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DCU Institute for Climate and Society @dcuclimate.bsky.social · Apr 29

Thanks for joining us today Alex!

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Dublin City University @dublincityuni.bsky.social · Apr 29

Mary Lawlor @marylawlorhrds.bsky.social, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, delivers keynote address at DCU Institute for Climate and Society @dcuclimate.bsky.social annual conference.
Read more here: launch.dcu.ie/4lQ77Ju
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DCU Institute for Climate and Society @dcuclimate.bsky.social · Apr 29

Summing up today's discussion, Professor Brereton asks a simple question to send us off with: "How do we create an active hope?" #DCUClimate2025

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DCU Institute for Climate and Society @dcuclimate.bsky.social · Apr 29

To close off #DCUClimate2025, Institute for Climate & Society Co-Director Professor Pat Brereton offers some reflections on the day's events

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DCU Institute for Climate and Society @dcuclimate.bsky.social · Apr 29

Really nice illustration of a common theme of the discussion today: the power of the language we use in discussing issues of climate change - or, as panelist AlanJames Burns prefers, "climate love"

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · Apr 29

In Lebanon, a guy being interviewed by
@hannahmcccarthy.bsky.social objected to the term ‘seed bank’, because they hate the banks, which have recently collapsed. They call them ‘seed libraries’.

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DCU Institute for Climate and Society @dcuclimate.bsky.social · Apr 29

@eamont.bsky.social: there is a lack of hope in how we report climate

@hannahmcccarthy.bsky.social: we need to pay more attention to the language we use in reporting

Priyanka Borpujari: we could look more at indigenous ways of living on the land

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DCU Institute for Climate and Society @dcuclimate.bsky.social · Apr 29

@dpmrobbins.bsky.social: what does media get right and wrong in reporting on climate?

@marcusstewart.bsky.social (Earth Horizon Productions): we need more climate literacy in newsrooms.

Priyanka Borpujari (PhD student, DCU): we need to ask questions, listen to people's stories

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Ellen Howley @lnhowley.bsky.social · Apr 29

A beautiful reading of some new work by poet, Grace Wilentz, on the reintroduction of the lynx into Europe. Fabulous that the arts have been so central to this year’s conference.

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DCU Institute for Climate and Society @dcuclimate.bsky.social · Apr 29

The panelists discuss their experiences of reporting on the climate front lines, noting the intersection of climate change with the social, political and economic. If you just write about climate change “you’re not getting the full story” - @hannahmcccarthy.bsky.social #DCUClimate2025

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DCU Institute for Climate and Society @dcuclimate.bsky.social · Apr 29

Our final panel of #DCUClimate2025: Reporting from the climate front lines

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DCU Institute for Climate and Society @dcuclimate.bsky.social · Apr 29

On the theme of this year's conference - activism, storytelling and the arts - up next is a poetry reading by poet and writer, Grace Wilentz, Writer-in-Residence at Notre Dame, Dublin #DCUClimate2025

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DCU Institute for Climate and Society @dcuclimate.bsky.social · Apr 29

AlanJames: the language used around climate issues “is devoid of any emotion” - let's think not of climate action but “climate love”

Trish: “it absolutely needs to be all hands on deck” - let's each of us think: "well what the hell can I do with my few skills?"

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DCU Institute for Climate and Society @dcuclimate.bsky.social · Apr 29

On the role of mobilisation in art, AlanJames says: “My entire practice is about mobilising people around ideas”. Why engage with art? “The only way I can learn and explore the world is by creating and doing” #DCUClimate2025

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Claire Dupont @cladupont.bsky.social · Apr 29

Thinking about climate science, art and activism @dcuclimate.bsky.social #DCUClimate2025

AlanJames Burns talks about the real impacts on disabled communities of climate change, and the lack of access to knowledge & nature.

Dr Trish Morgan describes the importance of de-siloing.

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DCU Institute for Climate and Society @dcuclimate.bsky.social · Apr 29

@trishmorgan.bsky.social from DCU School of Communications challenges our use of the word 'art', which "puts a moniker" on something “intrinsically human”

Rebecca Wilson of @researchireland.bsky.social highlights the need to "empower" the public by making research more accessible

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DCU Institute for Climate and Society @dcuclimate.bsky.social · Apr 29

Artist, curator and festival maker AlanJames Burns, highlights the challenges faced by disabled and differently abled people in engaging in climate action - and how they are often forgotten in activism #DCUClimate2025

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DCU Institute for Climate and Society @dcuclimate.bsky.social · Apr 29

Dr Eileen Hutton, Artist and Head of Art and Ecology, Burren College of Art, discusses "how we read the landscape" - how we can foster place-based responses to environmental challenges #DCUClimate2025

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DCU Institute for Climate and Society @dcuclimate.bsky.social · Apr 29

Up next ▶️ our third panel of the day: Climate science, art and activism #DCUClimate2025

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DCU Institute for Climate and Society @dcuclimate.bsky.social · Apr 29

“We want to live in community like the mosses do, like the trees do” - write Kerri Ní Dochartaigh at the #DCUClimate2025 annual conference

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Claire Dupont @cladupont.bsky.social · Apr 29

“Be more oak!” Kerri Ní Dochartaigh describes how a single oak tree cares for more than 2,000 species.

Rosie O’Reilly on the rights of nature: “where is nature in the university?” She calls on us to de-silo & apply critical thinking.

#Art and #environment

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DCU Institute for Climate and Society @dcuclimate.bsky.social · Apr 29

Luke Casserly, multidisciplinary performance maker, discusses slowness, intimacy and care in their artistic practice

@lnhowley.bsky.social from the DCU School of English discusses the use of eco-criticism in teaching: “It is easier to engage with your environment through art”

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DCU Institute for Climate and Society @dcuclimate.bsky.social · Apr 29

POV: writer Kerri Ní Dochartaigh asks us to close our eyes, root ourselves in the ground and think of the structures that support us - most of all, the earth. "Art is mother earth." #DCUClimate2025

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DCU Institute for Climate and Society @dcuclimate.bsky.social · Apr 29

"Art doesn't give us something. It is something... Art is nature, and nature is art" - visual artist Rosie O'Reilly offers reflections on the arts and the environment #DCUClimate2025

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Dublin City University @dublincityuni.bsky.social · Apr 29

“At our annual conference today, we are delighted to be able to spotlight a diverse range of contributions to the climate and ecological crises through activism, storytelling and the arts.” says Director @dcuclimate.bsky.social Dr Diarmuid Torney @diarmuidtorney.bsky.social #DCUClimate2025

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