Uncommon Courage

Send us Fan Mail Does the marketing profession have an outsized impact on the environmental crisis? And if so, how can marketing change track to play a greater role in building a sustainable future? That’s our focus this week, and we’re going to start with the problem with marketing, going back through history to its present day. We’ll look at its role, the harm it does, and the challenges we face...

Send us Fan Mail We’ve been talking about the failure of imagination in coming to terms with this moment in time geopolitically since the start of the year, so are we imagining enough now? Let’s hope so, because things are certainly getting intense, and fear is ricocheting around the world. Definitely not an easy time for any of us.  As we’ve witnessed in recent weeks, it appears the US is now spr...

Send us Fan Mail We’ve had to reschedule our marketing show due to a clash for our guest, so we are going to delve deeper into the economic conversation, this time focusing on the fact that the greatest transfer of wealth in history is about to happen. What, we hear you say? The richest group in human history are the Boomers, and as they start to head over the rainbow bridge, $60-80 trillion of th...

Send us Fan Mail Yes it has and it’s a whole lot worse than most thought possible. Of course, we’re not just talking about the chaos in the US, but everything else too - Canada, Mexico, Panama, Greenland, Gaza, China, Ukraine, Russia, to name a few, along with, of course, challenging the very foundations of Europe – that went down well, didn’t it? Are we witnessing the creation of a New World Orde...

Send us Fan Mail Climate Courage is back for 2025 and it’s just the three of us this week, as we have a lot to catch up on since our last show. To get off to a hot start, we’ll discuss Donald Trump and team, asking the very simple question: is Trump even relevant in the fight for our future? We’ll aim to pull apart the potential impact the next four years could have on global climate action, and w...

Send us Fan Mail It’s time to get the show on the road after a long break, and boy a lot has happened since our last show in December. Our 2025 kick off will just be the three of us – Andrea, Joe and Tim – with the goal of trying to make sense of what’s going on, which is not easy, because there’s not a lot of clarity out there, even from the best voices globally.  We’re going to cover as much as...

Send us Fan Mail It’s our last show of the year and that means we’ll take the opportunity to look back at the major news that happened around the world in 2024 – how much do you remember? Or perhaps it all became a blur? Or maybe you haven’t been paying attention at all and this is your chance to catch up in one go?  We’ll discuss geopolitical developments across the world, including the results o...

Send us Fan Mail Cop29 has been deemed a failure as it only promised $300 billion to developing countries by the mid-30s. What’s even more challenging about this number is the percentage offered as loans, because countries already struggling with debt burdens taking on more debt to deal with a crisis not of their own making is amoral, not to forget, it’s not charity. Ensuring the developing world...

Send us Fan Mail What’s true? What’s not? How do we move forward when ‘truthiness’ is acceptable? How do we navigate complex times when basic facts are denied rigorously, something that is definitely not serving the common good? We have entered the era of denial and “enshittification,” a term invented by the sci-fi writer Cory Doctorow, to describe online platforms and the process of their decay. ...

Send us Fan Mail This year, 1.5 billion people have gone to or are going to the polls, with more than 50 countries holding significant elections in 2024. Considering 2023 was the hottest year on record, and 2024 looks like it will smash that record, not to mention extreme weather events escalating across the globe, we’re going to vote for leaders who are climate aware at least, yes? Well no. Not o...

Send us Fan Mail Since our last show, the US election happened and Cop29 kicked off, with a whole lot of other news in between. In the US, the recriminations and post-election analysis consumes our feeds, while Cop29 starts with the US threatening to leave the Paris Climate Agreement (again), Argentina ordering its representatives to leave after three days, all while reports state fossil fuel emis...

Send us Fan Mail New Delhi had an air pollution watch leading up to this year’s Diwali celebrations, with its air quality remaining ‘very poor’ for the 7th consecutive day. Meanwhile, across the border, the Pakistani city of Lahore had to close all primary schools for a week, with the air quality index (which measures a range of pollutants) exceeding 1,000 on Saturday. This is WELL above the bench...

Send us Fan Mail We worked together nearly 30 years ago and have been crossing each other’s paths around the world ever since. However, it was our recent catch up where I saw a deep level of growth in John Kerr, so I wanted to talk to him about the journey. John has been in professional communications his entire career, working in senior leadership roles for the last 20 years or so. But perhaps th...

Send us Fan Mail The US Election is happening on November 5th and it’s not just Americans who will be happy to see the back of it, the whole world will hopefully sigh with relief. No question it’s been intense, but regardless of the results, the divisions in the US will remain, and more broadly, we all know it’s not just the US suffering this blight, as many Western democracies face division too....

Send us Fan Mail Is your city climate ready? Is your government or council taking the appropriate action to adapt for the climate that is coming? As we watch the disasters unfold around the world, we know that far too many governing bodies are on the back foot when it comes to adaptation, and in poorer countries, it is even more challenging to prepare as the funding just isn’t there.  When it come...

Send us Fan Mail Unless you’ve been living under a rock, woke, wokeism or ‘the woke mind virus’ are now part of our public vernacular. But where did it come from? How did this awful word or phrase become so normalized in our societies? Equally, is woke a bad thing? And surely it’s not a mind virus?  To hear the word woke, all you have to do is watch any political campaign (anywhere in the world) a...

Send us Fan Mail As the world starts to comprehend the impacts of the polycrisis – which is the simultaneous occurrence of several catastrophic events all happening at the same time – we must get focused on building our resilience “muscles,” while also understanding we need to be there for each other, because it is our local communities who will step up when the going gets tough.  As the floods, f...

Send us Fan Mail Epic floods have wreaked havoc from Africa to Asia to Europe, claiming more than 1,500 lives and costing US$15 billion, and this all happened in September. As one meme put it this week, we are not experiencing the flood of the century, we are experiencing a century of floods. Beyond floods, we’ve had mega fires on the West Coast of the USA and now Portugal is facing the flames. Da...

Send us Fan Mail Being in a state of acceptance about the climate crisis is not an easy path to tread, but it is a necessary part of the journey – for the sake of our own mental health. No question it’s challenging as the news is increasingly grim – from the loss of the Great Barrier Reef to sharks leaving their coral homes which impacts wider ecosystem health in our oceans, to the amount of CO2 s...

Send us Fan Mail We are back after an extended break – which is always important for a healthy state of mind – but as we all know, the news never stops and it’s time get going again, with amazing guests lined up until December. Our goal for this first show of the season is to get caught up on the news over the Summer – and boy, it’s been a doozy hasn’t it? Come and join us, where Joe, Tim and Andr...

Send us Fan Mail The role of religion and spiritual organisations in tackling the climate emergency is a huge opportunity for collective action, and we are seeing leaders of many religious institutions – including the Pope, and the Imams – speaking to their followers on the critical transformation required to live in balance with nature. But is the message landing? And are we understanding our rol...

Send us Fan Mail May 3rd was World Press Freedom Day and a UN report released stated 44 environmental journalists have been murdered in last 15 years. This means to report on the state of the environment has become a perilous profession, with the highest number of killings in Asia Pacific (30 cases), while Latin America and the Caribbean reported 11. The UN report surveyed 905 journalists from 129...

Send us Fan Mail If you’re a fan of Queen, “The Show Must Go On” will be meaningful, as it’s connected to the end of Freddie Mercury’s life. But we’re using it in a different context. All over the world, we are seeing reports of excess deaths, something we really came to understand during the Covid pandemic. However, today, excess deaths are coming from extreme heat, extreme weather events, pollut...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to Climate Courage, and I’m absolutely delighted to share that Dr. David Ko and Richard Busellato will be joining as co-hosts, as we build on the core focus of the show – to discuss the issues across the full spectrum of the polycrisis, while keeping it in everyday language, so we can all better understand the challenges and what we can do about it.  This is our first...

Send us Fan Mail Propaganda has always been an issue in our societies, but the problem is becoming a much bigger challenge today. Recently, a British man was charged over an arson plot targeting a Ukrainian business after he was allegedly recruited to act for the mercenary group, Wagner. He will face trial under the UK’s new National Security Act, the first time a case will be brought under this n...