Communicating Earth

Communicating Earth is a video podcast for climate and nature communicators, by climate and nature communicators.

Communicating Earth is a business podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 24 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Unknown Host hosts Communicating Earth, a business show with 24 episodes published.

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  Communicating Earth

  Nick Oldridge, Cofounder of the National Emergency Briefing

  Sep 30, 202656 min

  Put the whole picture on the table and trust people with it Nick Oldridge came to climate campaigning from manufacturing, marketing and insurance. He is a cofounder of Climate Science Breakthrough , which pairs climate scientists with comedians, and he set up the National Emergency Briefing with his brother Simon. In November 2025, they hired Westminster Central Hall, seated close to 1,300 people and put nine experts on stage to brief MPs and national leaders on the climate and nature crisis. The film made from that evening has passed a thousand community screenings across the UK. Tom Clark speaks with him about assembling an event of that scale without an organisation behind it, and about where fear belongs in climate communication after years of correcting for despair. In this episode: Why the briefing was built to look like government, from the venue to the suits How inviting 1,300 people became possible once supporters were deputised as inviters Why the briefing covered everything at once, from national security and food to health and economics Why fear on its own isolates people, and what changes when outrage is added to it Nick is blunt about the trade off underneath this. The turn towards positivity was a fair correction to doom, but he thinks it cost climate its salience and left people assuming the problem is handled. Research with the University of Bath suggests the alternative holds up: most leave the screenings better informed and more motivated to act, and 93% say the UK public is not being told the full story. Recommended culture : The Language of Climate Politics by Genevieve Guenther. Follow Nick at: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/nick-oldridge-b7a36421/ Additional Notes: National Emergency Briefing, including how to host a screening: https://www.nebriefing.org/ Climate Science Breakthrough https://www.climatesciencebreakthrough.com/ Zero Hour, the Climate and Nature Bill campaign https://www.zerohour.uk/ The Language of Climate Politics, Genevieve Guenther https://genevieveguenther.com/books/ Civic Square, Birmingham https://civicsquare.cc/ Kris De Meyer https://www.krisdemeyer.com/ Released: 30/9/2026 Run Time: 56 minutes Listen on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube

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  Communicating Earth

  Ali Wines, Founder at Climate Communications Alliance

  Sep 23, 202650 min

  Can climate communicators learn to collaborate? Ali Wines talks to our host Tom Clark about building the Climate Communicators Alliance for closer professional collaboration and why strategy - not virality - should be how we measure our work. Ali’s varied career which has seen her shift from law to communications via management consultancy. She founded the Alliance in 2024 after noticing that talented people working in climate and nature comms were all independently reinventing the same wheel. Meanwhile those who would mislead and confuse around the realities and urgency of climate working like a cartel: pooling their money, data and messaging. She’s asking if we can do things differently and learn from past mistakes and each other. Listen and hear Ali share her learning on: Why the competition for funding keeps our sector siloed Building a community from a standing start Measuring comms against climate impact not Insta analytics Selling the sizzle. It’s a candid account of what it takes to organise a profession alongside practical advice on audience empathy, evidence-based practice and how we can keep our human connection in work that can take its toll. Recommended book: Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World by Jason Hickel Follow Ali at: LinkedIn Additional Notes: Climate Communications Alliance - https://www.climatecommsalliance.org/ Uncommon Ground - https://www.we-are-uncommon.com/ Protect Our Winters Canada - https://protectourwinters.ca/ Climate Action Network Canada (CAN-Rac) - https://climateactionnetwork.ca/ Sell the Sizzle, Futerra - https://www.wearefuterra.com/thinks/sell-the-sizzle Less is More by Jason Hickel - https://jasonhickel.org/ Indigenous Leadership Initiative - https://www.ilinationhood.ca/ The Narwhal - https://thenarwhal.ca/ The Guardian, climate crisis - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-crisis Released : 23 September 2026 Run Time: 50 minutes Listen on : Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube

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  Communicating Earth

  Bernadette Woods, Executive Director and Cofounder at Talking Climate Collaborative

  Sep 16, 202659 min

  Communication is the solution, not the add on Bernadette is a meteorologist who forecast the weather on television in the US before joining Climate Central, where she worked alongside Ed Maibach. This year, she founded the Talking Climate Collaborative with Katharine Hayhoe. In 2011, just 54% of TV meteorologists in the United States were convinced the climate was changing. That was lower than public opinion at the time. By 2017, the figure had reached 95%. Bernadette Woods helped make that shift happen, and in this episode she explains how. Tom Clark speaks with her about the practical mechanics of changing a whole profession's mind, and about why communication is still treated as something bolted onto climate work rather than as the work itself. In this episode: Education, content and network building: the framework that reached broadcast meteorologists Why news management turned out to be the barrier Four rules for anyone who wants to talk about climate and gets stuck: know the audience, meet people where they are, simplify, make it personal Why the biggest piece of climate misinformation in the world is the belief that people do not care. What comes through is how ordinary the method was. Bernadette's argument is that the approach is repeatable anywhere people already trust each other, and that the point of building a hub for climate communication now is to stop everyone learning the same lessons separately. Recommended culture : The Lorax, and the word unless. Follow Bernadette at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bernadette-woods-placky-ab2497146/ Additional Notes: Talking Climate Collaborative https://talkingclimate.com/ Landscape assessment https://talkingclimate.com/landscape-assessment/ Climate Matters at Climate Central https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-matters Yale Climate Opinion Maps https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizations-data/ycom-us/ The 89 Percent Project, Covering Climate Now https://coveringclimatenow.org/projects/the-89-percent-project/ This Is Planet Ed, Laura Schifter https://www.thisisplaneted.org/ Ed Maibach on Communicating Earth, episode 3 https://climateacceptancestudios.com/podcast_ep003 Released : 16/9/2026 Run Time : 59 minutes Listen on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube

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  Communicating Earth

  Ingmar Rentzhog, CEO and Founder at We Don’t Have Time

  Sep 9, 202657 min

  Bursting digital bubbles: how do we connect people who disagree? Ingmar Rentzhog talks to our host Tom Clark about the work he leads bringing the world together to talk about the issues that matter most at the digital platform We Don’t Have Time. Ingmar describes himself as an entrepreneur for the future. His work has focused on applying his entrepreneurial skills to the particular work of communications in the climate and nature space. From the Buy More Time campaign at Cop 29 that galvanised high-impact action on Methane, to creating W Social a new social media platform that will burst digital bubbles, to his current focus on defunding fossil fuel influence and advocacy, he has a great deal of learning to share. Listen to hear what Ingmar has learned about: Creating momentum for a collective boycott to defund the fossil fuel industry Why we must never give in to the narrative of doom The need for tangible numbers that demonstrate our progress The essential role of professional communicators in this movement De-polarising the conversation in new digital spaces where differing views can be heard. Listen and watch this essential episode of Communicating Earth to gain practical knowledge from Ingmar about what works, alongside an inspiring strategic perspective on how we de-power the fossil fuel business - and much more. Recommended film: Don’t Look Up https://www.netflix.com/watch/81252357?source=35 Follow Ingmar at: LinkedIn Additional Notes: We Don’t Have Time - https://app.wedonthavetime.org/ W Social - https://wsocial.news/ Buy More Time session at COP29 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPgo8iRRD0M Exponential Roadmap Initiative - https://exponentialroadmap.org/ Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman - https://rutgerbregman.com/books/humankind My Octopus Teacher - https://www.netflix.com/title/81045007 UNEP Climate and Clean Air Coalition - https://www.unep.org/topics/energy/methane/climate-and-clean-air-coalition-ccac The Nordic Museum (Nordiska museet) - https://www.nordiskamuseet.se/en/ Released : 9 September 2026 Run Time: 57 minutes

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  Communicating Earth

  Adam Lake, Climate Week NYC US Lead

  Sep 2, 202659 min

  How do you build a climate event that would still happen if you cancelled it? Adam Lake talks to our host Tom Clark about nine years of building Climate Week NYC into one of the largest climate events in the world, and why the engagement is the work rather than the thing you do around the work. Adam identifies as a campaigner. For him that means picking a goal, picking an audience, and then getting creative about the methodology that moves one towards the other. He came to climate via A level economics and theatre studies, a short acting career, a politics magazine and the Press Association, and he now leads communications for a week that draws around 250,000 people onto the streets of New York. With this year's Climate Week focused on the energy, the impact and the action we drive together, his story of action is a fitting one. When COVID hit, every other major climate summit was cancelled or postponed. Climate Group decided to go ahead, and Adam's worry was not the main stage, but the wider week, the hundreds of community groups, school groups and artistic collectives built up over years, and whether that bubble would burst without people meeting in person. It did not. He says that year broke every record any climate week had set anywhere in the world up to that point, with more events and more people than ever before. Adam talks about: Why Climate Week NYC events platform is still only a cog in something much bigger Building an audience one cafe in Queens and one launderette in Brooklyn at a time Choosing agencies, and being honest about when shared values matter and when effectiveness matters more Communications as a listening rather than a talking sport Why engagement built up over years is what matters A producer got in touch out of the blue with an idea to take over every late night show, and three months later, Kimmel, Fallon and Colbert had all given over airtime to climate. There was no grand plan behind it. It came from years of turning up and talking to people. He ends on the one thing he would ask of every communicator: keep evolving. Recommended culture: CWNYC / Street Art for Mankind collaboration Follow Adam Additional Notes: CWNYC CWNYC Events Calendar Climate Group 50 Shades of Green podcast Climate Clock Potential Energy Coalition Climate Central Per Arnoldi, works Kris De Meyer Released : 2 September 2026 Run Time: 58 minutes

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