What kinds of stories are we telling about changes in the natural world? What kinds of stories need to be told? I would love to hear from you!

#storytelling #environmentalstorytelling #climatechange #climatestories #conservation #hope

What makes Yale Climate Connections stories work?

Climate Generation - Storytelling

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Are laws, regulations, and technological innovation enough to guide us to a better future? Perhaps it's time we start examining our priorities as a society.

Trump Seeks to Unravel NEPA, Montana Free Press, March 2025: https://montanafreepress.org/2025/03/10/trump-seeks-to-unravel-nepa-reducing-power-to-regulate-federal-action/

White House to Reverse Public Lands Rule, Colorado Sun, April 2025: https://coloradosun.com/2025/04/21/trump-public-lands-rule-colorado-bureau-of-land-management/

How Nature Based Solutions Can Protect Businesses from Water Risks, Word Resources Institute, August 2022: https://www.wri.org/insights/nature-based-solutions-business-water-risk

Ecosystem Services, California Academy of Sciences, April 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCH1Gre3Mg0

Beyond the Bins on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/beyondthebins.bsky.social

Beyond the Bins on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61569731943518

Is feeling like a hero really necessary?

Stop Trying to Save the Planet by PBS Terra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH2aE0lk2XM

How can you possibly make a difference if you don't have a good sense of yourself?

In this first episode, I'll address that ever-pressing question that sometimes plagues people in the environmental community: Is it all pointless?

(Apologies for audio quality issues - I'm new at this)

References:

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, by Jared Diamond

The First Great Energy Transition: How Humanity Gave Up Whaling. Oliver Dirr, The Guardian, March 2023: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/11/the-first-great-energy-transition-how-humanity-gave-up-whaling

Further reading:

Hundreds are dead in Spain's floods. Scientists see a connection to climate change. November 2024, NPR: https://www.npr.org/2024/11/01/nx-s1-5175804/spain-floods-climate-change

Are biodiversity efforts keeping up with the effects of climate change? October 2024, NPR: https://www.npr.org/2024/10/24/1211597334/are-biodiversity-efforts-keeping-up-with-the-effects-of-climate-change

How is the world doing on climate change? Not great. October 2024, NPR: https://www.npr.org/2024/10/24/nx-s1-5157789/climate-change-emissions-greenhouse-gases-united-nations

See some of the most dramatic pictures of California wildfire devastation. NPR, January 2025: https://www.npr.org/sections/the-picture-show/2025/01/13/g-s1-42407/see-california-wildfire-devastation-pictures-altadena-eaton-palisades