Critical Media Literacy

The Honorable Harvest (Robin Wall Kimmerer, Bioneers,
YouTube, June 11, 2019, 3:30 mins)

Artist Redesigns National Parks Posters for 2050,
Showcasing Climate Devastation
(Nika Knight, Common Dreams, April 17, 2017)

• American Climate: An Inside Climate News Project (Inside Climate News). Videos and articles of people affected by climate change in the U.S.

• As “Climate Change” Fades from Government Sites, a Struggle to Archive Data (Leila Miller, PBS: Frontline, Dec 8, 2017)

• Beginning the Climate Conversation: Parent Guide (The Climate Reality Project) 

• Chevron’s new ad campaign is a slick Yes Men hoax [Update] (David Zax, Fast Company, Oct 10, 2010)

• Climate change: How do we know? (NASA). Article series.

• What is Climate Change? (United Nations - Climate Action)

• The Tree Who Set Healthy Boundaries (Topher Payne creates an alternative ending to Shel Silverstein's book, The Giving Tree)

• Climate change is complex. We’ve got answers to your questions (Justin Gillis; Illus by Jon Han, NY Times)

• Climate Clock: Tracking Global Warming in Real Time (Climate Clock) 

• Climate Disruption Dispatches: Monthly (Dahr Jamail & Mike Ludwig, Truthout)

• Climate Lab Book: Open climate science. Open source interactive texts and visualizations of climate change. 

• Climate Resistance Handbook: Or, I was a part of climate action, now what? (Daniel Hunter; Forward by Greta Thunberg, 2019)

• Climate skeptic oversaw sprawling review of agency policy (Brittany Patterson, E&E News, March 8, 2018)

• Cranky Uncle (John Cook's website with cartoons, games, & blog for challenging climate disinformation)

• "Crying Indian" ad that fooled the environmental movement (Finis Dunaway, Zócalo Public Square, Nov 9, 2017)

• Defining Ecocide (UCLA Law School's The Promise Institute)

• Ecomedia Literacy (Antonio López)

• Ecomedia Literacy, special issue (The Journal of Sustainability Education, April 2020)

• Enemies of the State? (Global Witness, July 30, 2019)

• Evaluating Scientific Arguments with Slow Thinking (Beth Covitt, Cornelia Harris, & Charles W. Anderson, Science Scope, Nov 2013)

• Extreme Weather & Climate Crisis Book (The Climate Reality Project)

• A filthy history. Interactive map: Which countries have emitted the most carbon since 1850? (Eric Holthaus & Chris Kirk, Slate, May, 2014)

• Food Sovereignty Offers Possible Path Toward Climate Justice (Marienna Pop-Weidemann, Truthout, Dec 20, 2015)

• The giving tree: How a children’s book became a parable for the climate crisis (Kate Yoder, Grist, August 26, 2021).

• Global Climate Action Summit-Education. Resources for Climate Action through Education.

• Global Warming & Climate Change Myths (Skeptical Science) 

• Gone in a Generation: Across America climate change is already disrupting lives (Zoeann Murphy & Chris Mooney, The Washington Post, 2019)

• The Greatest Songs About the Climate Crisis Ranked (The Guardian, Oct. 28, 2021)

• How Americans think about CC in 6 maps (Nadja Popovich, John Schwartz, & Tatiana Schlossberg, NY Times, March 21, 2017) 

• How Broadcast Networks Covered Climate Change In 2015 (Andrew Seifter, Denise Robbins & Kevin Kalhoefer, Media Matters, March 7, 2016)

• How Broadcast Networks Covered Climate Change in 2016 (Kevin Kalhoefer et al., Media Matters in America, March 23, 2017)

• LEGO Everything is awesome... Shell... Greenpeace (July 8, 2014, 1:45 mins) 

• Lego ditches Shell after Arctic oil protests (Alanna Petroff, CNN Business, Oct 9, 2014)

• Living-Language-Land (a journey through endangered and minority languages that reveal different ways of relating to land and nature)

• Mailings to Teachers Highlight a Political Fight Over Climate Change in the Classroom (Katie Worth, PBS: Frontline, March 23, 2018). Interview with Katie Worth about her book (2021) Miseducation: How Climate Change is Taught in America.

• The Media’s Failure with the Biggest Story in the World (David Ray Griffin, Truthout, April 11, 2015)

• Michael Klare, Do African Famines Presage Global Climate-Change Catastrophe? (Tom Dispatch, April 20, 2017) 

• Nine climate change books for educators (Dr. Michael Svoboda, Yale Climate Connections, Sept 10, 2019)

• Planet or Profit? (Truthout, 2014). Article series relating to climate change, consumerism, and capitalism. 

STAND-LA Virtual Toxic Tour
A history of LA's urban oil drilling sites
and their impact on the children, families, and Angelenos
who live near them.

• Wait, Why is Climate Change a Bad Thing? (Climate Reality Project, March 9, 2018)  

• Watch the Climate Change Ad Fox News Refused to Run (ClimateNexus, EcoWatch, July 18, 2016). Spoof of Fox News by Friends of the Earth. 

• Why the media matters in a warming world: A guide for policymakers in the global South (Climate Change Media Partnership, 2011)

• Visualizing the amount of microplastic we eat (Reuters, Dec. 31, 2019)

• Sustainable Fashion (ALTR Magazine & Resources from Global Climate Pledge)

• Climate Mental Health Resource Library
• What is a Carbon Handprint? (Go Climate Positive recognizes the positive actions you take)
• UNSDGs (United Nations Sustainable Development Goals)

• This is Why We Should Stop Calling it Climate Change (Umair Haque, July 1, 2021, Eudaimonia)

• Why the Guardian is Changing the Languages it Uses about the Environment (Damian Carrington, May 17, 2019, The Guardian)

• Comic Strip: How Foraging Restored My Relationship with Food (NPR, TED Radio Hour for Comics, Oct. 7, 2022)

Teaching Climate Change
(American Educator, Winter, 2019-20).
Article series supporting educators teaching
bout climate change. 

• Fast Fashion (The Ugly Truth Of Fast Fashion | Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj | Netflix) 

• The Great Acceleration (Welcome to the Anthropocene)

• Indigenous Pedagogies: Land, Water, and Kinship (Bank Street College of Education, Occasional Paper Series, Issue 49)

• Stop the Oil Profiteering (Media campaign by Fossil Fuel Free non-profit media)

• Grist (independent media telling stories of climate solutions)

• Climate Crisis Timeline (Zinn Education Project, more about the timeline)

• Timeline of the hotest summer in human history (2023) from the Guardian Newspaper
• Comic: The Corporate Caputre of Food Systems (FIAN International, for the right to food and nutrition)
• The Climate Reality Check: A Bechdel-Wallace Test for a World on Fire (2024) by Mathew Schneider-Mayerson et al.

• Black and Hispanic Americans Bear a Disproportionate Burden from Air Pollution (University of Washington, March 11, 2019)

• Environmental Justice & Environmental Racism (Greenaction: For Health & Environmental Justice)

• Jim Crow in Our Climate Crisis (Alycee Lane, Truthout, March 14, 2019)

• Let Them Drown - The Violence of Othering in a Warming World (Naomi Klein, The Mosaic Room, 2016, 48:04 mins). Edward W. Said Lecture.

• Racism is killing the planet: The ideology of White Supremacy Leads the Way Toward Disposable People and a Disposable Natural World (Hop Hopkins, June 8, 2020, Sierra Club)

• The Intersectional History of Environmentalism (this 15 minute video was created by Intersectional Environmentalists founded in 2020).

• Dismantling White Supremacy to Address the Climate Crisis (Climate One podcast, April 29, 2022, 53:10)

• Inequality of the effects of heatwaves as an example of environmental racism (FAIR, Counterspin interview with Vivek Shandas, July 2021 and FAIR article comparing media coverage of heatwaves in Europe vs. India, Aug. 12, 2022)

• Video: Tracking Air Pollution Disparities from Space (Aug. 22, 2022) based on research from the American Chemical Society.

• The Nature Gap: Confronting Racial and Economic Disparities in the Destruction and Protection of Nature in America (Report from Center for American Progress, July 21, 2020).

• Energy Colonialism (We Smell Gas, climate justice collective)

• Red Natural History, 2023 (free online journal with articles about Indigenous perspectives on the environment and natural hsitory museums)

• Before Central Park: The Story of Seneca Village (The Central Park Conservancy)

• Why blaming overpopulation for the climate crisis is wrong and racist (Our Changing Climate video)

• The Carbon Map (world map that shows the inequality of climate change)

• Our Green Transition May Leave Black People Behind (Hammer & Hope, #2, Summer 2023, by Rhiana Gunn-Wright)

• 'If you can win the popular imagination you can change the game': Why we need new stories on climate by Rebecca Solnit (The Guardian, January 12, 2023)

• A quick start guide to nature journaling by Gavin Lamb (Medium, Feb. 14, 2021)

• Teaching Climate Change (American Educator, Winter 2019-2020, Vol. 4,3 No. 4)

• Resolution on Literacy Teaching on Climate Change (National Council of Teachers of English, March 1, 2019)

• Green Earth Book Awards (The Nature Generation)

• Why the Future Gives Me Hope (short video by Our Changing Climate about the need for speculative fiction and solarpunk)
• 11 Middle Grade Titles to Share with Budding Activists for Earth Day (School Library Journal, April 10, 2023)

• Good Energy: A Playbook for Screenwriting in the Age of Climate Change (An open-source digital guide to portraying climate change 
on-screen, including story inspiration, cheat sheets, character profiles, solutions, and projections into the future)

• Hollywood: Bring Back Captain Planet (by Rwaida Gharib, Yale Climate Connections, Nov. 10, 2023)

• Ten Stories of Hope (The Endangered Species Act at 50) 2023

• The Best Climate Change Movies and TV Series of 2023 (Yale Climate Connections)

• Ice Watch (by Olafur Eliasson, 2014)

• Swale (by Mary Mattingly, 2016 - ongoing)

• Purple (by John Akomfrah, 2017)

• The Ninth Wave (by Cai Guo-Qiang, 2014)

• Small Island Big Song (collaboration of artists of the Pacific & Indian Oceans)

• A Blade of Grass (choreographer Rulan Tangen creates seeds: ReGeneration, 2020)