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New work: Parks Climate Challenge
This summer, 19 high school students from Chicago, DC, Denver, San Francisco and Seattle spent a month in the North Cascades. For many, it was their first time camping. They hiked to glaciers, swam with bull trout, dodged thunderstorms, taught fifth graders about CO2, and went canoeing for days. It was an opportunity to both connect with a national park and witness impacts of climate change.
We were asked to create a multimedia piece about the program and decided to help the students document their own experience. For 32 days the youth shared two Canon G10s and an Olympus audio recorder to keep photo and audio journals. We've combined their material (over 200 audio files and 9,000 images!) with pre and post video interviews into a 13-minute multimedia piece.
In September, we are following the students to Washington, DC to meet with experts in climate change policy, national parks and community engagement. We will also be visiting some of their home communities, where they are working with teacher-mentors to design a service project at a local national park that engages more youth with doing something about climate change. If you enjoy this multimedia story, get ready for chapters two and three!
» Watch the piece
» Learn more about the project on our blog
Vote for us: Nau’s Grant for Change
We need your vote! Nau, a small clothing company based in Portland, is offering their first annual Grant for Change – a $10,000 grant supporting those who instigate lasting, positive change in their communities. This funding would enable us to work with local researchers to produce a series of multimedia stories that explore the impacts of global climate change through people that live and work in the Pacific Northwest. We were honored to be one of the 10 original nominees, but now we need your help to make it to the next round. Please take a moment and give us five stars on the G4C Web site
and then ask your friends to do the same. (A quick registration is required; then click the link below and add five stars.) Voting ends August 31.
» Vote for Facing Climate Change
More news from our blog
» Facing Climate Change on Grist.org
Grist launched a special series on art and climate change. We're interviewed and they also featured our multimedia piece "Joe King on Fire Suppression."
» Jim Harris remembered
North Cascades Institute featured Sara's interview of one the Upper Skagit's great naturalists.
» GHG exhibit in Colorado
The human rights and climate change exhibit we curated for the Three Degrees Conference is on display through the end of August at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.
» January flight featured in Lighthawk newsletter
Read how Lighthawk helped us shoot flooding in the Snoqualmie Valley last winter.
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About Facing Climate Change
Facing Climate Change tells the story of global change through local people. From semi-nomadic reindeer herders in the Arctic to wildland firefighters of the American West, we document the lives of people around the world as they confront and adapt to the complex issues surrounding global warming.
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