Storytelling and Climate Solutions
Climate solutions across sectors
Are you thinking about how to fold story into your climate work?
If so, this book about climate solutions might be of interest.
Storytelling to Accelerate Climate Solutions is a book by editors Emily Coren and Hua (Helen) Wang. Each of the 20 chapters addresses a specific type of storytelling. In it, you'll find chapters on entertainment education, locally driven narratives, youth engagement, Hollywood, climate fiction, music, news reporting, geospatial tools, interactive storytelling, mental health, and storytelling through food. There is also a chapter about using visuals as a catalyst for climate science communication. It addresses scientific illustration, children's books, and learning in formal and informal settings. I had the opportunity to work on this chapter with four extraordinary science communicators – Kalliopi Monoyios, Kirsten Carlson, Taina Litwak, and Fiona Martin.
Scientific illustration has been an interest of mine for over two decades and was a big part of my previous endeavor, which focused on an educational resource about art, science, and interpretation — specifically botany education and botanical art.
The task before us was to address what visual science communication looks like and what it accomplishes in formal and informal situations. You can read our chapter here.
Editors Coren and Wang collaborated with 44 authors affiliated with colleges, universities, news organizations, nonprofits, production companies, medical centers, the entertainment industry, small businesses, and independent small businesses. With this book, they've created a climate communication guide that practitioners can use across sectors.
Learn more about this book and the chapter about visual science communication in my conversations with Kalliopi, Emily, and Helen below.
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