Climate Solutions & Spiritual Leadership: A Conversation with leaders from the All We Can Save anthology
An online event featuring Dr. Katharine K. Wilkinson in conversation with Heather McTeer Toney and Mary Anne Hitt, and artwork presented by Madeleine Jubilee Saito.
Occurred on Thursday, September 9, 2021
This event was a celebration of All We Can Save, an anthology of writings by 60 women* at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward.
Climate change is a multi-faceted problem that requires an equally multi-faceted movement of solutions. One significant, root-level solution is spiritual reorientation to feminist wisdom. That means shifting away from delusions of individualism, toward creative collaboration; away from greed and apathy, toward generous mutuality; away from habits of domination, toward practices of regeneration. And it means heeding the leadership of those who are moving culture in that direction. The All We Can Save Project is that kind of cultural force.
In All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis, editors Dr. Katharine K. Wilkinson and Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson assert that — while the work at hand is hard and uncertain — “building community around solutions is the most important thing.”
We invited you into that community. Through artwork, poetry, and illuminating insight from women at the forefront of the climate movement, we considered the roles that we all have to play in nurturing a livable future. We explored in particular how faith communities — and other communities of spiritual practice — can best contribute to spiritual reorientation and other solutions in a climate-changed world.
*The use of “women” here is open, expansive, and trans-inclusive.
View the conversation below, which was recorded on September 9, 2021.
This online event included:
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Public conversation, moderated by Dr. Katharine K. Wilkinson, with All We Can Save contributors Heather McTeer Toney and Mary Anne Hitt
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Presentation of artwork from All We Can Save by artist Madeleine Jubilee Saito
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Poetry featured in All We Can Save
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Engagement with communal insights, questions, and resources
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Invitation to contemplate and activate your contribution to the feminist climate renaissance
Dr. Katharine K. Wilkinson
Dr. Katharine K. Wilkinson is an author, strategist, and teacher, working to heal the planet we call home. Her books on climate include the bestselling anthology All We Can Save (2020, co-editor), The Drawdown Review (2020, editor-in-chief and lead writer), the New York Times bestseller Drawdown (2017, lead writer), and Between God & Green. Dr. Wilkinson co-founded and leads The All We Can Save Project with Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, in support of women leading on climate. She also co-hosts the podcast A Matter of Degrees, telling stories for the climate curious with Dr. Leah Stokes.
Heather McTeer Toney
A self-proclaimed 'recovering politician', Heather McTeer Toney served as Regional Administrator for Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Southeast Region, under President Barack Obama and two term Mayor of Greenville, Mississippi. She currently serves as National Field Director for Moms Clean Air Force. She wrote the essay “Collards Are Just as Good as Kale” in the All We Can Save anthology.
Mary Anne Hitt
Mary Anne Hitt is Senior Director of Climate Imperative, an Energy Innovation project that aims to cut emissions at the speed and scale needed to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. She served for 12 years at the Sierra Club as National Director of Campaigns and also worked for a decade as director of the Beyond Coal Campaign. Mary Anne was listed in 2015 as one of the POLITICO 50. She co-hosts the climate storytelling podcast No Place Like Home, and wrote the essay “Beyond Coal” in the All We Can Save anthology.
Madeleine Jubilee Saito
Madeleine Jubilee Saito is an artist, UX / UI designer, and branding expert. As an artist, she makes intimate, poetic comics about the environment and the sacred, which appeared in the bestselling All We Can Save anthology and which were recognized in Best American Comics 2019. Madeleine has a BA in art (graphic design emphasis) from Yale University.
Praise for All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
“This astounding and ambitious eco-anthology is filled with whip-smart essays, heart-wrenching poems, and stunning visual art from an all-female cast … those who’ve been left out of the climate debate for too long … a powerful chorus of women armed with solutions for our changing climate.” — Self
“A welcome anthology, in prose and verse, of women’s writings on climate change … A well-curated collection with many ideas for ways large and small to save the planet.” — Kirkus Reviews
”All We Can Save brings an empathetic perspective to a fraught subject … a community bound between two covers, and a gift to any who wishes to join in. Johnson and Wilkinson have set a high bar [with] this movement-forging book.” — Bloomberg Green
