We’re building momentum for climate action via creative communication and community building.
Who we are
Climate Creative is an environmental justice, arts non-profit.
We use creativity, environmental education, and community building to empower local action and illuminate the systems that perpetuate the social and environmental inequality killing us and our planet.
We believe in combining creativity and environmental consciousness in a way that creates community, builds skills, and enacts change.
Creators
Karina Zalac
Visual Content Marketing Strategist & Fellow–Cohort One and two
Visual Communication Designer, craft enthusiast, jigsaw puzzler, micro-adventurer, and perpetual-planner that likes to stay organized and productive. She is passionate about worldwide travel and values user-centered design and sustainability.
Lauren Dirgo
Fellow–Cohort Two
Multi-passionate idealist with a Masters in Sustainable Transportation and an affinity for anything involving color and design, especially visual communication and marketing design. She’s a lifelong learner, designer, artist, gardener, and avid fantasy/scifi book reader.
Monica Dang
Fellow–Cohort Two
Digital marketer passionate about sustainability and the ways we relate to the evolving world today (and tomorrow). Always curious and looking to expand her mind.
Mitsu Okuno
Contributor
Born and currently based in Tokyo, Mitsu joined the environmental movement with 350 Japan, later attending zero waste and circular trainings at the Zero Waste Academy and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. Now he works as the Director of General Affairs at Zero Waste Japan.
Paras Singh
Resource Manager & Fellow–Cohort Two
What we believe
Climate change is the world's most serious, all-encompassing problem.
Everyone is creative and can employ creative problem solving to enact change.
Creatives are some of the best people at unearthing truths, communicating clearly, and inspiring movements.
Sustainability and human rights are intertwined and must be treated that way.
Language is important.
What we do
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For creatives
Build up creatives
- Professional Development
- Eco-creative community building
- Professional Environmental Impact Education
- Idea Incubation
- Direct Action Opportunities & Volunteering
- Workshops & Events
- Resources
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For climate orgs/activists & the public
Amplify climate action
- Partnerships with climate orgs and activists
- Low-to-no cost communication services for climate orgs
- Public education campaigns
- Resources & case studies
- Amplifying the good work of others
- Workshops and group creative-thinking education opportunities
Outcomes by audience
Multimedia communications for the future!
We’re using any medium necessary to reach the inactive, but climate aware public with interesting, audience specific, and educational information with clear, direct calls-to-actions. The defeatist feeling which makes us all wonder at times, “what can one person do?” is overly pervasive and as dangerous as ever. Every Climate Creative campaign starts with the question, “How might we best communicate to inspire action for this audience?”
Build skills; build collaboration.
Whether a creative person is a veteran of the environmental movement or just ready to get started, we help those individuals grow their environmentally aware practice. We do this through facilitating information sharing and networking through our community, through direct trainings and workshops to build skills, and through connecting creatives to environmental opportunities with like-minded organizations and programs. We believe every project and company can benefit from an environmentally minded creative on their team.
Amplifying good work.
We know that there’s no need to recreate the wheel! That’s why we work with environmental O.G.s to build their messages, stories, and brand to enhance the great work they’re already doing. We’re just adding a little secret sauce that reduces the stress of not being able to focus on your mission.
How we do it
Theory of Change
We believe that the combination of community building and creative thinking forges a strong tool with which to combat climate change. By encouraging people to explore solutions and create with their own hands, we empower them to act and stay active in the environmental movement.
Frameworks
- Environmental Justice
- Culturally Competent Communication
- Information-to-action
Envisioning the Future
We envision an equitable, regenerative future built on the principles of community, creativity, and justice.
Get in touch
Contact us and let us know what’s up!
