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In the world of creative writing, a “micro,” as in the term microfiction, is a short piece, maybe only 100 words, a world in itself. The Microclimate Project guides you to to create any short piece – poems, nonfiction, mini-dramas, fiction – and while there’s no fixed length, we suggest up to 365(.25) words as a way to be mindful of our elliptical orbit around the star we call the Sun.
A microclimate, as landscape ecologist Liane Miedma Brown beautifully phrases it, is “the scale of environmental factors (such as temperature, wind breaks, water systems etc.) that organisms experience on an individual or community level.” The Microclimate Project helps you tune in to such local reciprocities and explore their science as you write creatively about them – and to use that writing as a springboard to future action towards just climate futures.