How a strip club becomes a climate justice solution
Storytelling
“Every crisis is in part a storytelling crisis.
This is as true of climate chaos as anything else.”
This is as true of climate chaos as anything else.”
—Rebecca Solnit, Writer, historian, activist, and editor of Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility
Thanks to decades of work by scientists, climate advocates, and community organizers, more people than ever recognize the climate crisis as a clear and present threat to communities and ecosystems worldwide.
However, the climate movement needs to build more critical mass. We need more people to embrace the clean energy transition as urgent, achievable, and even desirable. We need communities, organizations, and businesses to reduce their gas and oil use and rapidly adopt clean energy solutions. We need climate advocates to share more relatable stories highlighting excitement and human connection over jargon and technicalities. We need a vocal and influential bloc of well-informed policymakers and elected officials to prioritize climate action at every level. Most of all, we need hope.
To meet this moment and help our cause prevail, we're harnessing the power of narrative and storytelling to personalize and transform public perception about the climate crisis and its clean energy solutions.
Renewing Brew
From the farm to the foam in your glass, Oregon businesses are building a sustainable life-cycle for beer through clean energy and energy efficiency.
Sunnyside Up
In a community at the crossroads of our energy future, a growing solar company is making the clean economy real.
A Clean Burn
A former Texas oilman and a public health advocate stand up to Big Oil, and fight for clean air and homegrown jobs in the Northwest.
How I fell for the carbon tax
One woman shares the story of her rise and fall – and rise again! – as a climate activist: What do an executive, a student, a tribal leader, an activist and a veteran have in common? They were all talking climate action back in February at Fortified! – a climate change storytelling event hosted by the Portland State University's Institute for Sustainable Solutions and in partnership with the City of Portland, Climate Solutions, Ecotrust, Oregon Environmental Council, Renewable Northwest, and the VOIS Alliance.
Southern Oregon's got sol
A quiet milestone has been reached in the evolution of solar and other clean energy solutions brewing along Oregon's South Coast, one built on concerted community effort in hand with public, private and nonprofit collaboration.
We’re blushing. Thank you, Postcard Underground.
Over several weeks this past fall we received a flurry of very encouraging notes in the mail directed at our Solutions Stories.
Harvesting Wind Power
Through a community-wide investment in wind power, a rural county in Oregon is earning millions of dollars to build their economy, cutting carbon and demonstrating that clean energy is both practical and profitable.
Discovering Renewable Energy
How can students design and implement real world solutions to discover the power and the possibility of renewable energy as a career?
Reclaiming Waste Energy
Through public-private partnerships, the City of Bremerton's Public Utilities department was able to quickly upgrade their wastewater facility to run more efficiently and save the City money.
Legacy Solution Stories project (2012-2018)
Story content published between 2012 and 2018 was developed as part of our initial Solutions Stories project. It sought to capture and communicate the success stories on the ground about building a clean energy economy in the Pacific Northwest. The project showcased stories aimed at reaching policymakers and other key audiences that influence those drivers and decision-makers on climate and clean energy policy.
This project was placed on hiatus in 2018, but helped inspire Climate Solutions' present-day storytelling and narrative efforts.
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Have you upgraded your home from gas to all energy-efficient electric appliances?
Is your company transitioning to zero-emission fleet vehicles?
Is your community hungry for some climate hope and optimism?
Our in-house storyteller wants to connect with you!
Email jonathan [dot] lee (at) climatesolutions [dot] org
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