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While the climate is still being more and more destabilised, climate advocates are making headway.  But campaign groups should beware, because as tightening emission regulations, the encroachment of renewables into energy markets and ratcheting public demands for action on pollution, … Continue reading →

Some weeks ago I had the privilege of spending some time with Harri Lammi, one of Greenpeace’s campaigners who works in China. A few days after I saw Harri, the Chinese Government revealed its new air pollution action plan designed  … Continue reading →

In How to Win Campaigns, I promote the idea that every campaign needs the Three Stories.  These don’t usually win the campaign for you but are an explanation of why you are doing it.  Useful in your ‘elevator pitch’ situations.  … Continue reading →

Here’s an uber-simple campaign planner that might be of use.  I made it for working with  a client who was trying to compare proposals for a ‘major campaign’ but it seems to work in a lot of situations. For example … Continue reading →

I am often asked for ‘case studies’ of campaigns and they are hard to find.  Not so much because campaigns don’t work but because campaign groups tend to be terrible at keeping a record of what they’ve done, or spending … Continue reading →

or … A Simple Unifying Tax Demand to End Fossil Fuels Today the UK Government has set out (see BBC) to incentivise fracking through massive tax breaks, just as the Arctic plunges further into meltdown, the ‘globe bakes’ (see Washington … Continue reading →

Obama’s recent climate speech is important.  Not just because the juggernaut of US Government may at last be seriously rolling forward on climate but because he has a new ‘narrative’,  to use a much over-worked term.   When he was … Continue reading →

There are plenty of petitions against dredging as it can be environmentally damaging but this one is for it – for pretty much the opposite reason – and it comes from from Wells Next The Sea in North Norfolk (UK) … Continue reading →

A new paper posted here – Beware The Siren Songs Of Opinion Polling  – argues that campaigns drawn into trying to navigate by what the polls say, or seduced into trying to win by changing ‘public opinion’, risk running aground … Continue reading →

What could seriously help deal with climate changing emissions but only moves at 89 metres a day ? One answer is Negawatts.  Instead of paying utilities to build more power stations to meet rising demand, or exhorting consumers to use … Continue reading →