{"id":245833,"date":"2024-02-14T16:31:15","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T16:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/climate-connections-four-stories-of-relationships-forged-through-climate-action-grist\/"},"modified":"2024-02-14T17:22:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T17:22:26","slug":"climate-connections-four-stories-of-relationships-forged-through-climate-action-grist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/climate-connections-four-stories-of-relationships-forged-through-climate-action-grist\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate connections: Four stories of relationships forged through climate action &#8211; Grist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h2 class=\"aligncenter\">The spotlight<\/h2>\n<p class=\"\">When Kristy Drutman attended the U.N. climate negotiations in Poland in 2018, she was struck by how impersonal everything felt. As a climate storyteller, educator, and social media influencer (who was featured on our 2022 Grist 50 list), Drutman\u2019s work heavily emphasized people and connections. \u201cIt just felt like people were really disconnected from each other,\u201d she said of the conference. She thought the climate movement as a whole could benefit from putting a greater emphasis on relationships.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Three years later, she returned to the U.N. conference and set up a table with a sign: \u201cLooking for love? Come on a climate speed date.\u201d People seemed to like it. \u201cWe actually had people that were in the negotiation rooms \u2014 policy people from different countries participated in it,\u201d she said. Last fall, she turned the idea into a more intentional&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/looking-forward\/climate-connections-four-stories-of-relationships-forged-through-climate-action\/\"target=\"_blank\">Read full article originally published on grist.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The spotlight When Kristy Drutman attended the U.N. climate negotiations in Poland in 2018, she was struck by how impersonal everything felt. As a climate storyteller, educator, and social media influencer (who was featured on our 2022 Grist 50 list), Drutman\u2019s work heavily emphasized people and connections. \u201cIt just felt like people were really disconnected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":245834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[361],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.0 (Yoast SEO v20.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Climate connections: Four stories of relationships forged through climate action - Grist - Republic of Green News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/looking-forward\/climate-connections-four-stories-of-relationships-forged-through-climate-action\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Climate connections: Four stories of relationships forged through climate action - Grist\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The spotlight When Kristy Drutman attended the U.N. climate negotiations in Poland in 2018, she was struck by how impersonal everything felt. 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