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How To Survive Saving The World. Tip 3: Your Origin Story
How To Survive Saving The World. Tip 3: Your Origin Story
By Solitaire Townsend
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How To Survive Saving The World. Tip 2: Stay Curious
How To Survive Saving The World. Tip 2: Stay Curious
By Solitaire Townsend
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How To Survive Saving The World. Tip 1: Asking For Help
How To Survive Saving The World. Tip 1: Asking For Help
By Solitaire Townsend
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Where are all the butterflies? I’ve just enjoyed a wonderful holiday traipsing 100 miles across the British countryside. I walked this same National…
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Finally, time to catch up with what I have been up to! A few weeks ago, I gave an author talk to the pupils at Toftwood Junior school. I explained…
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Why do we need the ERA? For over 100 years, women's rights advocates have been calling for constitutional equality through the ERA. Drafted in 1923,…
Why do we need the ERA? For over 100 years, women's rights advocates have been calling for constitutional equality through the ERA. Drafted in 1923,…
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The Solutionists
Kogan Page
In the face of our climate emergency, we desperately need solutionists working to fix the future. This is your handbook for becoming the leader that the world needs.
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The Happy Hero
The Happy Hero reveals the secret of enjoying a better life and sets out the principles of how to feel good by doing good. Sounds simple, but where do you start? Every day we are bombarded with fear and eco-anxiety from the media and have been trained out of happiness by these stories. There is a simple solution; stop worrying about the future and start making it better. Whether it's donating blood, only eating meat at the weekend, buying vintage/pre-loved clothes or picking up litter in your…
The Happy Hero reveals the secret of enjoying a better life and sets out the principles of how to feel good by doing good. Sounds simple, but where do you start? Every day we are bombarded with fear and eco-anxiety from the media and have been trained out of happiness by these stories. There is a simple solution; stop worrying about the future and start making it better. Whether it's donating blood, only eating meat at the weekend, buying vintage/pre-loved clothes or picking up litter in your street. Luckily, many of the changes we need to make to build a better world, we want to do anyway and optimism is the only mindset that can change our world for the better. New research shows that trying to make a difference, even in the smallest ways, can extend your life, improve your relationships and even help you recover from a cold...because, it turns out, saving the world is good for you. So Superheroes, what are you waiting for...?
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Client Disclosure Reports
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Creatives and communicators are already changing the narrative about climate change and ecological crisis. That’s the work we’re all passionate about.
But too many advertising, creative, public relations, marketing and digital agencies are still ‘playing both sides’ and treating their role as neutral. They have some clients for climate solutions and yet they also run campaigns for fossil fuels.
The first step to changing that is honesty – for agencies to be transparent about who pays…Creatives and communicators are already changing the narrative about climate change and ecological crisis. That’s the work we’re all passionate about.
But too many advertising, creative, public relations, marketing and digital agencies are still ‘playing both sides’ and treating their role as neutral. They have some clients for climate solutions and yet they also run campaigns for fossil fuels.
The first step to changing that is honesty – for agencies to be transparent about who pays their bills.
Our the ultimate goal is to divest creative talent from destruction.
This has been brewing since 2015 when the change-agency Futerra published the world’s first Client Disclosure Report during COP21 in Paris.
Now over 200 agencies produce these reports annually. https://www.creativeandclimate.com/faq -
Everyday Climate Heroes Campaign
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Politicians, activists and celebrities are the voices most of us hear in the news talking about climate change. Their voices matter, but they aren't the only ones. Scratch the surface and you’ll find there are unexpected sources of climate leadership coming from everywhere.
We set out to find them. Our everyday heroes are everyday people. We found them by asking experts about people they’d met who inspired them. This isn’t an awards programme and our everyday climate heroes don’t receive…Politicians, activists and celebrities are the voices most of us hear in the news talking about climate change. Their voices matter, but they aren't the only ones. Scratch the surface and you’ll find there are unexpected sources of climate leadership coming from everywhere.
We set out to find them. Our everyday heroes are everyday people. We found them by asking experts about people they’d met who inspired them. This isn’t an awards programme and our everyday climate heroes don’t receive any money or prizes. Each of them represent millions of others who feel the same way, and are trying to make a difference.
This campaign was created by the Futerra Solutions Union, a non-profit endeavor of Futerra.
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Good Life Goals
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People around the world are becoming increasingly familiar with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), but how many of us really know what we can do to reach them? The Good Life Goals represent an effort to answer this question and help a global audience to recognize the vital role of individual action in achieving the SDGs. The Good Life Goals lay out 85 ways anyone can contribute towards the huge, planet-changing objectives that sit at the heart of the SDG agenda.
The Goals have…People around the world are becoming increasingly familiar with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), but how many of us really know what we can do to reach them? The Good Life Goals represent an effort to answer this question and help a global audience to recognize the vital role of individual action in achieving the SDGs. The Good Life Goals lay out 85 ways anyone can contribute towards the huge, planet-changing objectives that sit at the heart of the SDG agenda.
The Goals have been shaped through a multi-stakeholder collaboration between Futerra, the 10 YFP Sustainable Lifestyles and Education program, co-led by the governments of Sweden and Japan represented by the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), as well as UN Environment, UNESCO and WBCSD.
Honors & Awards
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Vogue 100 Sustainability Innovator
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United Nations GC’s Sustainable Development Goal Pioneer UK
United Nations Global Compact UK
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Ad Week Sustainability Star
Ad Week
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