CLIMATE WAYFINDING

Resources to Enrich the Journey

When maps come up short and the path ahead is uncertain, how do we find our way? Building on the pages of Climate Wayfinding, here you'll find additional guides, tools, and resources to support your journey through the book and beyond. There's a quiz, playlists, audio meditations, and much more.

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Reading Groups

Take the journey of Climate Wayfinding in community.

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8 Dynamics Quiz

Map your Climate Wayfinding journey—end to end.

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Climate Compass

Print out and create your own Climate Compass.

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Playlist

The Climate Wayfinding Playlist

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Playlist of Instrumental Songs

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Meditations

Essential Reading

& Notes

Easily access the book’s source material.

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Resources by Chapter

Embarking

1

Getting Our Bearings

2

Following Our Emotions

3

Surfacing Solutions

4

Offering Our Superpowers

5

Connecting with Community

6

Orienting with Vision

7

Journeying Onward

8

1

Embarking

Poet

Tamiko Beyer

+ Reading of “Equinox”
+ Book: Last Days
+ Tamiko’s Website

Lighting the Way

Colette Pichon Battle

+ On Being with Krista Tippett: “On Knowing What We’re Called To”
+ TED Talk: “Climate change will displace millions. Here’s how we prepare”
+ Taproot Earth Website

Playlist

The Climate Wayfinding Playlist

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Playlist of Instrumental Songs

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2

Getting Our Bearings

Poet

Ellen Bass

+ Reading of “The Big Picture”
+ Book: Indigo
+ Ellen’s Website

Lighting the Way

Dr. Kate Marvel

+ The Nature Of: “Kate Marvel Will Change How You Feel About Planet Earth”
+ Book: Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet
+ Kate’s Website

Playlist

The Climate Wayfinding Playlist

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Playlist of Instrumental Songs

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Map

+ 8 Dynamics Quiz

Following Our Emotions

3

Poet

Danusha Laméris

+ Reading of “Nothing Wants to Suffer”
+ Book: Blade by Blade
+ Danusha’s Website

Lighting the Way

Sister True Dedication

+ Book: Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet
+ TED Talk: “3 questions to build resilience—and change the world”
+ Plum Village Website

+ Sister True Dedication’s TED Talk

Playlist

The Climate Wayfinding Playlist

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Playlist of Instrumental Songs

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Deepen

Step Out

Additional Resources

+ A Matter of Degrees: “How To Cope with All the Climate Feels”
+ Climate Emotions Wheel from the Climate Mental Health Network
+ Unthinkable Resource Hub

4

Surfacing Solutions

Poet

Jane Hirshfield

+ Reading of “Optimism”
+ Book: The Asking
+ Jane’s Official Page

Lighting the Way

Valérie Courtois

+ Video: Stanford University’s 2023 Bright Award Winner
+ TED Talk: “How Indigenous guardians protect the planet and humanity”
+ Indigenous Leadership Initiative Website

Playlist

The Climate Wayfinding Playlist

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Playlist of Instrumental Songs

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Map

+ Sample Maps of Solutions and Accelerators

Step Out

+ The Drawdown Review
+ Project Drawdown’s Explorer
+ Donella Meadows’s “Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System”
+ Climate Justice Alliance’s “Six Meta-strategies”

Additional Resources

+ A Matter of Degrees: “The Tongass: A Way Forward for the Forest”

5

Offering Our Superpowers

Poet

Tracy K. Smith

+ Reading of “An Old Story”
+ Book: Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times
+ Tracy’s Website

Lighting the Way

Wahleah Johns & Billy Parish

+ A Matter of Degrees: “Changing Woman: One Navajo’s Fight for a Just Energy Transition”
+ SunCast: “Mosaic’s Journey to $15 Billion in Residential Solar Loans”
+ Native Renewables Website

Playlist

The Climate Wayfinding Playlist

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Playlist of Instrumental Songs

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Deepen + Map

Step Out

+ “Green New Careers” Quiz
+ “RHETI” Test from the Enneagram Institute
+ Asia Suler’s “Earth Healing Archetypes”

6

Connecting with Community

Poet

Lucille Clifton

+ Reading of “the mississippi empties into the gulf” by Chris Thile
+ Book: How To Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton
+ Lucille Clifton on poets.org

Lighting the Way

Wanjira Mathai

+ A Matter of Degrees: “How Gender Equality Can Save the Planet”
+ WRI Africa Website
+ Wangari Maathai Foundation Website

Playlist

The Climate Wayfinding Playlist

Spotify→‍ ‍Tidal→‍ ‍YouTube Music→

Playlist of Instrumental Songs

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Map

Step Out

+ The Intersectional Environmentalist Database
+ Patagonia Action Works

Additional Resources

+ A Matter of Degrees: “Give Up Your Climate Guilt”

Orienting with Vision

7

Poet

Ada Limón

+ Reading of “Dead Stars”
+ Book: Startlement: New and Selected Poems
+ Ada’s Website

Lighting the Way

Jennifer Robinson

+ Outrage + Optimism: “The ICJ Climate Opinion Explained”
+ Film: Silenced
+ Jen’s Doughty Street Chambers Page

Playlist

The Climate Wayfinding Playlist

Spotify→‍ ‍Tidal→‍ ‍YouTube Music→

Playlist of Instrumental Songs

Spotify→‍ ‍ Tidal→‍ ‍YouTube Music→

Deepen

Map

+ Printable Climate Compass

8

Journeying Onward

Poet

Aurora Levins Morales

+ Reading of “Summons”
+ Book: The Story of What Is Broken Is Whole
+ Aurora’s Website

Lighting the Way

Sherri Mitchell (Weh’na Ha’mu Kwasset)

+ Book: Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change
+ Land Peace Foundation Website
+ Sherri’s Website

Playlist

The Climate Wayfinding Playlist

Spotify→‍ ‍Tidal→‍ ‍YouTube Music→

Playlist of Instrumental Songs

Spotify→‍ ‍ Tidal→‍ ‍YouTube Music→

Map

+ 8 Dynamics Quiz

Additional Resources

+ A Matter of Degrees: “What Can I Do?” Miniseries
+ SHIFT Climate Action Guide
+ Sustainable Banking and Investing
+ Green Jobs Board
+ Ed’s Clean Energy and Sustainability Jobs List

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.

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