Climate Stories Project
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Climate Stories Project is “an educational and artistic forum for sharing personal stories about the changing climate”. It includes individuals’ stories of how became aware of climate change in their location. The idea is to use these stories to build an inclusive, crowd-sourced movement to confront the climate crisis.
Stories are sourced from all around the world. Audio files are organised by continent on the dedicated Climate Stories Project, and include audio files in a range of languages, with translations. This resource could thus support language learning in schools. Video files are available on the Climate Stories Project YouTube channel.
Climate Stories Project also facilitate climate storytelling workshops for organisations, communities, and schools, and the project is seeking educators to collaborate with as Climate Stories Ambassadors. Ambassadors are invited to develop educational curriculum modules based on the Climate Stories Project. More information and contact details are available on the Climate Stories website.
Find out more about becoming a Climate Stories Ambassador here.
Listen to Climate Stories here.
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This resource was sourced by the research team, rather than recommended by an educator taking part in the research. However, educators working at a range of educational stages talked about the value of human stories from different contexts to bring climate change to life as a topic for students, as this resource sets out to do. For example, one educator said:
“Offering that safe space to students and giving them this perspective that it's not just doom and gloom [is really important]. And you know, talking to them about doom scrolling, and I think we all do a little bit of that, and, you know, it's obviously great to get the information, but does that actually help? And kind of refocusing and looking at the positive stories as well. Because there are also lots of really good examples where people have created change and, you know, bringing those ideas a little bit more into the classroom and also connecting to different NGOs [and] other schools [would be good]”. Dublin-based senior cycle educator