by Kylie Flanagan
North Atlantic Books
8/1/2023, paperback
SKU: 9781623179021
An intersectional primer for saving the planet: place-based perspectives and community-led tools for fighting climate change--for readers of The Intersectional Environmentalist and All We Can Save
In Climate Resilience, climate justice and resilience strategist Kylie Flanagan invites us to see and act beyond status-quo solutions, Big Tech promises... and everything we're usually told about how to save the planet.
Centering the voices of Native Rights activists, queer liberation ecologists, youth climate-justice organizers, Latinx wilderness activists, and others on the front lines, Climate Resilience urges us toward a vision of climate care that invests in place-based, community-led projects focused on:
- Relationship Repair
- Ecological Restoration
- Economic Regeneration
- Collective Care
- Community Adaptation
- Cultural Strategy
- People Power
Each section offers practical blueprints for engaging with different aspects of climate-change action through mutual aid, seed-saving, community-owned energy, community safety plans, and more, and includes a range of ideas for readers to apply these strategies in their own communities.
Reviews:
"Climate Resilience is a crucial book that is much needed today as it starts shifting the focus to center frontline communities and leaders addressing climate change and fighting for climate justice." -- Jessica Hernandez, author of Fresh Banana Leaves
"There's no techno-fix for a cultural and spiritual crisis. The climate emergency needs solutions that bring liberation and restoration--and those sorts of solutions can only come from the margins. In Climate Resilience, Kylie Flanagan looks to the grassroots for climate leadership that is rooted in land, community and care. This is a book to inspire and educate, and also a book that invites our participation, with practical advice for applying solutions in our own contexts. If you enjoyed the fierce joy of All We Can Save and were wondering if there's more where that came from, read this next!" -- Jeremy Williams, author of Climate Change Is Racist
"If you're interested in understanding how we might really tackle the problem of climate change, a problem that doesn't exist in a vacuum but one that is wrapped up in our social and political relationships, put down whatever you are reading and pick up this book. Kylie Flanagan has masterfully woven together conversations rooted in deep wisdom, love, and care, conversations which invite us to rethink the very nature of the problems we are facing and help us to envision a beautiful, more inclusive, more bountiful future. This book is a refreshing, much-needed addition to the overly technocratic, market-based, depoliticized literature on the climate crisis, as it recenters the problem as well as the source of potential solutions, anchoring them in the community-based expertise that is too often overlooked. The voices Kylie has channeled in this book give me hope that a better future is possible, and the path to that future is a beautiful one." -- Khalid Kadir, PhD, winner of the 2020 Constellation Prize for Engineering Education and lecturer in civil and environmental engineering at UC Berkeley
About the Author:
Kylie Flanagan is a climate communicator and the Executive Director of a small, climate justice-focused foundation. Originally from Miwok lands in the California Bay Area, she currently resides on Munsee Lenape lands in New York City. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College and received a Master's in Sustainability Solutions from Presidio Graduate School. She has dabbled in goat midwifery, cheesemaking, tiny house architecture and construction, supper club hosting, edible landscaping, and sustainable business consulting, always driven by a desire to make the world more delicious, beautiful, joyous, and just. Climate Resilience is her first book.