Join me for a Climate Storytelling Webinar

with Mark Lynas, Alastair Humphreys and Nicola Cutcher

Hello everyone,

As a writer and broadcaster, I spend a lot of time thinking about how I can use my work to engage people with the reality of our changing climate and rapidly vanishing biodiversity. So on June 17th I’m delighted to be hosting a 45-minute climate storytelling webinar with three stellar guests: Mark Lynas, Alastair Humphreys and Nicola Cutcher. And when I say stellar, I mean, stellar….

Mark Lynas is a multi award-winning author and journalist whose work focuses on the environment and climate change. Among his eight critically-acclaimed books are High Tide: The Truth About Our Climate Crisis (2004), Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency (2020), and The God Species: Saving the Planet in the Age of Humans (2011). His latest book, published this month, is Six Minutes to Winter: Nuclear War and How to Avoid It. Mark, who advises former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed on climate and sits on the Climate Vulnerable Forum, also writes for New Statesman, The Ecologist, The Guardian and The New York Times.

Alastair Humphreys is an author, adventurer and activist whose work increasingly focuses on issues relating to climate change, nature connection and biodiversity loss. The author of 18 books, and a National Geographic Adventurer of the Year, Alastair has cycled around the world, rowed the Atlantic and pioneered the concept of the microadventure – short, local, accessible adventures. His latest book, Local: A search for nearby nature and wilderness (2024) was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize.

Nicola Cutcher is an investigative journalist specialising in environmental storytelling. She writes for The Guardian, Prospect, The Times and New Statesman, among others. In 2017 Nicola co-produced the BAFTA-nominated documentary Syria’s Disappeared: The Case Against Assad, and she’s currently working on a TV drama about climate activists. A co-founder and trustee of Friends of the River Wye, Nicola has devoted much of the last 5 years to campaigning for our rivers.

We’re going to be using this webinar to discuss the different ways and mediums (writing, TV, social media, film-making) of amplifying these important messages. What does it mean to be writing, telling stories, at this moment in time? How can we make our stories have impact? How do we engage people with these issues without scaring them into denial or inaction? How do we tell stories that move peoples’ consciences enough to encourage them to act? Which mediums have the most impact - books, articles, social media or film and TV?

The webinar will take place, via Zoom, at 13.00 GMT on Tuesday 17th June.

If you’d like to join, please ping me an email on antsbk AT gmail.com or contact me here, and I’ll send you a Zoom link a few days before. To save me from adminsanity, please only sign up if you really are intending to come!

I’m offering this webinar for free as I want to make this important topic, and these fantastic guests, accessible to all. However, if you’d like to contribute something, and ‘buy me a coffee’, you can click here.

I’m really looking forward to this, and thrilled to have such thoughtful, eloquent guests. I do hope lots of you will join us.

Ants xx