@climateculturesetc
An online space & network for artists, researchers & curators exploring creative responses to the planetary climate & nature emergency: blog, Creative Showcase, Longer essays & other features. Creative conversations for the Anthropocene. Created 2017.
"This climate-focused protest painting frames the push by Elon Musk to populate Mars as an invasive distraction, arguing that our true mission is not to escape to a dead planet, but to honor and restore the interconnected, breathing cycle of life that flourishes on our home world."
With Earth Month just around the corner and Earth Day on 22nd April, artist Michael Gresalfi's new ClimateCultures post explores the history of protest posters through his own protest painting, “Replenish The Earth”.
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"Resilience is not loud. It is a plant pushing through debris, coral growing around plastic, a flower adapting to survive in altered soil. In reshaping discarded materials into botanical forms, I reflect nature’s quiet determination to endure, even within the landscapes we have changed."
The work acknowledges that human excess has altered the landscape irrevocably, while honouring nature’s quiet refusal to disappear.
Her work is born from observing the subtle yet powerful determination of life to adapt and persist. The flowers in Delicate Resilience are not pristine; they are negotiating their environment.
Delighted to share a new addition to the ClimateCultures Creative Showcase. Delicate Resilience: Where Nature Refuses to Give Up is artist Ifeoluwa Abhulimen's new sculpture using reclaimed, discarded materials.
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This new publication asks how artists, engineers and communities are reshaping the cultural imagination of energy.
We need more than policy papers.
We need stories.
We need experiment.
We need imagination with rigour.
Please share with anyone working at the intersection of culture and energy.
If the scientific voice around net zero is under attack, how else do we tell this still-urgent story?
ClimateCultures is proud to be partnering on a new book:
'On a day like today we just need to look forward…'
This is an open call for contributions exploring how we imagine and shape energy futures.
Deadline: 9 May 2026
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"I began to sense how intrinsically interconnected we are, almost like entangled bodies that, once they have encountered each other, remain in communication. What happens to the land happens to us, and what happens to us also affects the land."
"But it was only through working closely with the land, especially while walking with the land and designing Eternal Forest in Faia Brava, that this understanding became fully embodied.
"One of the most surprising experiences for me last year was realising how deeply we are connected to the land through our bodies, our psyche, our imagination, and our emotions. Intellectually, this is something we already understand, or at least we think we do.
“Eternal Forest is a living commitment that reminds us across generations: we are nature, and by regenerating forest, we regenerate ourselves.
In our latest ClimateCultures post, Evgenia Emets shares the development of her Eternal Forest sanctuary vision into its latest phase as the Seed of Eternal Forest, with opportunities for artists, scientists & thinkers globally to become a movement & mutually supportive network.
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In the joint post & individual artworks they created for this topic, Michael & Eva respond to our emerging understanding of the living interconnectedness of trees, fungi and soil. These networked communities are threatened by our ‘competitive’ view of life and by our industrial forestry practices.
Excited to be starting 2026 with a post co-authored by artists Michael Gresalfi and Eva Strautmann: 'The Wood Wide Web - Fruitful Collaboration'.
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"Theatre remains the essential laboratory where we practice the emotional bravery required to face the future together."
"The artistic challenge now is to find & articulate a sustainable hope within the darkness, using our unique emotional language to reinforce the message that though the problem is immense, collective action is not only feasible, but absolutely unavoidable."
"Despite my long-standing commitment ... I constantly find myself measuring the vastness and urgency of the climate crisis -- a topic so immense that it makes me feel almost overwhelmed by its complexity. Yet, it is precisely in this difficulty that the strength and necessity of theatre reside."
ClimateCultures marks the end of 2025 with actor & director Giovanni Morassutti's post on a recent CCTA Turin residency, which demonstrates theatre's role as an artistic laboratory where we practise the emotional bravery required to face the climate and nature crisis together. wp.me/p8dsAT-5uA
"The small can so easily be dismissed as a mere trifle, rather than valued as a coherent whole with its own integrity and particularity."
"... as adults we tend to regard the ‘small’ as lesser, as marginal and of little consequence. This has never been more so than at a time when everything is valued according to quantity and scale.
"This strikes me as a beautiful description of how we come to see more keenly. The word ‘gradual’ refers to something coming into fullness over time (from Latin gradus, meaning ‘step’). Gradually, we see what we ‘didn’t see before’. We begin to see ‘in a new way’.
"Walking for days at a time, nature writer Nan Shepherd notices how her perception deepens gradually, so: 'The eye sees what it didn’t see before, or sees in a new way what it has already seen. So the ear, the other senses.'
New on ClimateCultures: psychotherapist Susan Holliday discovers an intricate world of imaginal possibility in an overlooked detail of a familiar landscape. Turning away from global events for a moment reminds us that change often starts with something small.
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"And this too: phone coverage everywhere, no dead signal zones. All electricity from hydropower, the surplus sold to India and now the primary source of national income."
"A country with no litter, no plastic pollution, no person smoking in public. No pesticides or herbicides, so an abundant insect presence. Every tree filled by a noise-wall of crickets, every green space rich with flocks of butterfly.
"Difficult to reach, but not impossible. Like solving a world crisis... A pilgrimage of this kind is said to need right speech, body and mind. Speech is the story, body’s the hard work, mind’s the agency and effort. It’s a lesson for any kind of transformation.
In our latest ClimateCultures blog post, researcher and writer @julespretty.bsky.social's climb to Bhutan's Taktstang mountain temple reveals a nation's story of hope and regeneration through its common focus on Gross National Happiness.
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"What we might call ‘paint’ could be described as a collaboration. Water gives form to my emotions, moods and thoughts – and then disappears as it evaporates, leaving the pigment in place."