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The film team took a trip down to London yesterday to speak to retrofit industry leaders at the Futurebuild conference, to create an interview series on behalf of Retrofit Information, Support and Expertise (RISE). They had a great day speaking to experts about a range of topics critical to upscaling the delivery of Warm Homes - from embedding social value into large scale programmes, to skills shortages in the retrofit industry and how to build capacity, and the wealth of support offered by RISE. To top it off, we got the chance to see Creative Concern’s RISE branding and stand design in the wild, in the shape of a 3D cube, AND commuted via cable car. A sunny end to a day of filming!

Is your balcony the most overlooked piece of green space in your life? It might also be the easiest place to start changing how you feel, day to day. We sit down with Manchester garden designer Jason Williams, known online as The Cloud Gardener, who lives in an 18th floor apartment and turned a glass-fronted, south-facing balcony into an oasis that’s part pantry, part wildlife stopover and part mental health reset. Jason shares the learning curve of balcony gardening and container growing: why “normal” gardening tips often fail in high-rise microclimates, how heat build-up can push temperatures 10 to 15 degrees above street level, and how choosing plants for your space stops the cycle of disappointment. We get into what he grows, how flowers affect yield, why flies can be underrated pollinators, and how small ecosystem thinking, right down to balcony ponds and organic feeding, makes a big difference. We also explore the National Trust's Sky Gardening Challenge, now open across the UK, including the One Pot Power category that helps complete beginners start with a single container and build confidence. Jason explains why simple, positive communication matters when climate headlines feel bleak, and how balcony gardens become deeply personal spaces where people reconnect with nature at home. Listen in, and picture yourself in Jason's balcony oasis! Follow GoodGeist for more episodes on sustainability, communications and how creativity can help make the world a better place. Link to the episode is in the Bio. @creativeconcern_ @myra_istanbul @headstretcher @trishlinka @cloudgardeneruk

Great to be working with @ntskygardeningchallenge for the launch of the National Trust’s Sky Gardening Challenge. We’re working across design, content, film and strategy. It all got going officially today! Here’s a few pics from the lovely launch event at Hulme Garden Centre with some of the winners from last year and some new gardeners. We’ll be sharing the creative soon. Meanwhile…sign up and give it a go! No garden? No problem. Welcome to the National Trust’s Sky Gardening Challenge. Join people in cities across the country and let’s turn your outside space into something special. Join the challenge  You’ll be joining people in cities across the country doing exactly the same thing. Planting some seeds. Trying things out. Learning as they go. Sharing what works and what doesn’t. Go on, give it a go. Search - National Trust’s Sky Gardening Challenge #ntskygardeningchallenge #balconygarden .uk/discover/gardening-tips/sky-gardening-challenge-2026

Wildflowers can feel like a “nice extra” until you see what they do to a street, a skyline, and the way strangers talk to each other. In this episode we’re joined by Polly Moseley and Richard Scott from Scouse Flowerhouse, to explore how Liverpool’s wildflower gateways and brownfield meadows create real, measurable change: more biodiversity, stronger pollinator corridors, and a renewed sense of pride in places once written off as derelict. We unpack the Northern Flowerhouse vision for the North of England, rooted in collaboration between community groups, gardeners, artists, academics, and land practitioners. Along the way we share the principles that keep this work human and repeatable: create curiosity, deal in beauty, bring science and arts into unlikely places, and treat gatherings as moments of celebration rather than meetings to endure. It’s sustainability communication in the most direct form, because people protect what they help make. AND we find out about their plans for a Northern Flowerhouse Assembly, due to land in Liverpool on 18 June 2026. Follow GoodGeist for more episodes on sustainability, communications and how creativity can help make the world a better place. Link to the episode is in the Bio. @creativeconcern_ @myra_istanbul @headstretcher @trishlinka @scouseflowerhouse

Some of the Creative Concern team have been in Brussels with UITP today, helping with the launch of World Public Transport Day and admiring their commitment to the campaign’s brand colours! From yesterday evening, and continuing throughout the day, posts and stories from across the world have been landing. From Fresh Bus in India to Land Transport Authority (LTA) Singapore there are people celebrating ‘One Day, Millions of Journeys’. Melbourne is a stand out for sure, with Yarra Trams showcasing the people that make public transport happen and there’s sunbathing and tattoos on the 96 Tram. Transport for London have done a global collaboration for their celebratory film! This is first ever global campaign for public transport and the current count shows 68 countries taking part in the celebrations, across 173 organisations. There are thousands of posts, events and actions happening right across the planet, ranging from branded buses in Istanbul, a festival of public transport in Milan to a special branded ‘light-up’ of the CN Tower in Toronto. Trinidad and Tobago are making public transport free for the day. Follow all the latest posts and news on worldpublictransportday.com #WorldPublicTransportDay #OneDayMillionsOfJourneys #PublicTransport #UrbanMobility

It’s arrived - and right on time… World Public Transport Day 🚍 We’re incredibly proud to have helped bring this global campaign to life, seeing events happening all over the world - from India to Ireland - has been incredible. All the celebrations are being brought together here: And of course, we couldn’t let the day pass without getting involved ourselves, so here’s the Creative Concern team out and about marking #WorldPublicTransportDay. #WorldPublicTransportDay #OneDayMillionsOfJourneys #PublicTransport #UrbanMobility #ConnectedCities

Working on a global campaign like World Public Transport Day gave us the chance to do what we enjoy most - collaborating with brilliant partners around the world! This project brought together our Do Not Smile (DNS) network, an international group of agencies connected by a shared commitment to sustainability and ethical thinking and wider global partners. From shaping ideas with local insight, to sense-checking translations, to supporting regional shoots and outreach, this was a genuinely collaborative effort from start to finish. It’s a great reminder that global work only really works when it’s built with people on the ground - and we’re hugely grateful to everyone across the network who played a part, thank you! /journeys/ #WorldPublicTransportDay #Collaboration #GlobalCampaign #SustainableBusiness / Ecoavantis Springtime Brussels Sidièse Sympraxis Team Silverback - Greening the Communication tippingpoints - Agentur für nachhaltige Kommunikation Damla Özlüer at Myra Istanbul Circular Comunicação The Creative Resiliency Group Done! Argentina Lennon Group

One week to go until the first World Public Transport Day - 17 April 2026. A global celebration of the role public transport plays in our lives. We are so excited to be working with @uitpofficial to bring the celebration to life. Starting with creating the campaign identity, our solution was built around a simple, unifying idea: One day. Millions of journeys. From there, we developed the strategy, manifesto, messaging and bold, flexible visuals, alongside a suite of practical tools to help partners get involved. It’s already gaining momentum. Over 100 organisations across 38 countries downloaded the toolkit within the first month of it launching, with activity continuing to build across the globe. From street-level activations and influencer campaigns to large-scale events and city moments, partners across the world are bringing World Public Transport Day to life in their own way. The campaign has also been recognised as part of the @unitednations Nations Decade of Sustainable Transport – firmly establishing its place as a future annual global moment. Sounds great, right? Get involved! Whether you’re a transport provider, business, community or individual – everyone can play their part in celebrating the wonderful world of public transport. We can’t wait to see what the day brings. #WorldPublicTransportDay Take a look at the World Public Transport Day website: / Download the campaign toolkit: /toolkit Film by Creative Concern

We asked some of our team - what gives them hope and makes them feel more positive? Here's what they said.... What a fab team we have :)

Fancy joining our team? Ready to start making the world a better place? We're hiring an Account Manager. We're looking for a new team member to join us to help plan and deliver a variety of marketing and communications projects for our clients. The right person will have 2-3 years experience of working within a marketing or communications environment (either in-house, or at an agency), and will have experience of managing projects, ideally across the range of services that we deliver. This includes design and print, digital communications campaigns, film, and social media. Take a look at the job description online and if you have any questions about the role get in touch! /careers #jobs #creativejobs

New work! Last year we were delighted to work with the Design Council to develop the identity, blueprint and exhibition design for Skills for Planet - a movement to equip one million designers with green skills by 2030. We’ve just completed an animation/film to support their bold ambition, along with a series of social shorts. The Skills for Planet Blueprint maps out the critical green skills that all designers need to be able to put green design into practice, providing a shared language that will make cross-sector conversations and skills-building possible.  Find out more here or search Design Council Skills for Planet signcouncil.org.uk/our-work/skills-for-planet/ @designcouncil