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Q&A: ‘Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action’

DeSmogBlog

This interview was conducted on February 1, 2024, and has been edited and condensed for clarity. Michaela Herrmann: One of the core things you talked about in the book is a “climate shock.” The durability and severity [of climate shocks] could be one huge disaster like in a disaster movie.

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Why we should support small fishing boats over super-trawlers, Part 2

Low Impact

Here we talk about the life of small fishing boat skippers. In Part 1 we talked about sustainability and community benefits of buying from small fishing boats, and the barriers that they face; and in Part 3 we’ll look at how government quotas benefit super-trawlers and disadvantage the small boats. There you go!

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Havas CEO Yannick Bolloré Staked His Brand on Caring About the Climate. So Why Is His Company Working for Shell?

DeSmogBlog

In a June 2023 video interview, Yannick Bolloré looks relaxed. Bolloré, the chair and CEO of the Havas Group , is on the French Riviera to attend the annual Cannes Lions festival, “a week of world-class networking, learning, and history-making creativity” that draws thousands of PR and marketing professionals from around the world.

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Career change? Making a living from making pottery

Low Impact

At Lowimpact.org we’re interested in helping to bring production back to communities, and so we’re going to be talking with craftspeople, smallholders, natural builders, renewables installers and small business owners in our range of topics. Today I’m talking with Tom, who is a potter. My business is the Little Pot Company.

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Belonging Spotlight: William O’Neal on Philosophy, Linguistics, and Star Trek

Planet Pulse

This month, I sat down with William O’Neal, Planet’s Content Strategy Lead working with our Product Design, User Research, and Content Strategy team, to learn a little more about his career journey. When I started kindergarten, my mom started law school, so she would bring me along to campus when I had a day off. O’Neal smiled.

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Naresh Giangrande, co-founder of Transition Network: the future for local economies, Part 2

Low Impact

You might want to give a talk or a training; write a blog post, put it on Transition Network website. But again, it’s one of those questions that we’ve often been asked – ‘we’ve got this great idea – can you put us in touch with all the Transition groups in the UK?’ Get someone there to interview you. There is an issue.

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When Extreme Weather Reigns, Disinformation Pours

DeSmogBlog

Last week, the UK Meteorological Office issued its first-ever red warning for extreme heat in England which, according to reports from the Guardian, led to firefighters’ busiest day since the Second World War. Changing Extremes. ClimateEmergency pic.twitter.com/0eaqCrQM2J — Licypriya Kangujam (@LicypriyaK) July 21, 2022.