What can climate and nature communicators learn from climate education in schools?

Tom speaks to Harry Waters, founder of Renewable English, about helping teachers and students to make their classrooms into engines of climate action and hope. 

Harry has helped mobilise 3,000 students across Europe to move beyond the “three Rs” and into real-world agency.

In this episode he explains his approach:

• Don’t bolt sustainability onto the curriculum, embed it
• Fashion, food, sport, business, language, climate connects to all of it
• If students take action first, belief follows.

And we learn what might help us get better at climate communication:

• Why teachers are the ultimate communicators
• How to simplify complex ideas without dumbing them down
• Embedding ideas of action across all subject areas.

From cooking meals in a car during 47°C heatwaves to Zoom calls empowering pre-teens in English, this episode is about one thing: moving from awareness to agency.

Recommended Film: Don’t Look Up

Follow Harry Waters at https://www.linkedin.com/in/harry-waters/

Additional notes: 

Bilnet Schools - https://bilnetokullari.com/en

Jack Johnson, The Three Rs Song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6IbRSRe8MQ 

Kids Against Plastic - https://kidsagainstplastic.co.uk/ 

Don’t Look Up - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Look_Up 

National Geographic Learning - https://www.eltngl.com/ 

Kris De Meyer, Transforming the stories we tell about climate change: From 'issue' to 'action' - https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/transforming-the-stories-we-tell-about-climate-change-from-issue-/

Released: 04/03/26

Run time: 45m

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