Katharine Wilkinson

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Katharine Keeble Wilkinson (born January 5, 1983 ) is a writer, speaker and teacher. Your work deals with the climate crisis . She is vice president of the research organization Project Drawdown . She was "Senior Writer" of by Paul Hawken published work Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming (2017) which is a New York Times - bestselling was.

Live and act

Wilkinson's passion for the environment arose while attending an open-air camp in school. Wilkinson is now organizing an open-air camp, the Feminist Climate Renaissance , which brings together women from different backgrounds. She did her doctorate in 2010 at the University of Oxford on the subject of God-created Heaven and Earth ... man-made climate change: American evangelical discourses on global climate change .

Her first book, Between God & Green: How Evangelicals Are Cultivating a Middle Ground on Climate Change , published in 2012 by Oxford University Press , emerged from her doctoral thesis and takes a look at evangelicals' changing attitudes towards global warming . She is convinced that religion has to play a role in the environmental movement.

In 2017, the book Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming , which she collaborated on, which is about overcoming the difficulties and facing the challenges of the climate crisis , became a best seller.

The Time magazine she led in 2019 in the article "Meet 15 Women Leading the Fight Against Climate Change" as one of 15 women who lead the fight against climate change, on.

Wilkinson now lives in Atlanta.

Publications

  • Between God & Green. How Evangelicals Are Cultivating a Middle Ground on Climate Change , Oxford University Press, 2012, ISBN 978-0-199895885

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Meet 15 Women Leading the Fight Against Climate Change. Time, September 12, 2019, accessed January 1, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Disrupting status quo on climate change , undp.org , July 16, 2019 (accessed January 2, 2020)
  3. ↑ Completed doctoral students (since 2006) , eci.ox.ac.uk, accessed on January 14, 2019
  4. ↑ a b TED Speaker: Katharine Wilkinson, Writer, environmentalist , ted.com (accessed January 1, 2020)
  5. ↑ 50th Annual Meeting Speaker Highlight: Katharine Wilkinson , secf.org (Southeastern Council of Foundations, accessed January 2, 2020)
personal data
SURNAME Wilkinson, Katharine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilkinson, Katharine Keeble (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer, speaker, and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 5th January 1983