Are you an online news junkie? Spend half your life on Facebook or Twitter? Concerned about climate damage and sick of government inaction? Then join our digital stories team!
Are you an online news junkie? Spend half your life on Facebook or Twitter? Concerned about climate damage and sick of government inaction? Then join our digital stories team!
Here's the thing. Climate damage is here, now. Bushfires in Tasmania. Floods in Townsville. Worsening drought.
The mainstream media reports on these stories every day, but far too often, they fail to connect these impacts to climate change.
To make the next federal election the climate election, we need to change this media story and shift the public conversation. No easy task... but infinitely easier with a team of passionate, connected people who are fired up and ready to go.
When we work together with a solid strategy, we can get climate damage trending on twitter and push the media to do a better job reporting on the biggest challenge humanity has ever faced.
Together we can flood local, national and social media with stories and comments that demonstrate the urgency and the overwhelming public demand for action so our political leaders have no choice but to step up and lead.
Will you join the team?
To get started, come to a training workshop in Ringwood, Carlton or online! (Stay tuned for workshops in other locations)
Climate stories workshops
At each workshop, we'll share our strategy, you'll meet like-minded people and get skilled up in tips and tricks to shift the media story and get your voice out into the world.
The workshops are free and include training materials and afternoon tea.
Digital climate stories team
After the training, we'll all stay connected online. Over the coming months, we'll send you weekly missions, plus quick daily actions you can do while you're waiting for the bus, drinking your morning coffee or scrolling through your news feed.
This might be jumping on the comments of a news article on an extreme weather event to highlight climate change, or sharing your experiences of climate damage on an SMS hotline, letter to the editor or talkback radio.
Who can be part of this?
We are all impacted by climate change every day, so we're looking for all kinds of people to come to a training workshop and join the digital team.
You might live near a bushfire zone or grow veggies in a climate changed garden.
You might be an emergency responder, a parent or grandparent, a young person or a concerned citizen.
Maybe you've noticed frogs, birds and insects are missing from your neighbourhood, or you're just fed up of government inaction.
Join the team and help #EndClimateSilence and make this election the climate election.
