This should be mandatory viewing: four new multimedia films from Northwest artists Benjamin Drummond and Sara Joy Steele. Oyster Farmers, Coastal Tribes, Potato Farmers, and Plateau Tribes all explore global climate change through people who live and work in the Pacific Northwest.
Matt Blaine and Gavin Maxwell from the story “Oyster Farmers”
The stories are part of a documentary project that makes for an arresting look at the way that climate change and carbon emissions are already transforming the Northwest. Oyster farmers on Washington’s coast are moving their operations out of state as local shellfish beds succumb to increasingly acidic waters. Idaho potato farmers are giving up water rights on once productive land. And tribes from the highlands of northeast Oregon to the shores of Puget Sound see their homes and ancient traditions coming under threat of a newly unfriendly climate.
Find the other two videos—Potato Farmers and Plateau Tribes—at Facing Climate Change.
Sightline is a proud partner of the Facing Climate Change project, and we love the way that Drummond and Steele are marrying substance with storytelling. Each story is less than five minutes long. Watch them now and read the backstory on their blog.
Lee James
These video “snapshots” of our comunity are high-quality and of a good length. It puts a human face on the socio-economic challenge of climate change and our over-use of fossil fuels. Time for us all to get political!
don steinke
I can find only two videos, Oyster farmers, and swinomish people.
Potatoe farmers and plateau tribes are missing.
Eric de Place
For the other two, click over to the Facing Climate Change website: http://bdsjs.com/facing-climate-change/
Tom
What happened to global warming with this past winter one of the coldest in years in many parts of the world?