Alisa Petrosova on weaving climate threads into mainstream stories

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For Episode 9 of The Heart Gallery Podcast, Rebeka Ryvola de Kremer talks to climate story consultant Alisa Petrosova.

This episode explores how the film and TV industry is doing on climate messaging.
According to research from Good Energy and The Media Impact Project that analyzed 37, 453 scripted television episodes and films released from 2016 through 2020, less than 3% acknowledge climate change.Alisa works at Good Energy, which supports TV and film creators in telling stories that honestly reflect the world we live in now—a world that’s in a climate crisis. They have worked on the recent climate-focused Extrapolations, on Apple TV, and are focused on intersectional elements of climate stories, committed to showing how historically marginalized people are harmed “first and worst”. Alisa talks about how stories help us connect, process, and learn and how we need our stories to reflect the realities of the world and the future we want to move towards. 

See accompanying blog post here for annotated climate trailers, Alisa's HW, and the podcast transcript.

Mentioned:
- Climate poet & artist Cecilia Vicuña
 - Writer Rebecca Solnit.
- Rebecca Solnit's Hope in the Dark
-  Rebecca Solnit's, A Paradise Built in Hell
-  David Wallace-Wells', Uninhabitable Earth

Connect:
- Alisa: @minipetro, LinkedIn
- The Heart Gallery Instagram
- The Heart Gallery website
- Rebeka Ryvola de Kremer Instagram

Credits:
Samuel Cunningham for podcast editing, Cosmo Sheldrake for use of his song Pelicans We, podcast art by me, Rebeka Ryvola de Kremer, w/ the drive-in photo sourced from Boston Globe archives.