We create to transform the world and shape a sustainable future.
Climate Creativity is a non-profit company located in Oslo, Norway. Our team work to create awereness and engagement about climate change and other sustainability issues through storytelling and art.
We have facilitated workshops at the UN Climate Change Conference of Youth in Glasgow, and at universities and schools in Norway, Canada and the US. We also work with universities and other science institutions on communicating climate science in innovative and creative ways.
In order to co-create a sustainable future, we must first train our capacity to imagine desirable futures and recognize our potential to take part in shaping the future we want by speaking up and acting on our values. Climate Creativity‘s work is driven by joy and our desire for justice and community.
We need more we-feeling, a German girl wrote on her Climate Card. A woman from Peru told us that sharing her story through Climate Illustrated helped her feel more part of the planet. That’s the feeling we work to spread. By sharing each other’s ideas and stories, we try to create a feeling of community and togetherness in this effort. Join us in our mission by making a climate card or sharing your climate story!
Our team
Marte Skaara is our Co-founder and Creative Director. Marte lives in Oslo and has been engaged in climate change actions for about ten years through her many initiatives. She holds degrees in journalism, human geography, meteorology and oceanography. Marte has previously worked on climate change adaptation, the SDGs and communication at the UNFCCC and The Norwegian Forum for Environment and Development. She is also a part-time farmer tending to critical endangered cultural landscapes on the west coast of Norway.
Heidi Arctander is our Co-founder and Education Advisor. Heidi manages educational projects related to climate, art, and storytelling. Heidi is a human geographer, and her work focuses on education, agency, empowerment, and climate change. She works part-time as a geography teacher and with cCHANGE on projects related to education for sustainability in Norway and Europe.
Irina Pleva is our Project Manager. Irina is working with Climate Creativity on youth projects related to climate change, art and sustainability. Irina also works at The National Museum in Oslo. Her background is in International Environmental Studies and Environmental Governance. In 2022 she was a co-producer of Acting for climate, a contemporary circus performance sailing across the Baltic Sea to inspire people to act for a more sustainable future.
Whitney Paige Richardson is a founding board member of Climate Creativity. Whitney is a social-environmental justice steward making use of her cross-functional background to catalyze change, support movements and resolve the climate crisis and intertwined social-ecological crises. She does this through donor organizing, policy making and advising, applied research, writing, earth jurisprudence and social practice art.
Signe Strøm Flugsrud is working with Climate Creativity on projects related to animal-assisted interventions, environmnetal education, sustainability, and farming. Signe’s background is in Environmental Science and Sociology, Human Ecology, and Psychology. She runs a small business centered on animal welfare and positive human-animal interactions, and works as a freelance photographer. Signe lives with her favorite human, dog and horse in the Swedish countryside, Göteborg.
Michaela Koke is co-founder of our project Climate Illustrated. Michaela studied environmental law and policy, and is now working in climate philanthropy in San Francisco, California. She grew up all over the West Coast of the US, but calls Seattle her childhood home.
Francisco Cáceres is a contributer to Climate Illustrated. Francisco is a philosopher and psychologist based in Chile. He has worked with migrants, refugees and other marginalized communities linking education, social justice and human rights. His work in psychology focuses on resilience, climate anxiety and psychoanalysis.
Carolina Altavilla is contributing with art and illustration. Carolina is an illustrator, designer and art director from Argentina and based in Turin, Italy. She works as a professional illustrator for digital and print publications, posters, magazines, animations and books.
Luise Hesse is contributing with art, illustration and workshop facilitation. Luise is an illustrator and graphic designer based in Halle (Saale), Germany. In her work she wishes to educate and raise awareness about climate change, sustainability, and environmental protection.
Stefanie Bendfeldt is contributing with design and illustration. Stefanie is an experiences designer and engaged illustrator working with sustainability at heart. Her focal point is on editorial and corporate design. When it comes to illustration she feels at home in Illustrator and Procreate as well as with pencil and ink.
Joice Najm Mendez is contributing with insights, storytelling, workshop facilitation and encouraging youth engagement. Joice is a Technoxamanist and social entrepreneur working on transboundary cooperation in the water-energy-food nexus with an emphasis on energy justice. Currently, she is the Latin American and Caribbean Regional Focal Point of the SDG7 Youth Constituency and member of the IRENA’s Director- General’s Global Council on Enabling Youth Action for SDG7. Joice works continuously with several organizations she has co-founded including the Latin American Observatory of Geopolitics of Energy, the Moema Viezzer Environmental Observatory, and Paraguayan Youth for Water and Climate Network. Currently she works as a climate change consultant in UNICEF-Paraguay.