CLEAN Teleconference Call April 7, 2020
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Storytelling Accelerating Climate Solutions
Abstract: Tools from social psychology, including social modeling and building self and collective efficacy, can help us to create a new model for current, culturally-relevant stories that can help communities improve climate mitigation and adaptation skills. These "solution stories" are hopeful, funny stories that effectively teach climate change adaptation, mitigation, and resilience strategies. Up-to-date research on can be iteratively utilized in these stories to better equip communities to manage climate change disasters and lessen harmful physical and mental health impacts. Stories are an innovative management strategy for substantially improving preparedness and, hence, health outcomes among communities facing extreme weather events caused by climate change.
NRDC's Rewrite the Future initiative aims to enlist the power of narrative TV, film and new media to help accelerate our global response to the climate crisis. Storytellers have a vital role to play in shaping our cultural narratives about climate, by producing entertainment that helps us face reality, confront our fear and grief, imagine possible futures, and inspire us to action. The program offers a range of support to Hollywood professionals to encourage more, varied, and compelling climate stories in entertainment, including industry dialogue and networking, climate story consultation, and help with project development.
Bios:
Emily Coren is a science communicator with a background in biology and science illustration, developing tools for producing cultural stories to improve the rate of climate mitigation and adaptation.
Cheryl Slean is a climate communicator, playwright and filmmaker with a diverse academic background in physics, literature and sustainability. As an educator she taught narrative theory, creative writing and filmmaking at University of Washington, Seattle University and UCLA. After making several independent short films, she started a video production company specializing in narrative strategies for educational media. In 2015 she co-founded the grassroots collective Vision LA Climate Action Arts to engage artists in the climate movement, and produced a multidisciplinary arts festival concurrent with the U.N. Paris Accords. She currently works with the Natural Resources Defense Council on Rewrite the Future, a climate storytelling in entertainment initiative.
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