Books & Writing

“There’s an enormous amount of learning...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

Climate Wayfinding: Healing Ourselves and the Planet We Call Home

When maps come up short and the path ahead is uncertain, how do we find our way? This book offers a compassionate and empowering guide for navigating from climate ache to action, doubt to possibility. With stirring personal essays, wisdom of other climate leaders, and the beauty of poetry, art, and song.

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.

Author, Amber Lotus / Andrews McMeel, 2026

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“A powerful read that fills one with, dare I say...hope.”

—The New York Times

All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis

To change everything, we need everyone. Intermixing essays with poetry and art, this anthology is both a balm and a guide for knowing and holding what has been done to the world, while bolstering our resolve never to give up on one another or our collective future.

Co-editor with Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, One World, 2020

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The Drawdown Review: Climate Solutions for a New Decade

Editor and Writer, Project Drawdown, 2020

A synthesis of collective wisdom and action unfolding around the globe.

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Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming

Lead Writer, Penguin, 2017

“A rigorous and profoundly important resource.” —Booklist

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Between God & Green: How Evangelicals Are Cultivating a Middle Ground on Climate Change

Author, Oxford University Press, 2012

“A vitally important, even subversive, story.” —The Boston Globe

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Praise for Climate Wayfinding

“Katharine, a gloriously poetic and heart-centered climate leader, has crafted a guide for those who seek to be ever more deeply of use. 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?

“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

“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