Genres Environmental

Burning House

Julia Daser

Year Grant Awarded: 2024

'Burning House' is an interactive climate visualization that heats up my apartment according to temperature prediction data. Read More

weather reports of the future

Orzolek, Milissa

Year Grant Awarded: 2025

"weather reports of the future" is the fourth and final theatrical puppet vignette in the "how to read a storm" series. This series explores the idea that weather/storms are languages that we grow up learning how to read depending on our location. Read More

Green Card

Shah, Purvi

Year Grant Awarded: 2024

Green plays hide and seek in a tapestry of grey asphalt and brown buildings. A lack of trees means a dearth of places birds can call home. Read More

Lest We Forget What Sustains Us: A Musical Natural History of Planet Earth

Shames, Germaine

Year Grant Awarded: 2024

A song cycle chronicling the natural history of our planet—past, present and future—from the Big Bang to the Age of Exploration, from industrialization to global warming, from planetary exodus to eco-enlightenment. Read More

From Trash to Treasure: Bagaceira Workshops in Miami

Steketee, Julia

Year Grant Awarded: 2024

With Puffin’s support, Bagaceira brought its mission to Miami: transforming sugarcane waste into sustainable design. Through hands-on workshops, Julia Steketee and Igor Barboza created space for participants to explore circular economy concepts and experiment with bio-based materials. Read More

reefscollapse

Zallman, Toby

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

“reefscollapse” is a project that attempts to bring awareness to how we, as individuals, by the choices we make, contribute to climate change and the destruction of the earth’s ecosystems. The work addresses the catastrophe of the bleaching and collapse of the world’s coral reefs. Read More