Category Archives: climate change

The Style Guide at the End of the World

Posted on May 18, 2019 by Joe Smith

Photo: Polar Bear, Derby Museum Collection, Gorm Ashurst for Stories of Change project,  http://gorminator.com/ What kind of language should we use to describe the end of the world as we know it? This is a question that has been running … Continue reading →

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Culture and climate change: experiments and improvisations

Posted on June 16, 2018 by Joe Smith

  Renata Tyszczuk & Joe Smith photo: Gorm Ashurst, Bullet Creative, http://www.gorminator.com/ [note: we post this essay to mark the conclusion of a body of work, expressed, among other things in an exhibition held at the RGS-IBG,  in June 2018: … Continue reading →

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Climate change: the kale smoothie of TV

Posted on November 30, 2016 by Joe Smith

This piece is based upon the attached report written by Joe on Climate Change and Television, published on December 1st 2016 by the International Broadcasting Trust and funded by the JJ Charitable Foundation. Climate change has a reputation for being … Continue reading →

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Culture meets climate change – A herogram to producers

Posted on January 28, 2016 by Joe Smith

  This is a herogram to the producers who make new creative work possible, and particularly those people and institutions who have gone out of their way to stimulate cultural responses to climate change. This ‘thank you’ feels a little … Continue reading →

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An Immodest Proposal for COP21: Go Naked Into the Conference Chamber

Posted on November 28, 2015 by Joe Smith

Cut Carbon, ©Steve Russell, 2011 I’ll be spending the next two weeks in Paris at the UN COP21. I can’t help feeling these climate talks would move forward more purposefully if the world’s negotiators went into the conference chamber naked (no cameras?). … Continue reading →

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We’re all in this (test tube) together

Posted on October 21, 2013 by Joe Smith

In the wake of contributing to the Battle of Ideas ‘New Environmentalism’ debate yesterday, and a twitter exchange with OU colleagues Mark Brandon and Simon Kelley I recalled this 2008 post I put on OpenLearn about a really smart piece … Continue reading →

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Less climate change: more flag quizzes?

Posted on March 5, 2013 by Joe Smith

I’m digging around in the proposed changes to the UK curriculum, including geography, which to date has been the main home of school learning about environmental issues. Climate change and sustainability are entirely absent from a 221 page document. Drafting … Continue reading →

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