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Stories Connect Us All – So Does Climate Change
When I came across online images and climate scientists writing about ‘The Garbage Patch’ I also discovered that the plastic particles polluting the oceans are labelled by them as ‘Mermaids Tears’. Further research endorsed that there is a commonality of ...
Climate Stories and a Butterfly Net
“Financial decision makers don’t want stories. They want data to go in to their financial risk models”. So said a speaker at a meeting I attended in Brussels yesterday to launch a set of projects to provide climate services for Europe. I’m sure she's righ ...
Dramatizing Climate Stories
Since September of this year, I have been teaching a module on Theatre for a Changing Climate. Faced with cultivating just enough familiarity with scientific terminology to underpin our analyses of a range of contemporary climate plays, in one of our firs ...
Starting Out
Outside it's getting windy - really windy. The tailend of Hurricane Ophelia is giving my part of Devon a casual lashing en passant. All of a sudden, my quiet hilltop road has grown noisy with the deep thrumming bass of tropical air giving everything a goo ...