Climate Resilience How We Keep Each Other Safe, Care for Our Communities, and Fight Back Against Climate Change

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: beyond status-quo solutions, Big Tech promises, and everything we’ve been told about saving 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.

Kylie Flanagan is a sustainability and climate resilience strategist, educator, foundation director, freelance writer, and director of Manzanita Foundation. She has consulted with numerous organizations to advance sustainability, resilience, community engagement, and equity strategies. She co-developed thought leadership with the NorCal Resilience Network, Movement Generation, the Antioch University Center for Climate Preparedness’s Local Solutions Community of Practice, and the City of Sausalito Community Safety + Disaster Preparedness Committee.
RESIDENCE: New York, NY | HOMETOWN: San Francisco, CA