Project Description
CLEE created Climate Break as a means to discuss climate change with a wider audience in a different way than the typical focus on the inevitable negative impacts coming our way. Climate Break instead focuses on solutions in progress, via bite-sized audio clips of 90 seconds that fit as interstitial segments on radio stations nationwide and as easily distributed digital podcasts. With the experience of creating the clips, longer podcasts, and web material, and having experimented with the form, we now seek to apply lessons learned, add short video clips, and launch an environmental justice “climate justice” series with approximately 35 percent of the audio and video clips, while retaining the primarily student-run structure. In addition, we seek to enlist radio stations to play the clips regularly (we are in discussions with our first potential station, KALW in San Francisco), increase our social media presence, add funders (foundations and donors), produce another 50 professional quality audio clips (including with more UC Berkeley innovators), increase downloads, employ more UC Berkeley students, ensure diversity in subject matter and participation, and build support for sustainability efforts on and off campus.
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