Nominations are open for the next Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity, @cgf-uk.bsky.social 🏆

€1 million award for individuals or organizations that accelerate proven, impactful #climate action benefiting people & planet

Please nominate & repost this if your followers work in the #climatechange sphere:

Comms Declare has written to the National Press Club #NPC asking that tomorrow’s talk by Future Coal Chief Executive, Michelle Manook be cancelled.

They declined, so we produced this handy bingo card to help viewers spot the climate obstruction and #greenwashing

commsdeclare.org/2025/11/17/c...

As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity.

TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

In my promotional culture class tomorrow we're talking about branded content and programmatic advertising. If you have one you love/hate, I'd love to see it!

What are the best climate books to give as presents this festive season?

Have we had enough of Bl*ck Fr*d*y?

On the blog we unpack the origins, the backlash and the boycotts - and the joy of opting out.
adfreecities.org.uk/2024/11/reus...

I'm finally enjoying reading Steven Miles's The Experience Society where he describes the graduation of consumption of wants to consumption of experiences as a psycho-social phenomenon that has rebooted consumer capitalism. Has/is anyone else reading this?

This time of year, last year, I enjoyed making a podcast theconversation.com/brandalism-t...

every year, 'Black Friday' becomes an more additive and unrealistic smokescreen (with occasional greenwashing or even 'no sales here' brand stand).

Perhaps a massive anti-celebration event is in order?

Here's a starter pack of some of the great groups and individuals working to challenge disinformation and hate!
bsky.app/starter-pack...

it was a wonderful opportunity to talk about my work at the SNS Cosmos Talks this afternoon

Why and how does it matter when people use the consumer culture and the marketplace to express and act on their politics? This is a question I've been thinking about for a long time. Here is my short answer: reframe.sussex.ac.uk/activistmedi...

Join our in conversation with civil society leaders and int'l donors on Wednesday, November 20, 10-1130AM Eastern in a webinar co-hosted by SSRC & GloTech. We also promote knowledge-sharing for researchers/civil society at risk in global context. 🤗 5/6 www.ssrc.org/events/refor...

Here's an ad seen on the school run in #Brighton -
"It's promoting fast food. It's sexualising fast food. It's introducing young children to the idea of pornography as (guilty) pleasure. It is promoting (to everyone, including children) the idea of being 'naughty'." What ads do you see? #Adspotters