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🍔 It's National Burger Day! 🎉 To celebrate, we couldn't resist a little card comparison - we're comparing a classic cheeseburger with... an avocado! 🥑 Avocados often get a bad rep for their environmental impact, but how do they really stack up against our beloved burger when it comes to carbon footprint? Swipe through the graphics to discover which one leaves a bigger mark on our planet. 🌍 These cards are part of the BIG Game expansion pack* #NationalBurgerDay #makingbananasrelevant #FoodForThought #avocadofanclub Dr Emma Fieldhouse Charlotte Lawson Lou Taylor-Rees

Thanks, Vivek for such a lovely review of our Carbon Literacy training! One of the reasons we love delivering our course is that we know it is effective in empowering individuals to then drive systemic change. Our training is all about giving people the knowledge and skills they need to take meaningful action, so we're thrilled that it resonated! #carbonliteracy #changestartswiththeindividual #powerofbananas Dr Emma Fieldhouse Charlotte Lawson The Carbon Literacy Project

🌍 What is Carbon Literacy? Plus, Why Should We All Care? 🌱 The Carbon Literacy Project Literacy Project recently reached over 100,000 carbon literate citizens! (whooop!) But what actually is carbon literacy and why should we care? We're re-sharing our handy graphic that explains why as individuals we should be bothered about becoming carbon literate, why your boss might care and also why the planet cares. If any of these reasons resonate with you, why not take the next step and join our September Carbon Literacy Course? When: Both September 10th / 11th, 9:00-13:00 Where: Zoom Who Should Attend: Sustainability professionals eager to empower and inspire others to advance their sustainability initiatives Secure your spot today! https://lnkd.in/eyZJubae #carbonliteracy #engagementresources #climateeducation

🌍 We love it when our bananas community share how they are using our 'How Bad Are Bananas?' Carbon Footprint Game 🍌 Especially this review from Bude Climate Partnership who have been using our game to engage all types of audiences, including in the classroom with a Youth Jury on climate change A big thank you to Bude Climate Partnership for the kind words and for making climate change education a priority! 🙌 Dr Emma Fieldhouse Charlotte Lawson Lou Taylor-Rees #CarbonFootprint #bananasgame #ClimateEducation #EngagementTools

11 ways to stay cool this summer - #banana themed 🍌 😎 1. Banana Smoothie: Blend frozen bananas with ice and plant milk for a refreshing, creamy cool-down (you can pimp this with berries too!!) 2. Frozen Banana Pops: Freeze bananas on sticks, dunk in chocolate, and you’ve got guilt-free cooling treats 3. Banana Ice Pack: Pop some bananas in the freezer and use them as picnic-ready ice packs 4. Pillow Cooler: Place a frozen banana on your pillow for a chill sleep—just don’t forget it’s there! 5. Banana Drinks Holder: Tie a bunch together and float your drinks in the pool like a tropical pro 6. Banana Flip Flops: Use banana peels as trendy, non-slip sandals—fashion and function in one! 😝 7. Banana Fan: Forget electricity—wave a banana peel around for an appeeling breeze 8. Fly Trap: Smear honey on a peel to create a natural fly trap 💪 9. Banana Sunhat: Peel a banana, pop the peel on your head, and you’ve got yourself a natural (and questionable) sunhat 10.Banana Cooling Mask: Freeze peels and place them on your face for a cool, DIY spa moment—skin soothing, banana-style 11. Start a climate conversation: Be the coolest banana of them all and use bananas to start a climate conversation (using bananas really means our ‘How Bad Are Bananas?’ Carbon Footprint Game) #bananasgame P.S. FWW can only endorse Tip 11 to really keep you and your organisation cool this summer 😉 Check our our 'How Bad Are Bananas?' Carbon Footprint Game here: https://lnkd.in/eg3Y4Nk5 #staycoolthisummer #keepingbananasrelevant Dr Emma Fieldhouse Charlotte Lawson

🔥 Hot Off the Press 🔥 We've come up with a bunch of reasons why people choose to become carbon literate with us! You may think improving climate knowledge would be top of the list but actually... we think learning in a fun and gamified way AND being able to use carbon literacy as a strategy to create a culture shift for positive change in your organisation, are the main reasons we find people want to become carbon literate with us. So if you want to know how to get your organisation to care and want to have fun whilst doing it join our September cohort Course Date: September 11th and 12th, 9:00- 13:00 Book Your Place 👉 https://lnkd.in/eyZJubae Don’t miss out secure your spot 😍 Dr Emma Fieldhouse Charlotte Lawson #CarbonLiteracy #apathytoaction #highlyscientificpiechart

🌍🍌 We're absolutely bananas over this fantastic review from Bec Bennett at the University of Salford! 🍌🌍 Thank you, Bec and the The University of Salford for your kind words and support :) P.S Check out the bonus picture of Salford sustainability team as a bunch of bananas - we love to see so much Bananas Game love! Dr Emma Fieldhouse Charlotte Lawson #Customerfeedback #Education #CarbonFootprint #BananasMad

🎉 It's National Play Day today – and yes, it's really a thing! 🎉 Today is all about celebrating children's right to play and recognising the role play has in a child's development. As a company that delivers gamified climate education and a team that's obsessed with delivering fun and engaging content, we of course had to celebrate this day 😋 A personal passion of Dr Emma Fieldhouse is to support climate education in schools using our 'Bananas Game'. The Bananas Game and accompanying training course provide the knowledge and resources needed to understand and teach climate change effectively (in a fun and engaging way!) addressing a significant gap in current education. If you know a school leader or headteacher who would love a creative way to teach climate change and support in enhancing their staff's climate knowledge too then message us! In celebration of National Play Day, we'll send you and them a 20% discount code for any of our products. 😍 😍 #NationalPlayDay #Gamification #GamesForAllAges #FunForEveryone

A New Approach to Climate Action: Disrupting or Demonstrating Holidays? 🛬 You decide! You might have seen the news this week about Just Stop Oil's latest protests. They have been blocking holidaymakers from boarding planes, aiming to draw attention to the impact of flying on climate change. I'm not surprised that this has happened because flying can be one of the largest contributor's to some individual's #carbonimpacts Personally, I stopped flying back in 2006, partly due to the impacts, partly because I hated the general 'cattle' feeling of being herded onto a plane, partly because I'm claustrophobic and scared of flying! So, not flying is a very easy choice for me. 😉 [it just happens to sit well with a sustainability career too] 😏 However, I hate being preachy about anything. 😊 But I do wonder how people can justify frequent flying to themselves? I wonder if this is what drives the #JSO protestors to camp out like this? [personally I find it easier to justify flying for love 😍 rather than flying for any other reason... family abroad? partners abroad? seems more reasonable than flying for business - Fieldhouse logic!] But my initial reaction to the protest (maybe like others in the sustainability field) was "ouch - this is not going to help the cause"... It has got me thinking about direct action and it's place in the climate movement... We can't get away from the URGENCY of bold action needed around climate change and I do think that some forms of direct action ARE absolutely necessary to maintain a media presence. However, targeting individuals during their holidays—an experience many look forward to all year, IMHO will just lead to frustration and resentment against the movement potentially. Is Just Stop Oil alienating potential supporters who with a different approach may have been willing to change behaviours and attitudes? So here's my takeaways for alternatives: 🎯 Targetting the flying public with actions is annoying a lot of them - why not target 🎯 the1️⃣% (richest consumers) instead? For example, as much as everyone is currently in love with Taylor Swift, I was super impressed with the student who set up the @SwiftJetNextDay account that tracks and publishes the flights and carbon impacts of her private jet - although apparently Kim Kardashian has overtaken her footprint by now! 🎇 Demonstrate Don't Disrupt! Demonstrate how you're living a different way of travelling. Thanks to recent train travellers Sarah Daly and Jen Gale for showing how slower travel ACTUALLY works in practice. Whilst we're on the issue of 'Demonstration', please check out Jon Alexander's post (link below) about meeting Audrey Tang and the inspiration from Taiwan being generated right now around how we can 'demonstrate' how to do things differently (including telling stories of change as well as setting up new governance models). So, tell us in the comments below how you're demonstrating change! Future We Want

🚴♂️ Today is National Cycle to Work Day! 🍌 And because we like to make everything relevant to bananas, we're excited to share our blog on the carbon footprint of different types of bikes and why bananas make great fuel for cyclists! 😋🚲 The push bike vs. e-bike debate is a hot topic and the card comparison we get questioned on the most! No one wants to believe which one actually has the smallest carbon footprint! It’s a quick 5-minute read that might just inspire your next commute! 🚴♀️ Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/ezQa6_cj Dr Emma Fieldhouse Charlotte Lawson #nationalcyletoworkday #makingbananasrelevant #bananasgame 🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌 Future We Want focuses on supporting organisations to make a positive impact on our planet, one banana peel at a time. We have taken all the carbon footprint data from the best-selling book 'How Bad Are Bananas?' by Professor Mike Berners-Lee and transformed it into a fun, straightforward, and effective climate engagement tool based on science:https://bananasgame.co.uk/