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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Imagine5 Magazine Launch: The Wild Issue

Imagine5 launches its newest magazine with rewilding at its core. An evening of talks, music and good company, featuring conversations on rewilding and a fireside chat with author Adam Weymouth, followed by a live set from Madame Gandhi.

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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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Stand of the Sun, Special Edition for Solutions House

Blending live dance, original music and immersive video, Stand of the Sun is an embodied encounter between human and sun. This specially adapted excerpt asks us to feel our relationship with a hotter world, not just understand it.

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Performing Under Pressure: Sport, Art and Life in a Hotter World

Sport and performing arts have always pushed the limits of the human body. Now the climate is setting new ones. Leaders, athletes and artists explore what it takes to keep performing in a hotter world, and what we can all learn.

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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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Accelerating Innovation in 2026: Culture, Partnerships and the Stories That Stick

Innovation is about more than ideas. In this open, rotating discussion, innovators, corporate leaders and policymakers swap seats and shape the conversation in real time, exploring what it takes to build cultures where radical ideas survive and scale.

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Putting Nature in the Picture: Bold stories about our biggest ally

We are a nation of nature lovers, but we are now 60% less connected with nature than 200 years ago. Presented by BAFTA Albert, this session explores how putting nature on screen can inspire real-world climate action.

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Breaking the Big Silence: brands and sustainability messaging

Brands are going quiet on sustainability just as consumers want cheaper energy, healthier products and more resilient lives. Marketing leaders unpack the rise of greenhushing and explore how to talk about sustainability without sounding worthy, political or joyless.