**LAUNCH** of #ClimateDiary
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I've been thinking for a while that it would be good to have a collective Climate Diary (along the lines of the Sussex Mass Observation project): people from across the world recording and sharing everyday observations, experiences, thoughts, feelings relating to the #ClimateCrisis
I would like to try out simply using a #Hashtag - #ClimateDiary - here on #Mastodon to create this and I would like to invite you all to join in and share widely! 1/4
The idea is to create something that captures and helps record #ClimateChange in all its different manifestations, large and small, throughout the world. We all (most of us) know it's happening, but it's so slow, so on and off, that it's often really hard to grasp. And whilst #ExtremeWeather events are recorded, smaller changes, and how people experience them and how it affects their lives, is largely completely unrecorded, uncaptured. It would be good to try and do this, I feel 2/4
At the same time, a collective #ClimateDiary might also help emotionally - in the way that all diary writing helps to work through emotions, but also by sharing and connecting across the world, especially if you feel alone and isolated in thinking about climate in your own community and family. It might be quite therapeutic to be able to share and connect your thoughts and feelings
So let's try this! Use #ClimateDiary in your toot whenever you want to make a Climate Diary post, and 3/4
if you feel like it, also follow the #ClimateDiary hashtag yourself. I will myself follow, search and re-toot all #ClimateDiary posts and can be a sort of hub, at least initially. And if it takes off, @bridgetmck and I have been discussing perhaps linking this with the #ClimateMuseum #ExtremeWeather Experiences project (check out the climate museum as a whole, it's really great) 4/4
https://climatemuseumuk.org/digital-museum/exploring-the-planetary-emergency/
@bridgetmck 5/5 I am tagging a few of you now who I've already been talking to about this, or who might be interested, as well as people from different parts of the world. My #Mastodon network is still much less global than I would like, so if you could help spread, that would be really great! #ClimateDiary (see above thread) @wavesculptor @norcalgrandma@sfba.social @OnePlanet@home.social @mythopoetica @sy @clockwooork @bethsawin
@pvonhellermannn @wavesculptor @norcalgrandma@sfba.social @OnePlanet@home.social @mythopoetica @sy @clockwooork @bethsawin Maybe you could write a blogpost on Writers Rebel to reach writers who would welcome this.
@pvonhellermannn It's a great idea, it keeps going through my mind, is this the last time I'm going to observe this (snow)(sparrows)(etc)? And it's great to make it a collective space, we don't pay attention to the same things, we don't live in the same environment #ClimateDiary
@MarieVC thank you! No idea whether it will work but as it’s really so little effort i thought it’s definitely worth a try