Climate change is a global problem, but every community has a local story. Whether the impacts are direct or make existing challenges worse, these are the stories society needs to know. We have to learn them from each other, see them in the news, make art about them and discuss them in our schools. After all, people cause, face the consequences of, and must collectively stop this climate crisis. But to mobilize global effort we must generate local will.

Facing Climate Change tells the story of global warming through real people. From semi-nomadic reindeer herdsmen in the Arctic to wildland firefighters of the American West, our project contributes photographs, field audio and writing to engage people with stories from their own communities, and others around the world. We have recently completed three Nordic stories that feature Sámi reindeer herders in Norway, volunteer glacier monitors from Iceland and fishermen of the North Atlantic. We are currently working on a series of profiles from the American West.

Over the last two years Facing Climate Change has been featured in Orion and Mother Jones, in gallery shows from Seattle City Hall to Houston Center for Photography and at more than a dozen other events and venues. Contact us to learn more about our print and Web media, presentations and exhibitions. Facing Climate Change is a Blue Earth sponsored project with photographs by Benjamin Drummond and writing by Sara Joy Steele.

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