Bad News Good News
About
Our mission is to document the personal stories of those working within fields relating to climate and sustainability. From professors to advocates to students, we ask questions to environmentalists to capture the motivations, challenges, and hopes that individuals have that can shape how we understand and engage with the environment. Data on climate change evidence, while unavoidable and omnipresent, is, by nature, cold and impersonal, and its justifiably constant coverage easily elicits apathy, alarm, and helplessness. We believe these narratives can illuminate how resilience, empathy, and determination fuel progress, and how each person can find their own place in the movement.
Our Team
Josephine Lee
Hi! I'm Jo, and I founded Bad News Good News after wanting to find a way to distance climate data from the profound stories that actually connect society with nature. For all my life, I have loved being in nature, from playing around with friends in our local park to walking my dog in overgrown gulleys, but when I began learning about climate change, I saw how data-heavy and overwhelming the conversation often was.
Through interviews with climate professionals, advocates, and students, I hope to put a spotlight on why people care, and through that lens, make climate action feel less abstract and more personal. My goal is to inspire others to see themselves in these stories and realize that they, too, can be part of building a more sustainable future.
Executive Director
Producer
Andie Park
As a lifelong Garden-stater, I’ve always felt closest to the world with my hands in the dirt. Growing up, I learned to see the environment through familiar details like the smell of soil after rain, the weeds my mother called “persistent,” or the community gardens that held small bits of life. When Jo first started Bad News Good News, I joined her to connect and create conversation with leaders and professionals, because it feels important to preserve that closeness. There's a human side to sustainability that gets lost behind more daunting stories about climate change as a whole.
Storytelling, to me, is one of the most meaningful forms of environmental action. Through creative work and interviews, I hope my contributions can help people see sustainability not as an abstract goal, but as something that's already appearing all around us and comes from a place of empathy and care.
Brian Liu
I joined BNGN because as a kid, one of my favorite pastimes was to bike around lakes—Memorial Lake, Avalon Lakes, Sugar Creek Lakes, and more. However, when Hurricane Harvey hit in 2017, the lakes I usually loved became a source of fear. Seeing deluges of water overflow the levies, infiltrate the roads and eat up the woods near my house showed me the ruthless side of nature.
I care about the climate because every year, when I visit my hometown, my favorite lakes grow increasingly scarce yet the storm floods grow increasingly pronounced. Over eleven years, the subtle changes have added up to a prominent decline that I hope to help reverse.
Outreach Coordinator