PROJECT SURVIVAL MEDIA
Project Survival Media (PSM) is global youth journalism network dedicated to broadcasting stories of survival and ingenuity in the face of climate change.
Our media teams, on all seven continents, are reporting on the most compelling climate stories, amplifying voices underrepresented by traditional media, and launching “Survival” to the forefront of the political debate.
PSM strengthens the NGO and political dialogue on what is possible in order to ensure our survival.
CLIMATE CHANGE AND MEDIA
People all over the globe are feeling the negative impacts of climate change, especially communities of color, low income communities, indigenous communities, and the developing world. Right now growing seasons are changing, fresh water and jobs are becoming more scarce, and our seas are rising. As climate change gets worse and we experience more natural disasters we exacerbate issues that are already a problem like human rights abuses and a failing economy.
We must lead by example and demand that our governments do more. PSM does this through journalism. Visual Journalism, in particular, has been a critical campaign tool for organizers throughout landmark cultural and political struggles for hundreds of years. With new technological advances, we are able to reach more people than ever before in new and creative ways.
As media makers on climate change, journalism is a powerful vehicle to mobilize those not yet activated. Like the civil rights journalists in the 1960’s, we will show that those opposing climate justice will find themselves on the wrong side of history. And as our climate becomes more unstable, we will show how communities can safeguard their future by proactively building climate solutions.
PSM HISTORY:
PSM worked with 93 youth journalists in the lead up to the landmark UN Climate conference in Copenhagen in December of 2009. Project Survival Media assembled and launched seven global new media teams to report on the most compelling climate stories from around the world, amplify voices underrepresented by traditional media, and breathe life into the facts and statistics of the climate crisis.
In Copenhagen we worked with a team of 18 youth to report from the UNFCCC climate negotiations, producing blogs, photo essays, and mini-documentaries.
Project Survival Media a is a project of the Earth Island Institute.
To read more about our new program Solutions for Survival, click here.