ARTISTS AND COMMUNICATORS
Climate touches everything. These resources will help you understand how climate touches your profession and your role for climate action. Artists and communicator's work helps us collectively face the challenges of climate change; opening our imaginations for a more just and sustainable future.
"You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it." -Cornel West
Books & Websites
Books
The Seed Keeper (Diane Wilson, 2021)
Under The Sky We Make (2021)
The Ministry for the Future (2020)
The Overstory (2019)
Lighting the Way: An Anthology of Short Plays About the Climate Crisis (2019)
Where is Hope? An Anthology of Short Climate Change Plays (2017)
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (2017)
Websites
GMU Center for Climate Change Communication
Articles
Climate and Visual Arts Articles
What an ecological solution looks like (Yes! Solutions Journalism, 2021)
The Climate Decade – Ten Years to Secure the Future (Raffi, 2021)
Fire has always defined California. An artist and naturalist reflects on what’s different this time (Mother Jones, 2020)
Can art museums survive without oil money? (Grist, 2019)
How America got into this climate predicament, through the lens of art history (Grist, 2019)
Climate Literacy Articles
Climate literacy is essential for effective change (Yes! Solutions Journalism, 2020)
Fake news is killing us. How we can stop it. (Grist, 2020)
Can art fight fake news? (Grist, 2020)
How the oil industry pumped Americans full of fake news (Grist, 2020)
How people came to believe that individual choices could save the earth (Grist, 2020)
Want some eco-friendly tips? A new study says no, you don’t (Grist, 2020)
Meet the mythbuster for climate change (Grist, 2019)
What should we call climate change? It’s political. (Grist, 2019)
The psychology of climate change communication (CRED, 2009)
Climate Reporting Articles
Do we need more scary climate change articles? Maybe. (Grist, 2021)
How embracing uncertainty might make you a better journalist (Grist, 2020)
Want to save lives? Name heatwaves like hurricanes, experts say. (Grist, 2020)
The curse of both-sidism. How climate denial skewed media coverage for 30 years. (Grist, 2020)
Major news outlets devoted less than 4 hours to climate change. Total. (Grist, 2020)
Weathercasters are talking about climate change and how we can solve it (Grist, 2020)
Is climate change showing up in the daily forecast? It’s complicated. (Grist, 2020)
It’s groundhog day, so here’s the real dirt on your weather forecaster (Grist, 2019)
Storytelling Articles
Why ‘Solarpunk’ gives me hope for a more sustainable future (Yes! Solutions Journalism, 2021)
When facts fail to convince, storytelling may do the trick (Grist, 2020)
This sculpture is a mood ring for the Great Barrier Reef (Grist, 2020)
The Good Place: It’s hard to be good when the world is on fire (Grist, 2020)
More words to describe a world gone nuts (Grist, 2020)
Could FOMO and peer pressure help save us all? (Grist, 2020)
We broke down the last decade of climate change in 7 charts (Grist, 2019)
Meet the climate conscious villain of the wrestling world (Grist, 2019)
Social Media Articles
How climate change misinformation spreads online (Carbon Brief, 2020)
How the internet transformed climate activism (Grist, 2020)
A quarter of all tweets about climate change are produced by bots (Grist, 2020)
Your weather tweets are showing your climate amnesia (Grist, 2019)
Podcasts
Art and Social Change Podcasts
Archiving P’urhépecha knowledge through art (Raíces Verdes, 2021)
Racism and climate through the artists eye (Climate One, 2020)
The Power of Art in Helping us to See Climate Change (Climate Psychology Alliance, 2019)
“A Chidren’s Bible” Author Lydia Millet on climate fiction and envisioning crisis (Climate Pod, 2021)
Lights, Camera, Adaptation! (America Adapts, 2016)
Co-creating ecological art with the Amazon's Huni Kuin Tribe (Green Dreamer Podcast)
Power of Art and Music to Strengthen the Sustainability Movement (Green Dreamer Podcast)
Using ecological art to spark environmental conservation (Green Dreamer Podcast)
Climate Reporting Podcasts
On ending climate science in the media (Climate Pod, 2020)
Climate media in 2020 (Climate Pod, 2020)
Is climate the greatest story rarely told? (Warm Regards, 2018)
Covering catastrophe (Climate One, 2017)
Why sustainability doesn't make headlines in mainstream media . . . (Green Dreamer Podcast)
Climate Communication Podcasts
How we can use meteorology as a tool for a safer future and save vulnerable lives in the face of climate change (Shaping our Future, 2020)
Are you a wizard or a prophet? (Reversing Climate Change, 2020)
The Tempestry Project (Warm Regards, 2020)
On building multiracial coalitions for climate action (Climate Pod, 2020)
Changing climate beliefs (Warm Regards, 2020)
Selling the science of climate change (Climate One, 2018)
Hope for climate, science, and climate science (Warm Regards, 2018)
On the ice with Michael Mann (Climate One, 2018)
Concussions, cigarettes and climate (Climate One, 2017)
Finding shared values (Warm Regards, 2017)
Storytelling Podcasts
Inspiring cultural shifts through heart-centered storytelling (Green Dreamer, 2021)
What can fiction teach us about climate catastrophe? (Shaping the Future, 2020)
Storytelling through the climate crisis (Climate One, 2020)
Me v. we (Climate One, 2020)
The hottest new genre: Doomer Lit (Reversing Climate Change, 2020)
Is climate science easier to swallow as science fiction? (Warm Regards, 2019)
Harnessing the power of storytelling to shift popular culture (Green Dreamer Podcast)
Inspire a more peaceful, connected world through storytelling (Green Dreamer Podcast)
Videos
Dr. Tammy Brown -- Art as a weapon for social change (TedX, 2014)
Marcus Ellsworth -- Art as activism (TedX, 2014)
Message from the future II: The years of repair (The Intercept, 2020)
The artist painting the climate change storm she sees on the horizon (BBC Scotland, 2019)
How comics can help us talk about climate change (Grist, 2016)
Sanaz Mazinani -- Art and activism (KQED Art School, 2015)
Sean Lennon, Yoko Ono, and Artists Against Fracking Present: ‘Don’t Frack My Mother’ (ArtistsvsFracking, 2013)
Jes Thompson -- Let’s change the way we talk about climate change (TedX)