Climate Wayfinding Healing Ourselves and the Planet We Call Home, reviewed

We look at this new book by Katherine Wilkinson. See more about the book Climate Wayfinding Healing Ourselves and the Planet We Call Home here.
Climate Wayfinding Healing Ourselves and the Planet We Call Home, reviewed
The author is passionate about the environment, and has interviewed a lot of positive, interesting eco-thought leaders for her podcast too. At the beginning of each chapter there are some interesting playlist suggestions to get you into the right mood, mentality, headset, to try and achieve positive ecological change. There are a lot of good elements to this book, and it aims to be a useful and positive book. However at times I wondered if there was a more practical series of actions that could be suggested. Visioning how you might move into more environmentally friendly sectors almost made the goals seem aspirational rather than offering a more direct road map of steps that you could take. Maybe this is an over simplistic point, but tree planting for example is never mentioned once, nor is it listed in the index – surely this is one of the simplest, most direct actions that someone could take?
With the journaling prompts, and discussion points, elements of this book started to remind me, make me think of the latest Alison Bechdel book, Spent, because that book, a graphic novel, seemed to be populated by the sort of people you might imagine would also be readers of this book too. All and every book in this sector is important, as we face deeply challenging, and existential times in terms of the health and fate of the only planet we have to live on. However, as someone, after living in many many cities, for many years, but who now lives in a rural area, this book felt like it was aimed at trapped feeling city dwellers. There have actually been so many positive urban eco initiatives, in Europe, across the world, that it felt that perhaps this book could have had more tangible and direct actions and options for people to take.
Maybe this book however provides a starting point for someone people on their journey, trouble is, with global warming already a fact, despite what fossil fuel lobbyists / climate change deniers may say, things just might need to move a whole lot faster if we are all to avoid extinction.
Hopefully it is not too little, too late, and if this book can help to nudge the needle then it will have been a useful contribution.
More about the book
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.
More about the author
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 Time...