Across the planet, the effects of climate change are becoming clearer every day. While climate change may exist in the abstract for some of us, the harm wrought by climate inaction and environmental injustice has been clear for people of color and indigenous peoples for a long time. Wherever you are in the world, it’s time to wake up, reach out, and get to work.

We created Fur & Feather to educate kids about the interconnectedness at the core of climate change—an interconnectedness that has only become more clear in these times we are living through. But just as our challenges and struggles are interconnected, so too are the solutions that we haven’t yet imagined. 

There’s already a lot out there on climate change. So why the story of a puffin and a polar bear?

Honestly, it felt like most of the books, movies, and resources we came across for kids either a) didn’t capture the overlapping issues of climate change in a way kids could understand, or b) were a touch too data heavy to inspire the five-year-olds in our lives. 

We wanted to create something that went beyond polar bears and CO2 charts and that would help kids (and their parents) to see how climate change touches us all. We also felt it was important to feature a diverse array of people and animals in our illustrations, and in particular, to highlight how indigenous youth and women of color are at the forefront of so many on the ground efforts to defend our communities and the earth from the impacts of climate change.
https://furandfeathertogether.org/