We now address one of the most significant challenges facing creatives today: misinformation and climate denial. These obstacles can impede efforts to convey accurate information about the science and impacts of climate change.

This guide offers strategies for addressing scepticism and misinformation, emphasising the importance of careful fact-checking and clear communication.

We explore the critical question: What could we learn to effectively address climate change?

This instalment delves into the skills, knowledge, and changes necessary to build a sustainable future. By choosing an area of interest, enhancing our abilities, and integrating nature into our decision-making, we can make meaningful strides towards environmental sustainability.

We turn our attention to the very real challenges faced by artists today. Artists are often underpaid and struggle to make ends meet, making it difficult to allocate resources for additional learning and engagement with the climate crisis.

So, how can artists resource themselves to tackle these issues? And what are the implications if they decide it's not their problem?

In this instalment, we delve into the role of creatives in addressing the enormous systemic issues at the heart of the climate crisis.

From advocating for justice and economic reform to promoting regeneration, creatives have a unique ability to inspire, inform, and mobilize. Here’s how we can use our platforms and practices to drive transformative change.

In this instalment, we address the challenge of crisis fatigue—a common feeling of exhaustion and overwhelm that can arise when constantly confronting complex issues like climate change.

Understanding and managing crisis fatigue is essential for sustaining motivation and effectiveness in your creative practice. It’s worth bearing in mind that your audiences may well be experiencing crisis fatigue. Here’s how you can stay engaged and energised. Reflecting on these tips, can help us consider what our audiences may need too.

In this instalment, we focus on the challenges and opportunities that come with engaging complex issues, particularly climate change, through creative practices. Effective communication of complex issues requires a commitment to ongoing education, research, and collaboration. Here’s how creatives can rise to the occasion.

Welcome to the next instalment of our "Let's Change Culture" series, where we explore the vital role of art in responding to the climate emergency. Art has the power to inspire, mobilise, and bring communities together, making it a crucial tool in our collective effort to address the environmental crisis.

In this blog, we'll delve into how you can align your personal or company vision for your arts practice with the changes you want to see in the world, and explore various ways creatives can contribute to climate action.

In our "Let's Change Culture" series, we explore how creatives in Plymouth are leading the way in addressing the climate emergency. A group of over 60 creatives across the city contributed to the development of this series through a consultation process with The Art and Energy Collective supported by Plymouth Culture.

So, where do you start if you want to join this movement? Here's a step-by-step guide to help you and your team begin your journey.

Welcome to the first instalment of our "Let's Change Culture" series, where we explore how creatives in Plymouth are responding to the climate emergency. This series will highlight the innovative efforts and inspiring stories of artists, designers, and cultural leaders who are using their talents to address one of the most pressing issues of our time.

Toni Spencer works as a facilitator, poet and mentor seeks to enable a deeper and more diverse engagement with the ecological, cultural and social issues of our times. She creates spaces where grit, grief, messiness, and laughter are welcome and where new kinds of wisdom and power can emerge.

She is part of a collective called Starter Culture along with a fascin ting group of other change-makers who ask - What if... inner-led change holds the keys to navigating these times of collapse in the most transformative ways?

Not Too Late is a website with some great resources to introduce you and your group to climate issues and help you figure out where you fit within it all.

This report is the result of a Brainstorming Session organised through the Voices of Culture process, a Structured Dialogue between the European Commission and the cultural sector represented by more than 30 people affiliated to cultural associations, NGOs, and other bodies.

When the climate and ecological emergencies are overwhelming and when social and environmental justice feels like its a long way a way we still need to make progress.

Creatives in Plymouth explored how considering moss and using creative activities can give people courage and energise action.

'Climate Creativity' refers to the vital role that creativity can play in dealing with the climate crisis.

Here are some examples of how developing your creative practice can help you respond to the climate challenge.

Plymouth Culture and The Art and Energy Collective brought together creatives across Plymouth to identify what it was that creatives need to respond to the climate emergency.

Here is a list of some of the things that people identified in these first sessions.

Working with the culture sector in Plymouth, we investigated what sort of things creatives are doing to respond to the climate emergency.

This is what we learned…