"A prominent author and activist writing extensively about environmental and climate issues." --Yale Climate Connections
Drawing from years of arts and advocacy work, Jeff Biggers founded the Climate Narrative Project in 2013. Biggers has introduced the Project to high schools, universities and communities across the country, and collaborated with the Yale Climate Connection's public radio program. Through workshops on visual arts, film, radio, theatre, dance, spoken word and creative writing mediums, Biggers works with institutions and community groups to bring together science, humanities and the arts, reach across academic disciplines, and shape new narratives on climate change and regenerative solutions.
The Climate Narrative Project seeks to train a new generation of “climate storytellers” and climate leaders; to train and provide students, faculty, staff and community members with advanced tools in the narrative arts, public speaking and communication strategies, which they can take back to their respective departments and community organizations; to expand the reach and dissemination of academic research for a general audience on and off the campus; to place climate action initiatives in the forefront of school, university and community planning.
As part of the Climate Narrative Project, Biggers has served as a keynote speaker at numerous conferences, presented his work to the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change in Italy, and developed and performed multimedia theatre shows at schools, universities and cities across the US and Italy.
The Climate Narrative Project has been featured in national media venues, including YCC's nationally syndicated program on National Public Radio, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Huffington Post, Artists and Climate Change, and local newspapers from North Carolina, Iowa and Indiana, to Connecticut and California.
Read a Salon.com essay: We Need a New Climate Narrative
Read an interview in The Revelator: Why Every City Needs a Climate Storyteller
Read in Artists and Climate Change: Shaping New Climate Narratives: Why a Journalist/Historian Turned to Theatre for Climate Stories
Read the Yale Climate Connections interview: Storytelling is key to understanding climate change
Read in Yale Climate Connections: Storytelling is Fueling Climate Conversations at Appalachian State
Listen to an interview on Climate One: Climate Narratives
Listen to an interview on Foreward: How Stories Drive Change: Inspiring action with the Climate Narrative Project
For more information on the Climate Narrative Project, or to book Jeff Biggers to set up workshops at your school or organization, contact: contactbiggers@gmail.com 