What if an orca could visit human communities, share the story of her ocean home, and tell us exactly what we can do to help her thrive there?

Meet the “Orcar”, a glowing orca sculpture so big that twenty people can stand inside it. It was built from a rusty, old diesel truck, transforming a machine whose exhaust warmed the ocean into an art installation that inspires us to protect it. It’s now on the road visiting festivals and events, and here’s how one transformation leads to many more: when visitors feel awe and wonder inside the Orcar, they can turn those feelings into action. 

“Orcas need us to protect chinook salmon and reduce noise pollution so they can thrive,” says lead artist Aaron Rosenberg. “We started the Orcar project to bring our community together through art and raise awareness for the needs of one of the most important animals in our bioregion.”

The Orcar was built in Squamish, British Columbia, by about thirty people of all ages and experience levels: people who got together to learn skills, solve problems, and create something incredible together. 

At Future Chicken, we love stories like this because they remind us that creativity can turn concern into action. When we flock together and get our hands messy, we can build the kind of future we all want to see.

Learn more about the Orcar and where it’s travelling next.

These students are proving that raising your voice works best with a catchy chorus.  

Every year, grade-six students at Carlyle Elementary School in Montreal team up with music teacher Christine Crawford to write, compose, and record an original song about an important theme. This year’s song, “Don’t Look Away,” is about choosing to build a better future together. 

Over nearly two months, the students fine-tuned their own lyrics and melodies while exploring a big idea: the world is shaped by the choices we make every day. By listening to one another, pushing their creativity, and combining their unique talents, the young musicians produced an anthem for change-making and real cooperation. 

“We still have the time / To redraw all the lines,” the students sing in their YouTube music video, in which they sing, play instruments, and share Earth-themed art projects. “The future’s yours and mine.” 

At Future Chicken, we love seeing music, teamwork, and planet positivity join forces — especially when kids are leading the choir. 

Listen to “Don’t Look Away” and get inspired by these young changemakers!

In March, the weather is changeable. It’s warm one day, cold the next, and damp or dry by turns. That makes it the perfect time to get outside and do some science!

You don’t need any special materials. Just go out walking with your kids in different weather conditions and talk about what you notice about the temperature, the weather, and how you feel. And to make you look super smart, we’ll arm you with some facts beforehand. 

• Very cold days are likely to have clear skies. That’s because cold air doesn’t hold moisture well, so clouds have trouble forming.
• Of course, that means warmer air does hold more humidity, which accounts for all that springtime dampness you feel.
• Moisture on your skin conducts heat away from your body more quickly than dry air does, so damp days can feel colder than dry ones, even when they aren’t.
• Wind makes you feel cold by quickly whisking your body heat away.
• It’s a myth that you lose 40% of your body heat through your head…sort of. You lose the most heat through whichever part of your body is uncovered.

For more invitations to wonder outdoors, look for If You Go Walking — a picture book by Future Chicken’s own Erin Alladin and illustrator Miki Sato.

March 6, 2026

“Future Chicken showed me that even a small child can be a hero for the Earth.” – Ali, age 10, Pakistan

In Pakistan, children are feeling the effects of climate change firsthand. Many were displaced by flooding in 2025; others live in cities choked by air pollution. These are the children who most need to bridge the “hope gap” and know that they are not helpless.  

Future Chicken has partnered with the Alif Laila Book Bus Society in Lahore, Pakistan to bring climate literacy, community action, and solutions-focused creativity to Urdu-speaking children who otherwise wouldn’t encounter the FC Universe. It began with a Future Chicken short being shown on rickshaw mobile libraries around the city of Lahore while teachers translated the English. A year later, Future Chicken sent a custom greeting with Urdu subtitles along with meaningful projects for kids to participate in.

Under the leadership of the Alif Laila facilitators, hundreds of children planted tree seedlings, made murals from recycled materials, hugged and thanked trees for their ecosystem services, brainstormed solutions to local problems, or used storytelling and art to process their experiences of recent floods. 

Although severe heat waves and monsoon floods provided challenges, the program has thrived—and so has the partnership.

Learn more about the Alif Laila Book Bus Society here. 

This eco-mission, should you choose to accept it, involves recruiting your kids. 

Open the fridge. Find one ingredient that’s about to go bad. Then challenge your kids to invent a creative way to use it in a snack or a meal.

Maybe it will be become a smoothie. Maybe a soup. Maybe something entirely new. Whatever it is, you won’t just be preventing food waste. You’ll be giving your kids ownership over a small but important planet-positive action. 

Who knows? They might even feel extra adventurous about trying new foods.

These kids put a powerful new spin on “the plastic arts”!

In the fall of 2025, Future Chicken partnered with a British Columbia school to pilot a project in kid-led environmental activism. The result is a highly engaged group of students with a deeper understanding of waste, sustainability, and — importantly — their own agency in creating environmental change.

Inspired by Robin “The Trash Man” Green’s interview on the Future Chicken Today Show, grade 5 and 6 students at Florence Nightingale Elementary in Vancouver began gathering plastic waste from their homes and communities. They investigated its origins and what would happen to it in the waste and recycling streams, or in the natural environment. Then they turned it into sculptures of marine mammals for a thought-provoking art installation that was shared with parents, fellow students, and guests.

But the story doesn’t end there. The kids and Future Chicken collaborated on a top-notch video to amplify their voices and inspire others to find their own.