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The Society’s Climate Change Research Group have announced the winners of their competition seeking the most effective, original and engaging ways to encourage action on climate change.
Nuala Burnett, James Dyson and Laura Marcus won with their entry CliMates, which draws on mental health campaigns and aims to encourage conversations between men and their ‘cliMATES’ on climate change. With second and third prizes going to Sean Gallagher for his entry Cambodia burning and Chloe Brimicombe for her four-part photo entry Climate change is happening, respectively.
Honourable mentions were given by the judges to Tracy Hill and Ralph Hoyte, Jenny Arthur, and Rupert Johnstone for their entries which explore the geological and archeological heritage of peat bogs, the issue of fossil fuels and their role in environmental depletion, and an interactive sound sculpture which converts an ensemble of climate models to sound via the earthy medium of pottery.
Competition entries were judged by a panel of the group’s committee members, as well as Alan Evans, the Guardian’s Environment Editor, and Leo Hickman, Director and Editor of Carbon Brief.
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