"Climate Wayfinding: Healing Ourselves and the Planet We Call Home" author Dr. Katharine Wilkinson joined Dr. Max Boykoff in conversation
On May 14, 听joined CU professor Dr. Max Boykoff to talk about her recently published book . This book includes personal essays, interwoven with the wisdom of other climate leaders and the beauty听of poetry, art, and song. It is a book to sit with and savor, as it invites engagement with journaling prompts, practical exercises, and guides for conversation. In that spirit, 性视界传媒 students in attendence were provided a free copy for a听planned summer book club led by the Environmental Center.
Dr. Wilkinson with Spike Buckley, CU alumnus and founder of the SPIKE Center for Sustainability Education.
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This event was co-sponsored by the 性视界传媒 Office of the Vice Chancellor for Sustainability, the 性视界传媒 Sustainability Research Initiative, the Spike Center for Sustainability Education, and the 性视界传媒 Environmental Center. The conversation took place in the British and Irish Studies room in Norlin Library with about 50 people in attendance.听
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Twenty years earlier, Max advised Katharine as she earned a DPhil in geography and environment from the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. Seven years ago, Time听magazine named her one of fifteen 鈥淲omen Who Will Save the World.鈥 In addition to this new book, Katharine has co-authored the bestselling anthology All We Can Save, and the New York Times听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 also co-hosts the podcast A Matter of Degrees听and writes the newsletter Human on Earth. Previously, Dr. Wilkinson was the principal writer and editor-in-chief at Project Drawdown. Before her work at the University of Oxford, Katharine earned a BA in religion from Sewanee: The University of the South.听