Climate Wayfinding

Healing Ourselves and the Planet We Call Home

By Katharine K. Wilkinson

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. 

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.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr. Katharine K. Wilkinson is a human on Earth. As a writer, teacher, and climate expert, 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 Save 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.

A Special Thanks to These Poets & Climate Leaders

Poetry by

Ellen Bass ✚ Tamiko Beyer ✚ Lucille Clifton ✚ Jane Hirshfield ✚ Danusha Laméris ✚ Ada Limón ✚ Aurora Levins Morales ✚ Tracy K. Smith

Wisdom from

Colette Pichon Battle ✚ Valérie Courtois ✚ Wahleah Johns ✚ Kate Marvel ✚ Wanjira Mathai ✚ Sherri Mitchell ✚ Billy Parish ✚ Jennifer Robinson ✚ Sister True Dedication

Select Press + Podcasts

Orion, May 2026

The Ink, April 2026

Earth Island Journal, May 2026

Yoga Journal, June 2026

Porchlight, May 2026

READING GROUPS

Take the journey of Climate Wayfinding in community.

Reading Groups are a vibrant way to “do” the Climate Wayfinding book together, so we can move through ache to action, doubt to possibility. Gather with friends, neighbors, co-workers, students, or broader community over 8 sessions, each based on a chapter of the book.

Climate Wayfinding is more than a book. It’s a beloved experiential program.