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Some good news!🌼Bristol's Nature Together project will help improve nature and make it easier for people to enjoy and benefit from our city's urban green spaces thanks to £980K from @heritagefunduk.bsky.social

Reform MP and climate science denier Richard Tice says "it is an absolute outrage what the madness of net stupid zero is doing to our county." The net zero economy is growing 3x faster than the wider economy and employs 12,500 in Lincolnshire alone.

On Saturday, thousands of women from 16 cities formed a human chain to protest against Trump & Musk, chanting “shame on you” at the U.S. Consulate. There were demos across Quebec to mark International Women’s Day & denounce 🇺🇸 government attacks on women’s rights & Canada’s sovereignty.

The Great Bristol Climate Resilience Gathering looks like a great event if you're in or near Bristol and interested in exploring what resilience means for our neighbourhoods, identifying the challenges we face, and finding practical solutions: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-great-...

In Africa, repair hubs are extending the life of solar devices, making clean energy more accessible and reducing waste. A win for people & the planet! 🌍🔆🔧 Read more: reasonstobecheerful.world/s... #ClimateAction

For the love of all that is good in this world do NOT buy books from Amazon. Cancel your Amazon accounts. Go to the Library (in person or online ebooks!) and support local bookstores instead. Please #BookSky don’t be ambivalent

With libraries finally closing here in Bristol, is there any movement to have a trust or similar take over, has anyone heard?

@digitaldaisies.bsky.social found ya! :) Hope all good (well, as good as it can be given the circumstances we all find ourselves in... ;)

This is extraordinary from the National Trust - a comprehensive 10 year plan to mark the Trust’s 130th anniversary www.nationaltrust.org.uk/services/med... including partnership with Mind on mental health, fixing up urban green spaces and restoring peatland

This letter in the New Statesman a couple of years ago seems even truer now.

Who would be the fourth panel member?

The media are confused, reeling - understandably. They haven’t realised these inconsistencies arise because a key driver besides the venal and self interest, is to do whatever and precisely winds up the liberal majority. And we commentators are still feeding that. We haven’t adapted.

Dear Graeme Garden, Jon Naismith, Bill Dare and Jon Holmes - please get together and do a special edition of The Unbelievable Truth, but with Trump, Musk and Zuckerberg on the panel…

“When Short Cuts announced the BBC’s decision to end the show this year, it felt like a gut punch to those of us who value creative, boundary-pushing audio… it leaves behind a legacy that will inspire storytellers for years to come — and it will be deeply missed.” podcastreview.org/list/best-po...

With all eyes on Tbilisi, it's worth a reminder there are three i's in Tbilisi.

Signed!

Invest before THIS SATURDAY to help: 🏠Power a further 300 homes in Bristol (bringing the total to 3.8k) 🌍Save 1k tonnes of CO2 💰Reinvest £130k into community projects Become part of Bristol’s green energy transformation here 👉 www.triodoscrowdfund...

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 marshmallowlaserfeast.com/project/brea...

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

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/...

Thank you do the wonderful Josie Long and Short Cuts team for introducing me to the Scots Gaelic concept of Dùthchas - this definition from Alice Starmore, Crofter and knitwear designer from the Isle of Lewis #dùthchas Might be of interest to the #Commnuicate2024 audience?

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!

If you want to know more, check out the book 'Reconnection: Fixing our broken relationship with Nature' findingnature.org.uk/2023/04/25/r...

Live drawing, graphic recording, #SketchNote - this is a really great summary of the day at #Communicate2024 from what I saw

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

Some fascinating points from Professor Miles Richardson @derbyuniearth including how important talking about, sensing, noticing nature around us is and "the teenage dip". Concerningly 80% of us rarely or never experience nature. #Communicate24

Another great point from Rosie at #Communicate24, Hubbub getting great results working with the organisations based in & of the communities they want to reach; having conversations IN those communities, and critically - recognising that many people taking planet friendly action don't _call_ it that

Today, tomorrow and Thursday see three days of #Communicate24, the UK's national conference on environmental communication, with Manchester, London and Bristol having a day each and online events every day. To find out more www.bnhc.org.uk/join-us-for-...

Who best to talk to about eating a bit less meat? Footie fans of course. Hubbub found to engage and get buy in there has to be a genuine understanding of the audience (i.e. people's) values and priorities - Listen and Learn hubbub.org.uk/manchester-i... #Communicate24

Looking to be a great session - perhaps the biggest issue for environmental communicators given recent events?