Climate Communications from the Saint Louis Zoo

Our Saint Louis Zoo is in the World Class of institutions of this kind. Make one click into the Zoo's Mission section and you'll find a strong, clear STL Zoo statement on Climate Change.         Animal areas, especially the Zoo habitat of Kali the Polar Bear, interpret the meaning of Climate Change for visitors in ways that make connections between our human experience, the animals we admire and love, and Earth systems that support us all. But the Zoo doesn't stop there. The STL Zoo Climate Communications Initiative is training Zoo staff, volunteers and community partners in a science-based set of frameworks to purposefully, actively converse with the public about Climate Change. Hannah Petri, the Zoo's Manager of Docents and Interpreters leads this effort, and talks with Earthworms host Jean Ponzi about taking up this crucial topic with our fellow human beings. CLIMATE SOLUTIONS DAY at Saint Louis Zoo is Sunday September 29! Source of these training materials is NNOCCI - the National Network for Oceanic and Climate Change Information.  Music: For Michael, performed live at KDHX by Brian Curran THANKS to Andy Heaslet, Earthworms engineer Related Earthworms Conversations: DRAWDOWN: Solutions to Reverse Global Warming (Mar 2018) Climate Rider Tim Oey (April 2019) Climate: A New Story with Charles Eisenstein (Nov 2018) Slow Money's Woody Tasch on Culture, Poetry, Imagination, SOIL (July 2018) Carl Pope: Creating a Climate of Hope (April 2018)