Empowering climate storytelling with Kate Goldman-Toomey
In our November You're MarketingKind gathering Kate Goldman-Toomey, Executive Director of Partnerships at Open Planet, shared their story and how they are creating a library of high-quality climate and nature footage, free to use for educational, environmental and impact storytelling.
She said, "the climate and nature crisis is also a communications crisis. We're not going far enough or fast enough so in order to collectively shift the dial and to accelerate action we need to supercharge storytelling at an exponential scale."
It was a pleasure to introduce our members to the incredible work Open Planet is doing to democratize climate video content. Their library contains over 12,000 clips of documentary video content contributed by over 60 filmmakers and in the next year they aim to expand their library to over 150,000 clips.
Kate highlighted their upcoming projects including a new feature documentary with David Attenborough on the Ocean, a feature documentary and impact campaign on Biodiversity, and a recent project on health x climate with Wellcome. And how they are building a global network on content creators who are telling their local climate stories and making them available through the Open Planet platform.
I encourage everyone to explore Open Planet's library at OpenPlanet.org, share it with the climate educators, non-profits and anyone looking to tell better climate stories.
If your organisation may be interested in partnering with Open Planet please reach out to Kate (or you can message us and we will connect you).
Together we can all empower better climate storytelling.
You can listen to our podcast episode with Kate here or watch the replay below.