Letter to Awards Organisers

RE: PETITION TO END AWARDS FOR FOSSIL FUEL ADS Your awards set the benchmark for excellence in the creative industries – the same industries that shape opinion of the biggest threat we face – climate breakdown. The planet could reach 1.5 degrees average warming on...

Edelman flips on fossils

The global PR firm has a long history with fossil fuels. But in 2015 it promised to change its ways after its support of climate deniers damaged its reputation and threatened the bottom line. Now the company has quietly flipped – as demonstrated by a...

Guide to best practice climate communications

by Belinda Noble. The science may be clear on global warming but navigating your way through your day-to-day activities as a communicator can be difficult if you want to do the right thing.Much of our economic activities currently rely on fossil fuels in some way.But...

My Dad was a pilot

by Sandy McDonald My Dad was a pilot. When I was young he flew a plane called a Vickers Viscount with four turbo-prop engines. If I was flying with him, I was allowed to sit in the cockpit for take-off. As soon as the plane was airborne, my Dad, and the First Officer,...