Shaping Climate Messaging into Action
Season 3: Episode 4
How do best educate one another about climate change and climate action when the media is muddying the water? Furthermore, how can we change how the media reports on climate change so it is accurate, not sensationalized, or influenced by fossil fuel companies?
Dr. Genevieve Guenther joins Eric to share her journey from Renaissance scholar to climate communicator, consultant, and activist. The organization End Climate Silence is central to her story and work; Dr. Guenther discusses how she helps to educate about the history of fossil fuel disinformation, media manipulation, and how we can end fossil fuels together through collective and individual actions. The Drawdown Climate Solution Sector in this episode is centered on Health & Education.
Listen to this episode on: Spotify, Apple, Google and other places you get your podcastsAbout our guest
Dr. Genevieve Guenther is an author, climate activist, and native New Yorker. An expert in climate communication and fossil-fuel disinformation, she is the founding director of End Climate Silence and affiliate faculty at The New School, where she sits on the board of the Tishman Environment and Design Center. Dr. Guenther advises activist groups, corporations, and policymakers, and she serves as an Expert Reviewer for the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Her next book, The Language of Climate Politics, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.
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Episode topic tags:
climate communication, climate education, fossil fuels, IPCC, climate politics, climate policy, carbon footprint
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Theme music by Casual Motive
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Climate Design Assignments
At the end of each episode, we ask our guests what their ideal climate design project would be. They have four weeks with a class full of design students. We translated their response into a project brief that you can use for your class.
