We recently came across a visual essay on the blog of Franke James, a Canadian artist and writer working to address climate change through creative communication projects. It's a great example of effective citizen media -- a simple, honest, personal expression about a global concern. The narrative is at once funny, beautiful, a touch cynical, and a little sad -- definitely worth a slow scroll-through. James describes the alien experience of a snow-free Canadian winter -- a green winter -- and the willingness with which we forget about looming climate change when for a moment the weather does what it's "supposed" to do and January becomes, if only temporarily, a familiar shade of white.

Some excerpts are printed below and the entire thing can be found here.