With so much information about the climate crisis available, it can be hard to know where to begin. Here’s a few resources to get you started. We will be updating this page with more content to watch, read and listen to over the course of the year leading up to the Prize deadline – so make sure to check back soon!
Watch
- Politics and the Climate Crisis – A Talk by Orwell Youth Prize Judge, Professor Michael Jacobs
- Communicating the Climate Crisis – An introductory lecture on the science of climate change, by Professor Tim Woollings
Read
- Our Very Own Orwell Youth Prize Climate Change Resource – a resource by writer and academic, Lauren Collee, including top tips on writing about the climate crisis, and some reading recommendations!
- Policy Actions – 33 actions local authorities can take on climate change – Friends of the Earth
- Glasgow Kiss – an article on the outcomes of COP26 by Youth Prize 2022 Judge, Michael Jacobs and what it all meant.
- A Twitter thread also by Michael Jacobs, breaking down the highlights (and a few lowlights) from COP26.
- It’s Freezing In LA – independent magazine with a fresh take on climate change
- The Financial Times’ Special Report on Climate Change for Schools
- ‘The Bristolian 17-year-old campaigning for racial justice in climate change movement’, Priyanka Raval, (The Bristol Cable) – and check out Mya-Rose Craig, AKA Birdgirl’s blog here
- Author Q&A Daisy Hildyard – (Big Issue North)
- This small German town took back the power – and went fully renewable, Bertie Russell (The Conversation)
Orwell Youth Prize Inspiration
- Orwell Youth Prize Writing ‘Our Body Has A Virus’, collaborative poem from Orwell Youth Prize ‘Future Forum’ – March 2020
- ‘A New Direction: Starting Small by Creating Norfolk Wetlands‘ – 2021 Orwell Youth Prize Winning Writing by William Walker
- ‘Two for Joy’ – 2021 Orwell Youth Prize Winning Writing by Isabella Rew
- What we lost, Lauren Debruin (Fiction) – 2020 Orwell Youth Prize Winning Writing
- You are what you eat, Hugh Ludford (Fiction) – 2020 Orwell Youth Prize Winning Writing
Listen
- The Language & Power Podcast focusing on the language used in and around COP26.
- Are Extinction Rebellion the new Suffragettes?
- Naming and Shaming the Polluters (The Guardian)
- The Climate Question Podcast: Introducing The Climate Question (BBC Sounds)
Orwell Youth Prize Inspiration
- The Future We Want: The Climate Crisis podcast featuring Andrew Simms, and our Orwell Youth Fellows, Lauren DeBruin and Hugh Ludford.