BIRTH to Kindergarten
Talk Climate resource pages are designed to support child-centered climate communication, to provide justice-based climate education for caregivers, and to offer ways to take climate action.
According to The Lancet, today's children are affected by climate change at every stage of development. Caregivers, as health advocates, and are well positioned to take action for the health and future of all children.
"It’s the little things that citizens do. That’s what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.”
—Wangari Maathai
child-centered Learning
Our Child-Centered Learning Page includes links to read-aloud books, music, videos, and art activities that promote care for people and planet.
Join a Climate justice organization!
Youth-led, intergenerational climate justice organizations:
Climate Action Families (Washington state)
Fridays for Future (Global, with local chapters)
Plant-For-The-Planet (Global, with local chapters)
Adult-led, family centered climate justice organizations:
Climate Parents (National and local chapters with Sierra Club)
Mothers and Others for Clean Air (Southeaster US)
Moms Clean Air Force (National with state chapters)
Mothers Out Front (National with state and local teams)
Parents for Future (Global)
Parents Together (National)
Science Moms (National)
podcast & videos
Podcasts: Caregiver Communication
How to Talk With Children About Climate Change (Climate Psychology Alliance, 2019/2021)
6 tips for talking with kids about climate change (NPR, 2019)
Podcasts: Caregiver Activism
Latinx Moms for Climate Change (Parenting and Politics, 2020)
Parent power for political change (Parenting and Politics, 2020)
Activist fatigue and taking care of ourselves (Parenting and Politics, 2019)
Videos
Talking to Kids about Climate Change (Climate Reality, 2020)
How to Talk to Kids About Climate Webinar (Our Kids Climate, 2020)
Presence, Parenting, and the Planet (Dan Siegel)
Websites, books, & articles
Websites
Learning in Places: For Families
Raffi Foundation for Child Honouring
Books
How to Talk to Your Kids About Climate Change: Turning Angst Into Action (2020)
The Parents’ Guide to the Climate Revolution (2018)
Raising Children in the Midst of Global Crisis (coming soon)
Articles: Climate and Caregiving
Raising the Revolution (Canadian Art, 2020)
How climate experts think about raising children who will inherit a planet in crisis (WaPo, 2020)
‘Meeting this moment’ as a parent and climate activist (Sierra Club, 2020)
Articles: Climate and Children's Health
Air pollution puts children at higher risk of disease in adulthood (Stanford News, 2021)
The life-altering affects heat is having on American children (Guardian, 2021)
Kids face rising health risks from climate change, doctors warn (Inside Climate News, 2019)
Articles: Nature Connections
Teaching the concept of equity through gardening (Edutopia, 2021)
The more time kids spend in nature, the happier they are (Inc, 2020)
Why kids need to spend time outdoors (Child Mind Institute)