Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward.
There is a renaissance blooming in the climate movement: leadership that is more characteristically feminine and more faithfully feminist, rooted in compassion, connection, creativity, and collaboration. While it's clear that women and girls are vital voices and agents of change for this planet, they are too often missing from the proverbial table. More than a problem of bias, it's a dynamic that sets us up for failure. To change everything, we need everyone.
All We Can Save illuminates the expertise and insights of dozens of diverse women leading on climate in the United States - scientists, journalists, farmers, lawyers, teachers, activists, innovators, wonks, and designers, across generations, geographies, and race - and aims to advance a more representative, nuanced, and solution-oriented public conversation on the climate crisis. These women offer a spectrum of ideas and insights for how we can rapidly, radically reshape society.
Intermixing essays with poetry and art, this book 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. We must summon truth, courage, and solutions to turn away from the brink and toward life-giving possibility. Curated by two climate leaders, the book is a collection and celebration of visionaries who are leading us on a path toward all we can save.
This audiobook includes a PDF of climate resources and references.
With essays and poems by:
Emily Atkin Xiye Bastida Ellen Bass Colette Pichon Battle Jainey K. Bavishi Janine Benyus adrienne maree brown Regine Clement Abigail Dillen Camille T. Dungy Rhiana Gunn-Wright Joy Harjo Katharine Hayhoe Mary Annaïse Heglar Jane Hirshfield Mary Anne Hitt Ailish Hopper Tara Houska, Zhaabowekwe Emily N. Johnston Joan Naviyuk Kane Naomi Klein Kate Knuth Ada Limon Louise Maher-Johnson Kate Marvel Gina McCarthy Anne Haven McDonnell Sarah Miller Sherri Mitchell, Weh'na Ha'mu Kwasset Susanne C. Moser Lynna Odel Sharon Olds Mary Oliver Kate Orff Jacqui Patterson Leah Penniman Catherine Pierce Marge Piercy Kendra Pierre-Louis Varshini Prakash Janisse Ray Christine E. Nieves Rodriguez Favianna Rodriguez Cameron Russell Ash Sanders Judith D. Schwartz Patricia Smith Emily Stengel Sarah Stillman Leah Cardamore Stokes Amanda Sturgeon Maggie Thomas Heather McTeer Toney Alexandria Villasenor Alice Walker Amy Westervelt Jane Zelikova
Audiobook Cast of Narrators: Alfre Woodard (Indigenous Prophecy and Mother Earth; Collards Are Just as Good as Kale; An Offering from the Bayou) America Ferrera (On Fire; Mothering in an Age of Extinction; Like the Monarch; Harnessing Cultural Power) Cristela Alonzo (The Politics of Policy; Mending the Landscape; Solutions Underfoot; A Field Guide for Transformation; Community Is Our Best Chance) Ilana Glazer (A Handful of Dust; We Are Sunrise; Under the Weather) Jane Fonda (Reciprocity; How to Talk About Climate Change; Catalytic Capital; The Adaptive Mind; The Seed Underground) Janet Mock (What Is Emergent Strategy?; Wakanda Doesn't Have Suburbs; At the Intersections) Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Beyond Coal; Heaven or High Water; Public Service for Public Health; Water is a Verb) Kimberly Drew (A Green New Deal for All of Us; A Tale of Three Cities; Sacred Resistance; Solutions at Sea) Bahni Turpin (Calling In; Truth Be Told; Home is Always Worth It; A Letter to Adults; Black Gold) Sophia Bush (Litigating in a Time of Crisis; Becoming a Climate Citizen; Buildings Designed for Life; Dear Fossil Fuel Executives; Loving a Vanishing World) and with Begin; Onward; Gratitude; and additional material read by the editors, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson