Climate Wayfinding
A Matter of Degrees
Dr. Leah Stokes, Dr. Katharine Wilkinson
4.8 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Katharine wrote a book!
It's called Climate Wayfinding: Healing Ourselves and the Planet We Call Home, and it's out on May 5th. Through journaling prompts, practical exercises, wisdom from climate leaders, and even art and song, the book takes readers from climate ache to action and from doubt to possibility.
This week on A Matter of Degrees, Leah interviews Katharine on how our grief and fear can become fuel rather than paralysis, how to uncover the superpowers you already have to help heal the planet, and why joy is an essential strategy for staying in this work. And they reckon with a climate movement under duress. Because that's precisely the time to cultivate community, tend the small spaces, and plant seeds for the change ahead.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
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Pre-order Climate Wayfinding and find additional resources at climatewayfinding.earth — and use code CLIMATE15 at bookshop.org for 15% off plus a limited-edition art print
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Find book tour stops (San Francisco, Twin Cities, Boston, Atlanta, New York, and more) at climatewayfinding.earth/events
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| 0:00.0 | It is no small thing to be human on Earth. |
| 0:05.0 | Here, on this ground, under these skies, we are home. |
| 0:14.0 | So when the climate shifts and the places we love are hurting, it feels personal. |
| 0:21.6 | We feel the tug to do something. |
| 0:23.6 | But there are so many paths and so many saying, |
| 0:26.6 | Act now, do more, be better. |
| 0:30.6 | The heat, the seas, the losses are rising, time is running out. |
| 0:34.6 | Pause. |
| 0:35.6 | Let's take a breath. Urgency and overwhelm keep us stuck. We don't need |
| 0:42.6 | more information. We need orientation. A practice to find true north within the swirl. That's |
| 0:51.3 | climate wayfinding. It begins with the questions we hold. |
| 0:55.0 | What is mine to do? |
| 0:57.0 | Where do I belong? |
| 0:59.0 | What path is worthy no matter how rocky it gets? |
| 1:03.0 | We look inward with care to follow our emotions and offer our superpowers. |
| 1:09.0 | We look outward with curiosity to surface solutions and connect with community. |
| 1:15.6 | And then we look forward, not with certainty, but courage, |
| 1:21.6 | to orient with vision and journey onward with a clear compass. |
| 1:25.6 | Each of us is a node of possibility, |
| 1:29.3 | whoever we are, |
| 1:31.3 | whatever we've got to give. |
| 1:34.3 | And when one connects to another, |
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