Emerson College Library: Teach-In on Sustainability Spring 2024: Climate Lens Workshop with Good Energy

Climate Lens Workshop with Good Energy

Wednesday, March 6, 1:00 pm-3:00 pm EST

Presenters:

Alisa Petrosova, Interdisciplinary artist, writer, narrative strategist and Associate Director Of Climate Research & Consulting Programs at Good Energy

Description:

The Climate LensTM Workshop allows writers to start seeing any modern story through a Climate LensTM in a supportive, fun, and creative environment. In our core one-hour workshop, writers investigate how climate might impact characters’ emotions and actions, review case studies of existing climate appearances in TV and film, and practice applying the Climate LensTM through interventions ranging from modeling solutions, to brief mentions, to climate-driven characters and plots, exploring the rich array of human emotions (beyond despair!) that climate change can evoke.

Location

The Judee, Little Building Lower Level
80 Boylston St, Boston MA 02116

Sustainable Development Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

Books and Media @ Emerson

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
ISBN: 9780618249060
Publication Date: 2022-02-01
First published by Houghton Mifflin in 1962, Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. "Silent Spring became a runaway bestseller, with international reverberations . . . [It is] well crafted, fearless and succinct . . . Even if she had not inspired a generation of activists, Carson would prevail as one of the greatest nature writers in American letters" (Peter Matthiessen, for Time's 100 Most Influential People of the Century). This fortieth anniversary edition celebrates Rachel Carson's watershed book with a new introduction by the author and activist Terry Tempest Williams and a new afterword by the acclaimed Rachel Carson biographer Linda Lear, who tells the story of Carson's courageous defense of her truths in the face of ruthless assault from the chemical industry in the year following the publication of Silent Spring and before her untimely death in 1964.

External Links

Good Energy
"A nonprofit story consultancy for the age of climate change."
Good Energy - Playbook
"An open-source digital guide to portraying climate change on-screen, including story inspiration, cheat sheets, character profiles, solutions, and projections into the future."
Good Energy - What Is a Climate Lens?
"Climate change is a generative lens through which to imagine any aspect of a story."
The Climate Reality Check
"A Bechdel-Wallace Test for a World on Fire. Published by Good Energy and Buck Lab for Climate & Environment, Colby College."
There's a new 'Climate Reality Check' test — these 3 Oscar-nominated features passed
"Nyad," "Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One," and "Barbie" met the criteria.
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Official Trailer - "A crew of environmental activists plot a daring plan to disrupt an oil pipeline."
Canary
Official Trailer - Oscilloscope Laboratories HD - "Witness the extraordinary life of Dr. Lonnie Thompson, an explorer who went where no scientist had gone before and transformed our idea of what is possible. Daring to seek Earth’s history contained in glaciers atop the tallest mountains in the world, Lonnie found himself on the frontlines of climate change—his life’s work evolving into a salvage mission to recover these priceless historical records before they disappear forever."
Extrapolations
Official Trailer - "Extrapolations is a bracing drama from writer, director and executive producer Scott Z. Burns that introduces a near future where the chaotic effects of climate change have become embedded into our everyday lives. Eight interwoven stories about love, work, faith and family from across the globe will explore the intimate, life-altering choices that must be made when the planet is changing faster than the population. Every story is different, but the fight for our future is universal. And when the fate of humanity is up against a ticking clock, the battle between courage and complacency has never been more urgent. Are we brave enough to become the solution to our own undoing before it’s too late?"
Change the Narrative, Change the World: How Immigrant Representation on Television Moves Audiences to Action
Report: September 2020
Harvard Alcohol Project: Designated Driver
A campaign that was launched in 1988 to prevent alcohol-related traffic fatalities and injuries. Includes list of reasons why it succeeded.
Standard Parade for 1939 - Snow White Museum
A Standard Oil marketing campaign with Disney characters

Sustainable Development Goal 13: Climate Action

The United Nations highlights the importance of this goal, stating "The global temperature has already risen 1.1ºC above the pre-industrial level, with glaciers melting and the sea level rising. Impacts of climate change also includes flooding and drought, displacing millions of people, sinking them into poverty and hunger, denying them access to basic services, such as health and education, expanding inequalities, stifling economic growth and even causing conflict. By 2030, an estimated 700 million people will be at risk of displacement by drought alone."