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48 posts tagged with climate change
19 Jul 2010
C02 is Green
Posted by: Natalya Sverjensky
This is the mind-blowing premise of the latest lobbying campaign to hit Washington (and, to be fair, anyone who skims the ads in the New York Times—you know who you are). Implemented by a group which has been underwhelmingly described in mult..
C02 is Green
12 Jul 2010
The Anti-Sizzle
Posted by: Natalya Sverjensky
Here at Futerra, we generally consider the infamous 'Act on CO2' campaign to be the ultimate example of how not to communicate climate change. But it was truly a transformative moment for me today when I came across something far, far worse: I'm br..
09 Apr 2010
How many contradictions does it take to change a lightbulb?
Posted by: Harriet Kingaby
I was skimming across the papers yesterday morning when I found this irritating article. "Cows absolved of causing global warming with nitrous oxide!" screams the headline.Brilliant! So we can all tuck into our steak with gusto then? The ..
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01 Apr 2010
Aye am Cider Drinkerrrrr...
Posted by: Harriet Kingaby
So, this time tomorrow, it will be Good Friday and I shall be half way up Primrose Hill lobbing hardboiled eggs in a vaguely downwards direction whilst swigging cider from the bottle.Cider seems to have been in the news a lot this week, what with t..
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16 Feb 2010
CSR? No thanks
Posted by: Harriet Kingaby
The Guardian has just published it's vision of a positive future: http://bit.ly/9zQ0qz I like it. There are a lot of people who don't want to spend their time reading long, boring and convoluted CSR reports (me included). Therefore, talking Kg rubb..
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02 Feb 2010
Ground Hog Day...
Posted by: Ed Gillespie
Today is Groundhog Day! No, not the day when Bill Murray is forced to constantly relive the same twenty four hours over and over again in Punxsutawney, eventually finding redemption and true happiness (via plumbing the depths of anger, depression a..
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27 Jan 2010
Inadvertant Reverse Psychology
Posted by: Harriet Kingaby
When doing some research, I came across this: the Plane Stupid polar bear advert has been posted up on an American video hosting site with some interesting advertising placement: http://www.iviewtube.com/videos/107724/plane-stupid-polar..
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24 Jan 2010
Climate Change Equity (Yawn?)
Posted by: Laurie Bennett
Equity.Boy is that an important word. It’s the kind of word NGOs get out of bed for in the morning. Policy makers like to see it nestled cosily in most sentences. Technically, it sounds like a splendid idea to me too, let’s make it happ..
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08 Jan 2010
The Road...
Posted by: Ed Gillespie
I went to see a special preview screening of 'The Road' on Wednesday night and have written about it on the Guardian today which you can read here.Here's my original text:There’s an iconic scene in ‘The Road’, the brilliant, gripp..
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23 Dec 2009
Dr Seuss does COP...
Posted by: Ed Gillespie
Brilliant climate comedian Marcus Brigstocke has written a rather excellent Dr Seuss style poem about the gerrymandering shenanigans of COP 15 along with the talented team from 'The Now Show'. You can listen to this by clicking this link. Enj..
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18 Dec 2009
Great COP cartoon
Posted by: David Willans
A great little cartoon that came to me via the brilliant Tom Savage of Bright Green Talent. It's a beautiful summary of the need to get over problems and focus on progress.
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18 Dec 2009
Back by popular demand...
Posted by: Ed Gillespie
...our Climate Sceptic Smack 'Em game! Rejigged from it's original incarnation and reborne as the 'COP Climate Sceptic Clout'Em Game' you too can vent your frustrations at the seeds of denial deliberately sown by the vocal sceptics...by giving them..
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15 Dec 2009
Yes Men 'punk' COP...
Posted by: Ed Gillespie
Everyone's favourite and wildly ambitious hoaxers the 'Yes Men' have been at it again in Copenhagen. As previous blogs here about their antics demonstrate, the plucky duo are not afraid to orchestrate the most audacious stunts imaginable to capture..
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15 Dec 2009
Climate change 'Hitler Youth'
Posted by: Ed Gillespie
Ah, donchaluvvit...just when we thought there could be no higher embodiment of Godwin's Law our dear friend Viscount Monckton steps up to liken clean energy activists to the Hitler Youth. You really cannot satirise this...
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14 Dec 2009
Climate change rage...
Posted by: Ed Gillespie
I have to humbly admit to succumbing to my first bout of this at the end of last week. Sat on a suburban London train I was treated to the usual blithe dismissal of climate science by a couple of well-to-do fifty-something gents who were gleefully ..
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26 Nov 2009
Planet Pledge Pyramid!
Posted by: Ed Gillespie
Our good amigos Saul, Mikey and the gang at the People Speak are at it again...about to embark on their third Danish tour (who do they think they are...Metallica?) they've just launched the brilliantly conceived 'Planet Pledge Pyramid'. Essentially..
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20 Nov 2009
Shock and/or...
Posted by: Ed Gillespie
...effective behaviour change? My latest Guardian blog is now posted, on Plane Stupid's latest ad featuring plummeting polar bears raining down from on high. Subtle it is not. Check out the blog here.
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09 Nov 2009
Five stages of denial...
Posted by: Ed Gillespie
There's a lot of talk about climate change denial recently which made me think about the Elizabeth Kubler-Ross theory of the five stages of denial people tend to go through when confronted by death. Whilst this model is by no means a linear one, no..
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06 Oct 2009
Cheap flights killed...
Posted by: Ed Gillespie
...the video star? You can read my latest Guardian blog here on the rather naughty aviation campaigns that somehow imply that business only ever works face to face (and that you need to get on a plane to do it!)
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11 Aug 2009
Solar Cycle Diaries...
Posted by: Ed Gillespie
Our lovely friend Susie Wheeldon is currently undertaking what can only be described as a fantastically bonkers, brave and bold mission to cycle all the way around the world to raise awareness of the potential for solar power (and Thin-Film & C..
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07 Aug 2009
Positive Activism
Posted by: David Willans
I've been collecting climate change comms. creative work for a while now. Only recently did I revisit the Climate Camp website to see what new stuff they had (they always have great creative). Looking at it through relatively fresh eyes - it's ..
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06 Aug 2009
The Psychology of Climate Change
Posted by: Henry Hicks
Hat Tip to the Sustainable Earth group over on facebook - they spotted this report by the American Psychological Association - it goes by the pithy title of... Psychology and Global Climate Change: Addressing a Multi-faceted Phenomenon and Set of C..
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31 Jul 2009
1 Million Women
Posted by: Ed Gillespie
Our old mate Julie Taylor-Mills who has recently returned to Australia sent us a link this rather nice Ozzie campaign 1 Million Women. It does exactly what it says on the tin...basically aiming to get a million women to each save a tonne of carbon,..
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21 Jul 2009
Incredible pictures...
Posted by: Ed Gillespie
Our good mate Nick Cobbing, photojournalist extraordinaire, is currently out in Greenland on a 3 month mission with Greenpeace snapping away with the scientists on a pioneering expedition that is examining the melting of the ice-sheets and glaciers..
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04 Jun 2009
Conference Revolution...
Posted by: Ed Gillespie
Three years ago I was invited to speak at a conference in Chicago called 'The Artworld is Flat' all about art and activism. Perhaps unsurprisingly given my personal position on flying (see www.lowcarbontravel.com for ample evidence!) I politely dec..
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23 Apr 2009
Stern learning...
Posted by: Ed Gillespie
I went to see leading global climate change economist Professor Lord Nicholas Stern the other night at the Old Theatre at LSE. He was giving the first talk around his new soon-to-become bestseller ‘Blueprint for a Safer Planet’ and it w..
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14 Apr 2009
Futerra on Press TV
Posted by: Ed Gillespie
I made a rather surreal appearance on an Iranian cable channel the other week reviewing the 'Age of Stupid'. I think it's a salutary lesson in really understanding the organ on which you're about to appear beforehand. I just randomly selected..
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09 Apr 2009
Ryness limps into future...
Posted by: Ed Gillespie
As a sometime purchaser of UV tubes in my errant party-organising past I have somehow ended up on the Ryness mailing list. So I was suprised to see the message that arrived yesterday in regard to the long delayed demise of the incandescent bulb...A..
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06 Apr 2009
Autocatalysm...
Posted by: Ed Gillespie
I spoke at a great event in Bristol a few weeks ago 'Autocatalysm' about bringing together the creative challenges of art and climate change. The event organiser James Thomson has now put the video of the evnt up online so if you want to see me ran..
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20 Mar 2009
Not stupid...
Posted by: Ed Gillespie
Following the rip-roaring success of the world record breaking 'People's Premiere' last Sunday night the landmark film 'Age of Stupid' goes on general release today, so don't hesitate get in there and book your tickets! A suitably provocative and c..
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10 Mar 2009
Peak Oil Climate Change FUNK...
Posted by: Ed Gillespie
So you've read the reports, pored over the news coverage and have grasped the complex twin challenges of climate change and peak oil, but there's something missing...the FUNK! Environmental activism and big phat dirty beats is an unusual but not un..
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02 Mar 2009
A quick look at today's nationals - 2 March
Posted by: Gabby
Boris jumps on board France’s “hire an electric car” schemeFirst it was public bicycles that he was bringing to the streets of London. Now Mayor Boris Johnson is looking at pinching another green travel idea from the French &ndash..
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23 Feb 2009
Don't eat the brown cheese...
Posted by: Ed Gillespie
I’m just back from Norway where I’ve been participating in some workshops organized by a local agency called Dale+Bang. We first met one of their team Karen Landmark when she was working for GRID-Arendal, part of UNEP, about five ..
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12 Feb 2009
Arse from elbow contest...
Posted by: Ed Gillespie
Disbelief? It's not often I choke on my branflakes with total and utter incomprehensibility but news this week that Northern Ireland's illustrious Minister for Environment Sammy Wilson has banned 'Act on CO2' ads from the province (see the BBC stor..
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12 Feb 2009
What if we got it wrong?
Posted by: Lulu Kitololo
I chanced upon a 3 minute Wonder on Channel 4 the other night and it's definitely a must-see!Lemn Sissay (and friends) delivers music, poetry, spoken word, commentary on climate change, capitalism, global inequity, greed, chaos theory, mysticism, D..
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05 Feb 2009
You heard it here first...
Posted by: Ed Gillespie
Interesting article on Environmental Leader today - the Executive's Daily Green Briefing. The piece, which you can read here, focused on the latest round of greenwash accusations being levelled at Shell for their recent 'Real Energy' campaign..
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28 Jan 2009
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No... it's a bloomin' great big polar bear on an ice berg!
Posted by: Helen Spoor
I'm sure a number of you will have heard in the news about the giant polar bear and her cub stranded on an ice berg that came floating down the Thames on Monday morning. Heck, I'm sure a few of you may have passed by it and had cause to double take..
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12 Dec 2008
No FT? No comment...
Posted by: Ed Gillespie
There's an excellent article by Philip Stephens in this morning's Financial Times (which you can read here) about the need to reframe the climate change argument for more austere times. His point is essentially that the polarisation of the debate b..
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11 Dec 2008
Even Bollywood Actors Care About Climate Change
Posted by: Amjad Parkar
You may have noticed a letter in the Times on 9 December 2008 from a number of well-known social figures, who were calling on the leaders of rich countries to do more to protect the poor from climate change. If you haven’t, click here. I..
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04 Dec 2008
The Age of Stupid...
Posted by: Ed Gillespie
...as the politicians knock their heads together in Poznan, arguing about the 'cost' of climate change action I thought it would be timely to post up a link to the trailer for the forthcoming climate-buster 'Age of Stupid'. I was lucky enough to se..
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28 Nov 2008
Climate Change Act? What Climate Change Act?
Posted by: Amjad Parkar
Am I the ONLY one that was gobsmacked at the complete lack of coverage that was given to the passing of a groundbreaking and comprehensive piece of legislation that would oblige a government to meet targets designed to tackle climate change?Just in..
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31 Oct 2008
I can has climate change?
Posted by: Georgina Combes
To honour my pledge to the team on 10 October of writing four blogs by the end of the month I’m getting in at the last minute with my fourth post.For the uninitiated let me introduce the cyber cat-culture of icanhascheezburger.com. It’s..
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30 Oct 2008
World Bank News
Posted by: Doug Stewart
As with the UN's CDM there has been much debate over the effectiveness and motivations of large scale organisations to encourage sustainable development by funding already profitable industries to reduce their carbon footprints but, in an atem..
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23 Oct 2008
The first rule of life
Posted by: David Willans
Is to decide what you want to do, have a goal, identify a target, set an objective. That way you get what you want. So, when today's news broke about the government wanting to keep shipping and aviation out of the UK's emissions targets, you've got..
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29 Sep 2008
Cost of not tackling Climate Change
Posted by: Alistair Macdonald
I today was alerted to a new report available from the Carbon Trust which in summary, predicts a rise of CO2 in the atmosphere of 700ppm if current conditions remain unchanged!Perhaps the most alarming part of the report is that some companies will..
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30 Jul 2008
Global Warming, well that's not funny...is it?
Posted by: Helen Spoor
This postcard caught my eye and I thought I had to share it with you – I think this is the perfect example of the power of communication, especially communication that is different, and in this case, a cartoon! This postcard was j..
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04 Jun 2008
Carbon Weevils
Posted by: Henry Hicks
We had the wonderful Tim Britton of Forkbeard Fantasy (the incredibly creative, cult theatre and film company) visit the office a little while ago for lunch. He treated us to a live narration of his film Carbon Weevils (watch it below). The film wa..
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21 May 2008
A billionaire oil-man's response to climate change
Posted by: David Willans
"Opponents say it's going to cost so much money to address. And I say, well, hell, go ahead and spend it. I'd rather take change that I'm right than that I'm wrong. I don't want to wait until around until the house burns down 'til I decide w..
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