Building Home + Future
All of us would do whatever it takes to keep our families and communities safe. We all strive for those we love to have good food, good health, caring friends, and a strong roof over their heads. In the face of climate-fueled storms, fires and heat waves, we must rely on and learn from each other. People who have had to leave their homes and relocate to new places offer hope and bring with them skills, creativity, courage, and so much more.
With this new narrative campaign, “Building Home + Future,” The Solutions Project and our partners honor the climate solutions that come hand in hand with migration and showcase what a diverse, thriving future could look like.
For decades, frontline communities have grown climate solutions rooted in the immigrant experience – like vertical gardens, resilience hubs, and more efficient city planning – that make the communities we share here, stronger. Climate disaster has also forced people to move within the United States, birthing new learnings about climate and migration. From the large-scale displacement of Black people from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina to more recent climate gentrification and displacement in places like Miami, the connection between migration and climate is only set to intensify.
In the face of rising threats to migrant communities – from ICE raids and to economic pressures – this new campaign unravels the deep connections between migration and climate solutions in the United States.
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Watch the Building Home + Future video. Featuring narration from award-winning actress America Ferrera.
“No matter why we move or where we came from, this is the moment to acknowledge that migrants can strengthen communities and bring with them robust climate solutions. This moment calls for all of us to join forces.”
People across the country and from all walks of life, are building shared homes grounded in abundance and care, and not in reaction to scarcity. They show us all how to find futures and safe havens that strengthen our communities for the long-haul.
We invite other organizations, creators, and community members to join us.