settled much of what we are being invited to choose between.”
— Before the food reaches the table, p. 29
“Translation offered after a project is approved can explain what will happen. Translation offered while the proposal is being developed can help people influence it. The timing changes the role it plays.”
— The search in one language, p. 52
“A resident asks about the rent. The communications team replies with the energy saving. The reply is accurate and irrelevant to the question. A volunteer asks who will pay for care next year. The team supplies the planting total. Another accurate figure leaves another issue untouched.”
— The claim and the account, p. 69
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