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.
We are currently seeking K-12 and university educators to collaborate with us as we develop educational curriculum modules based on the Climate Stories Project format! Please contact us if you are interested or would like more details.
Stanley Tocktoo and Sam Tocktoo conducting a Climate Stories interview in Shishmaref, Alaska.
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 training series to learn about climate storytelling, develop interview skills, and record and share climate stories.
As a Climate Stories Ambassador you will:
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A climate story by Climate Stories Ambassador Giorgia Cavicchia
As an Ambassador, you'll record your own climate story and record 1-3 climate story interviews with people in your own community during a 6-week time span. Following the initial online training, you'll take part in two additional online meetings to discuss your progress with other Ambassadors and learn from each other about using climate storytelling to promote an effective response to the climate crisis.
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. |
Western Massachusetts Youth Climate Ambassadors
In Spring 2025, in partnership with the Hitchcock Center for the Environment, Climate Stories Project led the first Youth Climate Stories Ambassadors workshop series. Massachusetts students recorded their personal climate stories and interviewed others about their stories. They helped plan and lead an in-person event the Hitchcock Center, bringing together community members of all ages, who discussed the climate crisis and visions for a more positive future.
Wes Deshano from the project funder Mass Humanities created this video featuring testimonials students from the community event. Please watch and share this impressive work!
Individual student stories from the project can be fund on the Massachusetts Climate Stories page.
In Spring 2025, in partnership with the Hitchcock Center for the Environment, Climate Stories Project led the first Youth Climate Stories Ambassadors workshop series. Massachusetts students recorded their personal climate stories and interviewed others about their stories. They helped plan and lead an in-person event the Hitchcock Center, bringing together community members of all ages, who discussed the climate crisis and visions for a more positive future.
Wes Deshano from the project funder Mass Humanities created this video featuring testimonials students from the community event. Please watch and share this impressive work!
Individual student stories from the project can be fund on the Massachusetts Climate Stories page.
Featured Climate Story: Tony Cheng, Shanghai, China
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This week we are featuring a climate story from Tony Cheng in Shanghai. Here Tony speaks about the changes in summer heat he has noticed in Shanghai. He also talks about river pollution and important river clean-up efforts. He reflects that it is people's deep-rooted love for Shanghai that inspires them to be better stewards of the natural environment. Take a moment to listen to his story here.
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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.