Resources on Creative Climate Communication
- Jennie Carlisle’s presentation on the climate arts with lots of great images/examples from a variety of artistic media
- Folder of relevant scholarly articles
- PBS series on Climate Artists
- Climate Change Through the Artist's Eyes (Climate One podcast episode, August 2020)
- Art & Identity in a Time of Climate Change (Citizens Climate Radio podcast episode, August 2020)
- Why should we care about stories? (openDemocracy.net 2019)
- Hopepunk, the latest storytelling trend, is all about weaponized optimism (Vox 2018)
- 7 principles for Visuals Climate Change Communication (ClimateVisuals.org)
- In a new climate fiction course, students will imagine solutions (2018)
- Climate art: More and better with time (Yale Climate Connections 2017)
- These Artists Are Trying to Make Climate Change Visceral (Outside Magazine 2017)
- Trump-ing climate change: How narratives can save the planet (Oseiyo 2017)
- Telling Climate Change Stories: Five lessons from Saint Lucian journalists (International Institute for Sustainable Development 2017)
- Facts and feelings matter when communicating climate science (2017 column by experts John Cook and Sander van der Linden)
- Four Years after my Essay, Climate Art is Hot (Bill McKibben in Grist 2009)
- What the World Needs Now is Art Sweet Art (Bill McKibben in Grist 2005)
- Yale Program on Climate Change Communication (lots of resources)
- Climate Outreach (Europe's leading climate change communicators, bridging the gap between research and practice)
Examples of Creative Climate Communication
- Carbon Ruins: An Exhibition of the Fossil Age (transports the visitor into a future where transitions to post-fossil society has already happened.)
- Glaciogenic Art by Jill Pelto (paintings expressing climate science trends)
- This Land by David Opdyke (postcard mosaic; NY Times article here)
- WetLand by Mary Mattingly (floating sculpture of rowhouse swamped by sea level rise)
- Street art by Isaac Cordal (critiquing the politics of climate change)
- Asher Jay (article about her work here; work is wildlife focused; some climate themes)
- The Breathing Hole (a play looking at the history and future of the Arctic through Indigenous eyes)
- Arctic Cycle Theater (a worldwide series of readings and performances of short climate change plays presented in support of the U.N. Conference of the Parties)
- Searing Bands of White Light Mark the Ocean’s Rising Tides in a Coastal Community (shows the impact of climate change and rising tides on the low-lying islands off the west coast of Scotland)
- Murmur (an exhibit in which artists reflect on climate change)