Thomas Peterson – Artists & Climate Change

Envisioning a Green New Deal on Stage

Last Earth Day, I wrote about the evolving iconography and visual culture of the day, lamenting its gradual cooption by

We are in the process of developing a new resource for this platform, collecting a database of academic programs, courses,

The climate crisis is intrinsically linked to environmental racism – there can be no climate justice without racial justice. Like

A Model for Local Action I. As of mid-April 2020 (when this piece was written), somewhere between two and three billion

“The way that we win on mitigating climate change is to enforce government accountability to its citizens and right now,

“Too much propaganda masquerading as art.” This was the first comment that appeared on Instagram when HowlRound Theatre Commons shared

I’ve never been all that moved or inspired by Earth Day, or at least not by the 21st century Earth

Perhaps the most consequential theatrical forums of the moment are the UN climate conferences, or COP meetings, which occur every

Since mid-September I’ve been greeted daily by emails, zooming in from all over the world, describing performances of short plays