Climate Stories Project

Climate Stories Project is an educational and artistic forum for sharing personal stories about the changing climate. Sharing your climate story helps build an inclusive and effective movement to confront the climate crisis.

Stanley Tocktoo and Sam Tocktoo doing a Climate Stories Project interview in Shishmaref, Alaska.

Climate Stories Project facilitates climate storytelling workshops for organizations, communities, and schools! Please visit the workshop page for more details.

Become a Climate Stories Ambassador!

Are you excited about building the climate stories movement? Climate Stories Project is seeking Climate Stories Ambassadors to carry out interviews and share climate stories from communities around the world. Here's what you'll do:

Receive training and guidance to conduct climate story interviews
Set up and carry out climate story interviews and public forums in your community
Connect with other Climate Story Ambassadors from around the world

You'll learn valuable environmental communication skills, and promote an inclusive and effective movement to confront the climate crisis.

Become a Climate Stories Ambassador

Featured Climate Story: Jessica Lind Peterson, Canyon, Minnesota

Climate Stories Project · Jessica Lind Peterson, Canyon, Minnesota

"I am conditioned for extreme weather. Extreme cold. Extreme amounts of snow. And while things up North here are still extreme, it feels different now."

A climate story by Jessica Lind Peterson, author, playwright, theater artist, and co-founder of Yellow Tree Theatre in Osseo, MN. Jessica shares her love of the natural world around her home in Canyon, Minnesota, observes dramatic changes in weather patterns and the native forests, and discusses her emotional responses to the climate crisis and ways to adapt.

Click here for a transcript.

Check out more Climate Stories

Climate Music

Climate Stories Project promotes art and music projects which engage with the climate crisis through stories. Here is a sample from the Climate Voices Suite by Jason Davis, which features the voice of Goksen Sahin from Instanbul, Turkey, who talks about the impact of severe drought on her home region. Hear the full piece at Climate Music.

Listen to more Climate Music

Please consider supporting Climate Stories Project with a tax-deductible donation through our fiscal sponsor, Fractured Atlas. Your financial support allows us to collect and share climate stories, lead climate story workshops for students, and produce artistic works based on climate stories. Many thanks!