"Climate change is a global crisis, but it is hard to communicate the impact on our world without frightening people so much that they give up and feel there is nothing they can do. This makes it especially challenging communicating with children.
Santa Soaked provides a climate change message which fully conveys the reality, but in a way that shows how youth can and must be the agency for the future."
- Liziwe McDaid, Strategic Lead of The Green Connection; 2018 Goldman Environmental Award Recipient, Africa.
"Santa Soaked has an interfaith message that speaks to all seeking a more hopeful future. The storytelling project turns it into a powerful organizing tool. This is just the kind of grassroots empowerment needed to energize the rising generation of climate activists. " - Steve Jacobs, fmr. Board Chair, The Southern African Faith Communities' Environment Institute (SAFCEI);
fmr. Southern African Executive Director, The Natural Step.
"Climate change is a global problem with local impact. What better way to illustrate its effects than by engaging the children? They have an underlying sense of loss that fills their world. It is the fabric of their futures. Using the beloved, universally recognized figure of Santa is a stroke of genius. This gently prods us to look at our faiths and traditions in the light of 'what we know now.' It calls us to action in a way that expresses our deepest, authentic beliefs and values. I hope the whole world reads this. It is indeed a gift to the world."
- Rev. Berry Behr, Faith Leader Liaison, The Southern African Faith Communities' Environmental Institute (SAFCEI); Chairperson, Executive Board, Cape Town Interfaith Initiative (CTII).
"I just read Santa Soaked and...wow!!! Really amazing. Surprising, beautiful, everything...I was really moved..." - Andy Bichlbaum, The Yes Men.