I recently traveled to Florida to meet up with the Dogwood Alliance in Panama City. On the journey from North Carolina, I took the road less traveled and explored the byways that stretch from the Southern Appalachians to the piney woods of the beautiful Emerald Coast. Along the road, I noticed the further south I […]
I am in love with Royal Peasantry Design House and grateful to them for sponsoring me and the Climate Listening Project. It is an honor to wear beautiful hand-crafted couture. This Friday, Royal Peasantry’s Daniella Miller is hosting a Ritual Runway unique celebration of art, fashion, nature and community. Details below. Royal Peasantry Design House […]
We are so excited to release this new Climate Listening Project video, sharing voices in solidarity with Pope Francis and all faith leaders who are addressing climate change impacts and solutions. The Climate Listening Project is a collaborative storytelling platform for conversations about climate change resilience. This new video features people of various faiths, families, […]
The set: a beautiful mountain in Virginia with Hollywood movie director and champion for Dogwood Alliance and Southern forest protection, Ron Maxwell, celebrated for such films as Gettysburg and Gods and Generals. It was thrilling to be there to watch the filming of this video as Maxwell shares his passion for the natural world along with […]
The Climate Listening Project National Cultivating Resilience Tour is happening! We started out listening to climate stories near Asheville, NC, home to the U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit and NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center, now known as the National Centers for Environmental Information. We listened to local fishermen, farmers, business owners and community leaders, along with […]
I was already 26 years old by the time I went camping for the first time. I went with friends to Turquoise Lake, located above 10,000 ft. in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. What a beautiful, magical place to sleep in nature for the first time. This moment changed my life!
I’m excited to join the Asheville Grit blog team! Asheville Grit is a collective of unique, independent local voices. My focus so far has been on sharing local resilience stories with the Climate Listening Project. There are lots of great local bloggers featured on Asheville Grit. Ty Hallock recently wrote about Interconnecting Cities in an […]
I was honored to help produce a video for the Asheville Climate Collider in collaboration with the Climate Listening Project for the NC Spaces for Innovation Challenge. The Collider will be an entrepreneurial business and education workspace in Asheville NC to serve the growing local and global climate services economy through stimulating creative collisions and […]
In 2014, I visited the Emerald Coast and drove from Pensacola to Tallahassee along the beautiful Gulf of Mexico. Check out photos and details from my Florida clean energy tour last year. This post is a an exciting update for folks that followed that journey. The Emerald Coast, Florida is moving beyond coal and towards […]
My interview about the Climate Listening Project in January’s Laurel of Asheville Magazine is now online: http://www.thelaurelofasheville.com/editorial/climate-listening-project-documents-environmental-changes “The series featured climate stories from around the world,” says Dayna. “We started reaching out to people to tell their climate stories here at home and had a great response. Not only did we hear stories of impacts […]