Category: Climate
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School Strike for Climate #FridaysForFuture
By Beckie Leach The School Strike for Climate is an international protest movement led by school students, taking days off school to protest for action on the Climate Crisis and a Green New Deal. This blog post will look at the emergence of the School Strike for Climate in the UK, including its wider political…
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Why the UK needs a Climate Museum
This is the short talk I gave at the We Are Museums conference. I’ve added things I would have said if I’d had time. It was part of a panel about Museums as Green Revolution Leaders. The environment is not an issue, it’s our living world and everything we are interdependent with. We have to…
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Telegraph Hill pop-up
Last weekend was a pop-up over two days in a domestic situation, as part of Telegraph Hill Open Studios. It was a chance to consider how a Climate Museum could work in a context to think about climate action in our ordinary lives. It was also an opportunity to showcase some of the prototype tools.…
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We declare emergency
We, the team behind Climate Museum UK, declare a Climate and Ecological Emergency. This is part of the movement Culture Declares Emergency. We pledge to support the communities and civic & cultural organisations we work with in tackling this Emergency, and we call on others to explore how they might extend support in similar ways.…
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Culture Declares Emergency
Climate Museum UK is going to be one of those Declaring a Climate and Ecological Emergency on April 3rd, and is involved in forging this movement. This is the invitation… Humanity faces the combined catastrophes of man-made climate change, a mass extinction of vital biodiversity and a degradation of ecosystems health everywhere. This is a…
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Climate music and moods
Climate Museum UK popped up in a small way as part of a ClimateKeys concert – which was music by LaymanHuman (aka Stuart Frobisher) and the choir of St Mary Magdalene school, at the school in Little Venice. It was an evening concert for parents, children and public, at the end of the school’s Climate…
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