Climate is Culture - where creativity shapes our ecological future

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Mission

Climate is culture: Cape Farewell envisions a sustainable future inspired by the illumination artists give to the global climate challenge
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What we do

We all need stories that move us if we are to be inspired to make social and behavioural changes in our lives
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How we work

A small core team works at the centre of an international programme of activity
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Who we are

Meet our core team and collaborators including creatives, scientists and informers
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The WaterShed

An experimental station for climate-focused residencies and Cape Farewell’s HQ in Dorset
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History

Pioneering close collaboration between arts and science to highlight the urgency of climate change since 2001
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Our Policies

Including environmental sustainability, ethical fundraising, privacy and accessibility
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Contact

Get in touch to find out more about any aspect of our work

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Daro Montag’s leafcutter ants – an organism in motion
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David Suzuki stands accused of seditious libel. Is he talking treason or reason?
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Listen to BBC Radio 4’s Costing the Earth: Art and the Environment show featuring David Buckland