This episode links eco-anxiety with the ocean by virtue of our two contributors whose work and play centers around the ocean. They are Linzi Hawkin, surfer and co-founder of Project Blue and fellow surfer Easkey Britton, an author and social scientist. In this thought provoking episode we hear about what eco-anxiety is and how to deal with it, the role of the ocean in our health and wellbeing and what the ocean can teach us in today's often challenging world.

Host: Dr. Dave Robbins, School of Communications DCU

Guest Interviewer: Pat Brereton, Professor Emeritus DCU

Guests:

Linzi Hawkin, Co-founder and Advocate at Project Blue, Surfer

Easkey Britton, Author, Social Scientist and Surfer

This episode was recorded at IMMA at the Earth Rising Festival 2023 

The media have often being criticisd for their role in climate change inaction, and their framing of the climate change discourse is regularly called into question.  In this episode of Code Red we bring you a panel discussion which took place during the Irish Museum of Modern Art’s Earth Rising Festival where our host, Dr. David Robbins discussed the challenges that environmental journalists face when delivering climate change stories to the Irish public.  

Host: Dr. Dave Robbins, School of Communications DCU

Guests: Caroline O' Doherty, Irish Independent 

Rosalind Skillen, Belfast Telegraph

John Gibbons, Irish Examiner and Environmental Campaigner

This episode was recorded at IMMA at the Earth Rising Festival 2023 

The advertising industry has been hugely effective in driving the growth that has contributed to the climate crisis we now face and is instrumental in creating unsustainable consumption. In this episode we meet the agents of change within the industry who seek to catalyse advertising's climate transition towards halving emissions by 2030. They call themselves Purpose Disruptors and their vision is an advertising industry transformed in service to a thriving future.

Host: Dr. Dave Robbins, School of Communications DCU

Guest Interviewer:  Pat Brereton, Professor Emeritus at DCU

Guests: Laura Costello, Strategy Director of Purpose and Planet Projects in Think House, and Ireland lead for Purpose Disruptors 

Lisa Merrick Lawless, co-founder and director of Purpose Disruptors in UK

Emer Fitzmaurice, Head of Planning at Folk Wunderman Thompson, and part of the Purpose Disruptors team in Ireland

Thomas Geoghan, Strategy Director in PHD Media and team member of Purpose Disruptors Ireland

This episode was recorded at IMMA at the Earth Rising Festival 2023