Every journey needs a map. Here’s one.
This is a guide that gives you framework, information, strategy, and support.
But it can’t give you commitment.
Only you can do that.
Sounds too much? It really isn’t. Do what you can, what you are comfortable with and what you have time for.
About the book
“A Guide to Planet B” is a comprehensive implementation handbook for transitioning human civilization from its current operating system, Planet A, to a regenerative and ecologically integrated Vegan alternative called Planet B. While its predecessor, “There IS a Planet B,” makes the case for why such a transition is necessary, this guide is the practical roadmap for how to actually build it.
The book is structured in three major parts. Part I lays the theoretical and philosophical foundation, beginning with the core metaphor that Planet B is not a place to escape to, but a new operating system for human civilization. This system is designed around valid goals rather than the growth-at-all-costs logic that has driven humanity past seven of nine planetary boundaries. Key chapters introduce the seven foundational axioms of Planet B, expose the goal validity failures of current Planet A frameworks. including SDG #8, Economic Growth, and present a comprehensive system design spanning food, economics, governance, health, and education.
Part II serves as a personal transition guide, walking readers step by step through the individual journey toward vegan living, from understanding the PolyCrisis in personal terms to making practical dietary, lifestyle, and community choices that align with Planet B values.
Part III is the Community Implementation Guide, focused on collective action. It introduces Hungerless, the initiative to make healthy, whole plant-based food freely available to every person as a community responsibility, and explores how neighborhoods, cities, and institutions can redesign food systems, economic structures, and governance from the ground up.
Running throughout the book are two signature concepts:
a) AhimsaCoin, an ecological economic substrate where one coin equals one square meter-year of Earth’s productive surface, enabling communities to account for true ecological costs; and
b) Animal Guardians, a governance mechanism giving non-human species meaningful representation in community decision-making.
The book closes with a call to commitment, pointing out that the crisis is real, the PolySolution already exists in fragments around the world, and what remains is the collective decision to build Planet B now, community by community, one meal at a time.
The author
Sailesh Rao is a systems engineer, author, and planetary health advocate whose career has taken him from the technical frontiers of the internet to the ecological frontiers of our time. Trained as an electrical systems engineer, Sailesh spent the first decades of his professional career working on the infrastructure of the global communications revolution. He then turned that same systems-level thinking toward a far more urgent challenge, the survival of Life on Earth.
He is the founder of Climate Healers, an organization whose research has provided some of the most rigorous scientific documentation of animal agriculture’s role as the leading driver of ecological collapse. He is the architect of the Planet B systems engineering framework, a comprehensive alternative Operating System for human civilization designed to address the full scope of the planetary PolyCrisis systematically. His books, including There IS a Planet B and A Guide to Planet B, present both the vision and the practical roadmap for a world built on whole plant-based Vegan food systems, ecological rewilding, regenerative economics, and multi-species governance.
He champions Hungerless, the initiative to make healthy, whole plant-based Vegan food freely available to every human being as a community responsibility, and AhimsaCoin, an ecological economic instrument that accounts for the true cost of human activity on the living world.
Sailesh’s work has been presented at venues including the Oxford Literary Festival and UN Climate summits. He writes and speaks at the intersection of systems science, ethics, and civilizational transformation, driven by the conviction that we are 14 feet from the finish line in a marathon race started by our ancestors 50,000 years ago, and that finishing the race is a conscious choice we can make today.
Planet B is not a physical destination. We’re not building rockets to Mars or searching for habitable exoplanets. Planet B is right here, on this Earth, available to us right now. The question is not where it is, but what it is.
To find out more and acquire in-depth knowledge, please visit Climatehealers.org
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