Climate Wayfinding: Healing Ourselves and the Planet We Call Home

When the path ahead is uncertain, how do we find our way? Visionary climate leader Dr. Katharine K. Wilkinson offers a compassionate and empowering guide to navigating the climate crisis—moving from ache to action, doubt to possibility. For readers of Braiding Sweetgrass.

“Wisdom about what to do, how to do it, and in what spirit. It will be so much help to so many!” —Bill McKibben

Through transformational programs and books, including the national bestseller All We Can Save, Katharine Wilkinson has inspired hundreds of thousands of climate journeys. Here she shares a proven process for looking inward with care, outward with curiosity, and forward with courage.

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 practical exercises and prompts. Whether steeped in climate or newly curious, readers will discover something grounding and generative in these pages.

Features:

• Stirring personal essays plus wisdom from leading climate voices
• Journaling prompts, exercises, and conversation guides
• Designed for solo readers, book clubs, and classrooms
• A sophisticated hardcover with a two-color illustrated interior

The terrain ahead is calling—and you have everything you need to find your way.

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 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.