Good to see the Australian Greens are using cartoons in their campaigning or on their website. 

go to this link:    http://vicmps.greens.org.au/

Cartoon ethic and use of humour can generally help our campaigns rather than hindering them. 
 

I also meant to post up here a tweet, from a few weeks back. 

Some sensational education videos which would inspire a sleeping mammoth to sit up and take notice. 

This is the link. 

http://www.ecc-kruishoutem.be/wedstrijden_ENG.html 


Here is a link to some Cartoon Competitions running all year out of Europe. 


Scroll down to competition with the 30 June 2012 deadline and there is a competition with an 'eco-story' as a possible eco-cartoon.  

'New cities' could also fit within the eco-theme framework. 

We environmentalists are learning to be a lot more visual in the way we communicate our messages, which is a glorious thing, really. This is great as we are learning to use our RIGHT BRAINS more in the way we express our messages. 

 

Amazon have done a wonderful job. Self-publishing can be a little tricky, but it was easier than expected. 

My book, Green Spin (or) Promoting the Green Message is out now on Amazon. The first proof arrived and looks excellent. 

The green movement has tended to be about what people need to learn, think and know. There hasn't been a lot of recognition of emotions and how they impact us in our everyday lives.  This is an error, as many of us tend to go about our days guided by our moods, and how we are feeling, rather than on a more rational, thought out level. 

Everyone is talking about behaviour change, but we mean that the rest of the world has to change.  Environmentalists may need a bit of behaviour change, too.  We like to enlarge on our theories about framing the debate, and our long-winded communications. These in depth discussions may satisfy our intellectual yearnings, but are they really changing the world?  I feel the information has to be toned down, but instead the environmental debates (many as they are) keep getting more and more complex as they weave in and out of issues we've never faced before. So we research and theorise in to infinity. As this occurs the jargon and technical know-how means that our communications campaigns become more and more foreign to the average punter.  Is it any wonder that the average person gets turned off?

Let us not forget, we can't afford to bore our  audience. The information needs to be made to appear interesting.  I recently tweeted about how fascinating we can make a rather dull subject like plankton, if we are clever about it. 

A lot more on tips to rouse interest, to stir the hearts of the unbelievers, in my book, Green Spin - Promoting the Green Message.