Hopped straight on the train on Wednesday after my talk at #Communicate2024 to head to a meeting in the House of Commons about the Climate and Nature Bill.
The bill will have its second reading on the 24th of January and we need at least 102 MPs there! Email your MP, templates at zerohour.uk
Visual summary SketchNote of the conference post.
Brilliant final day at #Communicate2024 with a strong thread of disability inclusion, decolonising the nature sector and achieving culture change🍃
#SketchNote from today's sessions 👇🎨✏️ #SciComm
And finally...
Immersive technology as a way to engage people in nature.
Despite jumping on tech for the last 30 years, there's an uneasiness to experiencing nature through a helmet or goggles, but there's no denying its power and impact
#Communicate2024
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Just supported our incredible community partners at Ambition Lawrence Weston, Lockleaze Neighbourhood Trust and the Bristol Climate & Nature Partnership to talk about the Community Climate Action Project and reflecting 20 years ago #Communicate2024 would never have included a session like this
From today's #Communicate2024 talks in Bristol.
No doubt why we are here on climate.
Contrasting levels of public trust in information/misinformation consumed:
Scientists: highest trust
Celebrities & politicians: more trusted than used
BUT
Media: more used than trusted, dominating public narrative.
Some great provocations and insights from @jamiewclarke.bsky.social and @mjrharris.bsky.social on misinformation, cynicism and greenwashing impossible to summarise in 300ch but check out www.engagingclimate.org and 89up.org
#Communicate2024
The day started with the changes over the 20 years (!) of Communicate - it seems the gulf between what media channels think consumers want vs the content environmental professionals want to put out there has seen little or no change over those 2 decades - what do you think?
#Communicate2024
Jenny Hatchard BBC, @chantallyons.bsky.social & Adam Royle @nationaltrust.bsky.social take on current nature/climate news includes @theguardian.com Long Read - people leaving rural lands doesn't necessarily mean a return to Eden: www.theguardian.com/news/2024/no...
#Communicate2024
#InvasiveSpecies
Kicking off #Communicate2024 day 3 here in Bristol by talking about how mainstream media are covering #climate and #nature. Do we think these are effective stories? www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
Visual summary SketchNote of the conference post.
Another inspiring day at the 20th #Communicate2024 conference. Look out for their upcoming book on what has changed in that time. Lots of inspiration about communicating complexity, digital fundraising and community gardening. And what if nature had an advertising agency...? 🍃👇🎨
#SketchNote #SciComm
Hafsah Hafeji @spitalfieldscityfarm closing a packed #Communicate2024 day 2 in London (and online).
Her work mostly face to face but depending on where you live it can be hard connecting with others like you, age/race/interests etc.
Social Media helps address this.
www.instagram.com/hafsahhafeji/
Rob Slade / On The Edge: use layers, a breadcrumb trail - conventional wisdom is messages need to be tangible or a call to action - but also need something to drive awareness; create a user journey through to something impactful #Communicate2024
THIS!: Siobhan Bailey Turner asks us to imagine people getting up from Corrie or Strictly with reflections about the state of the environment - note sure how we do it but would be far more effective than any climate- or even nature-themed messaging we can get out #Communicate2024
Rob Slade from On The Edge's approach is completely different... Take musicians with no obvious / claimed strong relationship with nature, blindfold them and take them to nature and then see how their music is affected www.ontheedge.org/stories/rero... #Communicate2024
Very uplifting hearing Dave Lockwood of @bbcsport's account of how ready and willing leading figures in sports are to get advocating for the environment. See
Imogen Grant's work on river water quality - and even climate change www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rowing... #Communicate2024
Working with influencers: find the authentic connection between them, your organisation AND nature. Not all of us will get to work with the fab @thebodycoach.bsky.social but Siobhan Bailey @wwf-uk.bsky.social's messages work for all types of partner #Communicate2024 - Go get your #DailyDoseOfNature!
Learning important things at #Communicate2024. Apparently a new 1.2kg pudu deer named after a tree just dropped! www.reuters.com/world/americ...
Looking forward to the exciting day ahead at #Communicate2024 conference. www.bnhc.org.uk/communicatec... Birgitta Gatersleben kicking it off discussing the news items of the day, and chairing the session I'll be talking in - "Soundscapes: The power of nature engagement through sound"
The irony isn't lost on me that I might not make it to an environmental communication conference because of flooding #Communicate2024
A pleasure to be in Manchester and give my keynote at #Communicate2024 and very pleased to see a fitting display by the door in @WaterstonesMCR
Live drawing, graphic recording, #SketchNote - this is a really great summary of the day at #Communicate2024 from what I saw
SketchNote summarising conference sessions by Vicky Bowskill
Inspiring first day at #Communicate2024! Sessions included communicating with hard to reach audiences, using alternative media, virtual nature, engaging young people in nature...and so much more! Can't wait to see what tomorrow brings. Here's my #SketchNote from today 👇🍃🎨 #SciComm
Great question from the #Communicate2024 audience - has #Manchester's affiliation with the #bee, with street art, graffiti and other imagery helped the city's people connect more with nature? No one knew the answer but it would be great to find out! #ManchesterBees
Fortunately, some solutions - changes in framing messages, tools to help the design of spaces, the UK's first biophilic school and tell positive stories of a life _with_ nature rather than without. #Communicate2024
At @accessnetwork.bsky.social we have been working with The Natural History Consortium to showcase some ground-breaking and impactful #EnvironmentalSocialScience in and outside of academia.
Looking forward to following the ESRC : Economic and Social Research Council sessions at #Communicate2024
Ready for my favourite environmental comms event #Communicate2024 🎉
Starting with a super important topic as in the environmental and sustainability sphere we too often preach to the choir.
On Wednesday, I'm speaking at #Communicate2024
Join me at the UK's leading conference for environmental communicators on 27 November where I'll be talking about communicating complexity.
Find out more and book a ticket: www.communicateconference.org.uk
