All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE • “A feast of ideas and perspectives, setting a big table for the climate movement, declaring all are welcome.”—Rolling Stone
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.
With essays and poems by:
Emily Atkin • Xiye Bastida • Ellen Bass • Colette Pichon Battle • Jainey K. Bavishi • Janine Benyus • adrienne maree brown • Régine Clément • 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 Limón • 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 Villaseñor • Alice Walker • Amy Westervelt • Jane Zelikova
Reviews (48)
Fantastic, hopeful, inspiring collection!
Climate change can be so overwhelming. Yet, the fact is there is still so much we can do to stop this crisis. This is an amazing new collection by something like 60 women working on climate change. I got to read an early copy and was blown away. There is art, poetry, inspiring stories. I felt like we can tackle this problem after reading this book. I really recommend it if you are freaked out and want to know what we can do: talk about climate change in our daily lives, change policy, support independent climate journalists, write to our representatives, take to the streets. There is so much left that we can save! Inspiring.
Yes, we can save our Earth! The powerful stories in All We Can Save show the way!
All We Can Save is a clarion call to action on behalf of our besieged Earth. It highlights numerous creative, insightful, and exciting examples of what is being done right now, though you likely have heard of none of them. GretaThunberg is right: the adults have failed the children and the planet--but not these adults. I scribbled notes like mad as I read story after story of amazing success all over the country. I stopped reading only to look around at my desert yard and begin to think of how I can transform it into more productive use, how I can amend the soil, find water in the dew. Specific examples throughout these 40+ stories are beyond inspiring: they bring reality to hope. Read this book, tell your friends about these undaunted women, and start walking the talk. Two things: 1. I read this book in the wake of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg's death. And with each of these women, I thought that without the doors the amazing RBG opened, they could not be doing what they are. 2. Fanstatic Fungi is an indie movie about mushrooms, and one of the most inspiring films you'll see for right now. Here's to the women in this book, to RBG, and to all the readers whose life will be changed by these stories. Most of all, here is to our Mother Earth.
Was skeptical but it’s brilliant
Brilliant book - so glad I read it because it was uplifting, hopeful, and a joy to read (emotions missing from anything else on our planet’s future). I was skeptical at first because I’m not that into poetry, but everything flows well together and there is lots of engaging storytelling. It’s easy to skip between chapters because each is its own story and because the editors have highlighted key portions with dots in the margins. Def recommend to anyone who has wondered what we can do about climate, how we build communities, or what examples of feminine leadership can look like.
Some parts are very good but some are seriously flawed
Some chapters (perhaps I should call them essays) were inspiring and provided information I had not known. Others were more basic or even had errors. For example, one chapter stated that there would be 200 million displaced by climate by the end of the next century. What? By 2050 143 million are estimated to be displaced. By the end of this century there is an estimate for 1 billion. I did a quick search to come up with those numbers. Then in a later chapter another author quoted the 143 million I found. As a minimum the editors should have noticed the serious discrepancy in the two. One of the best chapters, in my opinion, credited Thomas Edison with promoting wind and solar power. The only issue is that another person had actually installed a wind energy system in a home years before Edison publicly promoted renewable energy. It would have been appropriate to have credited the earlier installation.
Read this book, then help save all we can
This collection of works about climate change by women is a great introduction for people new to climate change issues and an invitation to go deeper to those already engaged. Together, the essays and poems educate, inspire, and call to action. I have spent the COVID lock down reading climate books. This is the one I will be buying in bulk to give to friends and family.
Full of facts, insights, and fresh angles
I'm pretty well-versed in the climate movement, including writings by several people in this collection, so I wasn't sure if it would feel like a retread of what I already know. But it is SO much more. The book quickly gets past the general outlines of the climate emergency, what's at stake, and who the leaders of the climate feminist movement are. And then, it's new terrain, at least for me. New ways of thinking about the situation, new facts about what's actually possible, what impacts the movement has already made, and where things are unraveling quickly. I love the poetry, and the specific, particular, even localized essays. This is such a worthy read.
Elevated My Whole Perspective on the Environment
This book is incredibly informative, insightful and inspiring. The editors found such a powerful balance of writers to take on the many sides to the climate discussion from the policy to racial injustice elevating the entire movement as a result. I’ve never been more committed to doing my part and All We Can Save is a big reason.
Simply Brilliant and Comforting
This is not your usual anthology. Every essay brings insight and comfort. How nice to know there's a cadre of female climate leaders quietyly and not so quietly taking charge to protect our earth.
The inspiration you need to keep going
Did you ever think anything written about climate change could be beautiful or inspiring? Or a page turner? Something you look forward to reading, not because you know you should or need to for your activism, but because you genuinely can't wait to read the next essay or poem. This book is a work of climate art that will help you stay inspired to stay in action.
A Science-baked Cake with Poetry Frosting
Amazing! Inspirational! Exceptional! I cannot find enough superlatives for this book. There are so many naysayers on Climate telling us what we can't do; it's refreshing to see this How-To book cover what we CAN do! It's a science-baked cake with poetry frosting! And if we can't swallow climate challenges all at once, we can take the information in this book and make a difference one bite at a time NOW. Thank you so much for putting this together!
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