Here is a four-minute video (presenter: Beverly Ward, via YouTube; editor Cai Quirk) about art as joyous inspiration to live a climate-conscious life.
The understandable anxiety related to climate crisis can cause people to avoid information, and thereby miss opportunities for lifestyle changes. In this short clip, we hear how Beverly Ward draws on an already-existing love for improvisational Playback Theatre to find joy in the challenge to “work on the world we seek.”
“It is a fantastic idea,” says James LaFlame of Radnor Meeting, “to lean into our passions and frame climate crisis through them!”
Asking people for their first memory of being outdoors hit home for James. “Mine came to me quickly and very vividly, including smells.”
That sensory connection touches people at a different place than facts about temperature and sea level rise do. Instead of overwhelming people, Beverly begins with what we want to save—what gives us joy.
How can we live fully, and fully accept the challenge of living on our planet’s terms? From under the weight of climate reality, what joy can we tap into? How can we channel doing what we love into saving what we love?