Day 1

Workshops
Jonathan Elmer
POLITICS WORKSHOP
​Jonathan Elmer is the Green Party Councillor for City of Durham and Neville's Cross. Durham, running workshops on green politics and green economy
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Amanda Hopgood
Politics workshop
Amanda Hopgood is the Lib Dem Councillor for  Framwellgate and Newton Hall. She will be involved in the green politics workshop
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Suzanne Auty
​GREEN ENTERPRISE WORKSHOP
Suzanne Auty is the Enterprise Co-ordinator at Durham University. She will be talking about social enterprising and green careers
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Kate Welch
green enterprise workshop
Kate is a serial social entrepreneur, now working at Social Enterprise Acumen CIC to create enterprising communities in North East England. She will be collaborating with Suzanne Auty in the enterprising workshop
REfUSE
Food workshop
REfUSE is a not-for-profit social enterprise which collects food that would otherwise go in the bin to make delicious Pay-As-You-Feel meals. 
Food Durham
FOOD WORKSHOP
Food Durham's purpose is ‘to work together for a more equitable, sustainable, fairer food system for County Durham providing access to food that is healthy for people and the planet.’
Darragh Martin
​Creative writing workshop
​Darragh is an Irish playwright and children’s book author. He will be running a workshop on 'CliFi' and how writing can be used to communicate climate issues
Talks
Naomi Luhde-Thompson
kEYNOTE SPEAKER DAY 1
Naomi is a Senior Planner at Friends of the Earth and will be doing a workshop on Rights and the environment and a keynote speech.
Professor Philip Warren
URBAN ECO-SYSTEMS AND BIODIVERSITY TALK
Professor Philip Warren will be talking about ideas ranging from the pioneering work of the garden city movement through to recent research projects looking at the role of greenspace in urban environments for biodiversity, human wellbeing and sustainability. 
Aaron Thierry
CAMPAIGN PLANNING WORKSHOP AND TALK
Aaron Thierry is running a campaign planning workshop and a talk on the topic about the need for collective political action on climate change and the scope for campaigning within institutions
Dr Rachel Howell
carbon literacy talk
Lecturer of Sociology/Sustainable Development in the School of Social and Political Science. She will be talking about carbon literacy -  an awareness of climate change and the climate impacts of mankind's everyday actions
Matthew Williams
Community garden Talk
Matthew will be live streaming from Jubilee Farm in Ireland. Matt is a PhD student in New Testament studies and one of the directors at Jubilee Farm, where he concentrates on the theological and church-engagement aspect of their work

Day 2

Workshops
Nick Nuttgens
Carbon conversations workshop
Nick Nuttgens will be running a workshop on approaches to discussing climate change with family, friends and communities
Tim Allen
CARBON CONVERSATIONS WORKSHOP
Tim Allen is Sheffield Uni's Student Union Sustainability Coordinator and will be working with Nick Nuttgens in the Carbon Conversations workshop
OASES Team
environment and nature in education WORKSHOP
Members of OASES (Outdoor and Sustainability Education Specialists) will be talking their work with engaging young people with the natural world, helping them to understand and appreciate the planet that supports them.
Heather Wells and Lorna Douglas
Faith and climate change workshop
Heather Wells and Lorna Douglas are the editor and co-editor of the magazine Faith Initiative. They will be talking about the relationship between faith and climate
Talks
Pen Hadow
Keynote speaker day 2
Pen will be delivering the keynote speech on the second day about how and why he is setting about creating the worlds largest marine reserve in the north pole
Sarah Mercer and Mariama Dryak
student engagement with climate issues
Mariama Dryak and Sarah Mercer will be running a talk-come-question and answers session on how to get involved with environmental issues as a student, and how to organise outreach events (such as Footprint!). Mariama is a graduate student at the University of Maine, and was the creator of the Changes in the Arctic event in 2017. She runs the Lets Do Something Big blog and is the new US Association of Early Career Scientists Representative. Sarah co-organised the Changes in the Arctic event, is the organiser of Footprint, and is generally passionate about climate change communication
Caitríona Ní Dhúill
Cultural ecologies
Caitríona Ní Dhúill will be talking about the Centre for Cultural Ecologies, which aims to provide a forum at the interface of the sciences and the humanities for research concerned with world-making practices, insofar as these impact on and trouble the distinction between natural and cultural systems.

OTHER EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES

Jill Pelto
Eco Art postcards
Around the event will be eco art postcards. We encourage you to have a look at these and read the descriptions on the back, and use them to start a debate or conversation about the use of art to communicate climate information. Jill Pelto is one of the artists. Jill is a graduate student at the University of Maine, USA. She uses scientific data to fuel the content of her artwork and will be talking about how she creates pieces to raise awareness about interesting and important environmental topics.
Durham P’ungmul Group
musical performance
P'ungmul (literally “Wind things”) is the traditional South Korean percussion band music. Their performance will link in with the theme of climate change communication. South Korea will be affected by extremes of weather, including increases of floodings and typhoons. 
MATERIAL CULTURE EXHIBITION
We will be displaying a collection of items originating in communities that are threatened by sea level rise.  The exhibition is designed to bring the viewer into intimate contact with objects from the lives of a vast array of people that our actions affect and to make their lives less far-removed. We are very grateful for Durham University Anthropology Department for loaning us the items for this exhibition. 
Kit Philip
EROADS
​Linking in with the theme of exploring different media for the communication of environmental messages, we will be staging the first performance of Kit Philip’s sound installation, sound installation that will be running throughout the day
GARDENING AND PLANTING
​ At 11:45am there will be a gardening and planting session. There will be plant pots, soil and seeds, and a helpful volunteer if you want to plant your own herbs or vegetables to take home with you. We are no experts, but happy to spend an hour chatting with you about growing your own food.            
Additionally, one of our lovely volunteers will be taking groups up to the beautiful St Mary’s College at 11:45am to plant some bee friendly flowers. This is a wonderful chance to see some real life beehives, and help the bees!
 
N.B.: The flower planting at St Mary’s College will be in close proximity to a very active beehive. If you are nervous/allergic to bees, we would strongly recommend you avoid this activity.