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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What People are Saying
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“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 -
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“Katharine, a gloriously poetic and heart-centered climate leader, has crafted a guide for those who seek to be ever more deeply of use. (Yes, that should be all of us.) Her kaleidoscopic vision and nurturing approach are the galvanizing balm we need to move from climate anxiety to climate action.”
—Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, author of What If We Get It Right? -
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“Katharine K. Wilkinson has given us a compass for the climate era, one that points us back to courage, community, and the deep inner work this moment asks of us. Climate Wayfinding is both a balm and a call to action, reminding us that healing the planet begins with tending to ourselves and each other. With her signature clarity and compassion, Katharine illuminates pathways toward collective liberation and climate justice that feel not just possible, but deeply personal. This book will guide so many of us home.”
—Leah Thomas, author of The Intersectional Environmentalist -
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“As the climate crisis unsettles both our planet and our inner lives, Climate Wayfinding offers a grounded path through fear, grief, and paralysis…in a time that demands the participation of all of us.”
—Christiana Figueres, founding partner of Global Optimism and former Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change -
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“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 fulfillment. There is depth and joy in the journey.”
—Mary Robinson, first woman President of Ireland and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights -
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“Katharine Wilkinson’s generous spirit, deep intellect, and illuminating wisdom spill forth from the pages of Climate Wayfinding. It is both a salve and a practical guide for all those who seek a way to reconcile their profound love of connecting with the natural world with the profound grief of living amid the climate crisis. Wilkinson invites readers to pull themselves off the sidelines and gather and grow in force, while imparting the inspiration and the know-how for getting there. The genius of Wilkinson’s climate solution is in her knowing that bringing forth sustained political, economic, and social change requires that we expand our collective and individual capacity—and endurance—to heal ourselves and the planet.”
—Bina Venkataraman, author of The Optimist’s Telescope
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
READING GROUPS
Take the journey of Climate Wayfinding in community.
Sign up now to lead a Reading Group—a vibrant experience for “doing” the book together. For those who sign up by April 15, we’ll send a limited-edition bookplate signed by Dr. Katharine Wilkinson.
