Craft your own #ClimateEmergency response
Get Inspired
Find temperature charts to create your colourways
Whatever your craft, use these charts based on the Warming Stripes created by Professor Ed Hawkins to modify your existing patterns with accurate global temperature colourways or colourways to show the trend.
Check out the Craftivist Showcase for who is doing what and where
Take a look at the Craftivist Showcase for ideas to use with your craft. Find Craftivists world-wide and see the spread of their goods. Leave a message in the Facebook group if you would like to be included.
Get Motivated
Average global temperatures have changed by more than 1.4°C over the last century but governments aren't acting fast enough to the greatest existential threat that human society has seen since the nuclear standoff last century. Use your craft skills, whatever they may be, to enable friends and activist to wear or display the data that shows the scale of this disaster
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to keep warm while protesting,
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as a reminder to limit energy usage,
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and to help conversations about our #ClimateEmergency.
Get Crafting
Find various knitting patterns available for FREE on Ravelry in styles ranging from footy scarf to elegant. A knitting pattern for complete beginners can be found in a tab on the spreadsheet available on the Charts page on this site.
While my endeavour began with knitting, similar items are being made using many other crafts as diverse as crochet, weaving, watercolour, glass-blowing and silk painting. Join in and share your creativity and climate concern with your friends, customers and local activists - and let us know as well.
Get Connected
Join with other craftivists in the Ravelry Caring about Climate Change group or meet us in the Facebook Climate Wearables group.
Whatever your skill or skill level, you can contribute to the effort to spread the message that carbon (coal, gas, other fossil fuels) must be kept in the ground or, in many populated parts of the world, it will soon be too hot/wet/dry/burnt for society to survive.
