Climate Stories

Njuguna Gathungu

I have always loved nature, what kid doesn’t? I was blessed and fortunate enough to grow up in a house that had a mulberry tree…

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Annabelle’s Climate Story

A number of years ago before I made Grand Rapids my home I was living out in Portland, Oregon. I considered myself so lucky to…

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Sergio’s Climate Story

I often think about two childhood memories fondly.  The first is of me foraging for mushrooms with my grandfather during the rainy season, in Michoacan.  The…

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Khara’s Climate Story

I was born and raised on Oahu Hawai’i where land and water are spirit. Nature was home, provider, and our responsibility to malama ’aina -…

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Dilli’s Climate Story

Climate change has been identified as one of the main reasons for people's internal and external displacement worldwide. In my day job working with refugees…

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Wende’s Climate Story

I remember my first elementary school Science Fair project focusing on conservation efforts for baby seals, whose lives were threatened due to mass fishing in…

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Bo’s Climate Story

Climate has always been important for my family. Water and the power it possesses have always been clear to my parents. The calm of waves,…

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