Lights, Camera, Inaction: Where is Climate’s Starring Role?

April 28, 2023

Climate disruption is a bigger and bigger part of our lives, and yet there’s one place it still doesn’t show up much: our television and movie...

Coping with Climate through Music

May 20, 2022

Music and social movements have historically gone hand in hand. Folk music played a unifying role for the labor movements in the United States....

Shepard Fairey, Mystic and the Power of Art

June 17, 2021

Shepard Fairey is best known for creating the iconic Barack Obama “Hope” portrait during the 2008 presidential election. Fairey’s work is...

Climate Narratives with Elizabeth Kolbert, Kim Stanley Robinson and Jeff Biggers

February 19, 2021

In the past decade, narratives of a dystopian climate future have helped connect people with characters in worlds decimated by industrial...

REWIND: Racism and Climate / Climate Change Through the Artist’s Eyes

November 20, 2020

The national outrage sparked by the murder of George Floyd has cast a spotlight on systemic racism that has permeated this country for centuries....

Erin Brockovich: Superman’s Not Coming

September 25, 2020

Twenty years ago, Julia Roberts won an Oscar for her portrayal of maverick environmental activist Erin Brockovich in the biopic of the same name....

Climate Change Through the Artist's Eyes with Alonzo King

August 28, 2020

Can art help us process our changing climate? 
The story of climate change is typically told in the language of facts and figures, graphs and...

Storytelling Through the Climate Crisis

May 15, 2020

How are writers using stories to help readers – and themselves – process the experience of climate change? Author Jenny Offill felt a...

Documentaries for the Holiday Season

November 27, 2018

It’s a holiday movie special as Climate One talks to the directors/producers of four recent documentaries that bring human drama to the climate...

Summer Films on Corn, Coal, Lights and Flights

June 29, 2018

It’s a summer movie special as Climate One talks to the directors/producers of four recent documentaries that bring human drama to the climate...