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Most of the youth engagement I've seen in climate and sustainability is either focused on science/engineering or entrepreneurship. Outside of these paths, which organizations or individuals are doing high-impact work on other facets like finance (non-VC), climate communications, behavior change etc?

This conversation will be key to generating valuable climate change education strategy for Australia!

🌍 Just came across this great piece in RTE by Dublin City University colleague Diarmuid Torney, who is conducting some fascinating work on climate change, biodiversity and democracy, and Katie Reid from University College Cork, who’s been instrumental in ensuring children’s voices are included in the deliberative wave. ✨ It’s really inspiring to see more kids and young people getting involved in decision-making, especially when it comes to the climate. They’re the future, but they deserve a real voice TODAY. Building civic skills early is key to making responsible future citizens, especially in a deliberative context, where we can encourage them to be reflective about policy solutions, critical about information and curious about others' perspectives! Beyond that, by engaging new generations with older ones, adults can hopefully take them more seriously and act on their ideas. The more diverse perspectives we include in these processes, the stronger and more forward-thinking they will be! Let’s keep making space for these voices 🤗 #YouthVoices #ClimateAction #DeliberativeDemocracy https://lnkd.in/eqEZhhPa

🧠 ⚡ I remember the moment it first clicked: that everything I owned had an embodied carbon footprint. For a moment, it felt like being Neo in The Matrix, seeing the green code flow through the walls – a moment of clarity. In our climate bubble, this might seem obvious now. After all, many of us navigate daily decisions using these mental frameworks. But here’s the thing: this clarity is a privilege. Not everyone has had their "Matrix moment" yet, and so a big part of our climate advocacy work is helping others outside our bubble claim these insights for themselves. 🫧✨ That’s where The Carbon Literacy Project steps in. Their mission is ambitious: delivering a day’s worth of Carbon Literacy training to everyone who lives, works, or studies – everywhere. And with their recent milestone of certifying 100,000 citizens, they’re making incredible strides. Next Wednesday, The Climate Story Collective is thrilled to host co-founder Phil Korbel for a conversation on how he and his team have achieved this epic feat and what's next for carbon literacy. It’s a fantastic opportunity to learn from Phil and upgrade your carbon advocacy skills. 👉 https://lu.ma/m1cto3g2 Sign up to join us and be part of the journey toward a more carbon-literate world - let’s empower more people to take climate action! #CarbonLiteracy #ClimateAction #Sustainability #ClimateComms #Storytelling #ClimateScience #CarbonCycle #Education #Advocacy #MatrixMoment #JoinUs

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Well said Eric Wilburn. If anything, we need to emphasize even more the *need* for these pragmatic “incremental” solutions today. Why? It is basic investment theory to manage risk. We can’t put all our eggs in one basket, in case we don’t succeed. Plus we need to make as much traction immediately, even if imperfect (and we should risk adjust for those imperfections), and there are few better options than carbon credits. Here’s to your grandma driving a #SustainableTomorrowToday

"As EO Wilson once said, “We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.” Let us make sure we allow wisdom to have a seat at our science-based tables." If you’ve ever liked one of my posts, read one of my articles or enjoyed a conversation we’ve had, I have a favor to ask. Take 10 minutes and read this latest reflection in its entirety. I usually post a synopsis of my articles in LinkedIn when I share the article, but no synopsis in LinkedIn would do justice to the depth of reflection and complexity surrounding the topics included. I’ve read enough hot takes on the SBTi controversy and I wanted to share some reflections grounded in our broader current societal situation informed by some wisdom from others. Thank you to Mark Tercek, Justin Adams OBE and my Grandma for their wisdom and inspiration to write this piece. I hope you find some truth in it and, if you do, please share it with others who might benefit from not only hearing, but deeply listening to and reflecting on its messages. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eaEyvfek #nature #climate #policy #justice #philosophy

Children and young people should have a meaningful say on matters that affect them - and much more. When it comes to the #climatecrisis, children and young people have stories, knowledge, hope, solutions and power. It’s just that the adults need to listen and collaborate with them better. Governments, businesses, think-tanks, advocates, and organisers who want to meaningfully engage with children and young people on #climatechange should look no further than this innovative world-first research from from the Young and Resilient Centre at Western Sydney University and UNICEF Australia. It is possible to speak with young children on complex matters of science, policy and action if you do it right. #participation #accountability #voice

The following article has recently been published on Early View in "Geographical Research" and is Open Access. Trott, C. D. (2024). Rewriting the climate story with young climate justice activists. Geographical Research, 1–19. https://lnkd.in/g4q_b4BS

This summer is chanting the same refrain: local is the way forward. In April, I reflected on the North Carolina Local News Lab Fund’s three greatest learnings about the impact of funding news and information at the local scale.     In May, this topic was front and center at Virginia Funders Network Conference in Richmond and Media Impact Funders Forum in NYC. In both places, I heard more reasons to focus on decentralizing approaches to funding news and information, as well as knowledge-sharing as an essential way to utilize the power of philanthropy.  Last month at #KaleidoscopeLive2024 hosted by Borealis Philanthropy's Racial Equity in Journalism Fund, I saw the many different ways BIPOC media leaders and other funding intermediaries are thinking together about rooting our future in local progress that adds up to transformation.   Here are just a few of my biggest takeaways from this summer’s  events so far: 💡 Participation = power. Funding is essentially about power, and participation is a form of power that we, as funders, must lean into inside our field and in the networks we support to be effective in new ways.   💡 National-local partnerships are powerful if they're additive. National-local partnerships that combine capacity, expertise, and trust can localize impact and help identify the places where communities can truly create change. Check out The Marshall Project for a great example of a national-local partnership at work.  💡Local stories reveal solutions. Funding local news and information is essential to interrupting a problem-focused news cycle.  💡 Reporter safety and well-being is a #1 priority. We must fund the training and resources that keep local reporters safe and healthy. Violence is happening at the local and national level already.  💡 Government support for news already exists. We can adapt local policy, like allocating ad dollars to community media, at the municipal and county levels in the near term. H/t to The Center for Community Media for testing this model.   As Ayana Elizabeth Johnson put it, local impact requires funding the people and organizations that bridge “that interstitial piece” – those working to connect essential news, information, and resources with local communities.    Read more about this topic from some of the brilliant folks I had the pleasure of spending time with these last few  months: 📕 Finding a toehold for change: The Climate Justice Venn Diagram from Ayanna Elizabeth Johnson https://lnkd.in/etN6jQpX 🔍 Legal and safety resources from International Women's Media Foundation https://lnkd.in/ej-XRQzx and Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press https://lnkd.in/enMCjWeZ  📹 Media Impact Funders Forum recap videos, including a chat with David Byrne about Reasons to be Cheerful (yes, the Talking Heads David Byrne) https://lnkd.in/eh6WevGp