Creative Climate

Project description

Everyone's story matters when it comes to action on the environment, and the project will bring together accounts of the creativity, imagination and determination we are all applying to these challenges. Creative Climate invites everyone to start an online diary that helps to track environmental change and humanity's responses to it. Taken together, the diaries will grow into a huge living archive of our experiences and ideas in one of the most important decades in human history.

The project will collect thoughts and stories from doorstep to workplace, from lab to garden; from international conference to community meeting - from all over the world.

Creative Climate will be the definitive edition of a global story of environmental change between 2010 and 2020 through the diaries of those who witness and shape those changes. Polar scientists, Amerindian chiefs, the CEO of a multi-national company, the designer of an electric car, celebrity gardeners, farmers and thousands of others all have important things to say about their changing world - and their role in bringing positive change. Each diary will contribute in text, sound or vision to a rich patchwork that will fascinate and inspire. 

Purpose

The next ten years will arguably be the most important in human history. Actions taken in the coming decade will decide whether we catastrophically change the atmosphere and eradicate our fellow species or find an alternative, less-damaging development path. But people are turned off and bored by constant warnings of disaster - melting glaciers, expanding deserts and glum polar bears have already become media clichés.