#WeAreClimate: From Patagonia to New York
We Are Climate was created in New York as part of the Tow-Knight Entrepreneurial Journalism Program. But where the idea was really born?
The idea was incubated in Patagonia Argentina. After years of living the extreme consequences of climate change my co-founder, the meteorologist Enzo Campetella and I, started to think that as citizens we need the tools to start taking climate action. The lack of snow, some severe floodings and some heat waves during the summer, bringing wild fires to the patagonic forest, made us think that something was really wrong.
And when we started to analyze what tools we have, we found more problems. The current media landscape only focuses on the problems and not in giving real-life solutions to the readers. During the research process, we realized that the readers were saying that climate change is not something they can solve and in some cases couldn’t even understand.
With that in mind, we created #WeAreClimate. And not only that. We also immediately started to show our readers that a solution is possible and there are some places in the world fighting against the climate change threat. That’s why right now we are traveling around Europe doing a reporting trip covering Green Cities. What are these Governments doing? Are these citizens really informed and committed? Can you see those green policies reflected in the streets?
So far we’ve found amazing communities. I like to call them futuristic places in which nature is the important actor and citizens and profit the ones who need to survive without hurting it.
We’ve been in Oslo the world capital city of electric cars, in Sweden where trash has the invaluable price of generating energy, in Finland, a city where the Scandinavian forest apparently conquered the city, and in Copenhague the greenest city in the world, where the 50% of the country ride a bike, even in winter.
In this trip we are not only connecting our past experiences in cities, understanding how they suffered because of climate change. We are also connecting with the cities of the future, the ones taking action, thinking in solutions not only for them, but for the Planet.
Where can you follow this trip?
- Facebook Videos: https://www.facebook.com/weareclimate/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weareclimate
- https://www.weareclimate.com/
- And our Newsletter: http://bit.ly/2nCxAfC
