When you think about climate change and your future, do you feel worried, scared, sad, angry or hopeless? Do you want to help the world even though some days you barely know how to help yourself?

It’s natural to have these feelings—they mean you care about people, animals, plants and life on Earth. And you aren’t alone. Climate change is a big issue that affects us all. Maybe you’ve had to evacuate your home because of a wildfire, or you couldn’t spend time outside because of the smoke.

In Climate Care, young readers will learn that helping the world first begins with helping themselves. Through journalling, activities and breathing exercises, readers will be given practical tools to navigate their own eco emotions. And when you feel ready, together we can keep building community, taking action and growing hope for a better world.

"Climate Care is a gift for concerned young souls. It brings to light crucial insights from climate psychology for addressing climate distress with wisdom, connection and empowerment, and is fused with just the right amount of reflection, journaling and art to grow the reader’s sense of possibility with each page turned."

– Britt Wray, author of Generation Dread and director of CIRCLE at Stanford Psychiatry

"Bonita Ford’s Embers of Hope is a personal testimony of our current shift from an age that denies the Earth is alive towards a future in which we co-evolve with a living, generous, and abundant Mother Earth."

—Foreword by Dr. Vandana Shiva, author of Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis.

When we read or watch the news, sometimes we can find ourselves bombarded with facts about climate breakdown, and the threat of catastrophe can loom terrifyingly large. The sheer overwhelming nature of the problem can cause many of us to shut down and turn away, even as the most dedicated activists among us burn themselves out. Yet rather than scold or use shock tactics to try to promote change, permaculture educator and group facilitator Bonita Eloise Ford addresses the topic with gentleness, encouragement, and practicality.

Part memoir and part meditative workbook, Embers of Hope invites us on a personal journey to better connect with ourselves and the living Earth, offering perspective shifts that help us acknowledge our sorrow, ignite our hope, and consider everyday acts to strengthen our communities. Together, we can nurture the small forces that may radically transform our world.