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.
Many thanks to Sierra Magazine and journalist Jen Rose-Smith for writing about climate change oral history and Climate Stories Project!
Join the Climate Stories Project Partner Schools Network!
Are you a teacher interested in climate storytelling? Join our new Climate Stories Project Partner Schools Network to organize online or in-person exchanges with other teachers around the globe! Please contact us for more details.
Become a Climate Stories Ambassador!The Spring 2023 cohort of Climate Stories Ambassadors is underway!
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: Jen Whitney, Granville, New York.
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A powerful climate story interview by Jen Whitney of Granville, NY, speaking with her grandmother Pearl about the changes she has seen in snowfall, and her concerns for the future as the climate warms.
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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