The Art For Climate Toolkit was created by Dalhousie students with the mentorship of YCL staff to help people better understand how art is beneficial in creating social change — a necessary act to address the climate crisis.
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The Art For Climate Toolkit was created by Dalhousie students with the mentorship of YCL staff to help people better understand how art is beneficial in creating social change — a necessary act to address the climate crisis.
Sometimes the only way to learn about someone’s perspective on climate change or environmental issues, is to not talk directly about them. Use this virtual card deck to find Common Ground with others by centering both of your lived experiences and to try to better meet people where they are at in climate conversations. Available in English et en français.
A report to provide insight into the importance for climate-designated grants and financial instruments to better consider youth in their deployment.
Identifies key barriers preventing Indigenous youth from engaging in climate decision-making and the recommendations to address the barriers.
Re-imagine how storytelling can be used as powerful, practical tool to catalyze climate justice.
Explore a glossary of helpful terms for engaging with climate justice and the Toolbox.
What is Land(ing) Back? Land(ing) Back is a five-part audio blog series presented in collaboration with Youth Climate Lab and 4Rs Youth Movement. Released over five weeks, each episode features a conversation with a young Indigenous person making change within their community through climate work.
Rukhsar Sultana, the Regional Community Coordinator for the Bay of Bengal pilot, invites Climate Resilience Collective Associates Vaskar Mondal, Masum Billah and Sufiya Khatun to share their perspectives and reflect on how they are coping and taking action locally after being directly impacted by the downstream impacts of Cyclone Yaas.
Climate conversations are often daunting, full of jargon, and constrained by what is "practical." Envisioning Futures pulls threads from "design fiction" approaches, prompting users to explore possible just, climate-resilient futures, and discuss how we might collectively achieve them. Available in English and en français.
We worked with our summer 2020 artist-in-residence, Savanna Harvey, to guide users in testing how performance art can brighten reflections on our climate futures.
This arts-based cohort convened young creatives in order to explore the questions, "Where are we now?" "Where do we want to go?" and "How do we get there?" in regards to climate action and a low-carbon economy.