Writing with the Earth:
A Climate Writing and Resilience Project
Writing with the Earth is a nature-based writing project that explores how climate change touches our lives and the landscapes we love. This climate change art project is created and directed by Jen Johnson, environmental educator, nature and mindfulness-based counselor, writer, and photographer in collaboration with Andy Fairbanks at Halyburton Park in Wilmington, NC.
On February 7, 2026, we gathered 20 people at Halyburton Park Nature Center. Jen offered a presentation and discussion about climate change, its health and mental health impacts, and strategies for being emotionally resilient. We walked outdoors to the longleaf pine conservation area, where Andy spoke about the lifecycle of the longleaf pine as a metaphor adaptation and resilience. Jen led a guided meditation, and we all wrote in response to prompts.
An exhibit of the writing will be on display for one month at the Halyburton Park Nature Center in Wilmington, NC beginning on Monday, March 23, 2026.
Climate change art offers an opportunity to increase awareness about the impacts of climate change. It provides an avenue for us to express what we think and how we feel about the ways climate change is impacting us and the places we love.
“The most import thing you can do to fight climate change is talk about it.”
– Katherine Hayoe, Canadian climate scientist
WRITING PROMPTS:
My grief is for…
If the (what you love –birds, rivers, trees, wind, land) could speak, it would say…
My greatest hope is…
Dear future generations…
My plan for being resilient is…
