- What Next? Climate meeting – September summary
A day before the global Climate Strikes began, a packed room of 40 people from across the arts, culture and climate sector filled the room at Artsadmin to discuss what we can do to address the climate emergency.
- Spotlight Peer to Peer Exchange Day
Our Spotlight programme works with 30 of 65 Band 3 organisations representing some of the biggest buildings and energy users across the NPO portfolio. In early September 2019 at the Baltic, Newcastle we ran a Peer to Peer learning workshop to reflect, share and set new objectives.
- C-Change: Arts & Culture Leading Climate Action in Cities
Find out more about C-Change – an Urbact transfer network of 6 European cities committed to working together to develop arts and culture sector collaboration on climate action and engagement.
- New Report: Sustainability in the British fashion industry
Julie’s Bicycle partners with Centre for Sustainable Fashion, British Fashion Council and DHL to produce the first in a series of white papers as part of the British Fashion Council’s Positive Fashion initiative.
- JB Wins WOMEX Professional Excellence Award
Julie’s Bicycle is awarded the WOMEX 2019 Professional Excellence Award.
- Changing the world of East Street Arts
Jon Wakeman shares his journey to re-centre East Street Arts to focus on the climate crisis.
- May Project: The Hip Hop Garden
The May Project Gardens in South London are a unique community space for reconnecting with nature for personal, social and economic transformation, with music at its heart. We talk to Ian Solomon-Kawall about how he put the Hip Hop into horticulture…
- Krystyna Swiderska on indigenous biocultural heritage
Krystyna Swiderska joins the Green Heritage Futures podcast to explore her research on Indigenous biocultural heritage.
- Creative Energy Project
Julie’s Bicycle believes there’s an opportunity for the arts and culture to lead the way in presenting a transition to clean energy as an inspirational means for societal transformation.
- Common Ground: Round Up
Looking back at the key insights, conversations and moments from our Climate Justice event ‘Common Ground: Culture, Climate and Social Justice’ at the Wellcome Trust, 1st July 2019.
- Orchestra for the Earth
Following their contribution at the creative Green Awards 2019, John Warner, Founder of Orchestra for the Earth, reflects on their orchestral environmental engagement tour across the Alps.
- LTC roadmap to 2025
Halfway through the Accelerator programme, Natalie Highwood reflects on the collaborative process and future of the London Theatre Consortium emission reduction roadmap.
- The Show Must Go On funding update
Festival Vision:2025 has exceeded it’s funding target, securing the publication of a new Show Must Go On report, signalling the UK festival and event industry’s ambition to tackle environmental impacts.
- How to capture your Accelerator insights?
To help Accelerators prepare for documenting and sharing details of their journey through the Programme, we have compiled some suggestions.
- What Next Climate Change – June summary
Notes and resources from the ‘What Next Climate Change?’ subgroup meeting, June 2019.
- ENVIRONMENT, CLIMATE POLICY AND SCIENCE UPDATE
Chiara Badiali creates a policy update for the quarterly What Next Climate Change? group roughly covering the period from March – June 2019.
- The Colour Green: Zena Edwards
Baroness Lola Young meets poet Zena Edwards in the Old Tidemill Gardens in Deptford, South London.
- No Environmentalism in a Silo: What it Means to Talk About Race in our Climate Crisis
Yingbi Lee, one of the producers of The Colour Green podcast shares her reflections on why talking about race is crucial when considering social and climate justice.
- Creative Climate Leadership USA Launches
Applications are now open for Julie’s Bicycle’s Creative Climate Leadership Training and Transformation Program (CCL) to be held March 8-14, 2020 at Biosphere 2 in Arizona – the first time CCL has been held in the US.
- New Foals Video premieres on Music Declares Emergency Website
Foals share a brand new animated video for one of their new album’s key tracks ‘Like Lightning’, exclusively premiered on the Music Declares Emergency website.
- In The Loop: Circular Innovation and Plastic Waste in the Creative Industries
As a major and growing industry the creative sector contributes to plastic waste. Summary of event which explored sector-wide innovations, and the opportunities to move towards a low-waste, circular economy.
- Closed Loop printing guide
Seacourt have created this guide for the creative sector to help find the most sustainable printing options for your organisation
