Talking to Diya Deb, executive director at Mindworks, about the ways that mindsets in places like India and Indonesia demand new strategies and emphasis from climate communicators, the fresh ways that denial emerges in such contexts, and the desperate need for more listening in developing interventions and engagement that resonates.

Talking to Rupert Read, co-director of The Climate Majority Project, about how communicators can help audiences meet the realities of our current predicament with active hope and a sense of agency, which actions and interventions need to be taken and how we can support them, and what the concept of thrutopia offers for imagining what it all might look like.

Talking to Ingmar Rentzhog, founder and CEO of We Don't Have Time, the world’s largest media platform dedicated to climate action, about the ways that technological infrastructures like media platforms and social networks can support grassroots action, the importance of both sticks and carrots in engaging companies, governments, and other actors on climate issues, and how understanding financial flows can help us propel our much needed societal transformation forward.

Talking to writer, editor, and strategic communications consultant, Chinelo Onwualu, about the importance of stories in shaping our societies, how fiction can help us make changes in our real lives, and what Western storytellers might learn from those whose cultures have already faced apocalyptic scenarios.

Talking to film director, Joshua Oppenheimer, about his latest movie, The End, why we often find living in lies a more comforting situation than facing reality, and the need to challenge the silence and the self-deception that is all around us when it comes to climate.

Talking to Boaz Paldi, Chief Creative Officer at the United Nations Development Programme, about the essential components of great climate campaigns, what happens behind the scenes to bring ground breaking activations to life, and how the element of surprise can help us break through the noise.

Talking to Natalia Vega-Tracy, founder of centralised communications hub, New Zero World, about the power of using creativity for good, the need to fill an imagination gap about the future we’re heading towards, and how the sausage is made when it comes to large multi-stakeholder coalitions.

Talking to Kris De Meyer, Director of the UCL Climate Action Unit, about fear and agency, where the conventional wisdom gets things wrong, and why stories about actions taken in response to climate change offer the total package when it comes to stimulating meaningful responses from our audiences.

This time, instead of chatting to a special guest, listeners just like you are joining the conversation. It’s a Call-In Show!

Talking to Izzy Howden, Senior Campaign Manager at Make My Money Matter, about the task of making pensions and climate finance engaging for audiences, how working with celebrities can take things to the next level, and how embracing creativity, humour, and satire can give campaigns an edge.

Talking to Sam Narr, Founder and CEO of Kibbo Kift Agency, about the rightwards political shift happening across the UK, Europe, and the United States, where this issue gets tangled up with climate, and what can be learned from the campaigns that brought us Brexit and Trump.

Talking to investigative journalist, Tsira Gvasalia, about the challenges facing climate journalists living under rising authoritarianism, the interconnectedness of climate change and the rest of our lives, and the identity crises facing post-Soviet countries like Georgia, as they try to establish who they are and what they stand for. 

Talking to Alexei Ovchinnikov, Editor-in-Chief of the Ukraine War Environmental Consequences Work Group, about climate propaganda, the need to perform due diligence when reporting on the environmental impacts of war, and the surprising solutions stories coming out of Ukraine.

Talking to Ukrainian journalist, Serhii Barbu, about the intersection of climate change and the conflict in Ukraine, how climate-related disinformation is weaponised by the Russian war machine, and how climate doomism fails in the face of more immediate existential threats.

Talking to Belarusian science communicator, Iryna Ponedelnik, about the lack of visibility the Eastern Europe and Caucasus region has on the international stage, the surreality of being labeled an extremist, and the need to live in exile in order to talk about climate change.

Talking to Hikaru Wakeel Hayakawa, Executive Director of Climate Cardinals, one of the world’s largest youth-led climate advocacy organisations, who work to make the climate movement more accessible to those who don’t speak English. Amongst other things, Hikaru and I discussed the fact that more than 90% of scientific information about climate change is only available in English, the challenges that this presents in terms of engagement and justice for the global majority, and the power this translation gap has when it comes to fueling climate misinformation.

This time, instead of chatting to a special guest, listeners just like you are joining the conversation. It’s a Call-In Show!

Talking to Iminza Mbwaya, Programme Manager at Sounds Right, a platform for global music artists to help nature fund its own conservation, about the real-world impacts of presenting nature as an independent music artist, what happens to the royalties generated through Sounds Right, and how reconceptualising nature in this way can shift how we think about and engage with it altogether.

Talking to climate communicator, creator, and independent reporter, Jacob Simon, about the trials and tribulations of being a social media influencer, where to draw your line in the sand when it comes to collaborations, and the kinds of content that performs best when it comes to climate and the environment.

Talking to Bogdan Glogovac from Norwegian technology company, Ducky, about the art of turning data into stories, the magic and mechanics of gamification, and what the wisdom of improv has to offer when it comes to tackling challenges like climate change.