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.
We facilitate climate storytelling workshops for organizations, communities, and schools! Please visit the workshop page for more details.
Stanley Tocktoo and Sam Tocktoo conducting a Climate Stories interview in Shishmaref, Alaska.
We are presenting a free webinar for about using the curriculum on Tuesday 9/29 at 4pm PT/7pm ET.
We will discuss climate storytelling activities and lesson plans and ways to adapt the curriculum to your classroom. We will be joined by Breck Foster, Lake Oswego High School teacher and SubjectToClimate Oregon State Lead, who will share her experiences using climate storytelling and elements of the curriculum in her class. Please use this Zoom link to register for the webinar. |
Join our Climate Storytelling Curriculum Webinar on Tuesday 9/29 at 4 PM Pacific Time/7 PM Eastern TimeAre you a K-12 or university educator looking to enrich your climate change education curriculum? Climate Stories Project has developed a comprehensive educational curriculum to engage students with personal and community responses to climate change through narrative, interviewing, and media creation. The curriculum guide includes an overview document and five modules:
From this page you can download the Curriculum Overview and Module one for free or support Climate Stories Project with an optional donation and download the full curriculum. With any curriculum download, you will receive a discount coupon for a facilitated climate storytelling workshop or workshop series! |
Become a Climate Stories Ambassador!Are you excited about becoming an ambassador for climate storytelling in your community? Join Climate Stories Project and participants from around the world for a 3-part free online training series to learn about climate storytelling, develop interview skills, and record and share climate stories.
Applications for the Fall 2026 Climate Stories Ambassadors cohort are now open. The dates for the three 90-minute training sessions are: 1) Telling your Climate Story: Tuesday, October 20, 12 noon Eastern Standard Time 2) Climate Story Interviewing: Tuesday, November 3, 12 noon Eastern Standard Time 3) Leveraging Climate Storytelling for Positive Change: Tuesday, November 17, 12 noon Eastern Standard Time It is preferred but not required that you attend all three training sessions. Training sessions will be recorded and shared with all registrants. |
A climate story by Climate Stories Ambassador Giorgia Cavicchia
Participation is free and open to all. Ambassadors who submit their own story and at least one interview will receive a certificate of completion of the Climate Stories Ambassadors initiative.
Fill out this Application Form to take part in the fall cohort. |
Featured Climate Story: Charlie Gonzalez, Cincinnati, Ohio
This week's featured story comes from Charlie Gonzalez from Cincinnati, Ohio, who was interviewed by Climate Stories Ambassador Kelly St. Charles. Charlie shares about his observations of intense rain events in Ohio and how he grapples with technical versus social solutions to the climate crisis. Take a moment to listen to his story here!
Climate Music
Climate Stories Project promotes art and music projects which engage with the climate crisis through stories.
We Can Do Hard Things is a video and music montage featuring the voice of environmental educator and climate activist Yvette Stewart. Yvette speaks about the importance of maintaining hope and courage in the face of the climate crisis, and references the words of Wendell Berry, Roger Payne, and Glennon Doyle in her moving climate story. The music is by bassist, composer, and Climate Stories director Jason Davis, and includes video footage he filmed as a 2024 Fulbright scholar researching community oral histories of the Atlantic Rain Forest in Brazil. Other video footage courtesy of Nuozhou Wang/Climate Hope Concert and Dronestock.
Climate Stories Project is supported by the Earth Rising Foundation and fiscally sponsored by the Hitchcock Center for the Environment., a 501(C)(3) not-for-profit organization registered in Massachusetts.