Description: When maps come up short and the path ahead is uncertain, how do we find our way? Visionary climate leader Katharine K. Wilkinson offers a compassionate and empowering guide to navigating from ache to action, doubt to possibility.
"There's an enormous amount of learning from many years of climate work condensed into this invaluable book--wisdom about what to do, how to do it, and in what spirit. It will be so much help to so many!" --Bill McKibben, author of Here Comes the Sun Through transformational programs and books, including the national bestseller All We Can Save, Wilkinson has inspired hundreds of thousands of climate journeys. In Climate Wayfinding, she shares a proven process for looking inward with care, outward with curiosity, and forward with courage. Ultimately, readers chart a course toward playing their unique part in our collective healing. With her singular blend of warmth and rigor, Wilkinson lights the way through stirring personal essays, interwoven with the wisdom of other climate leaders and the beauty of poetry, art, and song. A book to sit with and savor, Climate Wayfinding also invites engagement with journaling prompts, practical exercises, and guides for conversation. Whether steeped in climate or newly curious, readers will discover something grounding and generative in these pages. The terrain ahead is calling--and we have everything we need to find our way.Brief description: Dr. Katharine K. Wilkinson is a human on Earth. As a writer, teacher, and creator, she has inspired hundreds of thousands of climate journeys through transformational projects that shift our cultural narratives about what's possible and nurture engagement in renewing our world. Her publications include the bestselling anthology All We Can Save, the podcast A Matter of Degrees, and the New York Times bestseller Drawdown. Dr. Wilkinson co-founded and leads The All We Can Project, where she shaped the much-beloved programs All We Can Save Circles and Climate Wayfinding. She holds a DPhil in geography and environment from the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar, and a BA in religion from Sewanee: The University of the South. In 2019, Time magazine named her one of fifteen "women who will save the world." She lives with her loves in Atlanta, Georgia, and finds her deepest joy on a mountain or a horse.
Review Quotes: "The need for climate leadership and community engagement is immense. Wherever you are on your climate journey, Katharine Wilkinson draws on her huge personal experience to guide with practical steps that immerse the response in nature, art, and inner fulfilment. There is depth and joy in the journey."
(Mary Robinson, first woman President of Ireland and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights)