Dr. Katharine Wilkinson Profile picture
Climate author, teacher, strategist, feminist. Projects: @allwecansave, @degreespod. Pubs: All We Can Save, (The) Drawdown (Review), Btw God & Green. 💛🌱🌎🔥‼️
Oct 1, 2019 4 tweets 1 min read
A poem to start your #Tuesday...

Sometimes
if you move carefully
through the forest

breathing
like the ones
in the old stories

who could cross
a shimmering bed of dry leaves
without a sound,

1/4
you come
to a place
whose only task

is to trouble you
with tiny
but frightening requests

conceived out of nowhere
but in this place
beginning to lead everywhere.

2/4
Sep 8, 2019 15 tweets 6 min read
Whatever you do, don't waste your precious minutes reading Franzen's piece in the @NewYorker. But DO read these instead. They're all filed in my mind folder "Climate Wise." /thread This essay made me an insane @DrKateMarvel fan girl – and thus utterly giddy when I finally met here this year. Courage, my friends, COURAGE. /2
onbeing.org/blog/kate-marv…
Aug 29, 2019 6 tweets 2 min read
I want to be very clear: shining a light on the misogyny women face—in climate action or elsewhere—is not “disenfranchising men.” Quite the opposite. Thread👇 Patriarchy and toxic masculinity ALSO HURT MEN. Healing them is good for all. Don’t take my word for it. These men have taught me a great deal...

Exhibit A:
ted.com/talks/eldra_ja…
May 22, 2019 10 tweets 4 min read
Do you know about RESTORATIVE OCEAN FARMING? You should. Because these 3D underwater gardens are amazing for jobs, food, climate, biodiversity, equity. Also #OYSTERS. /thread/ Bren Smith (new book: “Eat Like a Fish”) was forced to shift from fisherman to ocean farmer after collapse of cod stocks. 30K people thrown out of work over night. “Ecological crisis is a kitchen table issue.” /2/
May 15, 2019 13 tweets 3 min read
It’s been a hard couple weeks to be a woman living in the American South and working on climate change. THREAD. 1/13 On the planet front, the atmosphere is now choked with 415 parts per million of carbon dioxide—conditions the human species has never before faced. Earth hasn’t either, for roughly the last 3 million years. 2/13
rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
Dec 14, 2018 4 tweets 6 min read
Two questions for y'all:
1. Who are the most badass women you know working on (any aspect of) climate?
2. Who are the most badass women you WISH were working on climate? Example response:
1. I love that @ayanaeliza and @jesssearch are working on climate.
2. I can't wait for @suigenerisjen to work on climate (more) :)