In their book “All We Can Save,” published in September 2020, Dr. Katharine Wilkinson and Mary Annaise Heglar compile the narratives and perspectives of women around the country to contribute to the conversation surrounding climate change.
“I think I’ve always seen it as it’s not just a story, it’s a saga,” Heglar says on the Serenbe Stories podcast, explaining how she initially got involved with the cause surrounding climate change. “I came to it in 2014 because I had this urge to work on something that I felt was really, really important.”
She describes the struggle of wrapping her head around different stories she read while working as an editor early on, shocked by anticipated devastation to different areas.
For Wilkinson, she became involved in her sophomore year in high school when she was a student at the Outdoor Academy during the spring semester. She and her classmates would chop their own wood to heat their cabins, mow the field with mules for hay and garden regularly.
“But all of our coursework would also have a really heavy focus on environmental studies, natural history,” She explains. “That was a really formative time for me. It’s hard to pinpoint exactly one thing but I think it was just holding this focus on a liveable planet and community that was really deeply awakening for me.”
“All We Can Save” features poems and essays by women of different occupations, ages and backgrounds offering ideas that can be turned into actions to tackle the climate crisis.
Find “All We Can Save” on Amazon and listen to Wilkinson and Heglar on Serenbe Stories here.
