honest views, positive news

Through this blog we are planning to bring you a stream of honest viewpoints on the big challenges, and solutions to them, and much-needed snippets of positive news to keep us all going.

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Procurement - The Hidden Lever for Climate Action

Procurement is emerging as a powerful lever for climate action. This interactive session brings together procurement, sustainability and industry leaders to explore how client demand and purchasing decisions can accelerate progress on serviced emissions across professional service providers.

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Listen Up! Lessons From Outside the Bubble

Climate communications has a communications problem. This interactive session brings together communicators who have mastered making complicated issues resonate, examining what climate can learn from health, politics and identity storytelling. What makes people care, and where are we going wrong?

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Making Urban Heat Visible

Heatwaves are hard to visualise and describe. Led by the Wellcome-funded Melting Metropolis project, this workshop interrogates how to make urban heat visible as a rallying call for climate action, blending creative practice, community research and live illustration.

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Collective Creativity as Catalyst

What if creativity is one of the most powerful catalysts for climate action we have? Leaders from science, technology, education and the creative industries explore how music, storytelling and participatory practice keep people engaged, hopeful and capable of action.

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F*ck Doom Party

Join the F*CK DOOM party. We're gathering the people still prepared to imagine, make, fund, film, write, sing and build a liveable future. A celebration for serious optimists and anyone tired of fashionable despair. Yes, there will be merch.

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Join The Writers Room. Storytelling Masterclass

Climate work is full of evidence, but evidence rarely becomes memorable without story. In this writer's room, professional storytellers unpack the mechanics of narrative and help you shape your own climate story into something compelling, specific and real.

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