after your circle

What next?

My heart is moved by all I cannot save:

so much has been destroyed



I have to cast my lot with those

who age after age, perversely,



with no extraordinary power,

reconstitute the world.

—Adrienne Rich

Your Circle may want to gather for another session to explore “what’s next” — collectively and individually — using the questions and resources below. So much is possible!

🌙 Sustain your Circle Community

• Dig deeper by exploring these questions:

  • After these 10 sessions of connection, what ideas or viewpoints are we taking with us that we hadn’t considered before? What shared concerns or hopes did we unearth in our discussions?

  • What remaining questions do we still have as a group? What else do we want to discuss or return to? Are there other people or groups we would like to hear from or engage with?

  • What could we do together, within our community/communities or beyond? What superpowers could we collectively leverage/combine?

• Create a Signal or WhatsApp group for ongoing communication

• Listen to the “What can I do?” miniseries from A Matter of Degrees and set intentions for personal, professional, and political climate action

• Listen to “Is your carbon footprint BS?” from How to Save a Planet and create + share your climate Venn diagrams

• Read Sacred Instructions together (3-4 sessions, using a similar facilitation flow)

• Read The Drawdown Review together (1-2 sessions, using a similar facilitation flow)

• Gather monthly for support, intentions, accountability, community, and collaboration

• Continue engaging generous questions with the Dare to Question Journal  

• Take on a collective project, leveraging the superpowers of your Circle

• Hold a “reunion” in 1-3 months time and/or in 6-12 months time

🌱  Grow the Conversation

• Share the anthology

• Spark a climate conversation with someone new

• Convene another Circle (perhaps in your workplace)

• Plan an event focused on themes from All We Can Save

• Create! Engage themes from the anthology or share your climate story through visual art, writing, or performance (check out Climate Story Labs for useful info and inspiration)

☀️  Take Collective Action

• Support or join a climate group / project / campaign
  (see the appendix on p. 383-4 of All We Can Save for organizations referenced by essayists)

• Support a climate champion running for office (for example, check out the Climate Cabinet Scorecard and candidate endorsements from the League of Conservation Voters or Sunrise Movement) 

• Get involved in voter registration / mobilization (for example, check out the Environmental Voter Project or Fair Fight)

• Move your money out of fossil fuels and into climate solutions (check out Marilyn Waite’s list of resources and this climate finance toolkit)

• Go renewable + electrify everything and tap into funds available through the Inflation Reduction Act (check out Rewiring America’s “Go electric!” guide and Solar United Neighbors)

⚡️ Make It Professional

• Deepen your knowledge / skills (check out Terra.do and Work on Climate)

• Use your skills as a volunteer (check out Patagonia Action Works)

• Explore ways to bring climate into your current work / role (check out Climate Solutions at Work, Climate Justice Playbook for Business, and Multisolving Institute’s FLOWER)

• Seek out new opportunities with greater climate focus (check out the Green New Careers Quiz, How to recareer for the climate; job boards from B Work, Browngirl Green, Climate Base, Ed’s Clean Energy & Sustainability Jobs List, IISD Climate Job Vacancies, Important Jobs, and Women of Color Collective in Sustainability)

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