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Community Climate Stories

Authentic, community-based stories featuring youth perspectives, climate impact stories, and reflections from local water stewards across diverse cultural backgrounds. These place-based stories center K–12 students, community members, and regional storytellers to foster empathy, and inspire collective resilience.  

Community Climate Stories

Poudre High School submission to the Lens on Climate Change (LOCC) video contest.
Youth-Produced videos
This Lens on Climate Change submission provides a lesson on the history of the Arapahoe glacier near Nederland, CO.
Youth-Produced videos
Estes Park Middle School's submission to the Lens on Climate Change (LOCC) video contest.  
Youth-Produced videos
Follow the adventures of Water Man to learn the importance of water conservation and only using what you need according to middle school LOCC students from Whittier K-8.
Youth-Produced videos
This student-produced short film examines Colorado's water supply and how climate change has shifted that in recent years.
Youth-Produced videos
This Lens on Climate Change video looks at the snowpack in Alamosa, CO and how it has changed as the climate grows warmer.
Youth-Produced videos
Lens on Climate Change student-produced video on the 2013 Boulder Flood. 
Youth-Produced videos
In this video, Lens on Climate Change students learn all about beavers and how they're affected by climate change.
Youth-Produced videos
This video is about Timothy the sea turtle and ocean pollution.
Youth-Produced videos
Esta película se trata sobre el pez loro.
Youth-Produced videos
Learn about uranium power with these Lens on Climate Change students.
Youth-Produced videos
Esta película fue hecha por estudiantes de Lentes en Cambio Climático en Puerto Rico en el verano de 2019.
Youth-Produced videos
Esta película fue hecha por estudiantes de Lentes en Cambio Climático en Puerto Rico en el verano de 2019.
Youth-Produced videos
Learn all about the ins and outs of solar power and community solar power.
Youth-Produced videos
En este video, los estudiantes de Lentes en Cambio Climático investigan los peligros que enfrenta la tortuga baula debido a la erosión costera.
Youth-Produced videos
Este video trata sobre los problemas ambientales que surgen con la erosión costera causada por el cambio climático.
Youth-Produced videos
This video is about the environmental problems that arise with coastal erosion caused by climate change.
Youth-Produced videos
This video explores the challenges facing Puerto Rican agriculture in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, and some possible solutions to those challenges.
Youth-Produced videos
In this video, Lens on Climate Change students investigate the dangers faced by the leatherback turtle due to coastal erosion.
Youth-Produced videos
This film was made by students in Gunnison, Colorado during summer 2018.
Youth-Produced videos
Lens on Climate Change students discuss drought and sustainability in Gunnison Valley.
Youth-Produced videos
How would we ski if all of the snow melted? This Lens on Climate Change film has a solution: grass skis!
Youth-Produced videos
Learn about how drought affects fish in rivers in this Lens on Climate Change film.
Youth-Produced videos
Watch these students from Lens on Climate Change educate their audience on the importance of water quality.
Youth-Produced videos
How does drought affect corn farmers and their families?
Youth-Produced videos
Through drawings, interviews and graphics, Lens on Climate Change students explore how New Mexico's water supply is affected by climate change and drought.
Youth-Produced videos
Lens on Climate Change students look into the importance of this river to the people of Carbondale.
Youth-Produced videos
Take a look at this student-produced short film about the effort to recycle old bikes to keep them functional and give people low-carbon means of transportation.
Youth-Produced videos
Learn all about sustainable cattle farming in this student-produced film from Lens on Climate Change Carbondale.
Youth-Produced videos
Lens on Climate Change students rethink their water use and explore the Colorado River in this film.
Youth-Produced videos
This student-produced Lens on Climate Change film examines the causes of wildfires and the effects of climate change on local wildlife.
Youth-Produced videos
In this video Lens on Climate Change students discuss how the climate is changing and what we can all do to help slow that change.
Youth-Produced videos
How do our personal choices affect climate change? These middle school students act out, in a skit, just how many of our actions affect the world around us.
Youth-Produced videos
What does climate change have to do with the cute, round pika? Angevine middle schoolers learn what they can.
Youth-Produced videos
This Lens on Climate Change video, students imagine what cooking shows would look like in a post-climate change world.
Youth-Produced videos
Este video explora los desafíos que enfrenta la agricultura puertorriqueña después del huracán María y algunas posibles soluciones a esos desafíos.
Youth-Produced videos
Lens on Climate Change students learn about the mountain Pika in this video.
Youth-Produced videos
This Lens on Climate Change video produced by students emphasizes the importance of individual choices (like types of milk, reusable cups and carbon-neutral transportation) in mitigating climate change.
Youth-Produced videos
Students examine how climate change will affect farming and livestock in New Mexico.
Youth-Produced videos
Students put together a collection of stories about the drought in Gallup, New Mexico.
Youth-Produced videos
Upward Bound high school students produced this short video about climate change in a one-week workshop.
Youth-Produced videos
Upward Bound high school students produced this short video about climate change and desertification in a one-week summer workshop in Trinidad CO.
Youth-Produced videos
Upward Bound high school students produced this short video about choices we all make to affect climate change during a one-week summer workshop in Trinidad CO.
Youth-Produced videos
Students tell the story of Beeble the Bee, who has an important message for humanity. #SavetheBees
Youth-Produced videos
This student-made film from Lens on Climate Change in Boulder urges its audience to address the problem of pollution and litter in their community to "clean up our act."
Youth-Produced videos
Follow this student-filmed story about a farmer who fears for his family when he learns of a climate change-driven drought from lack of snowpack.
Youth-Produced videos
Students in this Lens on Climate Change film learn how to properly recycle, and why recycling matters in the first place.
Youth-Produced videos
Super Climate Girl saves citizens victimized by climate disasters and teaches her audience about climate change in the process.
Youth-Produced videos
Check out this very special climate episode of the game show, Mindstorm! This was filmed by Lens on Climate Change students in Boulder, Colorado.
Youth-Produced videos
In this video, Lens on Climate Change students from Salida, Colorado learn about xeriscaping, a form of landscaping that conserves most of the water usually needed for lawn upkeep.
Youth-Produced videos
Check out this weather and news report from the future, where climate change has gone unchecked for so long that water is incredibly scarce.
Youth-Produced videos
A boy has a bad dream about what could happen to fishing, rafting and his other favorite outdoor activities if climate change goes unchecked for too long. How can he help fix it?
Youth-Produced videos
This mock television news program covers the pine beetle epidemic, wildfire and a special bonus sneak peek at the future of fashion! This film was produced by Lens on Climate Change students in Salida, Colorado.
Youth-Produced videos
This student film from Boulder, Colorado shows us the struggle between environmentally-responsible and environmentally-irresponsible behavior.
Youth-Produced videos
Learn what happens when Lisa and Allen from New Mexico discover that their neighborhood well has gone dry?
Youth-Produced videos
Watch this trivia-based game show intended to educate audiences on the many multi-faceted aspects of climate change.
Youth-Produced videos
Watch the adventures of Climate Girl as she attempts to defeat her nemesis, Carbon Boy!
Youth-Produced videos
This is the submission from Whittier K-8 on fossil fuels, renewable energy and water use.
Youth-Produced videos
Why is snowpack so important to agriculture? This short film produced by middle school students at Westview Middle School explains.
Youth-Produced videos
What exactly is so concerning about global warming causing glacial melt? Students from Angevine Middle School explain in this short film.
Youth-Produced videos
Watch this exciting swashbuckling film about the causes and effects of landloss.
Youth-Produced videos
Angevine Middle School students in Colorado produced short videos about climate change during the 2016-2017 school year, including this mock TV news broadcast on extreme weather and other climate change phenomena.
Youth-Produced videos
Upward Bound high school students produced this short video about climate change and water conservation in a one-week workshop in Trinidad CO.
Youth-Produced videos
This video created by students gives an overview of the problems caused by the pine beetle in Colorado forests.
Youth-Produced videos
This fun response video to Arapahoe Ridge High school from the Lens on Climate Change pilot program examines how climate change is affecting agriculture and food security.    
Youth-Produced videos
This is a response video to Poudre HS during the LOCC pilot program.  
Youth-Produced videos
This faux-infomercial from Inside the Greenhouse encourages consumers to use more blue-stained pine for more sustainable construction practices during the pine beetle epidemic.
Youth-Produced videos
This sketch from Inside the Greenhouse shows the reality of how climate change negatively affects snowpack.
Youth-Produced videos
Watch this video to see what we can learn about water loss from the melting of the Arapahoe Glacier near Nederland, Colorado.
Youth-Produced videos
Manhattan MS submission to Lens on Climate Change (LOCC).  
Youth-Produced videos
Illustration of two people high-fiving in a work environment

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