CREATIVE CLIMATE ECO ACTIONS & ACTIVITIES & TOOLS

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Why We Need to Protest

Here's why we need climate protests: even if some think they're annoyingJoining a protest doesn’t just help attract others to supporting important causes - it comes with personal and psychological benefits too.

Six reasons why protest is so important for democracy Why is protest so fundamental for human rights and democratic society? Here are six basic reasons why we need to protect and exercise the right to protest.

Climate Strikes: how effective is it to participate in them?Climate strikes are a common practice for people wanting to make their voices heard and change our c

The most inspiring climate change protests around the worldAs Nathaniel Rich’s book Losing Earth investigates our failure to stop climate change, we take a look at the best climate change protests from around the world.

Creative Climate Activism

Creative Activism: Start Here - The CommonsSuggestions from the Commons Librarians about resources to explore in the Arts & Creativity topic area - to help you bring more art and heart to your social change activities.

Center for Artistic Activism - Unstoppable VotersUnstoppable Voters is Center for Artistic Activism program protecting the freedom to vote through creativity and innovation.

Creative Activism | The One Club

380 Ideas for Creative Activism in 2022 | activism, climates, creativeFeb 24, 2022 - Examples of creative activism mainly for climate and environmental causes. See more ideas about activism, climates, creative.

Creative ActivismCreative Alternatives through Art

Does artistic activism change anything? Strategic and transformative effects of arts in anti-coal struggles in Oakland, CAMushrooming opposition to coal mining and transportation in the United States (US) connects with both environmental justice and climate justice moveme…

LibGuides: Artistic Activism for Social Change: AboutLibGuides: Artistic Activism for Social Change: About

Ideas for activismThis is a range of collections with links to projects, activists, campaigns and toolkits on creative activism and protest movements. Black or BIPOC environmentalists Growing list of activists who a…

Resources - The Center for Artistic ActivismPart of our mission at the Center for Artistic Activism is serving our community, providing free resources to artists and activists who are using their creativity to make the world a better place. Feel free to use and share as all our material is Creative Commons licensed. Looking to get started? For the basics of … Continue reading "Resources"

Climate Craftivism – take part in creative climate action this summer - Bristol Green CapitalCraftivism is the practice of engaged creativity to highlight political or social causes. It is a gentle act of protest, where...

What We Do - The Center for Artistic ActivismThe Center for Artistic Activism trains and advises organizations, artists and activists to help them increase the efficacy and affecacy of their artistic activism. We conduct innovative research to figure out what exactly efficacy and affecacy mean when it comes to artistic activist projects. And we share our trainings and research findings broadly, to provide … Continue reading "What We Do"

Launch Climate Action Projects in Your Community - Conservation in a Changing ClimateLaunch climate action projects in your community to inspire mitigation and build resilience.

The right to protest is fundamental to a healthy and vibrant democracy – the Government must not undermine itFreedom of assembly is a fundamental right, and critical to ensuring healthy and vibrant democracies. Protest plays an essential role in giving voice to people and issues, and holding institutions to account for their actions. We are deeply concerned by provisions within The Policing, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill that threaten to significantly weaken and limit the right to protest.

Young Climate Protesters’ Mobilization Availability: Climate Marches and School Strikes Compared

Environmental activism + Protest | Environment | The Guardian

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Below is a comprehensive and outstanding selection of resources: Websites, books, podcasts, films & documentaries, scientific research, articles, and blogs.

Websites about activismResources for change-makers

How to Host a Community Cleanup in 5 Simple StepsOne of the best ways to better the planet is starting right in your own backyard. Here's how to host a community cleanup in your city.

Extinction Rebellion plugs holes on 10 Spanish golf courses in water protestActivists denounce heavy use of water for ‘elitist leisure pursuit’ as drought continues in Spain

Reasons to be Cheerful (below) was co-created with David Byrne of Talking Heads fame.

Home - Reasons to be CheerfulA tonic for tumultuous times.

With music, art, and an element of theater, climate organizers are making joy part of their toolkitJoy “is in direct opposition to the people who want us to just give up and go home.”

‘Brought to you by big oil’: US billboards call out companies for record heatwavesFossil Free Media, a non-profit media organization, installed the ads in cities rocked by heatwaves including Phoenix and Austin

54 Creative Community Service Ideas for NonprofitsFind new creative community service ideas your nonprofit can use to give back to neighborhoods in need and provide unique volunteer opportunities.

You can look away from words, it’s much harder to look away from a photograph.

‘Insure Our Future:’ A Global Movement Says the Insurance Industry Could Be the Key to Ending Fossil Fuels - Inside Climate NewsAs insurers cancel policies in regions threatened by sea level rise and wildfires, activists around the world rallied for a week of actions pressuring the companies to drop oil, gas and coal projects driving climate disasters.

Insure Our Future GlobalInsurers must stop insuring fossil fuel expansion. Most have stopped insuring new coal but continue to underwrite oil and gas expansion.

The Yes Men: Home

The Yes Men are a culture jamming activist duo and network of supporters created by Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos. Through various actions, the Yes Men primarily aim to raise awareness about problematic social and political issues.

Learn the secrets to all of our hijinks,* and then work with us** to pull off your own. Or watch movies, read rants, browse around, or find out why we did what

* Or their press, talks, videos, websites, emails, releases, photos, and stories (with lessons).
** Here's a little video that sums up how.

Climate Defiance

How to be a hands-on citizen | Psyche GuidesYou can be so much more than a well-informed consumer: it is in your (and our) power to change society from the ground up

Take Climate Action with Climate Diva

Home - The Center for Artistic ActivismThe Center for Artistic Activism helps people use their creativity and culture to effect power. Our book: The Art of Activism You can now pre-order our book, The Art of Activism: Your All-Purpose Guide to Making the Impossible Possible. It includes straightforward lessons, insights, and research from the couple decades of our work (and jokes). … Continue reading "Home"

Artful Activism: A Toolkit for Creative ActivismArtful Activism: A Toolkit for Creative Activism draws on a three-year research process co-hosted by ActionAid, the Centre for Human Rights at the University of York in the UK, and partners in Uganda and Bangladesh - known collectively as the Creative Arts and Activism project.

Hope through Action - using creative activism to change the worldThe Hope through Action ‘GreenPieces’ global mural project is the latest example of using the power of community and street art to inspire people to take action.

Masta creative activism networkMasta Magazine for creative activism inspires, gives ideas, solutions and answers, makes people think and see things from other perspectives.

Climate protesters with disabilities get creative | DW | 07.09.2021People with disabilities can be particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change — so why shouldn't they be at the forefront of climate activism?

10 Bold Ideas for Climate Action That Are Actually Achievable10 bold ideas for climate action to get you thinking about proposals that could actually drive change.

How to Become a Climate ActivistClimate activists of all ages across the world are rallying to create awareness, inspire hope, and call for change. Here's how to get involved.

How the largest environmental movement in history was bornIt is the largest environmental movement in history. Fifty years on, Future Planet talks to Earth Day’s original and present-day organisers to hear how the movement evolved.

The Future of the Planet Is in Our Hands—Effective Activism Is Essential"Building long-term progressive power is key to bringing into force a comprehensive climate change policy."

A Climate Action for Every Type of Activist - EcoWatchMost of us have heard about UN researchers warning that we need to make dramatic changes in the next 12 years to limit our risk of extreme heat, drought, floods and poverty caused by climate change. Report after report about a bleak climate future can leave people in despair.

Trading righteous anger for joyous actionMusician Mali Obomsawin's path from performing protest songs to launching an Indigenous land trust was a journey to expressing her true self.

Photography as Activism: Images for Social ChangeYou want to look through the lens of your camera and change the world. You want to capture powerful moments in one click that will impact the minds of other people. Photographic images are one of the most popular tools used to advocate for social and environmental awareness. This can be as close to home as drug use, prostitution, or pollution or as far away as famine, war, and the plight of refugees and migrant workers. One well-known example of an activist photographer would be landscape photog

Student climate change protests: best of the banners - in picturesThe best banners and placards from Friday’s student climate change protests across the world

Climate Defiance

New breed of climate protesters vows to take fight to US political “cowards”Climate Defiance is trying to make the climate crisis a top issue in the 2024 election.

Climate rebels are "disarming" Europe's SUVsTyre Extinguishers group claims members deflated at least 600 tires one night last week.

‘There won’t be anything left’: Florida teens battle county over plan to loosen wetland protectionsYouth environmentalists take on Republican-led county commission over proposal to hasten development in fragile wetlands

Indigenous wisdom is climate science. Here’s how to incorporate it into your eco-activism.Indigenous wisdom is science. It does not follow the Western scientific method and is therefore often dismissed as invalid. However, research that confirms its effectiveness is growing. If we have any chance of restoring the earth's balance, we must be guided by Indigenous wisdom in both formal settings and in our daily lives. Left out

New Citizen Project | Strategy and Innovation ConsultancyWe are the New Citizen Project. We are a Strategy & Innovation company with a belief that, given the right opportunity, people can and will shape the things that matter to them for the better.

Take Climate Action with Bad Activist CollectiveThe Bad Activist Collective is an intersectional group of young change-makers who were inspired by Roxanne Gay’s Bad Feminist to create a community of bad activists. They normalise being an imperfect activist, making mistakes, learning, failing and growing. The international collective has a fresh take on advocacy, exploring ways of moving forward in the world as better activists for people and the planet.

Youth/Student Activism

10 Ways Youth Can Engage in ActivismOur country has a long history of youth-led movements that brought about significant social change. Young people have advocated for child labor laws, voting rights, civil rights and more. Here are ideas for bringing social activism into the classroom and outside of the school walls.

Resources - Youth Activism ProjectOUR freebies YOUth ACTivism: Guide to Change Our free YOUth ACTivism: Guide to Change was written by teens for teens. It breaks down all the steps needed to start and execute a successful policy advocate campaign from the ground up. Girls Gone Activist! How to Change the World through Education Our free bilingual action guide, co-authored byContinue reading Resources →

Making Space for Youth Activism | Teach For AmericaSchools can be safe environments for students to explore ways to improve the world and the communities they live in.

Handbook for climate activistsGuides for environmental protest movements

‘Whatever it takes’: students at 50 US high schools launch climate initiativeGreen New Deal for Schools demands districts teach climate justice, update buildings and plan for extreme weather

How to Host a Community Cleanup in 5 Simple StepsOne of the best ways to better the planet is starting right in your own backyard. Here's how to host a community cleanup in your city.

Youth Are Leading the Charge for Environmental Change—Here Are 3 Ways to Make an ImpactAn expert shared tips on how students can make a difference right in their own communities.

Fridays For Future is an international climate movement active in most countries and our website offers information on who we are and what you can do.#FridaysForFuture is a youth-led and -organised global climate strike movement that started in August 2018, when [then] 15-year-old Greta Thunberg began a school strike for climate. To begin with, she was alone, but she was soon joined by others...

Organizations For Gen-z | Climate Change ResourcesFind organizations with programs geared towards teenagers who want to make a difference in the climate crisis.

Youth for the Planet: Taking Climate Action in Your Own Community

World Wildlife Fund

Together with WeAreTeachers, we created a climate action resource kit to educate youth on climate change and inspire them to take meaningful actions at home, school, and in their community. Use this kit with 7th-10th graders in any learning environment.

Youth Climate Action GuideThe TDSB'S Youth Climate Action Guide was designed to support youth in mobilizing their communities toward climate action. The guide offers resources and strategies to help students implement climate action initiatives that are responsive and sensitive...

Climate Change & YouthYoung people play a critical role in protecting the climate. According to the UNFCCC Secretary General Patricia Espinosa, “Young people want to be involved in the process, and we value that …

Activism Project Ideas: All The Activism You Could Ever Dream Of

Student ActivismWe provide young people with training and tools to build coalitions, call out injustice, and actively work for positive social change.

Home - Youth Activism ProjectExplore digital training, 1-1 coaching, and paid fellowships for burgeoning teen activists. Make youth activism the norm, not the exception. Donate. View programs. Join Newsletter.

15 Projects Win UN Climate Action Award | UNFCCC

1. Food for thought. PEOVEG-resized · 2. Wastewater, but really useful. Santiago - resized · 3. A means to an end. Our Soil · 4. Nourishing the ...

Youth Action Ideas - Climate Generation

Things to do - Climate Emergency DeclarationThe strength of this movement lies in the many individuals and groups taking initiative and working together – or separately, or both – to achieve the campaign goal. We are a movement rather than a single group. EVERYONE can do something to help build the public demand for a Climate Emergency Declaration and Mobilisation. Read more about Things to do[…]

You're a climate-conscious consumer. It’s time to become a 'climate citizen.'Billions of federal dollars for clean energy are within reach, but we must push our employers, school boards, and local governments to claim them.

‘A joy to watch’: UK rewilding brings endangered species back from brinkLocal wildlife restoration starting to boost populations of dormice, birds, butterflies and others – and helping humans along the way

Adults doubted us. We found a way to shrink emissions at our middle school anywayHeating and cooling our school had a huge energy cost. So we successfully researched, planned and proposed a heat pump on campus

Resources | Climate KidsCheck out our educational materials, coloring books, and fun activities that cover numerous climate change topics!

THE ACTION NETWORK: Tools for Organizers

NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS: Reach your community and inspire action

Raise money / Engage people with live and virtual events / Seize advocacy moments

What is the Action Network?

The Action Network is a progressive online organizing platform. Anyone can become an organizer by creating a free account.

With that account, organizers can publish actions to the public, such as a petition to an elected official, an event RSVP form for a meeting the organizer is holding, a survey form to collect answers from a community, a fundraising form to collect money for an upcoming campaign, a ticketed event page to sell tickets to an event, or a letter campaign to have activists email elected officials.

As other activists take action and fill out the forms an organizer has published, those activists are opted in to the organizer's email and/or mobile list. Using our built-in mass mailing and mobile texting tool, organizers can contact that list of activists whenever they want, and download the data on their list too!.

Action Network focuses on doing one thing well -- digital organizing -- rather than trying to do all things only somewhat well. In that spirit, we don't offer websites, we're not set up for offline organizing or more general CRM work, we don't do FEC compliance, etc... Rather, we offer integration points that allow you to connect together multiple systems if you choose, while picking the best system for each task.

Therefore, activists loaded into Action Network must have an email address or phone number, and activists are automatically de-duplicated by email address and/or phone number.

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Homepage - Climate Majority ProjectAlone, we may feel small, but a majority is a powerful force. Let’s stand up and show that people across Britain want proper action on climate.Most people sense that we're in deep trouble with climate breakdown, and they want to do something. Many have already begun. Welcome to the climate majority. What's happening What we stand for

Ekō (Formerly The Sum of Us) Tools for Organizers

Ekō / SumOfUs

Ekō - People and planet over profits

Ekō is 22,939,500 people stopping big corporations from behaving badly.

We win campaigns

We use our power as consumers, workers and investors to hold the biggest companies in the world to account.

SumOfUs is a global non-profit advocacy organization and online community that campaigns to hold corporations accountable on issues such as climate change, workers' rights, discrimination, human rights, animal rights, corruption, and corporate power grab. The organization renamed itself to Ekō in 2023.

CREATIVE CLIMATE / ECO ACTIONS & ACTIVITIES

Certify - Garden for Wildlife | National Wildlife FederationAnyone can create a welcoming haven for local wildlife. Turning your yard, balcony container garden, schoolyard, work landscape, or roadside green space into a Certified Wildlife Habitat® is fun, easy and makes a big difference for neighborhood wildlife.

How To Get Involved With Community Environmental EffortsFinding ways to live a more sustainable life is now more important than ever. Despite the efforts that have already been made in recent years, waste and pollution continue to increase, and climate change continues to loom over the planet. So it’s clear that more must be done if we are to stop and

Certification Criteria - Backyard HabitatsWe offer three levels of certification: Silver, Gold & Platinum During your Site Visit, the Technician will help determine which elements are right for you and your site. Then, work toward higher certification levels in years to come and enjoy the array of wildlife your site supports. Our Certification Criteria is available as a downloadable…

Backyard HabitatCertification Program - Backyard HabitatsPortland Audubon & Columbia Land Trust We’ve teamed up to create a unique program that supports urban gardeners in their efforts to create natural backyard habitats. It’s through our collective efforts to transform urban landscapes that positive change is made. Together we make our cities a healthier place, for ourselves and for wildlife. Our community…

These Girl Scouts are saving wild bees, one ‘hotel’ at a time"We work together to make a fun bee hotel so the bees can fit their fuzzy little buns in.”

Become a Guerrilla Gardener

What is guerrilla gardening and how does it help the climate?Meet the guerrilla gardeners of Europe. Their form of climate activism transforms neighbourhoods and brings local communities together.

Protect our planet by becoming a guerrilla gardener | The Optimist DailyGuerrilla gardening is the act of cultivating plants in public spaces with the aim of improving the surroundings and supporting the environment.

IS IT SEED BOMBS or GREEN GRENADES or EARTH BALLS?

Guerrilla Gardening Seed Bomb Guide

The Seed Bomb (or Green Grenade) in whatever form it takes is designed to. I have come across and experimented with several different designs. Some are easy to ...

Native Seed Balls - Dispersing Seeds with Guerilla Action – Wild Seed ProjectThere is something satisfying about the idea of tossing seeds of wild flowers or trees into an empty area with the hope that it will magically turn into a flowery […]

Spread Native Plants with DIY Seed Bombs!Toss this DIY little bomb of guerrilla bird activism in neglected spaces around your home; drive one to work or to your kid’s school.

TikTok: Seed Bombing Trend Is 'Radical' Gardening

Aug 7, 2021 — Seed bombing is when people throw capsules containing seeds and fertilizers at vacant lots in urban areas. Videos showing seed bombing have ..

What is a seedbomb?In an exclusive extract from her new book, Seedbombs: Going Wild with Flowers, author and gardener, Josie Jeffery, explains the seedbomb phenomenon

Plant wildflower with seed bombs!www.wildlifetrusts.org/actions/how-make-seed-bomb

Seed Bombs and SlingshotsHere’s a recipe for germination and dissemination.

SPOOF ADVERTISING

Spoof billboard ads take aim at BMW and Toyota over ‘going green’ claims‘Subvertisers’ hijack 400 posters in Belgium, France, Germany and the UK to satirise what they claim are misleading ads by carmakers

Ban fossil fuel advertising and sponsorships!Fossil fuel companies use advertising and sponsorships to promote false solutions, misrepresent themselves as environmentally friendly companies and gain political access to benefit their perilous business models. Sign now to ask the European Commission to create a new law!

The creative industries have helped fossil fuels for too long – it's time to stop the advertising and promotion of pollution.

Badvertising

The creative industries have helped fossil fuels for too long – it’s time to stop the advertising and promotion of pollution.

43 People Changing Advertising For The ClimateAdvertising must change at the speed of climate change, because creativity isn’t neutral. This people are leading that transformation.

How the advertising industry can inspire climate action - RaconteurThe global ad industry has the ability to help businesses and consumers achieve climate goals. How will advertisers proceed?

Advertising’s leaders set pathway to net zero industry worldwide - Climate ChampionsLeaders from many of the largest companies and associations in the world’s advertising industry have announced their intent to apply learning from the UK and plan the roll out of Ad Net Zero internationally to major markets

Comms Declare - Clean Creativity for the ClimateComms Declare is harnessing the power of communications, marketing, media and advertising to stop the promotion of greenhouse gas pollution.

Beyond Greenwashing: Using advertising in the fight against climate changeExplore the role of advertising in climate change misinformation, the impact of greenwashing, and how ethical advertising can drive climate action. Join the movement for a climate-just future in the advertising industry

How the ad industry can encourage low-carbon lifestylesThe advertising and marketing industry has the power to persuade people to switch to low-carbon lifestyles and it must use this power before it's too late.

The Environmental Impact of Advertising | Earth.OrgThe advertising industry is one of the most influential drivers in changing modern society, yet the environmental impact of advertising is often overlooked. The responsibility the sector holds in addressing climate change could be pivotal in creating more pro-environment attitudes.

CLEAN CREATIVES:

Are Strategists, Creatives, and Industry Leaders Who Believe That Fossil Fuel Clients Represent a Threat to Our Shared Future.

Clean Creatives is a project for PR and ad professionals who want a safe climate future.

We are strategists, creatives, and industry leaders who believe that fossil fuel clients represent a threat to our shared future.

Clean Creatives, focuses specifically on pressuring advertising and PR agencies to stop doing the fossil fuel industry’s dirty work.

To see a list of clients excluded by the Clean Creatives pledge, click here.

HEATEDA newsletter for people who are pissed off about the climate crisis. Click to read HEATED, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of readers.

Clean CreativesThe future of creativity is clean. It's time for PR and ad agencies to drop fossil fuels.

DistilledDeeply researched stories about the politics of climate change. Click to read Distilled, by Michael Thomas, a Substack publication with thousands of readers.

DID YOU KNOW THAT, FOR PROGRESSIVES,“HACKING” CAN BE A GOOD THING?

‘Gay furries’ group hacks agencies in US states attacking gender-affirming careData released by SiegedSec from six states includes South Carolina police files and contact details for Nebraska court officials

Thinking Like a Hacker | UMGCFind out why thinking like a hacker positions you to be a successful network defender.

This is the calling card of hacking libs!!! please share WARNING CONSERVATIVES: liberals may have hacked your computer using google, facebook, etc. please search your computer for any file ending ...