Writing Works

Can you hear me now? | I’m screaming out | You need me | I need you | Beyond a doubt | So I ask can you hear me now?

For our final project, we decided to individually write a poem and play our respective instruments over it (Morgan on the guitar and Carlin on the piano).

What interested me most in this semester was observing and watching how people react and take action to the climate crisis. I noticed that there is a lot of pessimism and it’s easy to see why.

Something that impacted me this semester was the idea that everyone can contribute to a more sustainable society and that we can all do it in our own ways

My project is titled, “Time.” I decided to use poetry to try and get people to care. It’s hard with any big issue to connect its importance to the general public but the climate crisis seems to be outstandingly hard to do so. Many still fully believe it i...

For this final project I decided to write a poem highlighting some of my favorite animals and the challenges they are facing because of human influence.

My piece includes three different paintings on three different canvases. The first depicts a time portal with a person stepping out into the future. Then there are two landscapes showing the different scenarios this person could be walking into.

For my final project, I made a zine to put in cafe Ibis. This semester, I thought a lot about my own climate grief and that of the people around me. I’m surrounded, at least at school, by people who understand the challenges we face in a human centric wor...

For my final project, I wrote a poem on something everyone loves, food! It shares my personal story of discovering food allergies to corn and soy, which are in the majority of packaged or prepared foods.

There is enough food in the world produced to feed everyone but ⅓ of all food produced is either lost or wasted. In this presentation, I’ll be showing you some ways you can either repurpose or reutilize some of the most common food scraps to make other pr...

Big World, Small Planet is our way of telling the story of the Anthropocene through the medium of a playable card game. The game tells the story through rampant consumerism that fuels growth, and tells of a brighter future through degrowth and seeking gre...

My final project is a comic strip that shows a man telling a young boy about climate change. It addresses problems and gives solutions that are helpful.

This piece is a short story, creative non-fiction, written in epistolary form. It takes the perspective of a young person learning more about the state of the world and communicating their new information to someone in their confidence.

In a culture of corporate greed and deception towards consumers, my poster aims to strip away the illusions and confront viewers with the uncomfortable truth of greenwashing. I wanted to use discomfort and unease as tools to make my audience question the

I decided to create a simple children’s story, written and drawn on a tablet. This children’s story depicts the creation of the world, and all the work that went into it. The world went through a lot to get it to the state that it’s in, a state that’s per...

Some of the first words that come to mind when I think of my own mom are love, sacrifice, service, nurture, provide, hold, support, comfort, and above all, warmth. The Earth nurtures, provides, and sustains us similar to the way that a mother cares for he...

My final project is a combination of Cinquain poetry, images and music. The poetry is inspired by American poet Adelaide Crapsey who was the first to write this style. It is a short style but each word must be selected to produce the appropriate impact.

We chose to write a children’s book and decided to be artistic in this way, to show optimism. We know that it is not very realistic in the way that it ends, but everyone needs a little hope, especially the little ones.

My final project is a three-page essay on the effects of sea level rise and ocean acidity. It was towards the beginning of the class when we discussed the effects climate change, and specifically the effect that carbon has on the oceans.

When it comes to the story of our world, it can be easy to focus on the negative aspects. And these things certainly are important to encourage the change that is needed.

While thinking about this project, I had the idea to write a small story depicting two primates arguing at the gates of heaven.

I was inspired to write a poem after watching documentaries such as Chasing Ice, Time to Choose, The Biggest Little Farm, and the film The End of Poverty?.

“Travel Posters” they exist in every touristy gift shop at every state or national landmark and parks- I know, because I collect them. I have posters from Craters of the Moon, The Golden Spike National Monument, Shenandoah National Parks, and the various

I chose to showcase Earth's natural beauty in a way that instills a sense of awareness into everyone who views the art. Many extinct species are discovered through fossils, and I relied on a similar medium to demonstrate the threat that our current pathwa...

Given my lack of artistic ability, I decided to challenge myself with this project and write a poem titled Home about agriculture. I’ve never been great at poetry but I felt that it always was able to speak to me.

For my final project, I chose to create a pocket zine about global warming. I wanted to break it down as simply as I could so that anyone who came across the small zine could understand it without any background knowledge.

My motivation is mostly to explore what this art has to say about climate change and how it is effective. I wanted to see how climate change and all its results were portrayed and how this art affected how we see climate change.

I was inspired to create this piece when I learned that if everyone on the planet was to live like the average American, we would need about 5 planets earths.

It’s a rivalry as old as cat versus dog, Yankees versus Red Sox, and sweet versus salty: religion versus science. In an age of ever-increasing technological advancements and an increase in secularity, one has to ask themselves, can science and religion ev...

I have been vegan for over three years and an environmentalist the majority of my life. When I was a kid and picked up a graphic novel about Jane Goodall, I immediately knew that there was more I could do for the world. This cookbook was a little bit of t...

I had a really hard time with this project. I am not comfortable expressing myself through art, especially for a grade. Nevertheless, I wanted to attempt the project and see how I did. I feel the most confident in expressing myself through writing. I deci...

For this final project I wanted to create a short comic strip that simply talked about climate change and that gave a few ideas of everyday things we could do to help prevent it.

Watching the world as life passes on. Mother earth and child of humanity, Sit atop the mountains of earth.

While there are no laws of physics preventing us from minimizing our consumption, sometimes breaking the soft barriers (e.g. consumption culture) around these issues can seem almost as impossible as breaking the laws of physics. The best way to promote ch...

Discussions about combating climate change should not be political, but usually they are. It's astounding to know how many people refuse to take accountability for their actions and how they’ve affected life on this planet.

I have always liked the idea of time capsules and being able to capture moments for future generations. In this class we have learned that the Earth has already changed so much since humans came on the scene and started industrializing and creating the wo...

I used a poem as my medium in an attempt to connect the audience to the reality of our climate situation. I wanted to relate the damage we do as a society, to that of a smoker and their lungs.

“Plucking Grass” started as an ode to the beauty of nature. As my writing process continued, I could not help but incorporate the impact mankind’s actions have had on the Earth. My goal for this piece was to combine art and poetry to show the reader how w...

For my final project, I was inspired by the class period we had talking about growth. This topic in particular caused me to reflect on my own inpact in the fight for climate change.

Over the past several decades, public discussion surrounding climate change has steadily increased. For my project, I wanted to take a closer look at how well the information regarding climate change is being communicated to individuals around me.

The final poem, “Exponential Economic Growth,” uses some of the most impactful quotes from Dr. Davies’ Anthropocene lectures and arranges these quotes in a way which reflects to the reader the issue of exponential economic growth and its unsustainability....

For my final project I produced a collection of watercolor paintings and poetry to represent the voices of the ocean, the atmosphere, and the earth. I’ve always viewed nature as a feminine presence, and I carried this view over to my project by introducin...

For my final project in this class, I wanted to really focus on the growing issue that we face concerning one-time plastic use. Many of the items that we use everyday have a large amount of plastic, especially for only being used once.

Our story—the history of humankind—is the greatest adventure of all time... and space. Our brief existence on earth is an epic tale through which I hope this short story is able to convey a certain nuance and poignance.

For this project, I helped some of the Kindergarten Prep children at my preschool investigate climate change. We watched videos and read books to help them learn about how the planet is changing. The book that finally sparked their interest was, “Many.”

For my project, I decided to write a short story from the perspective of a plant. (It ended up being 13 pages so I don’t know if it’s really short). I wanted to create a sense of melancholy to show how life is and suddenly upend everything with a tragedy

I chose to write the story of a village for my project, because I wanted to show how everything is more connected than people realize. Even though there are many different changes that happen within the village, they don’t happen independently. Each chang...

Butterflies have always been a favorite species of mine and I never realized that their existence could be at risk.

Given my lack of skills in visual art or music composure, I wanted to gear my project to something else I'm passionate about: yoga. I'm a yoga instructor and I love designing classes.

Our project is a collection of recipes and some tips towards becoming more sustainable in our everyday lives!

Throughout this class, I was struck with the though, “It’s about systems, not villains.”

The project I am submitting is a collection of 8 stickers that I created to help increase awareness about the variety of issues the world is facing. Some of the topics I focused on include; overconsumption of natural resources, pollution and extinction, a...

When I was presented with this assignment, I immediately knew I wanted to write a children’s book. I am a writer and I love kids. I also co-teach at a cooperative learning facility in my hometown. One of the main facets of my classes is connecting the les...

The vision behind my project, "Voices of the Earth," is to showcase the interconnectedness of our world and the various perspectives that shape our understanding of the Anthropocene.

In this essay I wanted to explore the disconnect we often have with our personal impact on environmental issues and the consequences of some of our daily decisions. Damage to our earth systems, as well as wealth inequity and human suffering are some of th...

I chose to focus my final project on the decline of the world’s ocean and the bleaching of corals. I decided to write these poems in hope to create awareness of the importance of the world’s oceans and corals.

The project that I created for this class is I created a marketing plan for a business that plants trees. I remember talking about in class how trees can really make such a huge change to our planet and wanted my project to reflect that.

This is a poem that I wrote about what I have seen and felt during my semester in my Unveiling the Anthropocene class. I want this poem to create emotion in the person reading it.

Mother nature holds the world in her hands, but the climate crisis changes that fact. The earth is sick and hurting. If we continue the same path, we will reach a point of no return.

I took Unveiling the Anthropocene this semester not knowing much about it. From the beginning the class has given me an urgent need to do something to help heal our Mother Earth.

I decided to write a poem/story of a bleaching event from the perspective of a coral. I tried to imagine what being boiled alive felt like. How dying feels when you know that that’s it, it’s the end, and that no one will do anything.

It may have seemed that while I was in class, I would push against the material that was being taught. I hope I never came off that I was trying to pick a fight just for the sake of picking a fight. I feel my intentions were pure as I tried to learn more

Eat Mor Chikin* is a poster/brochure made as an information and commentary piece for anyone who consumes factory bred and “farmed” chicken.

This project was motivated by my newfound realization for the dependency of humans on unsustainable diets. The quote was taken from an interview of Dr. Eshel on the film “Before the Flood” which was watched for this class.

This piece was written to show how speculative climate fiction is not just fiction. It is a warning. This story is based on actual events/experiences during the dust bowl which took place roughly from 1930 – 1940.

I love poetry and this earth so I decided to combine the two for my final project. My poem was inspired by the intrinsically breathtaking phenomenons that make our world so beautiful and enjoyable to live in.

I believe that we need to treat our world with respect and care because it is our home. However, our current lifestyles often abuse its resources, which ultimately limits our options for continued living under our current patterns.

For my final project, I was inspired by the class period we had talking about growth. This topic in particular caused me to reflect on my own inpact in the fight for climate change.

I’ve written a few poems that vent my frustrations about the current state of the world. My writing may come off as nihilistic, pessimistic, and edgy (like heavy Shadow the Hedgehog edgy), but I really do have some hope for the future.

The inspiration for this piece came from my own, wonderful Grandmother, who is crazy enough to collect plastic eating utensils from public events, take them home, wash them, and use them until they break. But in the course of learning the material in Unve...

As a person who loves to write, I have always appreciated the ability words have to invoke emotion. I really wanted to capture some of the emotions I felt while taking in information throughout this semester in the form of encouraging others.

For my project, I wrote a series of poems discussing projected effects for certain ecological features (such as the Amazon Rainforest and Coral Reefs). I wrote about what would happen to them if we did not “save” them, I.E, reduce carbon emissions and eli...

For my final project in this course I decided to make a lengthy essay, discussing the importance of immediate actions required from everyone on earth in-order to save our planet.

I am an artistic person, that is how I like to express myself, but I didn’t want to do a boring old painting or drawing which was my original idea. Then, one day as I was thinking about what to do,

One thing I often see in multiple settings in life is that we teach people that we need to teach people to do things and why to do them, but we never really teach them how to do it.

As artists, Grant and I thought it would be helpful to have our work explore the intersection between humanity and the natural world. In particular, this current project focuses on the urgent issue of deforestation, and the devastating impact it has on ou...

My project is a series of small PSA’s, specifically on climate disinformation and how to spot it. Of all that I’ve learned in this class, the most shocking to me was how media will blatantly deny climate change, and use subtle but underhanded means to do

Throughout this semester, I have been really struck by the stories and images shown in the documentaries we have watched. Where I am from, it is difficult to see many of the disruptions that have been occurring because of us. However, these videos put the...

For my final project I wanted to write a short story. I love the story of a Christmas Carol so I decided to kind of parody that. I wrote a Crisis Carol about what might happen if people were able to be visited by three spirits to see the effects of what w...

I decided to write a children’s book about a little girl, Sally, who visits the zoo with her mom in a futuristic world. This book highlights the devastating impacts of climate change on the animal kingdom and wildlife on earth.

For my project, I created a short kid’s book. My inspiration for this is that my niece, Ruby, who I dedicated the book to, loves to read her books and her stories.

My favorite form of art has long been poetry. I’ve always had a passion for it, which was begun by my Grandpa when I was very young. If any of his grandkids could memorize certain poems, he’d give them a five dollar bill.

We hear the discord surrounding the climate crisis time and time again in the news. The majority of that conversation is negative information with little mention of ways to contribute to the solution.

Throughout the semester, I took class notes like most students. However, I also took notes on anything that was interesting to me artistically, as a songwriter.