Are you a (climate) realist yet?

Would you say you’re a realist? According to Oxford Dictionaries, that would be ‘A person who accepts a situation as it is and is prepared to deal with it accordingly’. On 30th June 2020, I took part in the Climate Coalition’s virtual lobby. I spent an hour on Zoom with my MP and around twenty…

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Communicating climate change: from words to solutions

In the most recent episode of BBC Radio 4’s Word of Mouth (14th January 2020), author Michael Rosen spoke to George Marshall of Climate Outreach about communicating climate change in ways that are relatable and true to life. They know their stuff, of course, and listening to their conversation was half an hour well spent.…

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The power of speech, and speaking to power

How we communicate about the climate crisis matters, of course – the words we use and the occasions on which we choose to deploy them. I live in a part of the world (the UK) already affected by climate change but not yet overwhelmed by it. Most climate-related death and disease, most of the climate…

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Letters to the Earth

The Letters to the Earth project has gathered contributions from citizens acclaimed and obscure. In their letters they’ve expressed their fears and dreams to our home and host planet in a time of rapid extinction rates and climate breakdown. Mine, written in snatched moments during a busy week, was short but nonetheless personal. I’ve included…

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Mark Goldthorpe, ClimateCultures

Sally interviewed me about my work on ClimateCultures for a client’s blog and she made the process very relaxed and rewarding … It’s a pleasure to work with someone who reaches out to understand your own work and wants to share that with others.  

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