Eco-Anxiety: Saving Our Sanity, Our Kids, and Our Future

by Heather White, Erin Brockovich (Foreword)

The climate crisis and its resulting eco-anxiety is the biggest challenge of our time. The anxiety that comes with worrying about how environmental harm will impact our--and our children's--lives can be overwhelming. Learn how to balance practicing daily sustainability actions while caring for your own eco-anxiety in this revolutionary book from noted environmentalist Heather White. In Eco-Anxiety , White shows you how to contribute to the climate movement through self-discovery and self-care. Utilizing the Service Superpower Profile Assessment included in the text, you’ll discover how your personality, interests, and strengths can be of service to others and the planet. This book will serve as your guide Setting the intention each day to take a small step to care for the planet--can help ease your eco-anxiety, push the culture toward climate solutions, and create a sense of joy. One Green Thing>

Genres: Nonfiction, Environment

320 pages, Paperback

Published September 24, 2024

About the author

Heather White is the founder of OneGreenThing.org. White's more than two decades of experience include serving as a presidential campaign staffer for Al Gore, the environmental counsel to a US Senator, and the executive director of three national environmental nonprofits. She's been featured on Good Morning America, ABC News, CBS, PBS, and NBC, and quoted in the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the Guardian. She lives in Bozeman, Montana, with her family.

Reviews

[Mandy Lehti · Rating 5 out of 5]

Eco-Anxiety: Saving Our Sanity, Our Kids, and Our Future is a timely, compassionate, and empowering guide that speaks directly to the emotional heart of the climate crisis. Heather White tackles one of the most quietly overwhelming burdens of modern life the fear of what environmental harm means for us, our children, and the world we love. Instead of drowning readers in despair, she offers clarity, purpose, and a way forward grounded in self care, self discovery, and genuine hope.

What makes this book stand out is its deeply human approach. White skillfully blends environmental insight with emotional wellness, showing readers that caring for the planet begins with caring for themselves. The included Service Superpower Profile Assessment is a brilliant tool that helps readers understand their personality, passions, and strengths transforming climate anxiety into personalized, actionable purpose.

With Erin Brockovich’s powerful foreword setting the tone, this book balances scientific urgency with practical optimism. White’s message is simple yet profound: small, intentional daily actions not only contribute to climate solutions, but also restore joy, calm, and empowerment in the face of overwhelming global challenges.

Eco-Anxiety is an essential read for parents, educators, activists, and anyone who has ever felt the weight of the world on their shoulders. It is insightful, soothing, and unexpectedly uplifting an anchor of hope in the modern environmental storm.

[Julia Roome · Rating 3 out of 5]

I picked up this book because I have a lot of eco anxiety. I think as a tool for folks who are just learning about what this means, or folks who are just at the beginning of their journey dealing with eco anxiety, White has a lot to offer. Personally, I didn’t find it super helpful right now, but I could definitely see myself picking it up at times in the future if I need inspiration for small actions to take

[Ellen Barbian · Rating 4 out of 5]

Solid book but it appears more as a workbook - disappointed in the fact only that I got it as a library vs. a purchase to fill out