Living with a Changing Climate

A call for personal stories, images, and creative work

Climate change is no longer an abstract threat. It is already reshaping landscapes, seasons, and lives — including yours. Yet most of us process this alone, in the gap between what we know and what we feel, between the values we hold and the choices we actually make.

This is an invitation to name that experience honestly.

What we are looking for

We are inviting personal stories, images, and creative work that capture what it actually feels like to live with climate change. Not analysis. Not solutions. Not performance. Just honest, specific accounts of a real experience.

Some prompts to draw from — choose whichever resonates, or let them overlap:

• A moment of climate loss. A landscape that has changed beyond recognition. A season that no longer arrives when it should. Something you witnessed, something you grieve, something you cannot explain to people who weren't there.
• A values conflict. The flight you took, knowing you shouldn't. The job that pays well, but compounds the problem. The exhaustion of caring in a world that makes caring difficult. The gap between who you want to be and how you actually live.
• Adaptation and compromise. Something you have changed in your life because of climate — however small — and what that change actually felt like. Not the virtue of it, but the texture of living differently.
• Witnessing in someone else. A parent, a farmer, an elder, a child asking questions you don't know how to answer. Sometimes our own climate emotions are most visible in how we watch others carry them.
• Renewal. A moment when something shifted. Not optimism exactly, but a crack of light — something that made engagement feel possible again, however fragile or unexpected.

These are not easy things to write about. That's exactly why they matter.

Format

The format is entirely yours to decide. A photograph with a caption. A song. A short film or video essay. A poem. A personal essay. Whatever best fits what you want to say.

If you're looking for an example of the kind of work this might produce, read:

Flying for Climate Change: A Carbon Dilemma

Working on climate change has not reduced my carbon footprint — it has increased it. In the quiet hours of jet lag, I wrestle with the uncomfortable tension between engagement and purity, intention and combustion.

Ice FrontiersJean Peccoud

Cameron Peak Fire: Witnessing Loss and Renewal at the Edge

The roots of Ice Frontiers (Part III)

Ice FrontiersJean Peccoud

What happens next

Submissions will be reviewed by the Ice Frontiers editorial team. Strong work will be published on this site, with your name and a short bio.

This is also a collaborative process. If your submission has potential but needs development, we will work with you on it. You are not submitting to a wall.

How to submit

Send your work or a link to blog@icefrontiers.com. Include a sentence or two about yourself and why this topic matters to you.

There is no deadline. There is no fee.