Climate Words x Arc'teryx, Climate Week NYC

Arc'teryx and Climate Words have come together to host an event at the Arc'teryx SoHo store in New York. Donate to Climate Words for a chance to win an Arc'teryx Jacket. The more you donate, the higher your chances. All proceeds will support Climate Words with our mission to promote climate literacy.

Thos of you in New York City, join us in person on Thursday, September 21 at 7.30pm EST. Sign up here. There will be an additional raffle at the event for attendants only.

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Donate at least $5 this Climate Week for a chance to win an Arc'teryx Jacket

Donate $5 of more. Every $5 count as one ticket. Donate as much as you like. The higher your donation, the higher your chance of going home with an Arc'teryx shell. Winners will be contacted at the end of September to choose their preferred colour, size and fit. Prizes can be shipped internationally. We welcome your support from near and far.

Support Climate Literacy

Our mission at Climate Words is to promote climate literacy by curating an extensive lexicon of key words submitted by experts on the frontlines. All proceeds will support our project. Read more below.

About Climate Words, Inc.

Why We Exist

Climate literacy is worryingly low. A 2021 survey found, only 15% of respondents in Germany, France, Italy, UK and USA prove to be climate literate, and less than 5% of American respondents are considered highly climate literate

We are living in the most definitive decade in human history. It is the first time we have been able to foresee a mass extinction, and it is the last chance we have to do anything about it.

We believe knowledge is power and taking informed action is contagious. We also believe we have the resources and ideas we need to meet global climate targets.

Increased climate literacy correlates directly with increased climate action. Those with high climate literacy are more than three times as likely to make an active effort to tackle climate change.

What We Do

New language is emerging –and reemerging– with the growing challenges of the climate crisis. While new words, terms and ideas crystalise the solutions ahead, they can remain stuck in their respective niches. Our job is to document their evolving meaning in an informative, accessible and digestible format.

We invite frontline authors, scientists, Indigenous leaders, policy-makers and environmental justice advocates to choose a word that is most important to their work and define it in their own voice.

While textbook definitions describe an idea, they are missing an element of storytelling. Why is this word important? And why do you care about it? Our collection of definitions invites you to a more human level of communication.

Each word definition is accompanied by a supporting essay, outlining the leading research behind it, and a bibliography of resources for deeper learning.

What We Will Offer

We will offer a free, searchable and user-friendly website, which works like an online dictionary for climate words. The website is a database that documents climate solutions, portraying a cross-section of inspiring leaders in an interdisciplinary range of fields, creating an online community of informed climate optimists.

We are bridging the gap between climate knowledge and action through storytelling, design and visual communication. Our updated lexicon will be designed with Kasper Florio, an award-winning graphic design studio and independent publisher specializing in contemporary visual arts.

Our Vision

Our vision is a world in which public sectors, private sectors, organizations, schools, families and individuals align their actions with an equitable, just, circular and regenerative future for all, guided by their knowledge about coexisting in harmony with each other and the natural environment.

Our Goal

Our goal is giving people the tools they need to talk about climate. We invite authors, scientists, Indigenous leaders, policy-makers, explorers and designers to select a word that is central to their climate work and define it in their own voice. We support each definition with factual information, photographic evidence, literature and resources for further learning.

Want to know what your donations will be used for?

Sure! We are a volunteer-led organization. We have been gathering definitions by experts on the frontlines for over a year now. Meanwhile, we have built an international team, each member working on a specific role, we have developed workflow processes and standards for research, editing and fact-checking.

We have thoughtfully designed an online database for our climate lexicon, and now we need to have it programmed and tested. That is our main fundraising target at the moment.

Once it has launched, we can focus on reaching schools, organizations, universities and more as a resource to promote climate literacy this definitive decade of action. Each donation you make helps us get closer to this goal. Once we have funded the platform, we will raise funds to be able to provide fair compensation to our team in order to maintain and grow the project for as long as it is useful.

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