National Endowment for the Humanities to Spend $150,000 on Oral History of Climate Change, Covid
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By Adam Andrzejewski
Real Clear Wire
The National Endowment for the Humanities will award a $150,000 grant to community organizations to catalogue peoples’ thoughts on climate change, according to a spending announcement.
The grant is part of the Climate and Community Resilience Program, whose mission is to mitigate climate change’s effects, safeguard cultural resources, and foster cultural resilience through documenting cultural heritage and community resilience.
According to the video presentation, potential project ideas include an oral history collection of reflections from firefighters and other first responders fighting wildfires and other natural disasters, documenting memories of indigenous elders during climate crises like droughts,
