Health and wellbeing

Karachi Urban Lab

Research
An interdisciplinary research and advocacy platform exploring land displacement, climate change and public infrastructure in Pakistan.

Who gives a f* about polar bears?

Video
A film series from Creative Climate Leadership alum Gavin Porter exploring class and the climate crisis in Wales.

Creative Climate Justice Films

Video
JB's film series featuring 14 global voices from nine countries working across arts and culture and climate justice.

Centric Lab

Research
A research lab that uses neuroscience and geospatial data to understand how environmental injustice impacts our health.

Fog Everywhere

Profile
A Camden People’s Theatre production exploring air pollution in London, made by and with local young people

Creative Climate Justice Guide

Research
JB's introductory guide exploring key climate justice ideas, concepts and issues.

The Colour Green Podcast

Audio
A six-part series hosted by Baroness Lola Young, in conversation with artists and activists of colour, exploring the connections between nature, racial justice and climate change.

I Lead Climate

Network
A green democracy grassroots climate campaign, founded by Nigerian eco-feminist Oladuso Adenike focusing on the recharging of Lake Chad, youth climate education, and a green recovery post Covid-19.

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and Teachings of Plants

Book
Indigenous author Robin Wall Kimmerer explores botany through Native American traditions and it's relationship to Western science.

D6: Culture in Transit

Profile
In 2017, D6: Culture in Transit commissioned artist Henna Asikainen to work with migrant communities in the North East of England on a series called Forage, helping displaced people to connect with the new ecologies and landscapes they are in, beyond the urban centres they are asked to inhabit.

Common Ground

Profile
A round up from our event Common Ground: Culture, Climate and Social Justice.

The Ella Roberta Family Foundation

Profile
A foundation raising awareness of the dangers of air pollution and campaigning for better air quality in cities. In memory of Ella Kissi-Debrah, a child who died from asthma exacerbated by pollution in London.

Drill Minister - Ecocide

Profile
An activist, wordsmith and artist, Drill Minister speaks out about environmental issues and realities of London life. His Season for Change commission Eco-Cide explores the British public's perception of the climate crisis.

May Project Gardens

Profile
May Project Gardens is a grassroots, social change organisation which uses nature, food and the creative arts to empower marginalised groups to address poverty, disempowerment, access to resources and influence.

Shado Magazine

Network
A multimedia platform capturing the inspiring ways and creative approaches in which we can See Hear Act and Do, to cultivate a culture led system change towards social justice. Their third print issue was dedicated to climate justice.

Season for Change

Profile
Check out the nation wide commissions from Season for Change, with a particular focus on participatory works and underserved communities

Hot Take

Audio
Hot Take is a podcast taking an intersectional, critical, but constructive look at climate coverage. Hosted by climate writer Mary Heglar and climate journalist Amy Westervelt.

Global Witness

Profile
An organisation campaigning to end environmental and human rights abuses driven by the exploitation of natural resources and corruption in the global political and economic system.

Dr Vandana Shiva

Book
Dr Vandana Shiva has written more than 20 books covering topics including agro-ecology, ecofeminism, biodiversity, biopiracy and food sovereignty.

If Not Us Then Who

Video
An online directory of films made in participation with Indigenous communities around the world. The films span themes of activism, different knowledge systems, how the communities live in harmony with the planet, and how climate and environmental changes affect their lives.

Trash Academy

Profile
Trash Academy is a project from Creative Climate Leadership participant Ron Whyte, working with young people to reclaim public and private spaces from effects of trash and pollution in Philadelphia. Find out more in his Creative Climate Chat with Julie's Bicycle.

Weaving land, life and justice within, through and beyond colonisation

Video
A webinar from the Global Environments Network, including a resource list shared by the speakers

The World at 1C

Research
News and resources from the young communications initiative of the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice.

Hip Hop Caucus

Profile
Hip Hop Caucus tackles environmental injustice by empowering Black communities in the USA to engage in the democratic process

Artivism Hour

Profile
An advocacy campaign from Surge Africa bringing together six artists from across Nigeria to explore climate change impacts

adrienne maree brown

Profile
A writer who explores Pleasure Activism, radical acts of love, science fiction and transformative justice. Adrienne is also a writer-in-residence at the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute and co-host of the How to Survive the End of the World and Octavia’s Parables podcasts.

Kareem Dayes

Audio
Kareem Dayes is a community organiser, social entrepreneur, musician and founder of the pioneering community housing project, Rural Urban Synthesis Society. Listen to his episode on The Colour Green podcast.

Squirrel Nation

Profile
Installations and live events in public spaces which create memorable experiences and concepts that consider co-existence as an ethic.

The Institute for Queer Ecology

Network
A platform showcasing queer, feminist, decolonial and multi-species art practice.

Jackson Cooperative

Profile
Jackson Cooperative aim to advance the development of economic democracy in Jackson, Mississippi by building a solidarity economy anchored by a network of cooperatives and other types of worker-owned and democratically self-managed enterprises.

The Right To Energy Coalition

Network
Uniting trade unions, anti-poverty groups, social housing providers, environmental campaigners, health organisations, NGOs and energy cooperatives to end energy poverty across Europe.

Our Climate Voices

Network
An anthology collecting the stories of those most impacted by climate change, supporting local solutions for collective impact.

Green Voices of Color

Network
Climate justice advocate and writer Mary Annaïse Heglar has compiled Green Voices of Color, a Twitter list of BIPOC in the environmental movement.

Creative Climate Leadership

Network
Find out more about the global network of alumni of JB's Creative Climate Leadership programme.

Climate Reframe

Network
This project highlights some of the people of colour and UK based Indigenous people who are climate experts, campaigners and advocates living and working in the UK.

The Gastivists Network

Network
A global collective of activists fighting against gas extraction

La Via Campesina

Network
A global movement of peasants, small and medium size farmers, landless people, rural women and youth, Indigenous people, migrants and agricultural workers working to defend food sovereignty, social justice and nature.

Zena Edwards

Audio
In this The Colour Green episode we meet multidisciplinary performer, poet and writer Zena Edwards, who has been involved in performance for over 20 years – as a writer/poet performer, educator and creative project developer.

Sustained Ability

Profile
A network of disability climate activists whose goal is for disabled people to be heard in climate negotiations and in social climate movements.

Refuge: Art Meets Emergency

Profile
Since 2016 Refuge has brought together people who might not normally collaborate in a crisis – local residents, artists, scientists, Elders and experts from the world of emergency services to explore new ways of shaping responses to climate impacts.

Women Hold Up The Sky

Video
Through the eyes of women impacted by extraction projects in South Africa, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Women Hold Up the Sky explores stories of resistance and communities in active struggle to regain control of their land, their rights and their bodies.

Drilled

Audio
Drilled is a "true-crime" podcast about climate change.

Creative Climate Chats

Video
A series of conversations with leading thinkers in culture and climate for discussions covering the just transition, new economics for a regenerative economy, museums, health and climate, and justice.

COP26 Coalition

Network
The COP26 Coalition is a UK-based civil society coalition of groups and individuals organising towards mobilising around climate justice during COP26.

Creative Climate Chats with Araceli Camargo

Audio
We spoke to Araceli about her research, how public health policy can drive climate action, and how the arts and cultural sector can support public and planetary wellbeing.

Immersion

Profile
Selina Thompson and an intergenerational group of women of colour from Tower Hamlets explore democratic participation and the effects of climate change locally.

Airs Of The South Circular

Profile
A recorded EP, visual trailer, pamphlet and comic from Love Ssega about the tragic effects of air pollution in the South Circular and London boroughs of Lewisham and Southwark.

The Dream(ing) Field Lab

Profile
Season for Change commission, The Dream(ing) Field Lab weaves together acts of rest, ritual, care, creation and celebration offering a space for women and femmes of the African diaspora to re-vision their relationship with land in the context of climate breakdown.

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