We are building a global cultural movement that's inspiring big, bold, and beautiful climate action.
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Arts and culture to inspire action for a just and thriving world.
What are your Human Impacts? Climate change is complex and often overwhelming. We also know that caring about something doesn’t necessarily lead us to meaningful impact. We make action personal and practical by highlighting new voices of leadership, connecting you to solutions in engaging ways, and welcoming you to a diverse, creative community that is addressing the root causes of the climate crisis.
How We Do It
Announcements & Events
Join us for our Creative Climate Forum –
Sept 25 at Pier 57
be part of a full day of art, dialogue, and climate action during Climate Week NYC.
Explore panels, workshops, and immersive installations that connect creativity with justice and collective transformation.
Read our latest report exploring what sparks environmental justice action, how arts and culture influence this action, and how to measure that impact for community-based programs.
Be sure to check out our other publications too - meant for artists, practitioners, and community leaders to support evidence-based action for climate justice!
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Applications are open for our ongoing internship program, which is offered in-person in NYC and Marseille, as well as virtually.
If you are passionate about climate justice and creativity, we'd love to see your application!
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Our Impact
What are your Human Impacts? Ours include building collaborations between artists and scientists, policymakers, activists, and educators and developing over 25,000 hours of creative climate programming to audiences across the globe. We are ready to do more.
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![UNOC Day 5 is in the books 📚. Today’s sessions put a particular spotlight on the intersection between art and science. We heard testimony from young filmmakers, athletes, artistically driven scientists and even a panel discussion on “Melting Boundaries: The Vital Confluence of Science and Art inCryosphere Storytelling” featuring our Founder and Executive Director, Tara DePorte. Our last full day in Nice proved to be extraordinarily fulfilling!
Quotes from Day 5 that moved us:
“Artists and culture bearers help us dream of the stuff that doesn’t even exist or that we don’t even think is possible. They help us see things in a new way.” Tara DePorte, Founder and Executive Director of Human Impacts Institutez
“Our biggest weapon is our ability to learn” - Armelle Courtois, Kitesurfing World Champion and Cofounder of Sport for Future
“It is the job of all people and future ocean leaders to take the data and transform it into meaningful information in order to provide and create evidence-based, science-based decisions and policies.” - Antonella Vassallo, International Ocean Institute
“True gold is water, not mining” - Marcela Fernandez, Cumbres Blancas & Glacier Nation
“We [youth] have a major role to play as a bridge between different different generations, between innovation and traditional knowledge” - Sophia Laarissa, ECOP Morocco
“Between poetry, science and mystery, their voices intersect in a quest for meaning and light.” - Pascale Chabanet, IRD
“We are motivated, we are already leading. But thing is that passion is not always sufficient, so we really need to seek collaboration and investment” - Sophia Laarissa
“[Through art and performance, decision makers] see their work come alive for the first time beyond a white paper, beyond the plenary sessions” - Tara DePorte
@taradeporte @ird_fr @ecop_morocco @cumbresblancascolombia @sebachinger @heidisevestre @i.montalvao @marceglaciar @armelle_courtois](https://scontent-iad3-2.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.75761-15/508677231_18509180707032048_6915256696902701438_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e35_tt6&_nc_cat=100&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=18de74&_nc_ohc=R05Zrq8-IIkQ7kNvwHoLGn4&_nc_oc=AdmMg9KRkWT44YttKfbSkO44DltIbA-aOdYzNDTWHKp3weRwf6ydfdLLnvdenaMsGUQ&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-2.cdninstagram.com&edm=ANo9K5cEAAAA&_nc_gid=z-jybCbcZrIrEnBJI7rt8w&oh=00_AfW1mEG12YCTsHny-F5znrSI2oFgZwIvc8wevYxh41BkGw&oe=689F4D5D)
