How to Live in a Chaotic Climate

LaUra Schmidt with Aimee Lewis Reau and Chelsie Rivera

There s a lot of gentle, fierce, and creative wisdom in these pages and boy do we need it now!
Bill McKibben, author of Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?

This is the book my heart has been yearning for. It is a brilliant blend of personal narrative and clear-eyed science. With their emphasis on cultivating community, tending to personal rejuvenation and mental well-being, and offering practical tools for lightening our footstep on our beloved Mother Earth, the authors lift up every value we can all embrace right now to not only pluck us from the brink of the cataclysm but also transform the soul of the world.
Mirabai Starr, author of Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of Women Mystics
 
How To Live in a Chaotic Climate is both a source for hope and a guide for solace in the midst of climate collapse. This book and its pragmatic vision allow us to reconnect in a relational world, helping us feel less isolated, less lonely, less impotent to do something that matters. Climate grief is a diagnosis for our love for the planet. This open-hearted book allows us to embrace Good Grief and embody the necessary actions to cool the rising temperatures in our politics, in our families, and within ourselves.
Terry Tempest Williams, author of Erosion: Essays of Undoing
 
A groundbreaking book that approaches its methods in evidence-based hope with realistic and tangible steps that allow us to build momentum for healing and action in the climate crisis.
Isaias Hernandez, environmental educator and creator of QueerBrownVegan
 
It goes like this: we pass a cup, back and forth, from one to the other. Inside the cup is what we most need to drink to keep going in this long struggle a potent brew of inspiration; wisdom; real, heartfelt humanity; stories; tears; and laughter. We drink, take a long sip, and go on to do what is ours to do. The doing refills the cup with hope. This book is