I cannot remember a time when I didn’t know that climate change existed. From the ages of four to 12, I went to a school that was in the middle of the woods in the Northeast of the US and throughout my childhood I traveled between my two countries of citizenship, the US and Scotland. […]
My name is Kampeska Cinkila Win, my English name is Nicole Montclair Donaghy. I’m a Húŋkpapȟa-Iháŋktȟuŋwaŋna sovereign being of the Standing Rock Nation, I also honor my descendancy of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa and the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara people on my father’s side. I come from a place where the root causes […]
Greg Dalton is the Founder and host of Climate One podcast and radio show. I’m walking on a sidewalk in Whitefish, Montana on a sunny spring day. It’s about 70 degrees and people are wearing facemasks. I walk past a large pickup truck that is idling in a parking space in front of a row […]
This climate story starts before time was told by clocks or watches. This climate story started with the movement of stars through the sky, the sun and moon dancing around the horizon. In many ways, this story fell from the stars, delivered by grandfathers of an ancient past. This story is a love story, one […]
“My son is failing his Spanish course, since he won’t hand in his homework!” “Everytime I ask about her friends, my daughter gets upset and locks herself in her room.” “I’ve been asking my son to help get our equipment together for the upcoming hunt, and he won’t budge from his video games.” This was […]
Growing up, I never really thought about climate change in any real way. It was not discussed in my household, nor do I remember anyone mentioning it in school, growing up or even reading about it in any textbook — which is actually the crux of my climate story. As an African American, I now […]
I didn’t know I would be making jam at 3-o-clock in the morning, but there I was. I was 26 years old. I had just moved out of my family’s home and was living alone for the very first time. I had found a studio apartment in Miami with bright yellow walls that reminded me […]
Climate change sits in my gut like stones in the pockets of my clothes pulling me under water after I have jumped in. I must deliberately work to remove each stone, examine it, determine its weight. Climate change is like a shadow constantly following me– sometimes revealed by a burst of sun– lengthening and growing […]
When I looked at the Star Tribune homepage, I was stunned. A picture of a place far away that I knew so well was the top story. It was September 2, 2019 and Hurricane Dorian had just battered the Bahamas. Some Midwest grandparents retire to Arizona or snowbird in Florida. My grandparents took a vacation […]
Liz is currently supporting Climate Generation as our Programs Intern. Liz shares the bedtime stories her parents told her as a child of their experience surviving under the Khmer Rouge regime and the resolve that has allowed her to find today. https://media.climategen.org/20200331-climate-story-Liz-Lat-Bedtime-stories-of-the-Khmer-Americans.mp3