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.
Join our next Climate Stories Ambassadors Cohort!The next cohort of Climate Stories Ambassadors is coming soon! Our first meeting will take place on Friday, September 23 at 12:00pm (eastern US time) via Zoom (registration link is below).
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: Teodora Cancho Huaichao, Rockville, Maryland
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Teodora Cancha Huaichao from Rockville, Maryland, participated in a Climate Stories Ambassadors training facilitated by the Montgomery County Department of Environmental Protection and Climate Stories Project. Here she speaks about the impacts of climate change and pollution on a local river, and offers her suggestions for keeping the local environment clean and healthy.
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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