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 doing a Climate Stories Project interview in Shishmaref, Alaska.
Become a Climate Stories Ambassador!Our fall cohort of Climate Stories Ambassadors is underway! Contact us to sign up for the spring session.
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 Ken Pitts of Portland, Oregon.
We ask that you record your own climate story and carry out and record 1-3 climate story interviews with people in your own community during a 3-month time span. Following the initial online training, we ask that you 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. Participants who submit their own story and at least one interview will receive a certificate of completion of the Climate Stories Ambassadors program.
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Featured Climate Story: Clementine Mattesco, Quebec, Canada
Clementine Mattesco, from Quebec, discusses how she first became concerned about climate change in school and her strong emotional reactions to the climate crisis. Speaking about her climate-related anxiety, she said, "I felt angry, I felt powerless, I felt like things needed to be changed completely." She strives, in her life, to create resilient systems in response to the crisis. Her family runs a regenerative farm with the goal to "create a farm that nourishes the human while regenerating the environment it depends on." Through this farm, Clementine and her family are educating the community around them and creating connections between people and the land.
Climate Music
Climate Stories Project promotes art and music projects which engage with the climate crisis through stories.
Exponential is a solo bass and electronic music piece featuring the voices of Colby College students speaking about their personal responses to climate change. The students' stories were recorded as part of a climate storytelling workshop at Colby College in spring 2021.
Jason Davis, bass
Recorded by Joe Musacchia
Jason Davis, bass
Recorded by Joe Musacchia