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Open Climate started as a collaboration between partners from Wikimedia, Appropedia, Open Environmental Data Project, Mozilla Foundation, Green Web Foundation, Wikimedistas de Uruguay, and the University of Notre Dame. Since late 2020, we’ve hosted a series of community calls seeking to understand where the different strands of the open movement can support the work of climate justice and action. Since then, we’ve written articles on the topic of open climate (here and here), hosted a cohort of seven Open Climate Fellows, and have written an issue brief for digital rights funders on the topic of climate justice and the knowledge commons.
The broader Green Screen event aimed to nurture a coalition inclusive of both climate and digital rights funders and practitioners. The Open Climate track was situated inside of the continuation of conversations started during the Green Screen Berlin event, a digital rights research project commissioned by Ford, Mozilla and Ariadne, and an initial funders dialogue.
Credits:
CC-BY-SA Open Environmental Data Project
Video created by Open Environmental Data Project (OEDP)
Produced and edited by Michelle Cheripka
Interviews with Shannon Dosemagen (OEDP) and Michelle Thorne (Green Web Foundation)
Featuring event participants: Gabriela Eslava Bejarano (Green Web Foundation), Luis Carrasco (Open Climate), Evelin Heidel / Scann (Wikimedistas de Uruguay), Persephone Hooper-Lewis (Whose Knowledge?), Nat Irwin (OpenTEAM), Claudio Ruiz (Tecnologia Critica), Pilar Sáenz (Fundación Karisma), Amrita Sengupta (Centre for Internet and Society), Michael Silberman, Alex Stinson (Wikimedia), and Emilio Velis (Appropedia)
With special thanks to: Andres Colmenares, Marjahn Finalyson, Babitha George, Allen Gunn, Juliet Luwedde, the Green Screen Coalition, and those who participated in the Open Climate calls.
And contextual information generously provided by: Kemly Camacho (Sulá Batsú Coop).
Michelle Cheripka (she/her) is an interdisciplinary media maker, currently based in Los Angeles. Her writing has been featured in Branch Magazine and Films for the Feminist Classroom and her photography has been featured by Extend Programs. Her independent film work has screened in festivals and venues in New York, London, Los Angeles, Boston, Beijing, and Rotterdam.