Climate Storytelling Project Empowers Conversation & Climate Action

Jessica Abell writes in the Ravalli Republic on February 5, 2023: “In a world where both our temperatures and our politics are continually growing more heated, how do we cut through the culture wars to talk about our changing environment in a meaningful way?

A group of concerned Montanans is working to address just that through a series of live storytelling events across the state focused on people’s personal experiences related to our changing climate and how it has affected them, their businesses, agriculture or people and places they love.

‘Climate can be a hard topic to talk about,’ said Winona Bateman, Families for a Livable Climate director. ‘Storytelling, using our personal stories and experiences, is a way for people to talk about climate, or their concerns about it, or just their concerns about the changes they're noticing, in a way that can connect them with other people and be non-confrontational, and be, just more deeply personal, connecting the issue to their personal lives.’

Montana Climate Stories is a project of Families for a Livable Climate, a statewide organization that advocates for climate action in Montana. The project is aimed at collecting the stories of everyday Montanans as they navigate and document our changing environment. The group will be holding storytelling events in Butte, Bozeman, Hamilton, Missoula and the Flathead Valley starting this summer and is looking for participants interested in sharing their experiences of how climate change has affected them personally.” Read the full story >>