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I saw an ECF post about this and asked the author Eben Marks (News and Media Relations Officer at Action for Children, @ebenmarks) to write something. Here it is: ‘If you are planning on using polling to support your campaign, … Continue reading →

Sad news that Oliver Rackham of Cambridge University has passed away.  There are not many revolutionary historians and even fewer who make a lasting impact by inspiring us to save our natural heritage but Rackham was one of them. His … Continue reading →

Update 12 Dec: my partner met a postman puffing up to our house with a delivery yesterday, having left his van up the road.  “Is it more difficult now that you have to park a way away ?” she asked … Continue reading →

Here’s a bee and a hoverfly buzzing around a newly flowering bramble in my garden in North Norfolk today – Halloween 2014, 31 October.  This is supposed to be when nature is going to sleep – undoubtedly the pre-Christian origins … Continue reading →

ECOS (A Review of Conservation) has published an article by me “Navigating nature ECOS 35 (2)“. (See more articles at http://www.banc.org.uk/articles ) Abstract: Parents, grandparents, and even teachers, are no longer able to ‘introduce young children to nature’ because they … Continue reading →

Today Kumi Naidoo, international director of Greenpeace, is handing a bottle of Arctic meltwater to the UN Secretary General in New York, calling for the Arctic to be protected from oil and gas development.  It contains six million drops, one … Continue reading →

I have seen more campaigner chatter about the ice-bucket challenge than about ISIS.  Yet if there was a current communications phenomenon that is making serious waves, the social media reach of terror group ISIS is surely it. In Britain there … Continue reading →

A sign that solar pv is seen as normal in the UK.  This Norfolk bungalow sports a large solar pv array.  It also has a sign in the window reading “I’m voting UKIP’.  The core UKIP vote is Settler. Norfolk … Continue reading →

Chris Rose     June 2014 Chris Rose, Director, Campaign Strategy Ltd, www.campaignstrategy.org, chris@campaignstrategy.co.uk This report Broadening the Appeal of Environmental Action through Values Framing Uplift presents evidence from UK surveys which shows how environmental and conservation groups could reach beyond the … Continue reading →

Journalist Michael McCarthy published an article in The Independent newspaper this week attacking one wild plant (cow parsley) for smothering others.  Often this sort of thing is reserved for attacks on ‘aliens’ but cow parsley is a native.  Cow parsley’s … Continue reading →