Stories to Save Our Planet: Transforming Climate Solutions Research Into World-Changing Stories

The United Nations have called climate change the challenge of our generation. A growing body of environmental storytelling is bringing clarity to complicated climate conversations by casting a vision for a better future, and providing compelling, actionable climate change solutions. In this course, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to that conversation by creating a podcast episode about a specific climate change solution. You'll also create a print version of that story in a research-driven narrative essay. Along the way you'll develop an understanding for story architecture, podcast production, and have opportunities to present live, oral renditions of your work in class. Upon completion of the course, your episodes will be published on the Stanford Storytelling Project's Soundings podcast, with the opportunity to also be aired on public radio through KZSU. No prior experience with story craft or media required.

Spring 2025, Tues/Thurs 11:30am - 1:20pm, 4 units

Instructor: Laura Joyce Davis. Fulfills WAYS-WR, WAYS-CE.