Climatometre is a collaboration between Alison Beaumont and fellow artist and collaborator Pippa Dean-Veerman

Are you a climate lover or liar?

climatometre is an exploration of potential environmental dissonance in our daily lives. Do our own actions betray our desire to be conscientious global citizens? Are we being good ancestors?

We all love the Earth and want to do no harm. But are we?

Our hope in creating this work is to inspire and empower us all. The goal is citizen action.

Will you have the courage to notice your responses on the climatometre? Are we lying to ourselves about our love for planet Earth, in our actions?

Notice any dissonance in your own heart? Give yourself opportunity to ponder, and ask inwardly.

Follow along with the video prompts, answer openly and truthfully.  Our future depends on it. We offer questions and influential facts, uncovered in our search; these potent realizations we share in hope for immediate collective  and individual action.

Heart rate elevated? (a sign of a potential lie) Are we lying to ourselves? Do we have blind spots? A fun thing might be to use a heart monitoring app to track your reactions.

Follow along with the climatometre video. Answer truthfully.

You can download a PDF of the questions and information from the video below:

You can take Citizen Action

The sections below contain links information and suggestions on how you can take citizen action positively influencing climate justice. We all have a role we can play, small or big every action counts.

Track your climate impact

The AWorld App allows users to positively recognize how their daily habits impact emissions and water usage. Part of the Act Now is a UN initiative to encourage citizen action toward the sustainable development goals. There are also learning opportunities with daily tips, find out more about water use, sustainable development goals, anxiety and climate grief. We have even set-up a team you can join so you can see the collective impact we make as a community in Lake Country.

Practical Steps

Starting out can be hard, this climate action now guide, provides 170 practical tips that inspire small changes for a larger collective impact. Where you are donating to conservation projects in your area or cleaning up a beach with family and friends near where you live, every action counts.

Climate Calculators

There are sites that will also help you calculate your carbon footprint and offer suggestions on reducing your impact.

Fashion/Mending

Visible Mending - Mending clothes is a beautiful, meditative way to extend the life of your clothing, and it makes a powerful statement about your values.

Most common ways to mend clothes - There’s never been a better moment to finally start mending your old clothes. From patching up jeans to sewing on buttons, Alexandra Bruce and Caroline Akselson of sustainable sewing start-up Selkie Patterns are here to show you some simple ways to bring your broken or damaged garments back to life.

Fixing Fashion - No matter how much you take care of your garments, they are there to be worn, so accidents can always happen. A small fix can create a new life for your garment.

The Endery - They use leftover (deadstock) yarn instead of creating more waste. Innovative and creative use of left over yarn.

Cotopaxi - Outdoor gear designed to be as waste mitigating as possible. Currently, 94% of products contain repurposed, recycled, or responsible materials—what they call the Three R’s. Focusing on more eco-friendly materials limits our dependence on fossil fuels and diminishes waste. By 2025, they hope to make 100% of our products using at least one of the Three R’s.

Websites

All We Can Save - growing from the anthology of the sea e name this site offers resources for educators and a step by step guide to running a “Circle” stepping further than a regular bookclub these sessions can help build community and action individually, collectively or in a workplace setting.

Books

There are many books on the climate crisis and climate justice here are a few that we have read and also some we are hoping to read. Remember you can always check out options at your local library, there are often e-book, audiobook options too, the best part about public libraries are they are FREE. Click on book title names below to access author/publishers website.

Under The Sky We Make - Professor Kimberly Nicholas - It’s warming. We’re sure. It’s us, It’s bad. But we CAN fix it.

Hope Matters - Elin Kelsey - Why changing the way we think is critical to solving the environmental crisis

Finding the Mother Tree - Professor Suzanne Simard - From the world’s leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest–a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery.

Climate Justice - Mary Robinson - Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future. Former President of Ireland Mary Robinson In Climate Justice, she shares their stories, and many more. Powerful and deeply humane, this uplifting book is a stirring manifesto on one of the most pressing humanitarian issues of our time, and a lucid, affirmative, and well-argued case for hope.

A Life on Our Planet - David Attenborough - My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future. We recommend the audiobook, read by the author.

How To Be A Climate Optimist - Chris Turner - Blueprints for a better world. Due for release in May 2022

Saving Us - Katherine Hayhoe - A Climate Scientists, case for hope and healing in a divided world.

Generation Dread - Britt Wray - Finding purpose in an age of climate crisis.

All We Can Save - is an anthology of writings by 60 women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward. Intermixing essays with poetry and art, this book is both a balm and a guide for knowing and holding what has been done to the world, while bolstering our resolve never to give up on each other or our collective future.

Films/Documentaries