Climate Disaster Project
‘I just want it like my childhood again’
When everything's gray, it's not so pretty to walk outside. I just remember it feeling like a very gray and very quiet time. I was like, "I'm going to work…
‘Three people fainted on the first day’
The day after, I went swimming with a couple of my friends. I remember seeing crabs, small fish, and shellfish all over the beach. The only smell I remember is…
‘But I’m right here. Why aren’t you helping me?’
When the water went down, everything was damp. You could smell the remnants of the water. The shops were no longer there because they're not actual buildings; they're just stalls.…
UVic-based Climate Disaster Project awarded $2.5M to expand global storytelling initiative
"Climate change is going to be the defining experience of this century. Our lives will be defined by the perennial disasters that each season brings,” Holman said. “If the news…
‘It was no longer something on the horizon that was coming to get us. It was in our live reality. That almost made me feel validated in some sick way’
I worked at a concession stand at the beach in a little hut. I think there was just one big fan in the whole little hut for us to be…
‘We’re on fire. And people catch fire from your fire’
My first experience of the degradation of man towards nature was as a tree planter back circa 1980 to 85. At times, it would feel like I was being sucked…
‘Nature is powerful and it doesn’t care if there’s a town there’
This was 2021, the year after COVID. Things were starting to open up again and I planned a trip with my friend Amelia from high school to stay at her…
‘It was like walking into a sauna’
It's an old building with really, really old windows, and they don't close properly. So in the winter, there's a draft. In the summer, there's hot air coming in through…Our Digital Print Issue
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